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by azernik 5y ago
Corium is absolutely dangerous - it take heavy equipment and time to break it apart and use it, and the stuff tends to be so massively radioactive it'll kill most gear and people who try to do the job. The shielding, in this case, serv
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The military generally doesn't hand off this kind of gear to contractors or to any but the most reliable allies. If they can get all of their own troops out - which the US did in Afghanistan - they can get out a high-value piece of equ
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The US did quite well at keeping the sensitive stuff out of Taliban hands. What the Taliban got was: 1. Enormous quantities of gear that belonged to the Afghan government 2. US military equipment that the US consciously decided not to pack
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Bad policy for all of the people who need petrol to drive; for all of the people who work at the (temporarily, thankfully) closed stations; and for anyone who works at businesses that rely on regular petrol supplies. Basic functioning of th
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And, to complete the equation: that carbon comes up in the form of food.
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None of that stuff is still in service. (At least not telecom.) They require periodic, expensive maintenance, and fiber outclasses copper for long-distance signatures to a much greater degree than for the last-mile ground traffic for which
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I strongly doubt there are any non-fiber submarine cables. Fiber's main strength is range; trying to run signals over electrical conductors over hundred-km-plus distances is not cost-effective and hasn't been for decades. (It&#x27
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That is the normal frictional vacancy rate, and is mostly temporary. It's also not a problem of buying and holding empty land; by definition, vacancies are on built-up lots, and they generally spike when construction is finished (takes
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It gives Israel military aid on the order of $3-4B per year. On US budget orders of magnitude that's peanuts, and comes with none of the US troop or naval commitment of e.g. the Saudi or Korean alliances.
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Where are you seeing these empty unused lots of land?
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By definition, the places where land is abundant do not face market pressure to build dense
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I mean, sure. The moral question is important! But I was starting from a thread of people who didn't understand the real-life character of the Israeli-American relationship. If you're trying to describe the actual actions of the p
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If you want to define away sending hundreds of thousands of troops to defend Saudi Arabia, using those troops to free Kuwait from foreign invasion, and then keeping those troops in both countries (where they've taken everything from ca
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The United States has thousands of troops deployed across the Gulf to defend its allies there. It has another several thousand as a "tripwire" in South Korea. US troops have died in combat defending Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. They&#
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This is the international arms trade. As long as you have state endorsement and aren't violating UN sanctions, there are zero consequences. And if you think this is in any way unusual, take a look at the places the US and China and Fra
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Which Israel is also not part of. Israel is only peripherally and reluctantly involved in the confrontations with Russia and China at the heart of 5E interests, and it neither trusts nor is trusted by 5E countries to the level of sharing in
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It's an address space expansion. You were always going to need hacky stuff for legacy clients, and for any service that wants to be reachable by said clients.
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Matt Levine strikes again - Everything Is Securities Fraud!
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The need to be in the sun isn't about power. Wherever JWST is, it has to be exposed to either the sun or to a planetary body that's shielding it. At the low temperatures involved, Earth's night side puts out enough infrared
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Not just the power to keep it up, but also the rotors. Not sure how heavy Earth quadcopter rotors are as a proportion of total vehicle weight, but the Ingenuity ones are absolutely enormous.
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And most of the debris (anything that goes flying at less than 1.8km/s) will just fall back down.
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Generally the requests are a polite prelude to a subpoena. The subpoena process is a bit of a pain, so they'll skip it if the recipient is okay handing stuff over, but its presence is always felt.
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The author is also not against using HTML/JS for things they were not initially intended for: > It can be very useful to run certain programs in the browser. In a lot of cases, however, the same technologies are used for documents.
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That's not quite what the article is talking about. The article is complaining not about the use of the Web to write/host apps, but about the unnecessary use of app-writing functionality (aka JS) to "enhance" documents o
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Probably not. This planet would be about 10 times as far away from us as Pluto, and estimated brightness is about 1/1000th that of Pluto. And its low velocity would make it much harder to pick out against the stellar background.
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"Online games" only for two reasons: 1. Online games are easier to restrict. Centralized servers, corporations with addresses and bank accounts, &c 2. Online games are a political threat. The Chinese government worries not jus
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It's impossible to regulate clients - there are too many of them, and they're under direct physical control of minors who are opposed to the regs. In this as in many things, big central institutions are much easier for a state to
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Probably. It narrows down the range of locations and therefore the search area. And given the potentially very low brightness of the object, search area and hence telescope time are limiting factors.
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Either way, it would be very useful for inferring the properties of extrasolar planets in that size range.
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The common-denominator media didn't put a stop to disinformation and scams, but it did provide some limits to how completely they could alter your worldview. Information contradicting the mainstream media (which was a realer institutio

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