Armisael16

The sqrt function returns the principle square root, not both. That’s true for all numbers, positive, negative, and complex alike.

Why should productivity and corporate tax rates be correlated at all, up or down? The link there is not obvious.

If you’ve played KSP you should know how totally useless Mun bases are.

There isn’t anything magically about precisely zero percent interest rates; the behavior we see is mostly a smooth extension of slightly higher rates, which the EU was at.

And of course ZIRP was pioneered in Japan, not the US.

IRV is also vulnerable to third-party spoilers; the squeezed middle is a well-known phenomenon in that system.

The standard definition of a correction is a 10-20% market decline. “Minor” corrections aren’t defined, though one could imagine an event that barely meets the threshold making sense.

But yes, strictly you are right - this isn’t a correction at all.

source: https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/market-correction-what-do....

ESA’s 2024 Space Environment Report, which is what the article references: https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris/ESA_Space_Envi...

Cooling is the main and normal direction heat pumps run in; heating is the new and unusual way to use them.

Why would you ignore the largest state in that land area calculation? Alaska still isn’t quite enough to push the US up, but it’s good for another 20%-ish increase in land area over the contiguous number.

Southwest has dozens of Max 8s, for what it’s worth: https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Southwest-Airlines

I booked a flight with them last night, and it’s scheduled to fly on one.

c is used in the definition of the meter, but you don’t remotely need to know that in day-to-day life. As long as the seven base units (length, time, mass, temperature, electric current, luminosity) end up with reasonable values the system is practically coherent.

(are the values reasonable? well, human-scale capacitors and resistors seem pretty heavily skewed away from the center of the scale…)

Historically speaking the things the rich think are worth spending money on haven’t lined up with what society thinks is best all that often.

“Your total money is decreasing” is not the same thing as “all your money is gone” - it’s leading in that direction, but if it takes 20 or 30 years to get there that’s usually enough for people to retire on.

I imagine it’s just an ingrained use of language picked up from other people - no thought behind it, like an atheist who says ‘Christ’ as an expletive.

Boston Dynamics is trying to produce for the military market. The field doesn’t generally have huge expanses of well-maintained concrete to drive on.

Setting up large enough weights to lift is incredibly expensive - it’s a terrible way to use power, let alone store it.

It’s a war crime. If you start doing it the other side won’t shoot at nothing - they’ll shoot at everything, civilians included.

> It’s very hard to see a situation where it’s logistically feasible for the US to transport so many people over that it exceeds the number of soldiers already in the military.

The US military has about 1.5 million people at present. When Germany surrendered in 1945, the US had about 3 million people in Europe alone - entirely ignoring the whole Pacific front.

It is generally unwise to underestimate the logistical capabilities of the US military.

(The other points seem more grounded, especially about the nature of modern western war.)

Cute, but totally irrelevant. Microsoft has the money and the US government clearly has the ability to get the money.

Unfortunately it’s generally more complex than that, at least in US law - simply having material nonpublic information isn’t enough. It really matters how you got the information.

For example, when Hindenburg Research did a ton of research and discovered that Nikola was basically totally fraudulent, they traded extremely relevant information that wasn’t publicly available. Not insider trading.

Similarly, if Warren Buffet invests in a company, he knows that its stock is very likely to go up (just as a result of the halo effect around him). He doesn’t have to disclose that he plans to buy, though.

NACS already uses the CCS signaling protocol, and always has - Teslas have been able to use a dumb adapter to plug into CCS chargers for years.

The v4 superchargers are supposed to support 800V charging. They’re only just starting to be rolled out, unfortunately, but anyone who can hold out will probably end up okay.

A charge usually takes 20-30 minutes. You get a five minute grace period, then you start getting hit with $1/min idle fees. That’s barely enough time to get from the far reaches of the parking lot to a store and back.

Bringing the food closer to the charging station fixes that. No idea about the drive-in, though.

(Of course it also brings with it the risk of a spot getting ICE’d, which is why charging stations are so far out in the first place. Dunno how they plan to avoid that.)

Are you suggesting people just go read the documentation like an encyclopedia? I don’t know a single person who got their start programming by doing that - just about everyone wants some sort of guide to help lead them in good directions.

Probably from/related to https://colinwoodard.com/books/american-nations/

Yes.

It’s less efficient than normal electric batteries and will take up far more space.

Gravitational storage only works in the very particular case of water, where moving it is downhill nearly perfectly efficient and free, and where you can also get free energy from things like rivers feeding in.

Phonons can have a negative effective mass - in other words, you can mostly ignore the effect of the background environment if you simply change the mass to be something else (which can be negative).

That’s very different than having a negative actual mass.

The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 explicitly exempts currencies in section 3 part 10 (split across pages 11/12 of https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1885/pdf/COMPS-188...).

Of course this is only an answer for the US legal system.