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It'll be fine, Nick will pay for it.

> space data centers cost ~2-3x of their terrestrial counterparts Which is very cheap if it means they can launch it quickly instead of being in permit hell for a year. You can als…

> Everything else is harder and more expensive permits? connectivity?

http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html#SECTION_G006

And the first one is about Christoph Hellwig who has a long history of being awful to communicate with. He should have been kicked out of the Linux community two decades ago for th…

You underestimate the craziness of Occupy Wall Street and other leftist causes. Laura Loomer is another crazy person who went from extremely crazy to just... untrustworthy but not …

Bearings is another good subject to dive into. > I wasn't sure how it was possible for a leather belt to transmit so much power. Friction is also one of the main reasons why rivets…

> though immune system killing the viruses may be nullifying the treatment That's a problem for some types of RNA/DNA vaccines where they use a virus as a vector. You can usually o…

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Despite all the details, you still left out a lot. Safety valve, pressure gauge(s), regulation of the water pump, water level gauge for the boiler, lubrication (you only have two o…

We are all Wigner's friend. That rock over there, those specks of dust here, the wings of all the butterflies, the moons of Titan, and SN 1987A. Everything is just Wigner's friend.…

I just listened to it. I think she handled it remarkably well.

When rich people started having their kids educated with children of other rich people instead of at home by tutors .

Why? She went from crazy (that you sympathize with) to crazy (that you don't sympathize with). She was always crazy.

I'd say it makes it "fewer" true ;) Surely we can agree that if such kids exist then they must be very, very few in number?

I don't think so. It was a "support" comment, not a "you're wrong" comment.

And then he became a Socialist with power. Seems to me he remained a Socialist.

The people who have managed to build countries people wish to live in are Euros or East Asian. Nothing intrinsically to do with their skin colour, of course, but it is a fact that …

The sex tourists in Thailand and Cambodia are vile.

Most of those children wouldn't be able to communicate with their own parents, if that were the case. Somalis are usually not spread out among the natives. They tend to clump toget…

Why? It is perfectly possible to be a legal immigrant and a parasite. It's even possible to be a completely homegrown native and a parasite. Wouldn't you call essentially all caree…

> But the dismantling of the democracy is proof that they were outside of the political spectrum. That's very close to arguing that Communists aren't on the (far) left.

Spelling won't be a problem with either language, pronunciation will (likely) not be an issue with Finnish (depends on how well you handle phonemic vowel length). Vocabulary will b…

That might be down to your personality... or the language barrier in the case of China (or you were in China before Xi or very early in his reign).

A2 is a depressingly low bar.