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China's New Hypersonic Passenger Plane Can Fly From London to New York in Under 2 Hours
  • Let's not forget that the Concord failed in 2003. I wonder what started happening around then that made that actual flying part a smaller fraction of the overall time spent traveling.....

    Even if you can step through a portal and instantaneously get to London from NY, if you still have to go through the rest of the airline process the time savings just isn't that huge.

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    Fox rule
  • No, the people who make DCS world.

    I guess we can fuck GD too though, I almost accepted an offer there until I got warned off by a friend. The primes are never fun places to work.

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    EU to Impose Tariffs Up to 45% on Chinese Electric Vehicles
  • Western manufacturing tends to be much more automation heavy. Chinese manufactures don't bother with buying a $100k machine that can make a car part when they can just hire 10 guys at $10k/yr to make that same part with a $50 drill press and some hand files.

    It's not that it all strictly balances out, but if we actually gave a shit we could potentially be cost competitive for a lot of price brackets, especially given the costs to move whole ass cars across the Pacific.

    Bear in mind these sub $10k Chinese EVs are not something US consumers would really be interested in buying, they are basically tiny car shaped golf carts with extremely minimalist feature sets. Think 'no audio system at' all type interiors.

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    Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track
  • Yeah until we literally run out of roofs, fields, parking lots, and fucking ocean space and are contemplating a fucking Dyson sphere I really don't understand these projects.

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    John Deere is still hindering farmers' ability to repair their machinery, US senator warns
  • Deere just seems to be the most short-sighted company in the industry. I was in the market for a tiny tractor and even the fucking loader buckets are proprietary. Every other brand standardized on the skid steer/track loader interface so you can use all the attachments that are widely available but if you want to use them on a Deere you need to pay extra for a special adapter. There is literally nothing better about their system, it's just designed to make you buy their attachments.

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    Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops
  • If you absolutely have to hand over your phone, turn it off completely, like hold the power button and then tap the off icon. That will dump any keys out of RAM, which is why it always requires the full password to unlock when you turn it back on. Both in terms of how your phone works and the leaks we've seen, the cracking tools the police have are overall significantly less likely to be successful when used on a phone that's been turned off and not unlocked since.

    Also, IIRC iphones have a feature where they will dump at least some of the system keys from RAM if you push the lock button five times. I'd still trust fully off more but that's easier to do covertly.

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    Why Didn’t Facing a Common Enemy Bring Us Together?
  • Broadly, because the only way to get it was from other humans. Specifically, because a lot of other humans essentially went out of their way to give it to other people.

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    ‘It scared them off’, Kansas City shoppers report less crime thanks to security robot patrolling strip mall
  • They mean the Bluetooth MAC address. It'll capture your phone's and can tell who the manufacturer is but the rest of the address is randomized. That said, lots of watches/earbuds/assorted smart Bluetooth things aren't randomized because manufacturers are lazy.

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    69% of Americans support the Supreme Court's Bruen decision that "protects an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home"
  • Realistically they sell more guns than any other group. Every time they call for random bans everyone goes and empties every gun store within a 100 mile drive. Obviously there's a lot more to it than that but both sides political rhetoric has been making the US small arms industry absolutely explode. We're absolutely past the point where you could actually ban scary guns and have any effect. Half the country has more ARs than they know what to do with, literal piles in safes and dresser drawers, and they've gotten extremely comfortable with the concept of civil disobedience/non-compliance. Further, fuck 3d printing, every dude with access to a CNC is pumping out cheap lowers and suppressors so they can justify having an SOT (the ability to obtain or produce legal machine guns).

    If this is scary, the best and only course of action is reducing the temperature. Treat young men like they aren't economic cannon fodder so they don't feel like the only locus of control is fucking weaponry (fix housing, job security), positive intervention for crisis (don't just send a hit squad of cops), and don't be afraid to engage with rural populations (they're intelligent humans too).

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