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It’s a form of something called “arguing in the alternative.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_in_the_alternative

It’s very real.

If you actually read the article and the many citations, it’s a strong data-based approach. If you only read the title or skim, or just react emotionally then it could hit you the wrong way. All of which is to say that this is an important issue, it’s presented well and with sensitivity, and it’s just the kind of thought-provoking article called for in the guidelines.

That it’s already flagged off the front page is a credit to no one.

A selection of some of the embedded links from the piece:

https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/amendment-proce...

https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/criminal-hist...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3793850/

https://academic.oup.com/aler/article/17/1/127/212179

https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...

You can accuse someone of anything, until they file a suit they’re just trying thuggish intimidation tactics, which is no surprise from patent trolls.

Tritium. In addition to the points made by other replies, current fusion is (mostly) D-T, and we’re nowhere near breeding T in the reactor, so it has to be made in fission plants. Tritium is very expensive, and a significant risk for nuclear weapons proliferation.

It would explode, but for any reactor we’re likely to build in our lifetimes, it wouldn’t be anything like a nuclear bomb. We’ve had nastier explosions in natural gas refineries. There would be radiological contamination from the Tritium and any neutron-activated material, but it would be more of an expensive cleanup than an environmental disaster. It would be dirty though, especially if the reactor had been running for a while, building up dust. What wasn’t radioactive would still likely be stuff you don’t want to breathe or ingest.

TL;DR Boom lots of dead people in the containment structure, expensive cleanup, but nothing like a fission disaster. It would be an uninspiring explosion, but it would be dirty.

I’d be more surprised if people working for a company like Facebook weren’t raging hypocrites. Other than stratospheric levels of cognitive dissonance, hypocrisy or just not giving a shit is the only way someone could work for them. In my experience far more people are hypocrites than truly callous and uncaring.

Peter Thiel though, seems like less of a hypocrite and more like someone who just says and does whatever he thinks is personally advantageous, and screw everyone who isn’t Peter a Thiel.

More people die from accidental swallowing of a bee each year, than shark attacks.

You have the yearly state inspection though right? At least, last I lived there you did.

Here’s a link to the original piece, but it is in French: https://www.capital.fr/entreprises-marches/netflix-en-discus...

I grew up in a place where the racial bias narrative of policing was just something I knew to be true. It took a long time, and a lot of statistics from a ton of sources to realize that aside from sentencing, it’s mostly that the system as a whole sucks. The problem is the correlation between race and poverty, and poverty and crime. It’s fair to point to the history of mistreatment of black people in the US as a root driver of poverty, and therefore crime, but that’s often lost in the noise.

Take the recent shooting of a young black man in his grandmother’s yard. The narrative is now that he was unarmed, and shot in the back. While true, both points are deceptive. He was unarmed, but he ran from the cops, at night, didn’t follow commands, and had a metallic object in his hands when he turned to face the officers. This was all caught on FLIR. He was shot in the back, after the first shot to his front spun him around. Don’t run. Don’t resist. Comply with commands and argue your case in court. Your odds of being shot go down to near zero when you’re not running away or acting like a lunatic. Even in cases of obvious abuse like that poor bastardized NYPD cops strangled to death, were predicated on resisting arrest.

As long as people fleeing and resisting gets conflated with cases of compliant people being abused, not much will change. As long as cases of disproportionate arrests rates are conflated with wrongful arrests and convictions, not much will change. The two major predictors of have a bad time in the system are socioeconomic class, and how you act with officers. Race is a factor in sentencing, but that seems to rarely be the issue talked about in popular cases.

I’m not justifying the use in this article, but it does mean something. In particular “aerospace” aluminum is a particular range of alloys around 92% pure AL content. It’s use in aerospace applications is based on its thermal stability, strength, lightness and resistance to wear and cracking.

To be honest, I’m not sure that what makes a good regenerative cooler for an upper stage rocket engine makes the best lens case, but it sounds cool right? shrug

Music is one of the few remaining areas of mass media where I think having the file on your drive is a must. I’ll buy from places that don’t let me download, and then pirate a copy to actually own. I want to support the artists, but get real, if I bought it I want to own it.

Would it be safe/feasible to use a butane or propane torch for that? Would there be an issue of carcinogenic residue? If not, then a handheld torch is cheap and easy to use, and goes well last 700 degrees.

It’s not just the US though, the whole ultra-surveillance shtick is very much an international problem. Here in the UK it’s not that great either, and China is full on dystopia. I’m not excusing the US, but we need to accept that this isn’t just the Americans, it’s more and more of the world.

Is this going to effect them trying to shift workers from the S line to the 3 assembly line? Or is this just a matter of maintenance services doing the replacement?

At the very least, this is the last kind of news they need, for sales, PR, and internal morale.