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The less snarky answer is that our current system does not have a functioning global government. There is no real “we”. Influencing how other countries operate can only be done by force or diplomacy, and because North Korea has nuclear weapons, force is basically off the table, and they’re not interested in diplomacy.

I went there once and someone had left a bouquet of flowers on a flavor

So true. This is an ice cream store dammit

How are rare earths used in batteries?

The simple explanation is just that lot of ways that numbers can multiply to produce the same product

Like an odd number x times an even number y, x* y produces the same product as x* 2 and y/2

Same for a multiple of 3 c and and a non multiple of 3 d, c * d = c/3 * d*3

That isn’t cruelty. It’s immigration policy that the rest of the world already has

All cars require a workforce to maintain though.

Spirit seemed to enjoy making their customers hate them. everyone who liked Spirit had to explain themselves (like you did) because their reputation was awful. It was a trainwreck of a brand.

Link?

Exposing the wealthy is pretty standard journalism

Universities

A more accurate description of code is that it’s a depreciating asset, perhaps, or an asset that requires maintenance cost. Neither of which is a liability

“A golf game is 65-75 swings over ~5 hours.”

What about the back nine though?

It’s also setting a precedent that IP usage requires a contract. Never mind that the contract is bonkers!

Energy is very cheap for data centers. have you ever looked up wholesale energy rates? It’s like a cent per kilowatt hour.

tl;dr: custom, naïve Concatenation formatting implementation can cause bugs

There’s nothing basic about billing.

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-575-0550...

Kenya is an equatorial country so they basically have steady ~12 hours of sunlight every day year round. Pretty cool!

They should just put one on a windmill and make it to brrrr

Wikipedia was never a primary source to begin with

If America saves Argentina, and Argentina becomes a powerful country again, that is a powerful ally we could have for a century.

Is it possible that this was a bullet?

A 50 cal bullet is estimated to reach 15,000 feet if fired straight up.

But this is Colorado: in the most extreme scenario, standing atop Mount Elbert, you’re already at ~15,000 feet.

Combine these two — and account for the dramatically reduced air resistance along the bullet’s path starting from high altitidue — you could conceivably get a bullet that high

Some dope standing at high elevation blasting bullets into the sky in Colorado seems as plausible as a meteor

There actually is some coal in New England, and if there was (for some reason) a desire for New England to be energy independent, coal might be part of the mix as a result. This article discusses some less-successful attempts to get into that coal.. and it’s delightful to see the date of its publication.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/massachusetts-coa...

Is insider trading even illegal with bitcoin?

making emergency vehicles unable to access a street, very cool!

AirBnB is far more likely to help

While there is validity to this logic, the slightly lower labor cost does not offset the need to house more people, particularly when the cost of land and materials is so astronomical

The hypothesis is true for housing at least. Immigrants need to live somewhere, and that puts upward pressure on rents (which are part of CPI).

Jockey Hollow in New Jersey is a nice place as well, part of Morristown NHP. It’s ostensibly a historical park but 99% of the use is just a wonderful place to hike the small mountains and walk in the woods. Given the insane amount of NHPs in the Northeast, I’m curious if there are others.