Nomentatus

QE is a very recent invention. Inflation, such as during the Civil War, not at all. The money supply went full bonkers - and during the revolution itself; much worse, still. A "Continental" (the dollar of the time) came to mean "worthless."

My chemistry is prob as weak as yours though, so don't trust this too much.

Which raises the possibility that we're looking at the nasty part of a regular oscillation.

However. The very low birthrate is genuinely new. Drugs/homelessness not new but astonishingly severe. Steep housing prices due to collusion (vs manufactured homes, housing laws, and more) are a large cause of both.

What I like is that the first use was ironic, as he continues "But I won't."

But Einstein and S's being sensible pushed them towards thinking entanglement couldn't be a real thing. Although their best default position is to toss up their hands and say that there's gotta be a non-local hidden variable we just haven't found yet. But there are no candidates, as yet. (Unless you like Bohm, I suppose.)

Apparently the US statutes of relevance are:

The Economic Espionage Act of 1996

The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016

Re publication I think you're referring to a possible US constitutional issue: https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/publishing-trade-secrets

If a material is dense enough (metal being the prime example) it'll block. I've nowhere argued that you could send microwave power through solid walls - whether brick or sapphire economically.

Maybe better: nuke the moon and reduce a few key crater rims, then use much shorter towers. Could be that a series of regular bombs might be more effective and less likely to "alarm the horses (general public.)"

What would the minimum power loss be for thick cloud/hurricane? Dunno.

There's a famous-in-the-area ex-NASA blogger with good (not perfect) articles on the topic, but I can't Google and find him 'cause authoritative institutions now seems to trump and drown out mere experts on Google.

Others here cite him: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/08/17/blog-series-co...

https://www.gi.alaska.edu/news/using-microwaves-see-through-...

However I think Marx would be confounded by the Justice Department fully pushing this initiative, if indeed it does; since he believed the elites had an iron grip on democracies that was not going to be shaken. He would have predicted a far higher GINI than the (kinda high) one we have. More like Russia's, at least.

I may be selling him short though, he might view the Justice Dept action as mostly theatre; allowing other forms of exploitation to proceed apace and only addressing abusive clauses that weren't being enforced anyway; and the expansion of skilled and better-paid work in our day as only an apparent exception to his views.

In any case, even if the employee refuses to work on a given task, that's information. Having to say: "Yeah, I think you want somebody else to design that particular part" (implying "because they'll be freer to innovate and free to choose the optimal solution") is a big fat clue that could attract a lot of resources to the design of that part.

Patterson, I believe, has said that folks like Intel intentionally do this, add rather pointless new patented instructions so that they are always "embracing and extending" (my words) their own designs to prevent true compatibility; and thus cloning by others. And that that's one big reason why it was worth creating RISC-V.

That's my experience: we don't have accurate memories for exact quantities of pain, but I'm "fortunate" enough to have an excellent litmus test: whether I can get to sleep within two hours. By that measure opiods have no positive effects for me that last more than 30 days. Zero.