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>China's peak is behind us. Peak growth rate yes; total peak no. China failed to emulate Japan, Taiwan and South Korea's rapid acceleration. They will continue to grow at a faster rate than already wealthy nations but…
Ah. I misunderstood your earlier comment. Thanks!
so why don't common mirrors just use aluminum? It's already cheaper than silver, right?
A simple way to verify this is to observe that common mirrors also tend to be green, showing that the other colors are absorbed more by the mirror. If you face two mirrors towards each other you will see a lot of green.…
Back towards space is more accurate. Some of the light will bounce back to the earth because of the greenhouse effect. edit: This doesn't mean that the paint isn't effective for what the researchers want it to do, in…
yes. A white surface scatters the photons and a reflective one keeps them in the same position relative to the others. If you make a surface smooth enough it starts becoming partly reflective. There is also scattering…
>The consequence of breaching the social contract is a complete loss of credibility for the state This is a weak version of "uphold the social contract at all costs" mentality. Rather than uphold it because of the…
You think that the real issue of bombings in Sweden is that SD voters live in the countryside?
>Fun(?) fact: in the US, about 1,000 per year are killed by police [3], which amounts to about 0.3 per 100,000. An American is about as likely to be killed by police as a Japanese person is to be killed by a murderer.…
>The other options are all some form of breach of the social contract The thing is a social contract that can't actually exist doesn't matter. If we all agree to not work but still receive benefits we haven't made a…
perhaps that was the wrong word to use. I used the word native and replace in terms of demographic tendencies. If the natural tendency of the Swedish population is to decline, then adding more people to the population…
>Irish/Italians made the east coast Do you mind explaining what you are referring to? I'm a bit ignorant of this era of US history. I thought the east coast was the "original" US - that is, the thirteen colonies.…
>the entire welfare system is in real trouble unless the proportion of young people isn't inflated somehow >The generation born in the '50s and '60s is retiring now, and it's much larger than subsequent generations.…
According to the modern meaning of art, as long as the artist intends for it to be art then it is art. Since it is not the work itself but the artist that defines art then anything that was intended at least in part to…
not sure why this is downvoted. Chinese companies can definitely make their own search engine. And in fact search engines are not so big in china anyway; everything is an app, and questions are answered on Zhihu.…
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>China's peak is behind us. Peak growth rate yes; total peak no. China failed to emulate Japan, Taiwan and South Korea's rapid acceleration. They will continue to grow at a faster rate than already wealthy nations but…
Ah. I misunderstood your earlier comment. Thanks!
so why don't common mirrors just use aluminum? It's already cheaper than silver, right?
A simple way to verify this is to observe that common mirrors also tend to be green, showing that the other colors are absorbed more by the mirror. If you face two mirrors towards each other you will see a lot of green.…
Back towards space is more accurate. Some of the light will bounce back to the earth because of the greenhouse effect. edit: This doesn't mean that the paint isn't effective for what the researchers want it to do, in…
yes. A white surface scatters the photons and a reflective one keeps them in the same position relative to the others. If you make a surface smooth enough it starts becoming partly reflective. There is also scattering…
>The consequence of breaching the social contract is a complete loss of credibility for the state This is a weak version of "uphold the social contract at all costs" mentality. Rather than uphold it because of the…
You think that the real issue of bombings in Sweden is that SD voters live in the countryside?
>Fun(?) fact: in the US, about 1,000 per year are killed by police [3], which amounts to about 0.3 per 100,000. An American is about as likely to be killed by police as a Japanese person is to be killed by a murderer.…
>The other options are all some form of breach of the social contract The thing is a social contract that can't actually exist doesn't matter. If we all agree to not work but still receive benefits we haven't made a…
perhaps that was the wrong word to use. I used the word native and replace in terms of demographic tendencies. If the natural tendency of the Swedish population is to decline, then adding more people to the population…
>Irish/Italians made the east coast Do you mind explaining what you are referring to? I'm a bit ignorant of this era of US history. I thought the east coast was the "original" US - that is, the thirteen colonies.…
>the entire welfare system is in real trouble unless the proportion of young people isn't inflated somehow >The generation born in the '50s and '60s is retiring now, and it's much larger than subsequent generations.…
According to the modern meaning of art, as long as the artist intends for it to be art then it is art. Since it is not the work itself but the artist that defines art then anything that was intended at least in part to…
not sure why this is downvoted. Chinese companies can definitely make their own search engine. And in fact search engines are not so big in china anyway; everything is an app, and questions are answered on Zhihu.…