Wonderboy

Interested in commodities, tech, macro picture and frauds

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@TheFigen_ Letting your car roll downhill backwards is much easier than backing up uphill. So a car coming downhill has priority.

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@the_culturist_ Without a doubt one of Germany‘s ugliest cities. Almost as bad: Dusseldorf, Stuttgart.

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@ecommerceshares So the dumb money is buying now? That‘s typically the end of a trend.

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That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

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@MichaelAArouet Because Europe did not get the world into this mess.

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@Noahpinion They can (1) learn and (2) build up HVM capacity. Drones are not rocket science.

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@Noahpinion Sure. Starting a second war when they weren‘t even able to finish the first

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@elonmusk @TRobinsonNewEra Please do. It‘s outrageous. An 18 year old kid.

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@PunishedRWR It is still nonsense.

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@sunchartist Yes, he is. I’m serious.

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@CharmOfCulture Siracusa?

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@burningbyte Fast kein Net Debt mehr bei >€10M free cash flow und €60M Marktkapitalisierung

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@Stocksandbonds3 Good call. Finally a smart broker

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@Fenmagne Great call

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@CM_X_CM @FabricAIFABC AMS-OSRAM worth a look. https://t.co/bHm7Zo2VmT

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@OnchainYolo @CM_X_CM @aleabitoreddit Ams-Osram

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@R00041451 @ebarica @piyush1337 @OGCapital25 Balance sheet looks bad though. Any way to solve this for AMS?

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@damnang2 Seems to me $VECO is the better play. Latest order announcement was 🔥

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@DrunkRepub Why would you think healthcare in Europe is free?

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@Clint_Davey1 Have to disagree. The Canadians were slow to close the pocket against weak opposition, allowing many German soldiers to escape. The Poles were brave but badly led. Look at the Battle of Bautzen, Poles got stomped basically two weeks prior to Germany‘s surrender.