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I have an Israeli friend. His answer:

This result is exactly what the anti-Israel coalition wanted. They bet Bibi would go nuts and burn up the remaining global goodwill that Israel had, leaving them isolated.


It doesn't seem to have that many negative consequences for Israel though, and Oct 7 gave them enough justification for what they're doing in Gaza that they can get away with it internationally, and it has likely also limited the backlash they're getting for the escalating settlements in the West Bank.

This is not factually accurate to say they own most of Google, the most I’ve seen of the two of them combined owning presently is 12%

Page and Brin together hold over 50% of voting shares, even though their economic share is lower as you suggest. Different share classes.

https://aifundingtracker.com/who-owns-alphabet/


I charge mine on a 120 V 20 amp outlet in the US that was already in my garage… And it works fine for me

Now imagine you have double the charging power yet have to drive less due to Europe's more compact nature

Don’t forget about the public transit system continent-wide is vastly better than the US as well.

Except in certain European countries you actually have 400V tri-phase to the door.

This then gets split into constituent phases of 240V each at the panel.

Or if you call your electrician, then in modern garages, you can take it straight.


Yeah, but those places don’t have 24/7 solar energy

google: orbit

it does not see the sun half of the time

polar orbits don't come to the rescue, they are quite busy already


Sun-synchronous orbit gets sunlight ~100% of the time.

From TFA:

> In low Earth orbit, satellites can access near-constant sunlight, generating up to eight times more solar power than on Earth.

That's obviously a reference to sun-synchronous orbit. You don't get 8 times more solar power in a low inclination orbit.


i already countered that argument, but to spell it out: sun synchronous orbits which see the sun all the time are a 1d manifold (approximately) and quite busy already, so they won't come to the rescue.

My point is that SSO isn't "coming to the rescue", it's literally the entire premise of the idea (greater availability of solar power there vs anywhere on earth). I don't buy "there's no more room" as an argument when we're talking about space, even in a relatively crowded set of orbits like SSO.

Yes, but the lag time is crucial. The NY Times estimated that China has 10% the compute capacity of the US. They may catch up, but by that time the US labs could have too much of an advantage

This isn’t exactly correct. Cancer is not (typically) caused by a single DNA mutation, but multiple accumulated errors.


This may not be true in all jurisdictions


Exactly, that's only one-party consent


The operators of the phone system are consenting to the call being recorded by informing you that the call is being recorded. You are consenting to the call being recorded by continuing with the call.

How is that not two party consent?


It's not a consent, because the options are "Yes" and "Yes", you cannot opt out unless you quit the call.


I mixed it up and GP is right. But you are also right (which illustrates the point GGP was making)

If you and I are in a phone call (the target of the phone call located in a one-party consent jurisdiction), I can record it or you can record it without telling the other: that's one-party consent, because one of the parties of the call consents to it

At first glance that may sound pointless, but it means a third party outside the call (e.g. phone company) could not record it without one of us consenting

By notifying that the call is being recorded, that now can create two-party consent because you are still on the line (and thus implicitly agree to the recording, but as you and GGP point out that's not always considered consent enough) -- one-party consent would have been if the company on the other side of the line simply recorded the call without telling you


Laws are different in different jurisdictions, but often the law only requires notification, not consent.


Perhaps during various east Asian famines as well..


Honestly, no. These weird states of matter have extremely different properties to ordinary matter. Weird properties is how we get things like superconductors, magnets, semiconductors, photovoltaics.. so strange state of matter with weird properties could very well produce some magic


Also net population loss of working age adults via deportation and self deportation.


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