PowerElectronix

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Comment · 8 hours ago
Social spending, by a lot, even though only a 5% cut would set the budgets right.

I bet they can also cut a lot of politicians and designated positions, but I'm not that deluded to think they would.

Comment · 8 hours ago
Well, at some point space-time warps so much that unless you are at the center of the would-be singularity, you'd see everything closer to it than you freeze-out as an event horizon appears. If you are inside the event horizon then... I'm clueless about what you'd experience.

If I to guess, you'd see yourself outside an smaller event horizon (as nothing gets through one due to spacetime warping) and you's have a lot of mass very far behind you due again to space time warping so that yout local scape velocity is less than c.

Comment · 22 hours ago
I can't think of a way of getting a singularity. As soon as the mass in a region of space becomes high enough to start a black hole, time would freeze and it would take several millions universe lifetimes for the mass to fully collapse into itself, no matter how close of far the observer is to the mass. The way I see it, things would go on as usual inside the black hole, but there's a universal curtain preventing anyone from accessing the interior.
Comment · 22 hours ago
They will tax everyone for everything before they even contemplate controlling their spending.
Comment · 23 hours ago
Does this mean that the ice wasn't there during the stone age?
Comment · 1 day ago
In spain the procedure calls for driving by sight. There was a third train coming that stopped because the driver ignored the command to drive at normal speed and drove by sight.

The real issue is that the LZB fails often enough (installed back in 1992 and due for a phased out in favor of a newer system last year with the contract awarded and no work yet started) that the only safety assurance is the person at the command center issuing command flawlessly, which is not sustainable as it can be seen.

Iryo CEO said a few weeks back on a congress hearing that every time the LZB goes out, their trains are completely stopped. This must have slipped the central command resposible's mind as it was ordered to everyone to just restart the march, but the Iryo just couldn't.

Comment · 1 day ago
"I swear it was to make them waste resources and time on me, mon chérie!"
Comment · 1 day ago
The honeypots are 100% the best part of being a spy or a VIP target for an intelligence agency.

On that note, they never worked on french spies as infidelity and sex stuff hold seemingly zero leverage over french men.

Comment · 2 days ago
Is this asking if they're a living being? Because they're clearly not. If this is trying to ask if they have a consciousness, then again the answer is not.

Shuffle the pages of a dictionary according to some rules and you got yourself, according to the author, a living being.

Comment · 2 days ago
I loved the article. I knew already about fungi taking millions of years to develop a mechanism to eat wood, but the ramifications into dinos getting huge due to their superior breathing systems was a completely new to me. I thought everyone had lungs on earth!
Comment · 3 days ago
Not in the least. You can make a 2D platformer and Nintendo can't sue you for copying Super Mario (they'd like to, probably).

The only defense against copies has always be the same, be better than the copies in thing the consumer likes. You can't copy a Mario game, you can't copy a Kojima game, you can't copy a game that has been masterfully done and polished. If slop is gonna eat your lunch, it's only because your game is as good as slop.

Comment · 3 days ago
Great news, wish you all the best. I just wish the PCB sizes could stretch a bit to 330mm by 330mm.
Comment · 3 days ago
Or educate, promote or even mandate that a share of a company must be given to the employees of said company.

If you "fool" a hundred thousand individuals to work for a company on a wage and through their work the company ends up been valued at a billion, you become a billionaire. Wouldn't they deserve a bigger cut of the fruit of their labor?

The fastest way to distribute wealth isn't taxes on wealth, it's a better distribution of the wealth generated by labor on the contract that the employee signs.

Comment · 3 days ago
>the top 0.1% is richer than the 99.9%

Outstanding observation.

Comment · 4 days ago
Abhorrent Intelligence it is, then.

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