Transmitting radar data to a central coordination site has been a thing since demonstration in 1951, and was in use in the SAGE air defense system by 1959. It ran on vacuum tubes. SAGE

More like Stockhoard syndrome.

For further confusion of assumptions, consider the Cessna Citation V Ultra, in which I have been at FL410.

You don't have to keep committing to the bit. We just spent the last several years establishing that it's under no one's power to hold CEOs accountable for who they sleep with (putting it mildly). But the compromised leaders of the free world's state secrets are not a concern in that case! Only a concern for this one CEO who's got to go. (And fuck him)

The "power" dynamic is nothing new: it was the central theme of sexual harassment training that was brought in to our mid 90s startup.

In the 70s I wrote embedded asm code for networked terminals. There were around 400 terminals. They checked with a central system every night at midnight for software updates, and at some other interval for clock sync. Unfortunately, there was not much relative drift in the terminal clocks, so the central system began having overload failures at midnight. We ended up putting a request time spreading factor into the terminal's update request code.

It should be paid for by any of the near-monopoly ISPs who were lobbying against this, whose networks will see minimal added strain due to more "welfare phones". thanks for expanding on your disdain for the public though

Holy illusion of scarcity, batman!

So what part of this 5D chess that Trump was supposedly playing was the midterms fiasco? Because at least to some extent this was down to the very unpopular Iran war and all the economic problems it caused, and is still causing. I have a very hard time imagining Trump sacrificing personal popularity for some long-term geopolitical goals. Not that those make a huge amount of sense either.

Iran never got much leverage or economic benefit out of the straits of Hormuz before. They're getting a huge amount of leverage out of it now, and possibly from now on. The world isn't going to stop using oil in the next few years, and there is no real alternative to all the oil coming from the Middle East that goes through the strait of Hormuz (except maybe Russia). So once Iran recovers from the bombings it may well emerge more powerful long-term.

Also, US critically depleting its stock of some types of missiles in the Iran war doesn't sound like a "carefully measured" war to me. Compared to just launching all the nukes, maybe.

Why Is Xi going to be "seriously jonesing" to invade Taiwan in exactly 5 years time? Why not now? Or 10 years ago? China always had an overwhelming military superiority to Taiwan, if they wanted to invade they would've already. China doesn't want the economic shitstorm it would unleash, their economy is still very dependent on exports to Western economies, not as much as before, but still. They won't want to lose the mainland to get Taiwan.

I believe Taiwan is a useful thing for CCP to stoke nationalistic fervour from time to time to distract the population from domestic troubles. Look at our glorious military all marching in the big parade, one day they'll totally retake the island, one day guys. Actually invading though would be way more trouble that it's worth.

Also, even if they wanted to invade Taiwan would they really need Iran that much? According to this China is second in military spending, way higher than even Russia which is actually fighting a war, second only to the totally insane amount of money the US is spending. Iran OTOH is in 38th place. The data is from 2025 so Iran's spending is probably higher now, but only because it's fighting a war. So, Iran is not exactly a military superpower.

I'm not an expert in military logistics or anything, but I'd imagine it's way higher off the coast of Iran simply because of how much further all the supplies need to be shipped.

Yes dear reader, don't grab your pitchforks because Huang and nvidia intend to reduce you to renting your video card from them in perpetuity (meanwhile they sell the AI companies hardware that is meant to sit in inventory).. grab your pitchforks because, china bad!

If he finds water in a Mojave Mars Meteorite, he's going to have to fight the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for it.

I'll go there again next time I want salmon drowned in corn syrup: approximately never.

I keep hoping that we are at the point in this horrorshow script, where he disappears in a cackling vortex of fire.

Hollywood: Brainstorm (1983), Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood (her last movie). Someone develops a brain recorder that puts experiences on tape. Someone records sex and psychotic episodes that generate brain damage in viewers who find the tapes and sneak a peek.

Is the 10% number astute or just trend chasing? Dropbox and ebay have issued layoffs with that target within the last few weeks, as well as a handful of smaller companies