Where did you read that? If it's true it would be momentous. A totally discretionary fund of $2-6B per year (based on nVidia's projections of selling $2-5B per quarter to China) would give the president enormous unchecked power.

I've spend some time searching and haven't found anything to substantiate this claim. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'd like to see where you got the idea from.

These foldable / rollable screens are so easy to destroy and so expensive and complex to replace that the entire device effectively becomes e-waste when it happens.

no problem.

It's quaint that you think the United States is still a republic. It's a monarchy, and Trump's handlers are likely moving currently to make sure that when Vance succeeds him, that the Executive branch and a Congress that will be, through the use of naked force if necessary, remain filled with Republican paper tigers to complement the paper tigers in the Supreme Court, settles into the oligarchy the Framers always really intended it to be. The military will largely be used to recreate the American hemispheric hegemony. The National Guard and ICE will be used as foot soldiers within the US to "secure" elections.

The morons that elected that diseased wicked and demented man have destroyed whatever the hell America was. As a Canadian, I can only hope we can withstand this hemispheric dominance and the raiding of our natural resources to feed the perverse desires of the child molesters, rapists, racists and psychopaths that have already taken control of the US.

Doubtless, I will be downvoted by the remaining MAGA crowd here. You know, the guys that pretended they refused to vote Democrat because Bernie wasn't made leader, but are to a man a pack of Brown Shirts eagerly awaiting the time when they imagine they can take part in the defenestration of American society.

They're dragging buzzwords through the water, so see whether they get any nibbles.

Your MBA/PHB eats this shit right up.

I'm actually responding to the AC above you. He is arguing that the attack wouldn't make any sense for either country to make, based on *national* interest. I'm pointing out that's not the only framework in which *regimes* make decisions.

I'll find out in mid January, lol - it's en route on the Ever Acme, with a transfer at Rotterdam. ;) But given our high local prices, it's the same cost to me of like 60kg of local filament, so so long as the odds of it being good are better than 1 in 8, I come out ahead, and I like those odds ;)

That said, I have no reason to think that it won't be. Yasin isn't a well known brand, but a lot of other brands (for example Hatchbox) often use white-label Yasin as their own. And everything I've seen about their op looks quite professional.

That is a cynically opportunistic, anti-scientific article with a clickbait title, with many scathing critiques within the scientific community.
https://www.newsweek.com/2014/...

If you're confused about this, get onto scholar.google.com and do some serious reading from the world of real research, instead of what sold some guy's book.

What Dr. Saul wrote flies in the face of decades in research. ADHD is visible in multiple variations on fast MRIs - executive frontal lobes of the brain doze, while other parts of the brain run perhaps to overdrive. This is the mind of a professor who's expert in some field but never did their laundry. Those who are accurately diagnosed with it respond differently, even the opposite of what you'd expect of neurotypical people, because the brains are structured different. ADHD students calm down when given stimulants precisely because their executive function wakes up.

What the original post here is dealing with is another problem: privileged students getting dubious diagnoses and weaponizing them. That is nothing new, not for any disability, and it's offensive and predatory on the support systems actual people need. Nobody argues that bonespurs aren't real, or that rich jerks don't use their money to get a fake diagnosis to cut corners in life the not-wealthy can't.

I will turn them into my shill and and apologist. Every year or so I'll announce progress on my all-diamond car and they'll become my biggest defender against accusation that I might be running some kind of con even though they're a victim of it.

Just put it in context: Today Russia struck the Pechenihy Reservoir dam in Kharkiv.
Russia launched the war because they thought it would be a quick and easy win, a step towards reestablishing a Russian empire and sphere of influence, because Putin thinks in 19th century terms. Russia is continuing the war, not because it's good for Russia. I'd argue that winning and then having to rebuild and pacify Ukraine would be a catastrophe. Russia is continuing the war because *losing* the war would be catastrophic for the *regime*. It's not that they want to win a smoldering ruin, it's that winning a smoldering ruin is more favorable to them and losing an intact country.

Pointing a phone camera in someone's face without consent also gets people upset. There are plenty of clips on YouTube in various contexts where it escalated into violence. Having a camera constantly perched on your face will too and it's an entirely self inflicted situation when people start throwing punches.

He didn't need them to see and he certainly didn't need to have a camera attached to his face with no means to remove it. He learned the hard way that people have opinions about that. Especially in Europe where the concept of privacy and violating it are more prone to prompt a reaction.

Pointing spy glasses at others is an open invitation for them to be ripped off and destroyed in front of the owner. Or violence. Even in America where the concept of privacy is optional they're intrusive. I expect the reaction in Europe, particularly in France and Germany will escalate into violence even more quickly. And frankly people stupid enough to wear this garbage should have known better.

... was writing some Rake files (Ruby's equivalent to Gradle) to build a very large project comprising many different components in C++, Java and other stuff. As a language it seemed very pleasant, not far removed from other high level scripting languages like Python. It wasn't producing super fast code but it was fine for our purposes. I liked that it could have blocks that could implicitly return values. I liked that it was terse and some decent JSON support through a gem. I thought the acyclic build system was really nifty and far easier to understand than Gradle (with groovy or kotlin).

But I don't think I would like to use Ruby (or Python) for anything serious. If I want high level scripting I'd probably just use NodeJS, and if I wanted something more I'd use an actual structured language, preferably one with decent package management.

You *hope* they'll refund you. They *hope* that the sum is so small that nobody will go to the effort of reclaiming it. I'm also sure it this small sum is actually a way for them to identify & hit whales for bigger sums through crowdfunding appeals. If you were stupid enough to go to the next level and actually "invest" in Aptera through their crowdfunding activities, well sucks to be you. You ain't seeing that money ever again.