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811.
by jjk166 1y ago
And how do you know which bill from the shop is Bob's? Or which hands the bill passed through before or after going through Bob? The only thing you'll be able to determine is that some of the money withdrawn from the local atms ev
812.
by jjk166 1y ago
I call bullshit on that. Show me the evidence.
813.
by jjk166 1y ago
Hydrogen is really the only propellant that makes sense for a nuclear thermal rocket. A nuclear reactor can't get substantially hotter or higher pressure than a chemical rocket engine, the reason it offers high specific impulse (basica
814.
by jjk166 1y ago
Actually spreading it out over a large area is much safer. What you don't want is a big hunk of highly enriched uranium landing somewhere. Not that it is very likely to harm anyone, but it becomes quite a nightmare to deal with it.
815.
by jjk166 1y ago
Not how real companies work. Numbers 1-15 are all off the table because the company does not have the means to do them at the time. Maybe something in the top 35 is being worked on, but the overwhelming majority are going to be coming from
816.
by jjk166 1y ago
It's substantially more than 1 million $1 bills.
817.
by jjk166 1y ago
It's approximately a 3 inch cube.
818.
by jjk166 1y ago
That makes it worse, assuming the box has positive value
819.
by jjk166 1y ago
Because they were spending more money on having their personnel tracking down these mistakes. /s The real reason is that payment processors like visa have a large network which is both technically challenging to maintain and has a mass
820.
by jjk166 1y ago
Such scanners exist but most ATMs do not have them. Of course if you fill the ATM with a stack of fresh bills you know the serial numbers for, and you know how many bills were dispensed prior to a particular transaction, you should know whi
821.
by jjk166 1y ago
Not in english it isn't.
822.
by jjk166 1y ago
I mean the math given showing the size for an actual ~$1M cube is substantially smaller is pretty compelling. The author puts forward the explanation that there may be voids in the cube instead of an additional $500k, but that doesn't
823.
by jjk166 1y ago
The exhibit only claims this is what a $1M cube would look like.
824.
by jjk166 1y ago
It costs about $.032 to produce a 1 dollar note, so an extra 500000 new bills would be about $16k. It could be even cheaper if these were old bills than needed to be pulled out of circulation. In that case they'ed be paying money to di
825.
by jjk166 1y ago
> The ideas not being worked on now are “worse” ideas than the ones being worked on, at least by the priorities the company is using. That's hardly true. Nearly all companies are heavily resource constrained. They have limited capit
826.
by jjk166 1y ago
For flights you have to go through significant amounts of security which is often highly variable. Further, flights tend to be distinct events. For many routes there may only be one per day, and even for busier routes you usually can't
827.
by jjk166 1y ago
People were saying that in the 1880s, which was the gilded age. People took action at the time to deal with the problem, and it was significantly reduced for many decades. Just because an issue existed long ago does not mean it has continuo
828.
by jjk166 1y ago
Is there? Copyright is not supposed to prevent the generation of commercial work that might compete with your own.
829.
by jjk166 1y ago
I imagine any other proxy for population density would probably produce a very similar map.
830.
by jjk166 1y ago
> At this point I'm merely talking about size (which I think is clear from the words I use. I don't think "building a mile tall rocket would be hard" adequately describes the difficulty when we haven't even built
831.
by jjk166 1y ago
Thank you for the additional examples of things not simply shutting down after a quick conflict. Lasting peace requires decades of military involvement. That is my point.
832.
by jjk166 1y ago
They had a very obvious use for it: trade it to the US in exchange for sanctions relief.
833.
by jjk166 1y ago
The publicly revealed, internationally inspected secret uranium enrichment facility?
834.
by jjk166 1y ago
The intelligence said the opposite, that they had not decided to develop a nuke.
835.
by jjk166 1y ago
Well if someone did it to our enrichment plants, it would be an act of war.
836.
by jjk166 1y ago
Ah yes, like when we prevented Germany from ever being a problem again with the Treaty of Versailles.
837.
by jjk166 1y ago
They tried that. Saddam gassed them.
838.
by jjk166 1y ago
And I'm old enough to remember the previous war with Iraq which left Iraq's government intact, and the 12 years of no fly zone operations before attempt 2. I also remember attempt 2 costing around $3 Trillion.
839.
by jjk166 1y ago
And yet Israel does not denuclearize. I certainly hope Iran's adversaries are rational actors.
840.
by jjk166 1y ago
The Netherlands and Germany both produce highly enriched uranium despite not having nuclear weapons programs. 60% enrichment is insufficient for use in nuclear weapons. Iran's enriched uranium is its main bargaining chip in the diploma

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