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From a quick CVE search, less than 1,200 bugs ( https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=adobe+flash ). For practical purposes, ~Aleph-nought.…

"Traditional hunting" generally implies "competent", "sustainable", and "only enough for the community's own needs". Its sounds like the supposedly trained…

I've never owned/managed a gas station - but I'm thinking that just selling gas carries some serious overhead. Santa Claus did not bring, nor install, the large underground storage tan…

If one is educated, sensible, and insists on telling people the truth about important or should-be important issues - how sustainable Social Security is in the face of demographs and fiscal realities,…

And we know that John is not getting handed the bigger / tougher orders to pack while Jim is cherry-picking the easy ones, and ... ?

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Not an expert, but... "Net gain" seems to be the "give us enough $Billions and years and we'll find it" holy grail of fusion power. Vs. a $4 Casio calculator I can buy on Am…

In other news... - Beer Fanatic Magazine says "Beer is far better than wine or liquor!". - Democratic National Committee says "President Biden is our best President ever!" - Pue…

Maybe start with low-grade English and math textbooks? If the book's editor is a bit savvy about hot buttons, I'd guess that rather few cultural warriors have strong feelings about adding f…

"You can host $Site" != "Somebody else must be willing to host $Site for you". Same as "You can cook $Food" != "Somebody else must be willing to cook $Food for you&q…

IANAS (...not a sociologist), but I suspect the biggest issue is the ever-so-conspicuous flaunting of extreme wealth. The "proper plutocrat" should be pretty private about his superyacht, m…

I'm thinking more of a busy shipping area, and the essential mission is only to provide a surface exclusion zone, which a submarine could take advantage of as it (say) enters / leaves a …

If the surface escort (whether a fancy warship, or a modest Harbor Patrol boat) was running a cheap commercial sonar set in active mode, and the sub's orders were "stay right under your esco…

I suspect that wil421's idea is that the "near-harbor escort" job does not need anything near so grand as a surface warship. A low-end tugboat or similar would more than suffice.

"...coaches of the Chinese Olympic volleyball teams decry this move, saying 'it will condemn our great nation to certain defeat in 2024'". /s (Though to look at reaction here…

Perhaps one designed for tapping into undersea cables, stealthy deployment of Special Operations teams in hostile waters, and such? (Yes, if of any size, such a sub would probably have some torpedoes…

My reaction: Why did the bus not have a couple buttons in between 'Stop' and 'Go' - something like 'Creep Forward' and 'Go Cautious and Very Slow' - for crowde…

That was previously submitted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300234

Apple's history as a supplier of server hardware isn't so good. (Cough, gag, XServe.) But they could have a few crack chip designers working on bigger brothers to the M1, may have noticed …

Talk to someone who has been (or worked for) a residential landlord at any scale. "Trashed" very often includes real damage - not just stuff that can be swept away into Molly Maid's mo…

From NASA graphics (1 Jan. 2019 data) - https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/photo-gallery/# - it looks like a great deal of the debris is in low or low-perigee orbits. (The latte…

> ...Starlink satellites are responsible for over half of all near-collisions in space, according to... - and yet - > ...there are approximately 228 million pieces of space debris... So - either…

> ...and so I do not believe they would seek to profit from controlling Kessler Syndrome. I get the feel that logic from /Hollywood/tropes/James_Bond/ is being assumed here. In…

Um... Who would be the villain? What's his evil plan? My comment was analogous to "If COVID gets really bad, then Elan's Eatery has more outdoor seating and a better location for cur…

SpaceX probably has several rough-draft plans for mopping up dangerous orbiting debris sitting in a filing cabinet somewhere. BUT - So long as SpaceX avoids being seen as "at fault", any Kes…

Like many things, they'll be located a few short AU's beyond the reach of your star system's Zoning Board. Maybe that vacant orbit right next to the antimatter battery factory?

SpaceX's contract is for $2.89B, right? NASA should offer Bezos a $3.0B contract to get astronauts to the moon - $2B up front of his own money, then $1B of NASA's money after he brings the …

True. But unlikely to sway the decisions of folks interested in internet connectivity, cultural amenities, schools, etc. :)

Don't expect good internet service until Starlink has a few thousand of their v1.5 and v2.0 satellites (with the inter-satellite laser links) launched and operational. And "Summer / Wi…