brianorca

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[–] brianorca 4 points 1 month ago

Did they send any of that gold currency to the landlord, or just coupons?

[–] brianorca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's only in raw milk.

[–] brianorca 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure there is any more the hermit kingdom can be sanctioned, other than getting Russia and China to actually honor the existing sanctions. (Ha!)

[–] brianorca 16 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Ukraine doesn't want to target Moscow. They are not like Russia, they go after actual military targets, not civilians. They have been using their homebuilt drones for long enough inside Russia to show their priorities.

[–] brianorca 2 points 1 month ago

TBH, all connected cars have security concerns, but cars built by an opposing superpower would have National Security concerns, too. The two concerns are related, but separate.

[–] brianorca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seems like a Hancock move.

[–] brianorca 2 points 1 month ago

50 meters would assume a flat surface of the water, not the gentle slope of a beach.

[–] brianorca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On average since Washington, each Presidential term has had 2.1 SCOTUS appointments. It's not a bad expectation, statistically speaking. But it's just an average, since Biden only has one so far, and Trump got three.

[–] brianorca 4 points 1 month ago

But you could still be asked to serve if the case was civil and did not involve cops. There are many reasons you can be dismissed, but it varies wildly from one case to the next.

[–] brianorca 7 points 1 month ago

It does still increase the cost of automating usage of those sites, which puts an upper limit to how they can be abused. We probably won't be able to go back to no Captcha without seeing a large increase of spam, spoofing, scalping, and scraping. They would have to give up offering most kinds of free trials and other consumer friendly practices if the bots can just make new accounts at 1000 per second.

[–] brianorca 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Rockies stand in the way, and the energy cost of pushing water over them likely exceeds the going price of water. We do have lots of water pipes west of the Rockies, but no way to economically get water from the Mississippi.

Also, oil is worth a lot more per gallon than water, and used in smaller quantities, which is why oil pipes are economical.

I expect desalination to become mainstream before we push much water across the Rockies.

[–] brianorca 2 points 1 month ago

Especially at the time of this movie, can you imagine the computer time to re-render this scene? Weeks, at least.

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