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It wouldn't have to be slow.

Print on the inside of a spinning drum. That way, you don't have to reverse direction. Print from a whole row of nozzles or lasers or whatever. That way, yet another dimension doesn't require reversing movement. That leaves just one axis if laying something down like an inkjet printer. If curing with a laser, the final axis can be handled by the laser simply crossing the needed distance.


If we really wanted to stop it early, we could have. It's about the right size for a nuke.

(and no, an iceberg is NOT anything like a hurricane, which is a heat engine phenomena -- you can definitely shatter an iceberg)


> you can definitely shatter an iceberg

Perhaps check out 'Seveneves' by Neal Stephenson for a (fictional) look at why shattering large things isn't always a good idea.


It covers over 4,000 sq km of ocean and sea floor. To disrupt that you'd need to pepper it with nukes.

So basically instead of letting an ice sheet disrupt the ecosystem across many thousands of square km, you think it would be better to nuke many thousands of square km of ecosystem. Huh.


Is the surface of an iceberg, properly called 'an ecosystem'? A doomed iceberg that is melting? Seems a stretch.


As you pointed out yourself [1], the iceberg is causing problems already by melting into the local ecosystem. A radioactive iceberg melting into the local ecosystem seems likely to be worse.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25495063


Nuclear bombs can be very clean these days. They've come a long way since the 1950's.


Do you really think nukes will only affect the ice? No effect on the ocean environment and sea floor beneath the berg? Surely to maximise the disruption of the ice sheet you'd need to explode the nukes underneath it. Otherwise you'll need to use more nukes, and even exploded on the surface they're still going to blast and cook a fair swathe of ocean and sea floor.


Nukes shouldn't be used for any reason. Fallout, destruction of animals in the vicinity, inadvertently triggering MAD, etc.

Trump recently asked if nukes could be used for disrupting hurricanes, and the answer was resoundingly no.

(Perhaps space-beamed microwaves, but there's an issue of scale and interaction with the ozone.)


1. new rifles with selective fire

2. lawn darts

3. scanners that can receive 824 to 849 MHz and 869 to 894 MHz

4. acetic anhydride

5. phosphorus

6. Moon rocks

7. good pesticides: DDT, diazinon, endosulfan, chlorpyrifos, etc.

8. gasoline cans that work properly (old-style ones)


Look at Eagle gas cans. They work well. You can also buy the old style spouts for the plastic cans (I guess they just can't sell them with the can).

SDRs can recieve in those ranges.


You forgot to mention lead- and radium beauty creams.


Are you ok?


Two key quotes from the article:

1. "Race had no statistically significant effect on any group. Both conservatives and liberals, however, changed their views based on how they would vote. Only conservatives were affected by whether the refugees were said to be high-skilled and therefore presumably beneficial to the economy, or low-skilled and likely to rely on government assistance. Figure 1 below shows how partisanship, but not necessarily race, matters. The gap between the groups “very liberal” and “very conservative” in support for immigration is cut by around two-thirds when refugees are said to support Republicans instead of Democrats!"

2. "Notice: Not only do very liberal respondents like white migrants more than the very conservative do; very liberal respondents like Republican migrants more than very conservative ones do! To my mind this is strong evidence that Republicans’ core prejudice is not racism but xenophobia. They’re even relatively hostile to immigrants on their own side of the aisle."


Pigs also have 62 troublesome viruses embedded right in their germline DNA. Some other company fixed that with CRISPR... would they cooperate?

Fixing the PERV genes in pigs:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/crispr-slices-virus-...


The article's most important quote:

"All this is denied me in this stale marriage to an elderly, sickly, complaining, nagging wife. Let's get rid of her, start life all over again with another woman."

Even if a person doesn't consciously have the thought, there is a biological drive to reproduce. Even if a person expresses the desire to be childless, that biological urge may be pushing for a younger mate who might be fertile.

That leads to the anxiety. Trying to do impressive things and to display wealth, no matter how useless, is a biological urge. It becomes time to buy the fast car or take up hang gliding. When sanity and resource limits pull back on that, the emotions don't go so well.


At my house, Trane lost a sale because of that incompatible proprietary protocol. I really wanted to super modern heat pump with fully variable compressor. I refuse to be stuck with one vendor. I'm also not putting my system on the internet, though of course IP protocol within my own home could be nice.

Maybe the answer is to look at systems sold for business use.


You can buy the car for the car, or as a display of wealth. This is independent of having wealth to spare.

If you do have plenty of wealth to spare, maybe you don't worry about dents. Just tell your people that you spotted a dent, and they'll get the car fixed or replaced.

Being nervous about dents isn't great for displaying wealth. It's better to park on a busy street in San Francisco, right next to a tent city where people have set up shop selling car parts. That shows everybody you don't worry about the money.


To quote Financial Samurai:

"Own one car for show and another car for dough."

;)


It's not just the VP.

In 1983 Biden introduced the Comprehensive Forfeiture Act, which became law in 1984. That's the main piece of law that enabled civil asset forfeiture. That's how cops take property, alleging it to be drug money without any evidence. It's legalized theft, turning cops into gangs that prey on the people. Note that "defund the cops" will make them rely more on this source of revenue!

He didn't just vote for it. He introduced it.


Most defundtge police initiatives I've seen place a heavy emphasis on removing caf, in addition to more standard funding sources.


It's true, Biden was an awful option in so many ways.

It's amazing that voters knew this and were still happy to crawl through broken glass to vote for him. The alternative was that much worse. I hope republicans find some moment of clarity and let their extreme wing be banished to a third party. It will cost them a huge amount of political power short term, but they need some time in the wilderness to rediscover the concept of principles. We need a sane opposition party that actually has ideas and isn't a general-purpose personality cult.


You missed the point if you thought Trump was about a personality cult. Lots of Americans tolerated his personality because they like the policy and the results:

He built over 500 miles of crime-stopping wall, raised tariffs on China, didn't attack a new country, appointed decent judges, appointed a wonderful person for the Department of Education, put an end to racist anti-American hate sessions at federal employers, improved the H1B visa situation, ditched the Paris Accord, cut our taxes, got that pipeline approved, stopped China from using NAFTA via Mexico, got several peace treaties signed, and cut lots of economy-choking regulations. Just before that virus hit, he got us to the lowest unemployment numbers in recorded history (half a century) for black people and he got income inequality to go down a bit for the first time in ages. He even signed the First Step Act, fixing the overly harsh sentences imposed on crack users by another Biden-sponsored law.

That's all policy that people wanted, not personality. I don't know if that is more reassuring or more terrifying for you.


A few translations, as seen by a majority of the electorate:

> He built over 500 miles of crime-stopping wall

Mostly repaired the existing wall which accomplishes practically nothing about illegal immigration anyway

> raised tariffs on China

Started a trade war that ravaged the farm sector, resulting in costly bailouts

> didn't attack a new country

Partnered with Saudi dictatorship to escalate drone strikes, and abolished transparency around them, attempted to start war with Iran by brazenly assassinating a high-ranking official

> appointed decent judges

Packed the courts with unqualified ideologues

> appointed a wonderful person for the Department of Education

Appointed a person who ruthlessly fought against relief for student debt

> put an end to racist anti-American hate sessions at federal employers

Aggressively fought against improving race relations

> ditched the Paris Accord

Went back on a climate policy supported by 70% of voters

> stopped China from using NAFTA via Mexico

Used foreign bogeyman to distract from automation, which has eliminated far more jobs

> Just before that virus hit

Bungled the biggest crisis to hit the nation in decades

> got us to the lowest unemployment numbers in recorded history

Was born on third base and claimed he hit a triple

Overall the biggest signal that they've devolved into a personality cult was that the republican party was so overconfident, despite all signals to the contrary, that they had no platform whatsoever in the 2020 campaign.


I hope that's just how you believe the majority of the electorate to be uninformed. Some is opinion, but some is just wrong.

Calling the wall a "repair" is far from reality. It is different in size and structure. The new wall is 18 or 30 feet high, cuttable more as a stunt than a practical bypass. It extends at least 10 feet underground as a 2-foot-thick concrete wall to prevent easy tunneling. In some places the wall is both sizes, doubled up with a road down the middle. Much of the old barrier was only I-beam steel in the ground, intended to stop cars and trucks. You could ride through on a horse or motorcycle. Other parts were just 8 to 12 feet high, without any underground protection from tunnels. Instead of being a major operation, a tunnel just required 1 person with a trowel and an hour to spare.

To say it "accomplishes practically nothing" is strange. About half of the illegal aliens present in the United States came via illegal crossings. Those are the ones who matter the most, because they obviously were denied a visa. In other words, they probably have a history that caused them to fail the background check. Illegal crossings also bring drugs to the USA, guns to Mexico (see "Operation Fast and Furious" for when we even allowed it), dehydration in the desert, drowning in the All-American Canal, and migrants getting rapped by their smugglers.

The trade war started half a century ago. It's still a war when we aren't fighting back. We can't opt out. We can fight, or we can accept certain loss. The farm sector provides far fewer jobs than the manufacturing that is lost to China.

Assassinating a high-ranking official is not attempting to start a war. The USA can get away with that, so it does. It's notable that CNN had a few days of loving Trump when he did that; they want war.

It's a matter of opinion about judges, but for certain the top 3 are not unqualified ideologues in comparison to Sotomayor.

Relief for student debt would be horribly unfair to both non-borrowers (like a plumber, car salesman, or marine) and responsible borrowers. The economics term for the problems caused is called "moral hazard". We would be subsidizing expensive low-value incomplete degrees, and thus encouraging more of this waste.

The effect of those racist employer-mandated hate sessions has been studied. It turns out that they cause the exact opposite effect from the supposed intent. When you put a bunch of employees in a room and lecture them about race, they start thinking of each other by race. It brings out the latent racism, raises suspicion, and creates resentment. Race relations were doing better under Trump until the BLM fundraising riots started stirring up anger. Sometimes you have to forgive and forget, but that isn't good fundraising.

People like climate policy when detached from any mention of job losses and taxes. The same goes for healthcare and many other things. Who wouldn't want something if there isn't a price tag? Mention the price, and opinions suddenly change. You won't find 70% in favor of the Paris Accord when you mention the price.

Automation may have eliminated far more jobs than foreign bogeymen, but that only increases the urgency for pulling jobs back from China and elsewhere. If the USA loses 1 job to a Chinese worker and 5 jobs to automation, that means that 6 jobs need to be transferred from China to the USA.

The virus crisis was mostly self-imposed by the states and by the people. The actual virus harms very few. The fact that rioters were allowed to form huge groups while businesses were shut down tells us the truth: the motive was to prevent Trump from having his record-breaking economy. In any case, basic hygiene is a personal choice, not a presidential choice.

There was a republican platform. For a rather democratic reason, it was the same as in 2016. The virus had prevented gathering everybody together, and it wouldn't be proper to choose a new platform without everybody there. No normal person reads the platform anyway, and elected officials aren't bound to it.


More and more, I realize that I've been fed a warped view of the past. Here in the USA, history book authors and history instructors are almost exclusively on one side of the political spectrum. The people that they glorify and vilify are chosen with extreme partisan bias.

Joe McCarthy wasn't the terrible person he is made out to be. Information discovered later, long after his censure, proves that he was correct in many of the cases where he was thought wrong.

Today's lies and censorship will become the supposed "facts" that are taught to future generations. All sorts of falsehoods will be used to created graded test questions.


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