I think I agree completely, although they are the only US chipmaker.that manufactures chips 'close' to the state of the art and it would probably be better for the US if they could be made to actually invest in their own technology instead of primarily focusing on profitability.

It's certainly an ideological right-wing position that they shouldn't. I remember when the Swedish 'centre' party (this is an extremely economically right-wing party, basically pro-migration libertarians) opposed the Swedish government taking a stake in Volvo when Ford were forced to divest it due to US loans expected to be supplied to Ford only being permitted for use in the US, and I saw this as extreme naïvité and dogmatism, so to some degree I am happy to see this kind of policy. There are also big problems with how the board are currently running Intel from a US government perspective, since they are focusing on the stock price and their discounted future profit, and since the interest rates are high, this won't take them on a path that is anywhere close to technological leadership or even keeping up.

Sorry, posting to undo accidental moderation.

No, but I know that wine grapes are too sweet, because the grape juice made from them has a sugar concentration of about 160 g/L. The kind of dealcoholized white wine I like has 46-48 g/L.

Grapes are too sweet though.

I'm not into alcohol, but I really like dealcoholized white wine. For me thus, fermentation is a way to get rid of the sugar.

If you read that again you will see however, that it doesn't protect freedom of speech. It ensures that the government can not abridge it, but they way they're using the word makes it clear that it can conceivably be abridged by other entities, in accordance with this law, with such abridgement still being an abridgement of freedom of speech.

When private entities, whether they're websites or a coal baron who owns your entire town abridge freedom of speech they are abridging freedom of speech.

Well, it's about natural gas export to Europe. One guy who wrote that he was from eastern Europe claimed on Reddit, in response to a comment that I wrote, that it was freedom gas them. It's certainly something which could give those countries who are using Russian an alternative if the Russians, for some reason, no longer want to sell to them.

I don't agree.

Instead, I think this is genuinely important. All platforms aren't slashdot and on places like reddit political censorship is very real, in part done by mods and in part enforced by the site itself.

After the bomb attacks by a Muslim group on Christians in Sri Lanka /r/worldnews, a subreddit with six times the number of subscribers that the New York Times has, had at one point deleted 57.5% of all comments and it temporarily reached above 60% before dropping to 38.3% as comments arrived. Most of the comments removed were uncontroversial and broke no rules; and many highly upvoted comments were deleted. Particularly interesting is that there were deletions of any mention of previous reddit censorship, and lack of media coverage.

/r/news has a rule that only one post about an event may be kept and the post the moderators allowed was one by Al Arabiya, a media company controlled by the Saudi State, broadcasting primarily in Arabic, which lacked many pertinent facts that were known at the time, such as that the victims were Christians or that the perpetrators were a Muslim group. It also, performed similar censorship in that thread.

People have already done that. There's a company called Modern Meadow that seems to be experimenting with collagen-based materials. There are also people who manufacture leather-like materials by hot-compaction of mycelium. One manufacturer, Mycoworks, claims that they can make it as strong as deer leather.

Also, you wouldn't want to wear Vantablack clothes due to the danger of breathing in the carbon nanotubes.

A system of this type has already been built by the German development company Seereal. Fraunhofer developed special anti-reflection coatings that allowed the construction of laser beam expansion systems for that display. Their system also used eye tracking.

I haven't seen the patent claims, but from what I see in the article I can't say that there's anything novel there. The article is absolutely terrible as a report on a patent, with it being obvious that the author knows nothing about what he writes, either about patents or technology. For example, there is no mention of the patent claims, no mention of similar technology and an unsupported claim that the device is revolutionary.

The Saab JAS 39 Gripen is a single-engine fighter and has had no crashes in the Swedish air force since we introduced it and no crashes of any kind have been due to engine problems.

Twin-engined fighters can also have weird stall conditions, for example, the first female carrier-based fighter pilot Kara Spears Hultgren crashed and died due to a where the nose also affected over the wing over one of the engine intakes leading to a compressor stall.

Yes. I have been using tensorflow using something called 'bash on ubuntu on windows' which is a bit like Wine. The whole thing was very convenient and everything that I needed could be installed with apt-get.

Sorry, I accidentally moderated you offtopic, so I'm posting this to undo it.

Though, think of like this: all the food we grow is made with solar power. Imagine making the energy to produce the food we need with nuclear power, gas turbines or coal. Even with the most efficient diodes that would require tremendous amounts of energy.

Meanwhile insolation in the absence of clouds is about a horsepower per square meter even in the high latitudes we are at here in Sweden. This will likely transform energy generation and electricity costs worldwide and may in the medium turn well even impact European manufacturing.