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Is it just me, or does the article amount to "a huge intelligence community is gathering intelligence data on a huge scale"? Perhaps the article's target audience is the young and naive…

Food is a "critical and immediate" need for the poor (vs. chronic lead exposure, flood-prone slums, high infant mortality, etc.). And the situation has very likely changed (both on the pa…

Article is dated "Wed 8 Sep 2021".

Note that this wretched situation is at the very top of Apple's supply / manufacturing chain. (Maximum visibility, maximum risk of bad P.R.) Think about how workers further down - say, maki…

During heating season, or cooling season? Day (presuming upstairs bedrooms, which are unoccupied) or night (same, occupied)? Infants & elderly (who may need their bedrooms quite warm), or "he…

Ah...isn't D close enough to being a superset of C that it's perfectly usable as a non-OOP language, in educational contexts?

Admitting that no set of rules, nor method of generating rules, is of much use in the face of enforcement that is mostly interested in political posturing. (Or in racial targeting. Or in being the t…

Note that "up to 12" x 60MW = up to 720MW. That is smaller than a single "big, old" 1,000MW reactor.

My impression is that dis-economies of scale in fission reactors (safety systems, low-volume manufacturing & construction, local grid management, etc.) are severe enough that neigh-all more-recent…

That's what I would buy...but they do NOT include Wi-Fi. And I'd say they're more "Prosumer" market than "Family".

In a world where malicious parties might break into your (say) GOG account and try to delete it, there are "non-evil" reasons for GOG to make account deletion somewhat difficult.

At least from skimming the Abstract, the "National Water Grid" on that OSTI.gov page would be nothing resembling a "national grid". It could only move water from the Mississippi R…

True - but their cultures & religions having different special & sacred days does not much change the nature of "some people will have to work on those day". (Yes, when you've…

Contrary to stereotypes, many men seem quite capable of both deep, loving devotion...and of enjoying various sorts of commercialized sex (strip clubs, "dirty" magazines, etc., etc.). It make…

It's a giga-budget space telescope, mostly paid for by U.S. taxpayers. Most of whom are not nearly so interested in science geekery than the average HN'er. If it can be sold (as worth fund…

Full title of the article - "Gigantism Is a Never-Ending Temptation for Engineers and Designers" My reaction - Giantism is not that much of a temptation for actual engineers and designers. …

After reading a few stories like this over the past ~year, I really wonder what all the world's Anatomy professors are doing with their time. Ditto the top ~5% of medical school students trying…

Never assume that a company pushing a contract at you has bothered to read it. Let alone checked any facts. - Last time I renewed a lease with $Huge_Property_Management_Co, I noticed that our secur…

Here's the no-ads .pdf version (linked at the top of their web page) - - https://inspiratron.org/wp-content/uploads/kalins-pdf/single... (Note the mangled Stasi l…

The title is a personal question. You could ask the same thing about collecting stamps, writing fanfiction, staying together with a so-so romantic partner, being an active member of a local church, e…

"...for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill." - Gandolf (fictional character by J.R.R. Tolkien)

Perhaps Reuters is glossing over the way in which Intel's letter phrased things, but it certainly sounds as if they were utterly clueless about the subject being politically sensitive. Vs. (sa…

The article pushes the "Children Dying!" and "Social Media Dangerous!" buttons nice & hard - but is annoyingly quiet or obtuse on some obvious bigger-picture issues. Where are…

Cynical (imaginary) counter-move - drop the literacy and verbal reasoning requirements for admission to law school to ~1st-grade levels. Ditto for the bar exam. Justify that with wording which imita…

That could be cool on a small scale. But H2O2 decays into H2O and oxygen, and is a very reactive oxidizer. With organic matter in the soil, it will produce all sorts of interesting chemicals. Those…

Neither the LN nor the boiling water would need to literally saturate the soil. Nor reach thermal equilibrium (-196C for LN, 100C for boiling water.) So long as conditions (temperature, O2 availabil…

If the termites could be living ~30m down...pressure at that depth, just from the weight of the overlying soil, is already about what you'd experience under a 300m-tall skyscraper. So suitable c…

Outside of sci-fi and some very arid environments, rapid extreme heating of large quantities of soil will produce big steam explosions. Which might spread some relatively unheated, termite-laden cl…

Termites can dig very deep. The final inspection went 30 meters down. Burning down 30m into the earth would require something far beyond what "onsite burning" usually involves. (Hence t…