LorenPechtel

This isn't stand-up-to-state-actors security. This is keep-state-actors-from-noticing security. They know you're guilty, they'll get it. The XKCD version of password cracking works no matter how secure your hardware.

But while states realistically can crack most anything it doesn't mean they can crack *every*thing. There are simply too many flash drives crossing the border every day.

But there is a big flaw I see: 8gb. You're carting around an 8gb flash drive these days??

That's just pushing the problem around. You aren't doing anything about the actual cause.

Implicit in this is the assumption that the person is capable of being a productive worker. An awful lot of the homeless are psychiatric cases.

Fundamentally, this is the police not understanding statistics as usual. It provides a flood of data, and the more data you have the more likely you are to see an error.

Doesn't need to be significant injury from every incident.

My wife had an MRI, incidental find on it caused a PET CT scan.

Note how the data gets contaminated here.

CPR is simply buying time, at best it can delay death in the hope the doctors can do something about whatever caused the heart to quit. Usually they can't.

AED is different. Despite what Hollywood would have you believe the shocker does not start your heart and it is never used on a stopped heart. Shocking is about the heart beating ineffectively. It has a chance of actually treating the problem, not merely buying time. If the heart is stopped the AED just sits there and says continue CPR. And people blame it for being defective.

A big increase in a small number can still be a small number.

Why do you think this was basically a form of suicide?

Pancreatic cancer still has a dismal "survival" rate, and I hesitate to even call it "survival" as it's more a matter of not having died yet. He's seen what chemotherapy does to patients, he knows it's trading the horrors of chemo for a bit longer life. That article is 10 years old--pancreatic cancer is still very deadly. No reprieve was coming down the road.

False hope generally leads to inferior outcomes.

But does that mean dazzle doesn't work at all, or does it mean a successful counter existed?

I am not in any way implying the diseases are related!

I'm saying that it's "like" AIDS in that we are seeing only the top layer, we don't understand what connects them. With AIDS we in time found a common failure in the immune system that by itself didn't produce symptoms, just enabled other failures. And then we found the virus that causes that immune failure.

With Long Covid we have not yet recognized whatever failure they have in common.

And look at how society reacted to AIDS back then. We are doing a lot of the same things with Long Covid.

You can start your car.

Without relativistic effects a lead acid battery would put out about .2V rather than 2V.

Think of AIDS before the immune system dysfunction was found. That's where we are with Long Covid. One cause, a myriad of apparently unrelated effects--that's not how biology tends to work. Rather, there's something deeper we haven't found. And we certainly can't test for what we haven't found.

Dazzle isn't meant to hide. Dazzle is meant to confuse a human trying to estimate course and speed in order to send an unguided torpedo at it. You need to look at hit rates to judge effectiveness.

Pre-programmed evasion. Give the drone a flight path, it's expected to position itself randomly within a certain distance of that flight path. At longer ranges it's feasible to dodge a bullet that way (which is why soldiers do a highly evasive path against a sniper) and even at short ranges if you can beat the tracking system it doesn't matter if you can beat the bullet.

Which is total overkill for the job. It very well might cost more to fire a Phalanx at the drone than the value of the drone. And the Phalanx has IIRC 20 seconds of fire before it needs extensive downtime for reloading.

They need something in the realm of a big automatic shotgun.

Apples don't breed true.

You plant a seed, you have very little idea of whether the apples will be good. This isn't a modern evil, this is simply how apples are.

Just because you can't change the definitions doesn't mean society can't. As a company that wants some power you are right, natural gas is the cheapest.

This is an intelligent enough group that I'll throw out something that's been bugging me for quite a while and this makes me question it even more:

Did the radium girls actually die of radiation?

Radium is a row 7 element, AFIAK everything in row 7 is quite toxic. Radium is below calcium in the periodic table. Thus, the body is going to put it in bones. And we saw horrors in their bones. Did it kill via radiation or via being toxic?

What are you smoking??

Storage is more expensive than generation. Always.

We see some storage on the grid because storage is fast. Batteries can respond to load changes a lot faster than anything else. Demand goes up, the batteries are drawn down while cheaper generators are spun up. A few places use pumped hydro for the same purpose, but that's very situational.

Nuclear is expensive because nuclear is defined as expensive.

The problem lies with the standard of As Low As Reasonably Achievable. If you had reasonably priced nuclear power you could add more safety. Thus you have to add more safety. Thus you no longer have reasonably priced nuclear power.

And, when it comes to power it's a totally wrong standard. You should not be looking to minimize individual technology risk, you should be looking to minimize total risk of competing technologies. Making your nuclear plant safer instead drives generation to natural gas (~10x as dangerous as nuclear, plus climate effects) and oil (~10x as dangerous as natural gas, even more climate effects.) Or even coal (~10x as dangerous as oil, even more climate effects plus nasty stuff going up the stack--including emitting more radiation than would be tolerated for a nuclear plant.)

I think the ship has sailed on #4. It's simply too easy to do it overseas now.

The crushers could be vastly improved by treating recipes as a filter.

A train can easily move more than 960/s, but the train isn't always moving. To actually exceed 960/s over time with trains gets some massive stations.

And a track is two spaces, thus two belts can fit. Even just blue belts gives 1440/s for the same space.

Your first item delivers a lot faster with trains, and when you're dealing with stuff that spoils the faster transit is a big benefit, but for the most part I find trains underwhelming other than on Fulgora where you don't really have a choice.

That would work for most UPS applications, but it looks like the price is still too high.

I wondered what she was calling "duress".

Meta made executing this Severance Agreement a condition to Ms. Wynn-Williams’s ability to submit for reimbursement over $300,000 in pre-approved business expenses she had paid using her personal funds, including luxury hotel rooms and other travel expenses for Mr. Zuckerberg and fellow Meta executives.

Yeah, that's duress in my book.

And no mention of the self discharge rate.

The problem is not the center per se. The problem is the power. And, all too often they make up for the lack of utility capacity by putting in their own noisy generators.

You're making exactly the mistake I'm pointing out!

You do not print a lower receiver compatible with standard parts. The threat is a CNC milling machine cutting one from metal.

Ghost gun = key part made by sources other than a legal firearms manufacturer. Typically, this means CNC milling.

Printed guns are ghost guns, but the vast majority of ghost guns are not printed guns. Printing plastic has a very hard time confining the gunpowder. It's possible to print metal, but it's sintered (not nearly as strong) and the printers are still way beyond the home level.

This. Guns contain many wear items.

So what the ATF does is take an essential part not substantially influenced by wear and declare it to be the gun. Trade in anything that sufficiently resembles this part is treated as trade in guns. Other parts are not considered guns, they're just pieces of metal or plastic. Then there are the parts that you're not supposed to have. But is that an oil filter or a silencer? When it's on the gun it's obvious, when it's listed on a website as an oil filter...

The problem is there is a lot of garbage about it. Ghost guns are a real issue, but ghost guns are not 3D printed guns.

3D printed is a very niche case. They're only good for one shot ever, they are not reliable even for that. And they're bulky. The one thing they do is make it much harder for a metal detector to find them.

Ghost guns made by CNC milling equipment are nearly identical to what you would buy from the manufacturer, except they do not have a serial number and you won't have the background check for a firearms purchase.

But politicians are reacting to the ghost guns by going after the printed guns.