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trod1234

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    A study on this is referenced in the The Great Courses, Everyday Engineering series taught by Dr. Stephen Ressler, a Professor Emeritus from the United States Military Academy at W…

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    Electricity transfer is orders of magnitude more cheaply transmitted than any physical quantity of gas as the power is up-converted to around 750kV which only wastes a few hundred …

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    I don't think there is a valid rationale for this. Unfortunately, there are a lot of armchair spectators that don't understand how the economy actually functions; and they've got b…

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    You seem to have not understood what I said conflating academia with whitepapers and then construct the rest on an improper foundation from there. Whitepapers aren't the sole domai…

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    I agree this isn't knowledge that takes a lot. The problem is these companies don't explain why they do what they do, in fact a lot of security stuff along these lines in the past …

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    > There should be a concept.... There is. It is called ponzi, and its illegal, but in most cases its become indirect enough in the consequences without proper guard rails/accountab…

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    > But you're right, complaining about big tech surveillance didn't help with making that point at all. I disagree. Everyone with a brain is thinking it. Its important to address wh…

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    Eric, I think it appropriate to mention, and I'd like to point out the lack of any real documentation (reaching a professional level) related to PSL on the professional working gro…

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    I disagree, as a professional in this field for over a decade. For this to be a legitimately backed statement, professional's would have needed to know about the PSL. This is large…

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    Yes, its generally good advice to keep user content on a separate domain. That said, there are a number of IT professionals that aren't aware of the PSL as these are largely initia…

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    Unfortunately that is just how it is on biased platforms, but its not like that everywhere yet. It is like a page out of Atlas Shrugged though. All the parasites ended up dying in …

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    More than likely that conjectured capability is the yesteryear Predator. Seems tech may have received some upgrades: https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/06/27/238884/the-penta...…

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    In fairness, almost all of this is pure conjecture aside from Bin Laden which has had documents and accounts on record released/declassified. We don't actually know how these entit…

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    Uhh, there is no used to (past tense). Its important to have a faith-based belief system you can fall back on when you are subjected to torture. I'm with the greeks on this, which …

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    The nature of human organization and political structure is based on a weighted asymmetry of power where some autonomy is given up in exchange for a greater survive-ability. This i…

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    Your just looking at pool walking down a concentration gradient. When everyone has access, and such access eliminated more jobs than created, do you think the investment was warran…