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It’s a form of something called “arguing in the alternative.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_in_the_alternative

It’s very real.

If you actually read the article and the many citations, it’s a strong data-based approach. If you only read the title or skim, or just react emotionally then it could hit you the wrong way. All of which is to say that this is an important issue, it’s presented well and with sensitivity, and it’s just the kind of thought-provoking article called for in the guidelines.

That it’s already flagged off the front page is a credit to no one.

A selection of some of the embedded links from the piece:

https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/amendment-proce...

https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/criminal-hist...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3793850/

https://academic.oup.com/aler/article/17/1/127/212179

https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...

You can accuse someone of anything, until they file a suit they’re just trying thuggish intimidation tactics, which is no surprise from patent trolls.

Tritium. In addition to the points made by other replies, current fusion is (mostly) D-T, and we’re nowhere near breeding T in the reactor, so it has to be made in fission plants. Tritium is very expensive, and a significant risk for nuclear weapons proliferation.

It would explode, but for any reactor we’re likely to build in our lifetimes, it wouldn’t be anything like a nuclear bomb. We’ve had nastier explosions in natural gas refineries. There would be radiological contamination from the Tritium and any neutron-activated material, but it would be more of an expensive cleanup than an environmental disaster. It would be dirty though, especially if the reactor had been running for a while, building up dust. What wasn’t radioactive would still likely be stuff you don’t want to breathe or ingest.

TL;DR Boom lots of dead people in the containment structure, expensive cleanup, but nothing like a fission disaster. It would be an uninspiring explosion, but it would be dirty.

I’d be more surprised if people working for a company like Facebook weren’t raging hypocrites. Other than stratospheric levels of cognitive dissonance, hypocrisy or just not giving a shit is the only way someone could work for them. In my experience far more people are hypocrites than truly callous and uncaring.

Peter Thiel though, seems like less of a hypocrite and more like someone who just says and does whatever he thinks is personally advantageous, and screw everyone who isn’t Peter a Thiel.

More people die from accidental swallowing of a bee each year, than shark attacks.

You have the yearly state inspection though right? At least, last I lived there you did.

Here’s a link to the original piece, but it is in French: https://www.capital.fr/entreprises-marches/netflix-en-discus...

I grew up in a place where the racial bias narrative of policing was just something I knew to be true. It took a long time, and a lot of statistics from a ton of sources to realize that aside from sentencing, it’s mostly that the system as a whole sucks. The problem is the correlation between race and poverty, and poverty and crime. It’s fair to point to the history of mistreatment of black people in the US as a root driver of poverty, and therefore crime, but that’s often lost in the noise.

Take the recent shooting of a young black man in his grandmother’s yard. The narrative is now that he was unarmed, and shot in the back. While true, both points are deceptive. He was unarmed, but he ran from the cops, at night, didn’t follow commands, and had a metallic object in his hands when he turned to face the officers. This was all caught on FLIR. He was shot in the back, after the first shot to his front spun him around. Don’t run. Don’t resist. Comply with commands and argue your case in court. Your odds of being shot go down to near zero when you’re not running away or acting like a lunatic. Even in cases of obvious abuse like that poor bastardized NYPD cops strangled to death, were predicated on resisting arrest.

As long as people fleeing and resisting gets conflated with cases of compliant people being abused, not much will change. As long as cases of disproportionate arrests rates are conflated with wrongful arrests and convictions, not much will change. The two major predictors of have a bad time in the system are socioeconomic class, and how you act with officers. Race is a factor in sentencing, but that seems to rarely be the issue talked about in popular cases.

I’m not justifying the use in this article, but it does mean something. In particular “aerospace” aluminum is a particular range of alloys around 92% pure AL content. It’s use in aerospace applications is based on its thermal stability, strength, lightness and resistance to wear and cracking.

To be honest, I’m not sure that what makes a good regenerative cooler for an upper stage rocket engine makes the best lens case, but it sounds cool right? shrug

Music is one of the few remaining areas of mass media where I think having the file on your drive is a must. I’ll buy from places that don’t let me download, and then pirate a copy to actually own. I want to support the artists, but get real, if I bought it I want to own it.

Would it be safe/feasible to use a butane or propane torch for that? Would there be an issue of carcinogenic residue? If not, then a handheld torch is cheap and easy to use, and goes well last 700 degrees.

It’s not just the US though, the whole ultra-surveillance shtick is very much an international problem. Here in the UK it’s not that great either, and China is full on dystopia. I’m not excusing the US, but we need to accept that this isn’t just the Americans, it’s more and more of the world.

Is this going to effect them trying to shift workers from the S line to the 3 assembly line? Or is this just a matter of maintenance services doing the replacement?

At the very least, this is the last kind of news they need, for sales, PR, and internal morale.

It’s certainly the business of anyone hiring him, if only from a PR and liability perspective. As to our business, it would be hard to argue that submitting this question didn’t go some way to making it just that. Still, I respect your stance on the inscrutability of another’s thoughts, although I don’t understand what that has to do with anything.

We certainly wouldn’t want to permit the trafficking of underage words! Seriously, this is an ugly, puritanical step back for a country that makes quite the show of free speech. If nothing else, censoring books should be a great big red flag for anyone wondering about the impact of FOSTA. Unless the book is a kidnapping manual, this is worrisome.

Very much so, yes. They’re not completely unaware of the need for PR though, so you’re unlikely to be hassled. Unlikely, but I for one wouldn’t take the chance. I realize that sentiment around this issue is massively polarized, but the reality is complex. Nobody likes to talk about what persona non grata Palestinians are in other Arab nations, and the degree to which their current circumstances are the result of that. The reasoning for that policy of containment by Arab nations ranges from political expediency, through racism, into genuine fear. It’s worth understanding the rationale for the whole spectrum before making a trip to Gaza.

It’s not as simple as people on either extreme of the issue would have you believe.

I would add one point: Is there a chance you might ever be one of those things, or are friends with or related to one of them? If so, no social media.

Yeah, but they’re not looking at ads or providing useful data for brokers.

You should probably talk to a lawyer, because given what’s been said in this thread alone, you’re never going to be able to argue that you didn’t knowingly facilitate. Love it or hate it, new laws make that problematic even for Google.

I mean, this is damning: Illegality and immorality are different, and - speaking personally - I don't have an issue with the platform used for moral but illegal uses.

With this as a stated goal, The world needs a protocol and network for trade that no one company or government controls. That's OpenBazaar... going after the network as a whole doesn’t seem unreasonable. The FBI for example, probably isn’t still in their Atlas Shrugged phase.

Ok, let’s look at an example of illegal and immoral. What will you do when people sell child porn on your platform?

Gasoline under normal conditions doesn’t explode, it burns. I’m not denying that a fire was the likely outcome in either case, but neither gasoline nor batteries detonate, they deflagrate. Gasoline in particular, despite what Hollywood would have you believe, isn’t like nitroglycerin.

At these energies it’s less about ablation and more about thermal effects on propellant and warhead assemblies. The problem is that coating a missile in a thin layer of something designed to ablate is a lot cheaper than building a laser to overcome those countermeasures.

The terms sociopath and psychopath are tossed around a lot these days, but Cruz is the prototypical psychopath if there ever was one. He seems to have shed warning signs almost constantly, and he was clearly dangerously disturbed. Someone like that has no place around other people.

The developer’s boss(es) seems more useful in this case. Unless a single developer was grossly negligent, then throw them in there too, but even then their supervisors are on the hook for signing off on grossly negligent software.

Ever been to FL or AZ? The oldest people you’ve ever seen are still driving, slowly, dangerously, and happily. No one is taking their licenses with the AARP, around. Meanwhile you may be overestimating the love very old people have for automation, the prospect of being killed by an SDV, or being driven around town by a machine.

I like the old rumor? of the doctor who put a piece of paper with a code word written on it, on top of a high shelf in the OR. As the story goes, no one was ever able to report the code word. This is not unlike Houdini’s code phrase for his wife to recognize a valid psychic (no dice there either), or the classic test of reiki practitioners [1].

1. “So you can feel my energy? Through clothing? Blindfolded? Great, here’s a thin fabric screen, you should stand on that side, and point to where I am on the other, if I’m there at all.” No one gets that either.

Fiber lasers are part of the solution, but blooming in air, and from target ablation is still a problem. What we really need for “ray guns” are phased array lasers and/or FEL’s. Just pumping more energy through conventional optics will make the problems I mentioned worse, not better.