Just a reminder of what can happen when workers strike...
Sure. Just a reminder, back in the old days, before the NLRB forced owners and unions to negotiate in good faith... Factories and warehouses burned to the ground during labor disputes, people were beaten and killed.
Desperate people do desperate things when they feel they have nothing left to lose.
That's not all for just this war.
None of it is for this war. It is in addition to the special appropriation he has requested to pay for this war. The 1.5 TRILLION DOLLARS is for the next war(s) that he is planning to drag us into.
200 Billion?! that's nothing...
Trump has requested a 1.5 TRILLION dollar War (Defense) Department budget for 2027. That is a 500 BILLION increase over the 1 TRILLION dollar Defense Department budget he requested for 2026.
He has proposed a 10% reduction in domestic services budgets (Veterans, Medicare, Housing, Infrastructure, Parks, etc.) -amounting to 73 BILLION dollars to go along with it.
"It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual things, they can do it on a state basis," the president said, adding that the focus should be on "military protection".
That definitely checks out. Wouldn't want anyone with knowledge filling an advisory role. Dude's ego must be the most fragile thing in the universe.
You can watch actual live streams of cabinet meetings. It is just a bunch of people going around the table kissing his ass. No one providing any real advice or information. It is a performance.
There is no power difference between left authoritarianism or right authoritarianism, the only difference is their brand of ideology they are trying to force upon the others.
Right + Authoritarian = Fascist, aka forced inequality (Class/Wealth/Race/PickYourFavorite)
Left + Authoritarian = Communist, aka forced equality (although as Orwell pointed out, in practice there always some more equal than others)
"legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems."
They can claim that it is legally distinct, but until they win the lawsuit and appeals to set a legal precedent -it is not safe to make the assumption.
If I type something, I'm just as likely to remember it as if I write something.
I feel that way as well, but the evidence is that for the general population it is not true.
Quantity vs Quality.
All of your points are true, but they are arguments of quantity over quality. You have more books, you can write faster, etc.
Especially at an early age, students benefit from an emphasis on quality over quantity. Real books, with subjects read slowly and studied in depth. Thoughtful consideration before putting pen to paper. Taking physical notes. (I absolutely hated taking notes in class but it has a documented relationship to remembering the information.) etc.
Introducing computer-aided learning tools such as word-processors and e-books and tablets and search engines is important as it allows faster processing of more detailed and up-to-date information, but the basics need to be developed first. Speed running the educational system does not improve learning.
TLDR: physical books and handwriting good to start with, add electronics in higher grades.
*BUZZ*
Clean-room design requires that the new model be built from a description of the original by someone with no exposure to the original. You can't look at the code and rewrite it and call it a clean room recreation. Typically it requires separate teams: one to examine the original and document what it does (but NOT HOW), and a second team to build a new model from those specifications.
Who cares?
Umm... you missed the premise:
the clones are actually alive and not "brainless".
If you are down with this, the CCP already practice it with Uyghur donors. Pay your money, and someone will "donate" whatever organs you need.
It's not a problem when you are a senior-superstar. In fact, it is great not having juniors around slowing you down by asking questions and making mistakes.
But I certainly learned a lot as a junior-assistant-nobody working with some of the great minds of our time. I was part of the teams that invented some of the core tech we rely on in daily life -although my role was barely above coffee-fetcher at the time.
You're confusing the importance of avoiding Kessler syndrome in LEO with the difficulty of causing Kessler syndrome. GEO debris can potentially remain there for millions of years before interactions between the gravitational pull of the Sun, Earth, and Moon sufficiently perturb it. LEO debris remains for weeks to months. You have to have many orders of magnitude more debris in LEO to trigger Kessler Syndrome, where the rate of collisions exceeds the rate of debris loss.
The fact that a LEO Kessler Syndrome would also be short is something that exists on top of that.
It's also worth nothing that not only are modern satellites not only vastly better at properly disposing of themselves than they were in the 1970s when Kessler Syndrome was proposed, but they're also vastly better at avoiding debris strikes. All of these factors are multiplicative together.
Lol, I was thinking of this instead
People forget that the primary concerns about Kessler Syndrome were about geosynchronous orbit, which used to be where all the most important satellites went (many of course still go there, but not the megaconstellations). It takes a long, long time for debris to leave GEO. But LEO is a very different beast.
They said it's internal rather than a collision, so probably a failed COPV would be my guess.
Algol-60 surely must be regarded as the most important programming language yet developed. -- T. Cheatham
