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arrobbiato
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Comment · 1 year ago
This is the problem that the Pentagon’s Replicator Initiative is trying to solve.[1] However, the initiative (while well funded) only began less than two years ago. As MacArthur once said, every failure in war comes down to two words: “Too late.” We shall see.
[1]
https://www.diu.mil/replicator
Comment · 1 year ago
I'll refer you to the article I sent, which you seem not to have read. Or this one:
https://thecityvoice.org/2024/10/18/de-minimis-the-us-law-th...
Comment · 1 year ago
We don't have 120,000 school shooting deaths a year, but we do have that many overdose fatalities. I'd say the cure is just fine in this case.
Comment · 1 year ago
Some of that impact will be positive, as de minimis shipments are a major route for importing drugs and their precursors into the US:
https://www.cbp.gov/frontline/buyer-beware-bad-actors-exploi...
Comment · 1 year ago
I’m firmly convinced that a lot of the acoustic tricks that AirPods Pro do to achieve noise canceling involve ultrasonic harmonics, perhaps unintentionally - and this has created an epidemic of tinnitus among their users.
Comment · 1 year ago
Taiwan should be thrilled. Every indication is that this administration is letting Europe fend for itself so it can focus on the Pacific.
Comment · 1 year ago
I spend a lot of time in the “flyover” areas, and this is simply not true at all. Maybe it was long ago, but we are no longer living in that age. It seems like the media want to portray middle America as some kind of medieval redneck nightmare thunderdome, for reasons I cannot fathom.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is exactly why hand-to-hand combat instructors will tell you that fighting an obese person will go very differently than you might think it will.
Comment · 1 year ago
My teenage son and I have been watching, and loving, this show. And, I wonder if watching it has been innoculating him against a corporate life of quiet cubicle desperation. If so, then thank you, Apple.
Comment · 1 year ago
The other awful thought is that millions if not billions of people would look at Macrodata Refinement and think, "That beats the hell out of my current working environment." And in many ways they would be right.
Comment · 1 year ago
If Stanley Kubrick made a television series, he'd make
Severance
. For some people that makes it a must-watch, for others, not so much.
Comment · 1 year ago
My understanding is that the tritium is bred in the reactor and then consumed in the reaction. But most designs do have some amount of radioactive waste, including structural parts and reactor walls that suffer huge amounts of neutron activation.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you require taxpayers to consent to every single line item, voting is going to become rather cumbersome.
[1] https://www.diu.mil/replicator