Will they be using indeed.com to look for new jobs?

Roaming when there aren't any cell phone towers anywhere around is battery intensive. When I'm doing back country hikes, even without roaming I'm already probably putting excessive demands on the battery by using AllTrails for GPS Navigation and taking pictures and what not, battery life is quite the concern. Consequently, I usually put my phone into airplane mode when I'm hiking in the backcountry so that it's not constantly roaming for no point at all. Seems like that'll undermine the effectiveness of this new tech.

I mean, I usually bring extra charges for my cellphone but those are of little benefit if there's water involved, due to either rain or just because I'm wading in the water (eg. The Narrows, be it the Texas Narrows or the Zion Narrows). Even tho the phones are waterproof the batteries usually aren't and if water gets into the USB-C connection you'll get a "moisture detected" warning when you try to plug it in and it won't charge for several hours after that. And sure, there's wireless charging, which works better with MagSafe than not, but that's a trickle charge compared to being physically plugged in.

Presumably the personal item is the one that goes underneath the seat in front of you and there's a surprising amount of space underneath that seat (unless you're in a bulkhead seat). Like a plain old backpack stuffed to the brim will almost always fit underneath the seat in front of you. An overstuffed backpack may not look like a personal item but if we define personal items to be ones that fit under the seat in front of you then it absolutely is.

The notion that terrestrial helium was trapped from primordial solar winds is a new one to me. Quoting https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHelium:

Most terrestrial helium present today is created by the natural radioactive decay of heavy radioactive elements (thorium and uranium, although there are other examples), as the alpha particles emitted by such decays consist of helium-4 nuclei. This radiogenic helium is trapped with natural gas in concentrations as great as 7% by volume, from which it is extracted commercially by a low-temperature separation process called fractional distillation.

About ten years ago it was theorized that Roman concrete's unique properties were due to their use of volcanic ash. I guess maybe that isn't the exclusive source of Roman concrete's properties.

Per https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftradingeconomics.com%2Fu... , raising the interest rate by 0.75% will still not increase it to what it was even in early 2019. You don't stop the worst inflation in 40+ years by rolling back the clock on the interest rate by 2 years.

For most of the early 1980's the interest rate was greater than 10%. That's what we need the interest rate to be if we want to stomp out inflation. Sure, raising it by 10% in one fell swoop will prob crash the economy. Unemployment will go up but prices will go down as well, assuming the federal government doesn't extend unemployment and make it easier to get unemployment and offer stimulus checks and what not. I mean, I think that all the free money that was pumped into the economy during the Coronavirus recession is probably why we're in this mess today. We tried to encourage spending by pumping money into the economy and it worked, albeit not immediately. More money means more demand and unless you have a corresponding increase in supply and increase in demand *will* increase prices. And not only have we not had a corresponding increase in supply - we've had a decrease, thanks to supply chain disruptions and the Great Resignation and all that jazz. The Fed can't do anything about the supply chain but they *can* do something about the money supply but they're too scared to do anything that will have a truly meaningful impact, it seems to me.

The Trump administration in 2019 revoked California's authority to regulate its own air quality, arguing that it wouldn't allow "political agendas in a single state" to set national policy.

Doesn't Texas do that with school textbooks? They dictate what must be taught to students in the state of Texas but because Texas is such a large purchaser of books that has an impact on the content of textbooks in other states as well. See https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nybooks.com%2Farticl...

Seems hypocritical to be okay with political agendas in Texas shaping national policy whilst not being ok with California doing so. But then again, hypocrisy is nothing new

In slashdot's defense the bloomberg article that they're linking to refers to web3 even in the title..

As I understand it, TRIGA teaching reactors are supposed to be meltdown proof. They use uranium zirconium hydride fuel rods, which are, per my notes, supposed to shut down nuclear reactions once they hit a certain temperature, thus preventing meltdowns. This property also prevents them from generating more than 1MW of continuous power (I did a tour of a TRIGA reactor a few years back).

Maybe this reactor would employee a similar type of fuel.

It amazes me how many people don't stock enough food at home to last even a week

Also, this has been going on some two weeks, now, and some people may want to stock up before they're completely empty.

For example, I usually fill up my gas tank when I'm on half a tank. If I don't fill up my tank, then, it's not a big deal - I still have half a tank left, but I do start getting a little anxious. Even if this thing had been going on for a week then people who, like me, get anxious when they're starting to get to 50%, may start getting anxious when their halfway into their two week supply, which would put it at about a week. Up until now such people could maybe have been able to mitigate some of the anxiety by taking solace in the fact that restaurants were an option, but that is increasingly becoming not the case

Well keep in mind, too, that a lot of people are now being required to work from home when they weren't previously. Them and their kids.

So in my case I normally ate breakfast and lunch at work. It was free, so why not? And plus, my kids were supposed to be getting breakfast and lunch from their school and now they're not as well. So what previously could have been enough food to last me for a maybe a month now, all of a sudden, isn't.

With grocery stores now frequently having empty shelves and long lines and what not it's just been easier to switch to eating out. But I guess that option is out, now, as well.

I also have a friend with a legit gluten allergy. People have been buying out gluten free foods. Most likely people without gluten free allergies. Up until now they've been able to get by by going to restaurants that serve gluten free food, but now?

I've been able to largely avoid going to grocery stores because of take-out restaurants. How many more people will this force to go to already over congested grocery stores?

Boston's Big Dig had similar issues after it opened. See https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBig_Dig_ceiling_collapse, for example. And yet these issues seem to have long since been forgotten about and the Big Dig is now quite heavily used.

Guccifer 2.0 is presumed to be the "person" who supplied the DNC emails to wikileaks and, quoting wikipedia, "The U.S. Intelligence Community concluded that some of the genuine leaks that Guccifer 2.0 has said were part of a series of cyberattacks on the DNC were committed by two Russian intelligence groups. This conclusion is based on analyses conducted by various private sector cybersecurity individuals and firms, including CrowdStrike, Fidelis Cybersecurity, Fireeye's Mandiant, SecureWorks, ThreatConnect, Trend Micro, and the security editor for Ars Technica.". Wikipedia provides numerous citations to back that up. idk if the U.S. Intelligence Community conducted analysis above and beyond what the private sector cybersecurity firms did but I think it's a safe assumption that they did.

Of course, I suppose you can always dismiss the U.S. Intelligence Community's analysis if you assume that it's all part of the deep state conspiracy against Trump. And the private sector firms... I guess Trump supporters can just dismiss them as peddlers of fake news too.

I guess the reason a black hole doesn't count as invisible mass is because of hawking radiation?