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by compass_copium 2y ago
For low-wage employees who spend almost all of their income on goods and services, yes. For highly compensated employees who save the majority of their money, no.
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by compass_copium 2y ago
Yes, but they can get the same effect by buying military hardware--and that has the added benefit of making Raytheon management and shareholders richer. When you just directly pay an employee with government money, there's no way to do
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by compass_copium 2y ago
I will! It's nature's sweetener, I've always said :)
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by compass_copium 2y ago
The point is not that you are eating dirt. The point is that you are constantly surrounded by small amounts of things that are not good for you. Take a plane? Eat a banana? You are exposed to radiation. Drink water in certain parts of the c
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by compass_copium 2y ago
It's only "alarming" because it's presented in an alarmimg way. If the headline had said "Protein powders found to contain 2.5% as much lead as undisturbed dirt" you would not have found it alarming.
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by compass_copium 2y ago
No, it does not. >plants actually take up very little lead in their stems and leaves, and are safe to eat They might have, for instance, lead on the level of 1 ppm, which poses no significant harm to your health.
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by compass_copium 2y ago
Nope, just an analytical chemist who's worked in 3rd party testing labs.
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by compass_copium 2y ago
Yes. There's also no world where you don't take up miniscule amounts of toxic, naturally occuring chemicals.
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by compass_copium 2y ago
Twice the P65 level is 1 ppm lead. That translates to 35 micrograms per serving. Lead is a naturally occuring element. Clean dirt contains 15 to 40 ppm lead. You grow plants in dirt. Guess what happens? They take up a little bit of lead. Id
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by compass_copium 2y ago
>It's possible that Windows 11 with its TPM requirement may finally force a hardware upgrade of those dinosaurs but I read there are hacks to get around that. This is what killed a lot of computers in my company's laboratories.
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by compass_copium 2y ago
Is slack that bad? I've only used it for Bernie organizing in 2020, but it worked fine on my 9-year old (at the time) PC.
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by compass_copium 2y ago
Yep, I have a Lenovo E420 (I think?) that I bought when I graduated in 2011. If I replace it, it will be due to things like the USB ports not working, not due to processing power being insufficient. I don't game anymore, I can watch vi
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by compass_copium 2y ago
Governmemt agencies are supposed to have publicly available records
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by compass_copium 2y ago
MKY/com groups. A very evil part of the internet: https://www.maargentino.com/nihilism-and-misanthropy-unleash...
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by compass_copium 2y ago
Interestingly, this guy was not apparently working or communicating with an undercover agent, which is very often the case on a bust like this. You hear a lot about plots where the would-be attacker is holding fake bombs supplied by an agen
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by compass_copium 2y ago
It's loosely affiliated (or was anyway) with the 764/com groups that were in the news a little while back, and linked to MKY, a Russian terror group. M. A. Argentino has good articles about this set: https://www.maargen
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by compass_copium 2y ago
Yes, because AI is not good enough to fly a plane, detect an enemy craft, and react before a human pilot could. Like I said, they are developing UCAVs. They are not replacing all human-piloted strike planes, let alone all human-piloted air-
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by compass_copium 2y ago
Sorry, the film's yellow and LED's blue lights combine to make white (or, more accurately, a color that makes white when the RGB filters are open 100%).
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by compass_copium 2y ago
It's not like UCAVs aren't being developed, though. Piloted aircraft have lower latency and are better for some tasks. If UAVs were ready to replace piloted aircraft in all combat roles, they would have. They have almost completel
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by compass_copium 2y ago
>maybe low radar cross-section isn’t that big of a deal anymore That's simply not true. There is not a peer or near-peer country that is not developing a variety of low-RCS aircraft.
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by compass_copium 2y ago
>Besides, it's not invisible despite calling it that. It's visible in the visible spectrum and hearable in the human hearing range, which means that you can build detection and tracking systems in those wavelengths instead of p
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by compass_copium 2y ago
LCD BLUs have a uniformly glowing background which is filtered by the LCD to make pixels. If there is delay in pixels updating, it would be the LCD causing it.
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by compass_copium 2y ago
It shouldn't make a difference. The film is illuminated by a blue LED and constantly glows uniformly yellow, which is the same mechanism as the white LEDs in a traditional display (blue emitter illuminates yellow phosphor coating). The