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Diplomacy works _because_ you have the means to defend yourself. If they can fight and you can’t, why will they bother talking to you?

More recent versions of the plan contemplate electrolyzing water in the ground to obtain the required oxygen

I’ll take the under

A display mounted on a flat surface between your hands seems like a ready path to neck trauma.

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Adding significant BOM cost, growing physical volume, reducing battery life, creating lots of complexity to get certain apps to run on one CPU or the other and the associated cache…

Also it makes scraping much harder.

At the low end it’s worth considering Fargate distinct from EKS. You don’t need to provision a whole cluster (generally 3 machines minimum) and can just run as little as a single P…

My joke is that the unrealistic thing about Star Trek is not the faster than light travel or the matter transmitters it’s that their videoconferencing always works.

Before we sold, we had WeWork offices in Denver and NY and used a similar competitor in Austin. They worked great and we were happy with them. But they were also a commodity and we…

Reminds me of Zapata the fish oil company launching zap.com an internet portal and then spinning out and IPOing the subsidiary. [0] [0] https://mobile.nytimes.com/1999/04/14/busine…

Great answer, thanks!

I'm fascinated by how this ended up with the same name as the fictional stealthy propulsion technology from the Hunt For Red October. They're both called "magneto hydrodynamic" pro…

Given that the ME has full access to the NIC, outbound traffic could be concealed onboard traffic that is already outbound. If the adversary has also compromised network routers, t…

Give me a break. The same three letter agency that convinced Intel to do this will convince Apple to do the same. I'm guessing you're basing your faith in Apple based on their refu…

If you don't mind de-cloaking, do you mind sending me an email?

The system works best over the long term if IPO shares are a little bit underpriced. Bankers have no trouble moving them and earning their fees, buyers are happy to take them becau…

Awesome

No my theory is that they may have already done a reverse split to wash out small stakeholders. If there is an IPO in their future they will have to do a split as well. The former …

$1300 is really an unusually high strike price. While in theory there is no difference between 200 options at $1300 per share and 20k options at $13 per share, the former is very u…

I believe this should be an "unoccupancy" tax instead, where owners are taxed if the home is unoccupied: * increases the supply of available housing * includes all the properties t…