Viewing profile — lapsed_pacifist

[flagged]

Please demonstrate, then.

bean used to post long and in depth posts into the SlateStarCodex Open Threads, then someone helped him set up his own site, and here we are. He organizes meetups at Naval History …

There are accounts which do not allow you to change the email the account is registered to.

These safety groups seem to be mostly concerned with making sure LLMs don't say bad words, not with preventing FOOM!.

The 5 rules of dry stone: https://thestonetrust.org/5rules/

Look at the Dry Stone Wall Association of Great Britain, or The Stone Trust in the United States. These organizations still teach traditional methods of dry stone walling which cov…

This isn't really a proper wall though, it's a single thickness stack. I don't think it could handle any lateral force at all without toppling. If this machine could build a double…

Not true. A well built fieldstone wall is massive, we estimate around .5T per linear yard when we build one to 4ft. with cope stones. Sheep will not knock it over, but cattle can. …

That city has a tiny fraction of the population density, commercial activity, and industrial transport of Chicago, they're really not comparable. Transporting people and goods over…

Without for profit, for export, weapons, smaller entities that cannot support the industrial base to produce the means for their own defense would be at the mercy of any power who …

Much of this has to do with Russian tank doctrine and the lack of sufficient infantry to provide mutual support to armor.

A soldier is tens of thousands of dollars of training and gear. A bullet costs pennies. Thus soldiers have no place on the battlefield? I think you should watch Chieftains video an…

It's been a few years since I did any framing, so I could be wrong about the current state of the industry.

As someone in the trades, I really disagree. Most applications that require a hammer could not be accomplished with a nail gun. Nail guns are great for attaching thin materials ove…

Baumels' Cost Disease.

It looks pretty bad when the husband of a union boss was paying workers off the books, which denies worker protections to employees. And they may not have reported the income becau…

It's a real hazard that is well known in the trades, but might not be appreciated by people who are attracted to the idea of an exotic metal ring but are not in situations where th…

The difference is the consent of the governed. I cannot refuse to consent to being governed by the State. Plenty of democratically elected governments have oppressed and abused the…

I'm interested in reading more of your writing. I worked with TANF recipients, many of whom were homeless (although few of them were unsheltered) and would like to hear more of you…

Print a house out of what material? Will that material stand up to sub freezing and very high temperatures? Can it withstand a temperature variable between indoor and outdoor temps…

"Why are workers unhappy? We asked three university professors, a senior policy analyst, an executive director... and one worker."

I don't know how your can say that an LVT avoids all economic and ethical issues with land ownership, that seems like a personal moral opinion. Especially since there's very few in…

Zoning which prohibits or heavily restricts multi-unit housing in cities, and material shortages and high prices for steel and lumber which impacts new single family homes.

>Tyranids giant biological hive mind that rapidly adapts to new environments consuming or infecting existing species to plunder their genetic advantages. Sounds like GW copied that…