First fucking move of every fascist dictatorship. When the Soviets took over Russia after the fall of the Tsar they went after the functionally communist farming communities with every bit as much venom as they went after the engineers and academics. The Soviets were extremely conservative in their politics. All the…
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It is an exaggeration, but there is some basis in reality around the idea we live in a “post-truth” society.
Also, Solzhenitsyn was widely disparaged and shunned by the academic/historical community when he transformed into an anti-semitic grandpa in the later years of his life what with the content of Two Hundred…
Proven untrue when? By whom? Which authors? The ones who worked for the NKVD? The Checka? The OGPU? The KGB? Putin himself? Name names, asshole.
There are many legitimate authorities on this subject with photographic evidence to match. Slovki, Belbaltlag, Dmitrovlag, Vorkutlag, and many others have all been…
Stalin imprisoned MILLIONS of his own soldiers from the Red Army in hard labor camps after WWII, killing most of them, just because he and his regime were afraid the soldiers would come back from the war and tell the oppressed Soviet people about what life was like in Europe. Stalin was so paranoid and so hell-bent on…
Nothing says “America” like Chinese wheels.
Hell, you can get the best of both worlds if you look in the right place. I’m a “blue collar” worker (TIG welder), but I basically work in an office. I have a really nice desk with a comfy office chair. There’s never-ending free coffee in the break room along with a legit kitchen. It’s beautifully climate-controlled…
If this tech matures and spreads I could see it getting retro-fitted onto existing solar power plants like Ivanpah CSP. At a plant that large even a very small percentage increase in total power output could be worth a hell of a lot of money.
This is totally it. Use AI to optimize mirror movement instead of using super-high-end servos with high resolution telemetry and all that jazz. Even the weak-ass AI available now should be capable of using rapid trial-and-error to find the ideal angle on every single mirror throughout the entire day, constantly…
Thinner air is absolutely less effective at carrying thermal energy away from heat exchangers, drastically so. It’s one of the biggest problems that faces Pikes Peak racers. The thin mountain air’s inability to carry heat is actually a much bigger problem than its tendency to reduce engine power. Forced induction can…
Yes, exactly. People are taught to think that highly exploitative Capitalist Economies are the only way a “free” country can conduct its economic business, and indeed that such an economy is not exploitative or even Capitalist at all.
“Economics 101" is 100% bullshit. It is all lies. The “Invisible Hand” is not…
Disagree on the second point. You say “Money” is pervasively toxic to the modern world, but I say “Debt” is pervasively toxic to the modern world; specifically the practice of “Usury,” or loaning out money at a profit.
Money is just an idea, like you say, an abstraction of exchange. It is not inherently good or bad…
Capitalist Economy: Money -> Goods and Services -> Money
Core i7-920 ran on socket LGA 1366 on the X58 motherboard chipset. Broadly similar to server architecture of the day, many Xeon chips from that era will drop right in.
“Go play on PC and create whatever you want and see if you enjoy the game beyond a week.”
“They already have the zoom in feature which allows you to highlight all the different parts that make up the gun or piece of gear ... Why not just expand off of that? I mean your already half way there.”
“If I can make my ideal rifle then why would I ever care about what drops?”
Man, this game was such a missed opportunity. Gearbox could have done so much cool shit if they had opened up the code to build a crafting element into the random gun system already in place. Make it possible to break guns down into their component parts. Perhaps to keep the difficulty up only make it possible to save…
So where’s the Android alternative? Google is already out of favor with the Chinese government, how much more do they have to lose? I feel like making a big noise about standing firm where Apple has faltered could be a great PR move for them (not mentioning that it is the ethically correct thing to do because, let’s…