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What's the point of comparing quantities expressed in different units? Debt is in dollars, GDP is in dollars per year.

Are you saying the FCC writes one thing in the regulation, but will enforce something different? The language I see there now is unambiguous, "batteries". Lithium-ion battery for m…

"the following UAS components: Data transmission devices Communications systems Flight controllers Ground control stations and UAS controllers Navigation systems Sensors and Camera…

DJI requires activation (through a cell phone app, exposing personally identifiable information) for all their products, even action cameras.

DJI had the list of US no-fly zones that included airports, military bases, prisons, etc. Since DJI is no longer selling drones in the US, they removed that restriction.

The covered list now includes batteries and motors, even though they don't emit RF. Most are just battery cells, wires, magnets, and connectors, with not even a single transistor i…

Rotor Riot sells a flight controller made in USA. Donald Trump Jr. is on the advisory board of Unusual Machines that owns Rotor Riot.

I think if you showed not only the point estimate, but also some measure of uncertainty like standard deviation, it should have given you a passing grade. It's hard to say why an a…

For the same reasons people are interested in new iPhones, but not last year iPhones. And tax incentives.

Nobody is interested in used EVs, therefore resale values are very low.

If it is a completely different game, why are all strongest players the same?

This is likely. From example games, it not only knows the rules (which would be impressive by itself, just making the legal moves is not trivial). It also has some planning capabil…

Tape machines predate GPS. A metaphor should be referring to something common, not something that can be made in theory to fit a different set of requirements, but does not really …

But not DC itself. Even if it goes down to 1 Hz, the circuit in question will saturate in a few seconds, or be in saturation when initially turned on and never get to zero as there…

Even when you decode with an SDR, you still need to adjust the receiver frequency to match that of the transmitter, as reference oscillators might have slightly different frequenci…

FM audio does not carry DC either. PLL in the receiver/decoder will eventually catch up with the constant frequency shift.

The tape delay methaphor confused me. Tape recorders do not record DC or other frequencies much lower than, say, 20 Hz. So that circuit would run into one of the rails just as quic…

An illustrative example to explain ergodicity. Consider the following game. Players start with $100. At every turn, a fair coin is flipped. If tails, the amount of player's money i…

They also lose data. Especially large files you rarely touch, like family videos. Bit rot on SSDs is real. I backup to HDDs now.

Unless we live in a simulation.

Level IIIA resists penetration from .357 SIG, 9 mm, and .44 magnum. Those are handgun rounds. It may stop some intermediate rounds if you’re lucky, but certainly not full power rif…

The guns are different, but primers are mostly the same.

If you place a bullet between rifle stock and the shoulder, then fire the rifle, it’s going to be mildly unpleasant, but the bullet won’t penetrate the skin, let alone kill the sho…

One counterexample may be sufficient to disprove a hypothesis. If you claim a certain quadratic equation has no roots and I give you one root, you can’t say “n=1”.

Because so many civilians died, including women, and harsh living conditions due to wide spread destruction.