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Everyone knows you only need three design elements per page:

1. Papyrus for headlines
2. Comic Sans for body text
3. The first piece of public domain clip art that comes up in an image search on the topic

Why overthink design when you could spend the time learning the latest hot language or framework to get you the next gig when this one implodes?

Extreme ultraviolet lithography is insane.

You can't just steal the plans. You need to steal all the techniques across dozens of disciplines that feed into the machine.

Semiconductors are hard. Cutting edge fabs are very hard. ASML's EUV stepper is insanely hard to replicate.

China would have to steal the tools to steal the tools that make that tools that go into the stepper...

If you want to be at 7nm or 5nm, you pretty much have to buy an ASML EUV stepper.

Are they still trying to do Cobalt for interconnects?

"Well, at least we didn't do the worst version of The Lord of the Rings!"

*Yeah, I know Rankin is dead. His shade sighed in relief...

Probably not. I bet Slashdot has probably had at least one back-to-back dupe...

There's a 99.9% chance this story is complete bunk just like all the other media hoaxes of the last five years.

See Charles Murray's Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 , pages 150-152. In those two studies, there was a reduction in a desire to work and the number of hours worked, and an increase in the time recipients stayed on unemployment.

And the effect was more pronounced in the longer study.

No, there is apparently still one AC tie switch in Dayton, Texas that has been used only once in its history (after Hurricane Ike).

You're right, they do have to synchronize before they connect, but it's not usually a monumental task.

Amusingly the UK national grid was first connected up by technicians playing around in the night without any permission, they just synched up the regional grids that there were at the time and closed the switches- just to see what would happen, as you do! Worked fine, and the following year it was done permanently.

I think it was more that he was blatantly lying about it, not that it was renewables per se.

That, and the plain fact that the failures were very avoidable, that similar conditions had happened before both in Texas and elsewhere, and that the recommendations were simply not followed, meant that it was never going to look good for them.

...and every student needed a laptop immediately. the "good" chromebooks were out of stock for most of march and april.

Inferring any other data point from this seems foolish.

We know they were conducting gain in function experiments on coronaviruses.

And as for Ebola, we know China illegally acquired samples of that from a Candian lab as well. So it makes sense to assume that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was probably working on that as well.

All evidence points toward and accidental lab release. There's no reason to believe it was a finished bioweapon rather than an in-progress work.

There's a good chance that the Wuhan Cornavirus originated in a lab. But how on earth would you think any international agency would dare mention that when they can't even bring themselves to condemn documented genocide?

Given Hunter Biden's documented financial ties to China, I wouldn't expect the Biden Administration to do any more either.

And did you hear that Biden's pick to be CIA head ran a think tank that was filthy with Chinese cash?

I don't think it will work.

Silver is fundamentally different than stock in GameStop, and I don't feel they have anything like a good grasp on the dynamics of that market.

(More detailed version here.)

1. Some big hedge funds shorted more GameStop stock than actual shares outstanding. This is called a "naked short" and is illegal.
2. Some redditors noticed this, and bought the stock.
3. The stock soared as more and more investors bought.
4. To close out their short positions, those hedge funds must purchase shares of GameStop, even if it means suffering a huge loss. This is what's know as a "short squeeze."
5. Rather than sucking it up and taking their losses, many hedge funds not only doubled down on shorts, they went crying to the Biden Administration and their friends in the media that it was unfair they had been beaten at their own game.
6. Result: Ameritrade, Robinhood and others halt retail accounts from buying the stock, ostensibly due to "volatility," but actually to bail out the hedge funds.