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Losing my home would suck, but the prospect of having a semiconductor fab in my country, in my city even, is so exciting that I would be 100% on board with it.

The only losers are foreign adversaries who would prefer it if your country didn't develop high-tech infrastructure and businesses.

Not really. Many scenarios where that would mean spending 50x the time or hiring a team.

Maybe not weeks, but there was extensive damage and parts of Berlin went dark https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/07/europe/berlin-power-outag...

It would be highly impractical to go to war with all of them at once, but USA can still fix one country at time. Venezuella, Iran, hopefully Cuba next.

Kitchen knives actually do have safety features, such as non-slip handles and finger guards, which users appreciate. I certainly do. Users also appreciate safeguards in cli tools, …

Why not? It wouldn't be acceptable in any other context - like running a lawn mower that spits oil onto your neighbor's lawn.

There is a plausible scenario in which a user finds some malicious example of cli params for running your command and pasts it in the terminal. You don't have to handle this scenar…

The most interesting data running through Starlink is Ukrainian and Russian military comms (including feeds from drones). I wonder if Musk actually plans to tap into that.

You will need to implement some very invasive issuing mechanism to ensure that only those with a pulse can procure new keys. Even then, keys will still be bought or stolen - as was…

Bots can authenticate just as well as human users. Both bots and trolls are completely different set of issues that cannot easily be solved, regardless of your approach.

USA is not Russia. I don't think an order could ever be made to level a "rebellious" city, and even if it were, it would never be followed.

> How doable is it with vanilla css? Under all of the framework complexity that specific look is still achieved with CSS. In fact, you could rip out the CSS they use with very litt…

Most of Ukraine doesn't need to do it. The internet infrastructure is largely intact and very decentralised. The biggest challenge is the lengthy power outages, but mobile networks…

I think that there are more apps that are better off as web apps (cross platform and sandboxed) than not.

From a purely moral standpoint, my answer would be "yes, absolutely." Unfortunately, most of these interventions are not practically possible. Taking out a dictator in US's backyar…

I'd just call the police, since they're more powerful than your average robber. Maduro's remaining cronies could call on Russia for help since they just signed a military alliance.…

> maybe slightly further cementing that the US will not come to Taiwan's aid Isn't that the opposite? The US just demonstrated that it can still conduct military operations, and th…

The difference is that Russia's goal is the annexation of most or all Ukrainian territory, the looting of the country and the erasure of its national identity. Without western supp…

Fight back whom? US is already out with "no further action" planned according to Rubio.

It's not entirely unexpected - you must have missed the recent deployment of the US Navy in the region, which looked like a naval blockade. But this operation is certainly daring -…

Why bother monitoring junk food purchases when we can watch videos of helicopters flying over Caracas being uploaded almost in real time?

Another difference that has not been mentioned in other comments is that: The US is not completely delusional about its military capabilities and could actually complete this invas…

It's all-round horrible advice. Once you have developed an understanding of 'fundamental operations', such as code formatting and file operations — and, realistically, you will alr…

It doesn't sound that far-fetched. The stalker probably told her that he was planning to join her company and meet her, which gave her enough information to find his name. Once she…