You definitely wouldn't come up with a fresh 10,000 liters of the stuff just lying around somewhere; at least not without resorting to nuclear chemistry or natural gas processing on a pretty heroic scale; but if you purely needed to ship something, anything, to be able to say that the amount provided wasn't zero; the terrestrial supply isn't zero either. I think the US is good for high single thousands of liters on a typical year, from nuclear warhead maintenance; Russia at least theoretically in the same ballpark in terms of warheads that would need their tritium checked, though no assurances either that that is happening or that they'll sell, they had formally stopped doing so at least for a while over a decade back; not sure what the mixture of reasons was between domestic users and not wanting inferences about their weapon maintenance.

Such a sale would be basically ceremonial if it has to come from the existing supply which is already spoken for every year; and there would be no point in Interlune as an intermediary; but if some finance construct wiggles one way if the sales are zero and another way if the sales are merely small, it presumably might be worth someone's time for Interlune to be listed as the supplier to Bluefors, even if it's just them slapping their label over whoever Bluefors normally buys from and doesn't actually change the allocation to different purposes or the total size of the market.

It's adjusting the allocation that would be at least difficult(potentially viable if the VCs doing 'quantum' are paying better than the people doing ultra low temperature MRIs or academic physics, or if you can out-lobby the 'national security' neutron detector market that doesn't get anyone excited but zOMG Dirty Bombs the Homeland!; but probably not cheap); and actually changing the supply that would be hardest, but possibly of actual interest.

OK. Yeah, but who has shipped perfect code? Will this ever change? Maybe MS sucks? Well, everyone else has vulnerabilities as well...just not as many...so is that going to change? It's been 40 years since C++ came out.

I write business code in a memory safe language, so I am peripheral to this debate, but the way I see it...we can use memory-safe languages or technology...whatever the C++ folks come up with or Rust or any other....or we can continue doing what we're doing and pretending C++ is not an issue and saying the programmers who wrote all those vulnerabilities in Linux, Windows, Apple products, etc suck...and they're the problem...which OK fine...but are they an anomaly? Will this change?

I think it's smart to question C or C++ in any software product. Does the benefit outweigh the risks? Given that Rust seems to benchmark just as fast....if I were leading a large company shipping many software products, I'd be limiting my C/C++ investments...or the very least evaluating how much of benefit I get with them vs alternatives.

In England, I don't think that King Charles has any power at the moment. The parliament does. To further the discussion though, the topic is Government being an asshole. I don't really believe there is a "deep state" at all. There are certainly a few assholes, but in the whole, there are many decent people. To turn it upside down, I think that people who believe in a deep state, are assholes.

I still like the idea that a persons information should be their own. If they want to rent out to the likes of google or facebook, then that is their privilege. Otherwise, their information just goes "poof" into nowhere.

I am an American, and I am still wondering why we have the most people in Jail? We call ourselves a free country, yet we lock up the most people. In my experience, it is because we have the most traps in front of us. We are born, we learn, there is a trap here, there is a trap there. We get sucked into the abyss. That does not seem like Freedom. Freedom should feel like we can eat when we are hungry, are clothed when we are naked, and we have a roof when it is raining.

"Free market" is a stupid propaganda cliche that is devoid of meaning.

There are two kinds of markets - competitive and markets with restricted competition.

The markets with restricted competition have the unfortunate feature of "economic profits", money in excess of the economically efficient rates of return. There is only one profitable way to invest this money, and it is to "invest" it into the political process, that is, to bribe the political system so that it extends and even institutionalizes the lack of market competition in favor of the companies that make the excessive profits.

Competitive markets are better in theory, but in practice there is no such thing - theory and ample and incontrovertible empirical evidence show clearly that a competitive market is an efficient, but unstable structure and that in the absence of regulation, even random fluctuations will lead to restricted competition and eventually full-blown oligopolies or monopolies.

Moreover, the power is concentrated in the hands of the executives, which means that this development also hurts investors, especially the small ones who don't have direct access to the government.

It is no accident that the most corrupt administration the USA has had at least since the end of WWII is moving away from regulation, protection of competition and protection of the small investor, it is all a reflection of the shift towards "free marketization", that is, blatant corruption of democracy in politics and competitiveness in business in favor of the new robber baron class.

I was a teachers aid before I got my Bachelors Degree. I remember when I graded a paper from another student, and he did not type it up. According to the Professor, if it was not typed, it was down graded about 20%. It was told to everybody. Yet, that person threw a fit at me. I guess my point is that things have changed. In my world typed things do seem less important. I can certainly write in cursive or in plain characters, but back in the 80's, my professors valued things that were typed up.

I am not saying that the US should have stayed out of WWII. I think that we in America had people of the same character as MAGAs before WW2 that made thing much worse than it had to be, with their isolationists, and their "america first" bullshit. This is on repeat.

Not true, King George had the power of a Dictator, like Trump. More than Trump. Please when you post further, keep it simple and terse. I know that the more words you post, the more bullshit that you say.

I think you joined the Navy not to serve your country but to avoid the draft.

I feel comforted by that. Like the Human race existed and is important. I remember as a child, that this is all BS, and hey, let me be a wild animal. As an adult I feel more like screw that child, and make him believe what I do. As a seasoned person, I am wondering about the balance of it all.

One example, my boss who has a Doctorate in Electronics, keeps referring to ChatGTP as "Him". I am concerned. I tried to talk to him yesterday about people getting crazy about the AI's. They are not a "him", or an "her", they are a prediction machine, and feels nothing towards "you". Many sci-fi novels have been written about this.. but it is happening around me in real time.

I'd be a trifle surprised if it's an outright lie; perhaps I'm not properly accustomed to contemporary standards of allowable market manipulation; but it seems to have been carefully worded to make a somewhat exotic but fairly barebones commodity futures arrangement, which could be entirely fulfilled by interlune doing some paper-shuffling resales of helium 3 from any source or simply selling zero liters during some or all years between now and 2038, sound like a tale of Bluefors actively paying to send rockets to the moon because it's obviously only freezer capacity, not any of the other issues, that is keeping 'quantum' from doing whatever it is supposed to do.

To change the subject a bit (radically), do you think that people are able to question authority anymore? Do they, most other people have the same thoughts? I ask this as you are a humanities teacher. Me, Personally, have digested many books about dystopias, and I wonder if you think we are in one now? '

what, if anything, you've ever done for your country or have you just held out your hand hoping your government would drop money into it? ...let me tell you that I'm a Nam vet

Because anyone who has not served in the military like you is some kind of welfare queen? I think your ideas are a little outdated. But thanks for your service!