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Employees can quit. Customers can buy elsewhere. Corporation isn't going to shoot them for doing so.

Likewise. Have read it several times, clearly heroic action (albeit perhaps gruesome), never seemed "horror". Never occurred to me there was "something to be afraid of" after the o…

A few, yes. Not by the thousands, short of taking ALL satellites out.

SX is actively solving the light pollution problem. A few satellites orbiting use far fewer materials to provide coverage of the entire planet than doing so terrestrially would. As…

Tell that to the Hoh tribe, and many similar, who had zero data connectivity until Starlink connected the tribe to the world for just $150/mo.

Most things are probably cheaper to replace than to bring back from the most remote area on Earth, and far cheaper to leave for someone else to use than make them bring their own. …

I keep providing drawings, and it mostly just produces other drawings. Thought it was to fill in content accordingly. What am I missing?

With room occupancy detection, it should start modeling likely HVAC needs - able to predict accordingly, and adjust power use & timing jitter accordingly.

Seems a rather demeaning choice of name, given the content currently dominating the site.

Massive tomes work well as audiobooks: expert reader paces the content well, forcing you to carry through the bogged-down parts. Anecdote: War And Peace was so massive it broke my …

$0 is the real minimum wage. If one cannot produce value commensurate with wages, the wages will end and alternative work solutions found.

May be the point, but is grossly unrealistic. Wages trade value of work for currency (as a convenient abstraction from barter). If the work is not of mandated value, the employment…

Minimum wage: if you can't produce enough, you're not allowed to produce at all.

Night happens.

Prospect of a nuclear-powered desalination plant supplying its own fuel? Awesome.

You need a computer to compile at all. If you’re doing iOS you probably already have an iPhone. Old physical phones (cheap) are fine for dev, can simulate latest. $100/yr only need…

Agreed, there were numerous "green lights" given by Biden. This "will not send troops" comment was the most blunt/clear of all.

Transcript of speech?

Biden's spokesperson stated today "US will not send troops to help Ukraine under any scenario." Seems a concession, if not directive, to Russia to invade Ukraine.

In context - using solar energy to extract atmospheric CO2 and manufacture methane - yes. We're not discussing "massive deforestation" here. Germany's biofuel mandate does not affe…

Consider Twitter as a Shiri's Scissor: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

These launches are getting SpaceX the money to advance to methane-powered rockets: they will literally make rocket fuel out of air and sunlight, making them absolutely carbon neutr…

Remember: the US Constitution includes "letters of marque" clause, empowering Congress to grant citizens' requests to wage private warfare against foreign entities. Wish people wou…

Those camera manufacturers quickly eliminated that capability, likely via optical filtering. That was about 20 years ago. Consumer-grade cameras do not have that ability nowadays (…

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