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Stories recounting cruel physical and sexual abuse are only a google search away. Of thousands of children being disappeared. Of being woken in the middle of the night to dig graves.

The outrage is over the atrocities, and the people insinuating that those atrocities were somehow ok because some papers were signed beforehand

Asking questions like “did they know why they were signing?” or “was there going to be a war if they refused to sign?” seem entirely reasonable to me

“Perhaps they didn't know”?! You think the tribes knew about the atrocities and were ok with them?

That’s what you’re supposed to do when a gunman is trying to kill you

Stop valuing your stuff over other people’s lives and you won’t have this problem

Because time in the real world uses leap seconds. The time businesses open and close. The times reported in news articles. And so on. What facebook wants is for all of them to stop using leap seconds so facebook’s infrastructure is simpler

The lasers they use are extremely specialized, since they have to deliver outrageous amounts of power for a very short period of time. Advancements in normal lasers may not be of much use here

Edit: Wow, looks like they have improved considerably

If you consider massive amounts of suffering and death caused by resource shortages to be “good” then we have very different values systems

That’s assuming they ever even make it to net positive energy output. The article carefully avoids mentioning that the lasers they use are wildly inefficient. It is very hard to break even when you lose 90% of your input power right at the start

In most of the US they aren’t common. Outside of that debacle in Texas, I can’t recall any rolling blackouts in the US from lack of supply. The rarity is quite likely why that event made international news and got so many people around the country talking about it

Deduct a bunch of money from your account but not dispense it?

This comment would be more compelling if it gave any hint about what aspect of the tooling the author didn’t understand or what they should be doing differently.

> if you get vaccinated, you won't get covid

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> So, almost noone vaccinated will get it

That’s a pretty clear case of moving the goalposts if I ever saw it.