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Comment Re:Well... (Score 5, Insightful) 268

The "new eyes" thing is why the membership rotates on a regular basis.

But now, if you were someone whose opinions might be valuable... why would you bother wasting any time contributing to the board, knowing the rug could get randomly pulled for no reason? So, no actually open "eyes" will end up on whatever might get recreated in its place. Wonder what might be the over/under on the number of Fox news talking heads on the new board?

Comment Re:US, Mexico, and Venezuela ... (Score 1) 364

The rest of the US Navy has drones and fast boats covered. Mines were the main unknown. The US Navy has cleared mines from Hormuz several times in the past.

However, the squadron of USN minesweepers stationed in the Gulf for this purpose were decommissioned shortly before the Special Military Operation started. Talk about good planning...

Comment Re:Science forgotten (Score 1) 69

Batteries not included: Please remember, the lunar night lasts 10 Earth days.

Part of the interest in a lunar south pole location for the base is one could put the panels on a ridge which sees the sun the whole time. Of course, then they'd have to be rotating, more things to go wrong: but even just some spifft rotating ones would help a lot with the night-time problem.

Comment Re:What Tariffs? (Score 2) 74

The Trump Random Tax generator, at this instant in time, says.... "25% tariff on all Koren products". By the time you read this it might be different. An EV, while certainly any EV specific taxes apply to it, gets at least the overall rate. Unless it's one of the products or companies to have suitably bribed our Dear Leader, in which case it would have an exemption. It would proably have to have an extra large bribe because EVs don't burn dinosaur juice, though, and those companies have paid a lot to keep their market share.

Comment Re:Watershed moment will be deployment. (Score 1) 71

There are currently exactly two SMRs in operation in the world, neither in the US, and there are over 100 designs in the air. Contracts are not success, deploying actual working reactors is success.

To what extend do you consider the many hundreds of reactors operated by navies around the world "Small Modular Reactors"? I would agree that there aren't many civilian versions out there yet, but there's an awful lot of experience out there with the things in the "cost isn't really a priority" design space.

Comment Re:The Ponzi Scheme is dying? (Score 2) 134

It's become even more obviously a scam when it received the support of the scammer-in-chief. With his crypto being so obviously a nice pathway for bribery, credibility of any crypto gets questioned. Which is more harmful considering that it was never more than a betting market in the first place. At least with gold you've got a lump of stuff most people consider valuable, rather than hoping that some small set of people with money to burn buy more of the same stuff you did being the only value proposition.

Comment Re:How? (Score 1) 156

You can send them a Postscript file generally, which is an image format.

Actually, Postscript is a programming language which is designed to draw text and vector graphic images for printers: so more analogous to today's gcode than an image format. I've even seen someone write postscript to do a linear regression fit on the plot being printed. Why? Because it was possible :)

Comment Re:starting college vs overall college: a distinct (Score 2) 57

Be careful this. Sure, stuff will transfer. But, that won't mean you get two years off your four year degree.

Why?

Because for most majors, there are specialized courses for that major that will happen during the first two years: often ones that are needed for upper level third and fourth year classes. Two year schools don't offer them. So, transfer students often spend their first year catching up on such courses (eg, sophomore level special relativity and quantum mechanics for a physics major), then they're set to dive into the upper level classes.

"How awful of you elitist university people!!!", you say.

But: should we hold off on offering non-general education classes to our own students, refusing to engage them with interesting classes needed to learn more advanced stuff? That would be malpractice to our existing students.

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