I know it is probably an unpopular idea, but I've long been of the notion that if you choose to work for the government, you should be at the ready to lose your personal privacy during work hours, because you work for the citizens. Especially those in elected positions in which power can be abused, there should not be a single conversation that cannot-
Sorry, national-security-speech-and-debate robble robble.
Sorry, high fructose corn syrup != sugar.
You need to learn simple chemistry to understand that fact.
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Hello,
PhD in chem here. HFCS is ~75% sugar, the rest is pretty much water. It's not cane or beet sugar (almost pure sucrose) though.
I also choose my own level of risk tolerance.
People have to learn to recognize different degrees of risk before they can choose a level of tolerance. There's probably a fair amount of the Dunning-Kruger effect involved in that process, though motorcyclists unable to recognize different degrees of risk probably get weeded out fairly quickly.
Doesn't matter how many styles of ale a planet has if one type is considered prototypical or is the only one that gets marketed on other planets. Columbian coffee. Canadian bacon. Irish whiskey. And Fosters: Australian for Beer.
Improbable assumptions don't really bother me too much in science fiction, especially if they are only serving as background to whatever the story is focusing on. Tropes are running shoes: use them to go someplace interesting. What gets me is internal inconsistency (if you're going to dream up a puzzle, make sure the pieces actually fit together) and bland assumptions. If the author's answer to "what if
Round Two: Tow the rig to international waters near the bay area. Run cables to barges hosting data centers and immigrant IT labor working without visas?
Peter's got the money to pull an Uber on the energy industry
Nuclear power plants and electrical distribution are slightly more expensive than writing an app. "breaking the law" to set up your own nuclear power generation and distribution network would also be less than successful, especially when, unlike roads that Uber depends on, your competition owns the grid.
But OK, I'll bite: Buy an oil drilling rig and tow it to international waters near a city that controls its own grid. Build a nuclear power plant on the rig, run cables to connect the city's grid.
Then what happens?
HOLY MACRO!