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Who would design and build experiments for those probes to run when they land on Mars? Are we sure economy of scale would apply to those?

Obvious bait is obvious.

Maybe we’ll live long enough to see the completion of either solar gravitational lensing telescope or earth atmospheric lensing one. Either will (theoretically) let us imagine the surface features on extrasolar planets.

Orbital period in itself is just a number. Interesting variable is how does the climate on planet change during it. On Earth climate gets affected because of axial tilt of the planet, giving different hemisphere different amount of solar energy during a year (due to length of a day and Sun path on the sky).

If those planets have little axial tilt and little variety in distance to their star, there should be little variety in climate on them.

What story? The tweets in question that they requested to be deleted are photos of other Binden’s penis that he was keeping on his device?

Because at the end of the day people chose what they want to believe in based on their own beliefs, values and biases, making the poop stick. Like how there were (are?) people who believed that there's a secret basement in a pizza restaurant used by politicians to hurt children.

It's being reported on with more e-mails by Unions Initiative which is Polish non-profit supporting unionization efforts in country:

https://www-za-org-pl.translate.goog/prezes-sii-polska-i-wla...

Context:

Sii is Polish software company that outsources it's developers to customers to develop software solutions. CEO of this company is Gregoire Nitot, Frenchman.

Recently few employees at Sii have bunched together and founded workers union at Sii, which has reported to the CEO who reacted with an e-mail.

Employe who started union at Sii has been fired. This is a breach of Polish constitution which guarantees employees right to unionization at their workplace and protects members of unions from being fired in retaliation.

No. Bank oversight comission required banks to offer fixed rate mortages only after swiss franc mortage crisis (2009), and not shorter than 5 years. What happened was banks introduced fixed mortages for 5 years, after which time you move to variable mortage, or update rates for next 5 years.

Banks also made those mortages noticably pricer, so few people picked them (me included).

Thats only if your earnings will also grow, keeping you ahead of the curve of growing interest rates, which will not be the case for great majority of workers.

I have a mortage in Poland. Base rates went from 1.5% to 6.75%. My mortage’s monthly payment went from 1792PLN to 3200 PLN (~715 USD), where 3000 PLN is interest. This is not big enough to bankrupt me, but 1000 PLN is a lot of money here and a lot of people feel the pressure so our govt enacted law that lets you move four rates in a year to the end of mortage for two years, effectively extending the mortage by 8 months, but at no base cost of mortage changing.

„Adam Ruins Everything” did a video on this:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FwdqFHBaPwY

TL;DW: marketing by drink producers invented a problem to sell people who pursue healthy habits bottled water.

The argument is that YouTube rewards what hivemind thinks is interesting and not what's correct or accurate.

Sargon of Akkad has 900k subscribers and according to the dude EU is two years away from collapse and open racial war because of immigration and the left since at least 2012 but none of that has realized. But a lot of people out there like his takes so he has subscribers.

> I keep hearing from Western pundits that Russian economy is tanking, but isn't it the other way around?

Last time I've checked Russia had to purchase arms from Iran because they are no longer able to produce those themselves due to severed supply from Europe, while plenty of european countries are increasing military development and production.

Russia is also forced to disassembly some of their passenger planes for spare parts because they no longer can ship those from Airbus or Boeing.

Russia can no longer import semiconductors from US/Europe, Taiwan, Korea or Japan. This effectively stopped their high-tech industry from working. This hit their civil and military aviation (which includes production of their AA, CM and cruise missiles, and passenger plane program).

Civilian production is also seriously affected by the sanctions. Lada cars are now produced in very basic variant due to no access to parts from EU or Asia.

Russia is also recommissioning soviet-era arms because they are no longer able to use their "modern" tech without weakening their military on other fronts.

Because Russian government is de facto a mafia state, the govt itself considers large companies ran by people outside of oligarchy a threat to itself, meaning that Russia has no national industry it can turn to for filling in the gaps created by sanctions:

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501382714427166721

Bank of Russia is doing whatever it can to protect country's economy from crisis, but they are doing it in same way that Turkey does: through selling their reserves. They can't do that forever.

History teaches that sometimes war is goal of foreign politics in itself, and thus it's impossible to escape, only to delay.

    "The government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war too."

What you consider a possible action to avert the war then?

US Coast Guard has ~13 Billion USD in budget, operates across the globe (there are USCG cutters both on Japan Sea and Black Sea) and is 5th or 6th strongest navy in the world:

https://www.uscg.mil/budget/

At the time of me posting comment, the article opened with "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people."

Associated Press report based on US sources: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-kher...

Because we have enough empirical proof from last 100 years that right people at right time can convert your country into one where you can be sentenced to death, labour camp or any of those based on your ethnicity, religion, world view or even fact of wearing glasses.

Carmageddon's game engine already has open-source clone project:

https://github.com/dethrace-labs/dethrace

Game is 100% completable. There are bugs and missing bits here and there, but it already plays like the original did and its super fun!

Developers of vB 3 left the company and started new forum software named XenForo. They were then sued by Internet Brands (vB owners) for IP theft - IB claimed XenForo was next vBulletin. In court hearings we’ve learned that IB plan for vBulletin development was to fire all but lead dev, and have this lead dev only delegate and review work to outsourced devs in Asia. We’ve also heard that „only developers care about quality of code” and trying to keep code good is „waste of time”.

And then vB 4 landed and turned out to be insanely poor launch - forum index was plugin based, but it was very easy to end with index page that did 700 mysql queries, which took forever to execute without relying on full page cache like varnish.

Today its supposedly much better, but Internet Brands uses internal version of vBulletin 3 (3.8) to run their sites instead of v4 or v5.

Ironically Gilgamesh is a big name in world of Anime where he is one of key characters in „Fate” games/novels/anime. Some installments portray him as homicidal maniac bored with existence while others turn him into caring and clever (even if arrogant) king of Babylon.

Fate/Zero may be available on netflix but remember its an M-rated anime about modern era secret society of mages summoning legendary heroes to fight to the death, with last team standing getting their wish fulfilled. Expect goofy characters, humour, dark plots and graphic violence.

Hawking’s history of time actually anwsers this question with „we don’t know and don’t have any information from before big bang we can access to use in research”.

    A directed bid is…

Reminds me of bid for pursuit vechicles for Polish police that specified car chassis width range that only one car produced by Audi met.

PS4 killer app was option to buy bare bones ps4 + gamepad package vs Xbone taking forever to enter some european markets and insisting for so long that I asolutely need to pay much more because only bundle on market is one with Kinect I have zero interest of using.

It also had very strob library of exclusives. If somebody told me I’ll spend 400h in front of TV playing souls game I would’ve laughted them off, but Bloodborne did it. They also had other strong titles like Uncharted, Horizon, Last of Us.

I thought its obvious I was sarcastic here by „not partitioning czechoslovakia” part because thats opposite of what he supported: partially partitioning Czechoslovakia to appease Hitler.

I invite you to cross it by either Sikorski bridge or Dmowski bridge when its 30 degree celcius on summer day. It absolutely reeks. The stench goes down with temperature, so I guess its okay when you are drinking at Słodowa or past Grunwald bridge at later hour?

Here is news story about this from 2015 where people complaining about river smelling terrible over other bridges: https://wroclaw.wyborcza.pl/wroclaw/7,35771,18834396,czemu-w...

I am living in apartment block next to this river in Wrocław.

Oder was always considered dirty river here. On hot days it smells like something rotten, its absolutely defeating to cross it by bridge and I thank god my apartment’s windows are on the other side.

But people still fish in it in center of city. I can only hope they do it for sport and not for food.

Yup! I once saw replay where match had different outcone from actuall game due to delay on human player inputs and none on AI player inputs. It was crazy.

Gee, I guess Chamberlain was wrong for not partitioning Czechoslovakia and yielding Sudetenland to the Reich. And Poland not giving northen part of its territory for Reich to connect with Eastern Prussia. This man right here found a way to avoid WW II from happening!