Broken relationships can be difficult and nerve-wracking. Quell gives you an SMS number that enables you to put boundaries around your communication with someone who is blowing up your phone and making your life hard. Their texts are intelligently filtered so that hostility is removed while information is preserved. All raw texts are also routed to email for record-keeping and rewrite verification.
If I were the CCP this is perhaps the cleverest talking point I could have possibly come up with, propping up TikTok while simultaneously condemning democracy.
But to substantively respond: NO. This is exceptionally naive. Democracy assumes shared fates and aligned incentives among (both voting and communicating) participants. A foreign adversary mainlining their interests into half the population of the US absolutely violates this assumption.
It's unclear why the researchers believe that when a dog doesn't learn the names of a bunch of toys it means that they can't.
There are lots of things people are able to learn today that they "couldn't" a few years ago (programming, math, reading). How are the researchers able to tell that the limitation lies with the dog and not with the trainer/household?
Required thickness ≈ 39,200,000 Pa / (434 × 10^6 Pa × 2)
Required thickness ≈ 0.045 meters or 1.48 inches
Therefore, at a depth of 4,000 meters, the titanium walls of the submersible sphere with a 10 ft diameter would need to be approximately 1.48 inches thick to resist implosion, assuming a safety factor of 2. Again, please note that this estimation may vary based on the design, shape, and structural considerations of the submersible sphere. Consulting with experts is essential for accurate calculations and safety assessments.
As for amount of titanium required:
First, let's convert the wall thickness to meters. Since 1 inch is approximately 0.0254 meters, the wall thickness of 1.5 inches would be approximately 0.0381 meters.
Now, let's calculate the internal volume of the sphere by subtracting the volume of the inner sphere (10 ft diameter minus 2 times the wall thickness) from the volume of the outer sphere (10 ft diameter):
Finally, we can calculate the mass of titanium using the density of titanium (4,506 kg/m³):
Mass of titanium = Titanium wall volume * Density of titanium
Mass of titanium ≈ 0.125 cubic meters * 4,506 kg/m³
Mass of titanium ≈ 563.25 kg
Therefore, with a wall thickness of 1.5 inches, the approximate amount of titanium required for the walls of the submersible sphere with a 10 ft diameter would be approximately 563.25 kilograms.
Titanium is currently around $6/kg, so ~$3.4k for just the titanium that made up the wall.
SF is rich and unequal. So are dozens of places. Yet I don't know of any other major urban area in a developed country that has the kind of crime we see here.
Yes, let's create great safety nets. As a city with a $9 billion budget (for just 800,000 people; that's $11k for every person living here) they can afford better safety nets than anywhere.
So if it's not the inequality, and it's not lack of funding, what's the cause of all the crime and homelessness?
If you've been privy at all to the conversations founders etc. have been having for the last 48 hours, I don't think they're going to come away from this feeling like "don't worry". There was never a guarantee that the fed would step in, and there won't be a guarantee going forward. Treasury management will be a thing that all VCs worth their salt will insist on going forward.
No one knows that taxpayers will have to pay anything for any of this. It's possible they'll end up ahead. The assets were/are there to cover depositors. The timing of the asset liquidation/redemption is the problem, and only the "bank of last resort" can help avert contagion from skittish depositors, mass layoffs, and pointless disruption.
As said above: would you prefer to see hundreds or thousands of small companies fail, their employees go on unemployment insurance, etc.?
Feel as though it's worth mentioning here that using LTE Direct (https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2014/11/true-or-false-gett...) every phone could become a node in a long-range mesh network in an emergency. This approach takes advantage of both the strong radios in smartphones and the available node density provided by smartphone ubiquity.
The tech has already been proven—carriers just need to be mandated to add it because there's no business reason to do so.
I don't know why this hasn't come up yet, but watts per bit has fallen precipitously over the last 150 years, which means it's pretty unlikely we'd see any stray radio signals from other planets unless we managed to catch them exactly during their very brief 1-2 century inefficient stage.
And even if we're not in a "dark forest", keeping quiet is generally good social hygiene and tends to correlate with maturity. Which may be a side-effect of #2.
Real estate is one of the few markets where non-experts can make money, where it’s not a hyper-liquid winner-take-all game. Coupled with this is the fact that housing is a necessity and owning a home leads people to invest in their communities more than if they were renting, I think it’s a good thing if Zillow (and OpenDoor, etc.) fail at pushing everyday people out of the business of real estate investing. Here’s hoping we see some regulation—the illiquidity of the home buying market is not a problem that needs to be solved.