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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
The EU has a bunch of reciprocal trade agreements with the USA to not engage in punitive harassment of each other’s companies. Of course they still can , but that’s what’s called a “trade war” and it’s generally not a good thing for all in
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
I’m an adult, and I want Apple to sell a product that doesn’t comply with these regulations. “You can opt out” doesn’t help, because I want Apple to leverage its market power to force other companies to act in my interest, such as by bannin
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Mandating things that are impossible and then fining companies for failing to achieve them is just a silly and roundabout way to impose a tax, and if the EU just wants to tax a bunch of tech companies they should do so directly instead of t
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
I can’t speak for European regulatory bodies, but in the USA the relevant authority is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which was founded in 1974 and approved zero new reactor designs between 1974 and 2020. Conservative doesn’t even begin
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Niobium superconducts at 9.3K, so that would be a pretty cold household!
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You still need to conduct the heat away from the sources to a radiator of some sort, since cooling is proportional to surface area and it’s much easier to increase surface area by adding fins than by increasing airflow. You can only speed u
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
One thing Google has going for it to make code review more efficient is the concept of a uniform per-language style guide. The style guides are absolute and comprehensive, meaning it’s not permitted to diverge from them, and equally importa
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
The US does not allow extradition to other countries for crimes, or the enforcement of civil judgements originating in other countries, that stem from conduct that would be constitutionally protected in the US. For example, a US citizen can
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
If they’re actually holding back data they contractually agreed to provide, then they aren’t living up to their side of the contract and maybe he has a way out. That doesn’t seem to be the case though. There is no “provided Elon Musk can ve
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
If the government damages physical property it is frequently liable for the cost of repairs, but to the extent that a share of Twitter stock represents something that can be damaged, that thing is Twitter itself . If through illegal meddli
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Arguably the Twitter poll and attendant media circus with Bernie Sanders about taxation was also to provide pretext for a large sale without spooking retail investor confidence.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
The possibility of other takeovers doesn’t need to factor into this. If Twitter’s share price is significantly below the price they can force Musk to buy the company at, then the board has an obligation to shareholders to force the sale, an
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
> Don't you think someone guiding the development of companies like SpaceX, Tesla, and others, would invest more time into those - rather than say first doing a thorough background check first on a private investigator he newly hire
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
There is certainly some limit to how much of his stake he could sell out of at once without spooking the market and destroying retail investor confidence, though it’s hard to say what that limit is. Without some cover story I suspect an $8.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
No, they still own the stock, the government hasn’t taken anything from them. The stock might be worth less money the same way a house might be worth less money if a city government decided to stop repairing the road in front of it, or if t
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Notably, mrustc is a Rust compiler in the sense that it is able to compile valid Rust code. It does not provide a guarantee that it will reject invalid input. The user is on the hook to work out themselves through some other mechanism tha
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
A munition that doesn’t have to come back is always going to have more range and be able to carry more payload weight than one that does have to come back afterward.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
In practice it’s actually the opposite. A reusable drone has to have enough fuel to come back, which halves its range compared to a loitering munition that doesn’t come back. A reusable drone isn’t intended to collide with the target, and c
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
This is called a guided missile, or a loitering munition, depending mostly on how quickly it gets to the target. They’ve been around for a while and are very useful but have not rendered tanks obsolete yet.
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The main gun on a tank is actually a pretty cost effective weapon. Projectile weapons are a lot cheaper than missiles.
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Two points are important to consider. 1) It’s clear that the standard model is an incomplete model, due to some small discrepancies between theory and observation. 2) Large-scale particle physics experiments are very expensive and depend on
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At issue here is the fact that what physicists need to conduct experiments is not more data, but different data. To study higher energy levels, more energetic particles are needed. Generating more particles at similar energy levels and prod
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
The US military supplies and operates bases all over the world, manages huge R&D and equipment pipelines, directly employs more people in the US than Walmart or Amazon, and is capable of incredible organizational and logistics feats lik
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Reactors may sometimes be shut down at sea to test backup generators and run reactor restarting drills, but it would not be done otherwise. Aircraft carrier propulsion comes from steam from the reactors - if the reactors are offline the shi
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
After you file for a drug patent it takes 3-4 years to get approved. You also have to run clinical trials of various sorts, which take years, and then you need widespread marketing campaigns to ensure that doctors are aware of the new treat
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Your second point is noted in the https://google.aip.dev/158 guidance. > Request messages for collections should define a string page_token field, allowing users to advance to the next page in the collection. > * If t
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Running an abuse prevention system is adversarial. If your abuse detection system isn’t perfect (which is of course impossible), then having a transparent anti-abuse system is the same as not having an anti-abuse system.
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
If the stock is trading at $120/share that means everyone who owns stock (and is paying attention and offering it for sale) won’t sell for less than $120. But that doesn’t mean all of them, or even most of them, would sell for $120. Ma
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Even so, a 50% decline over the last 12 months is impossible. Of the FAANG companies, only Netflix is down more than 50%, and Netflix is notable for compensating people in mostly cash. Someone's compensation would have to be 100% stock
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Tritium has a half-life of about 12 years, meaning that it essentially doesn’t exist naturally. It’s all man made.

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