Japanese solution -- I saw a YouTube video on how the Japanese addressed this by elongating the nose of the Shinkansen. That design was inspired by the kingfisher bird diving in water. The length of the nose helps to gradually displace the air as it enters the tunnel, reducing the strength of the pressure wave.

Also, perhaps fans could be a solution. Powerful blowers that push air out one end of the tunnel, just as the train enters in at the other end, then taper to zero as the train exits

Thank you..

This post is worthy of a slashdot story, all by itself.

Here's one: a 7 year old required open heart surgery as a result of a falling drone. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus... to WESH 2 News,open-heart surgery on Sunday.

Or you could just, you know, fill out a 1040. It takes about ten minutes. A bit longer if you've never done it before.

People are irrationally afraid of it because there are so many horror stories out there about people spending hours and hours and hours trudging through financial records trying to figure out their taxes, but most of those stories are heavily exaggerated, and 100% of them are from people whose finances are *way* more complicated than average, because they own a business or have a bunch of fancy investments or whatever. For a regular person who has a regular job and gets a regular W-2 from your employer, it's really not a big deal. Though of course if most of what you know about it comes from the advertising from Intuit and H&R Block, you wouldn't know that.

A few decades ago, the vote would've gone heavily in favor of requiring car dealerships to be locally owned; but at this point, I imagine a lot of Ohio voters would kinda shrug and check one of the options more or less at random. If there are still a lot of people here who care deeply about the issue, I'm not aware of it. (Maybe among the remaining members "silent generation"?) Ohio consumers have thoroughly embraced large chains (such as Meijer and Menard's and Ollie's and so on) for most of their brick-and-mortar retail needs, and the distinction between a franchise chain and a corporately owned chain is too subtle for most voters, given that the only way to even distinguish them from one another is by doing research on them.

Ideally, there should not have been a special exception carved out for Tesla in particular, in the first place. Either Tesla should have been held to the same rules as everyone else, or else the rule should have just been changed. Any time government rules treat specific companies differently from everyone else, I see that as a sign of corruption and bad governance (although "bad" is relative; there is of course much *worse* governance in some parts of the world, than what we have in Ohio).

As long the settlement is near the lunar poles, maybe panels on 10m poles could do the trick?

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There are exceptions to the 14 day night rule - consider the lunar poles

Illumination conditions of the lunar polar regions using LOLA topography

Yeah, came here to say basically the same thing. We're talking about a _really_ nitrogen-dense compound here. If you look at the general level of stability of other small-molecule compounds with a high percentage of nitrogen by weight, and then someone says "OBTW I synthesized N6", the natural reaction is to flee the county. In that context, if it's possible to warm it above about 20 kelvin and turn on the light in the room without the stuff going kablooey, it's suprisingly stable. I've been known to joke about a nitrogen-based analog to the fullerines, but I didn't seriously think anyone would try to *make* something like that.

This war is not going well for either Russia (122K+ confirmed deaths; Mediazona) or Ukraine (77K+; ualosses.org). Many soldiers no longer want to fight. What is glorious about forcing more men to early deaths?

What's important is an immediate ceasefire and a process for both sides to punish war crimes committed.

I am heartened to see Trump pressuring the Russians into ceasefire... that instinct of his is correct.

But he's famously unreliable with numbers... I wouldn't grasp at that particular straw as a continue the war.

Both sides need to reach 0:0 ASAP.

Russia officially wants 20%. Stick to the current facts.

Ukraine could have got away with a much smaller percentage at Istanbul. But they took your advice. A half million casualties later, they have wisened up.

20%.

If thugs took 17% of my home, battered my family to a pulp, but my friends just kept mailing Amazon packages to me instead of showing up, i would appease the thugs with 20% of my home. So my family could live and have a roof over our heads.

So the answer is 20%.

But sssh... don't tell the thugs..

I'm assuming they have some physical backups somewhere, yes. But they'll probably be at least several days out of date.

The *daily* backups were almost certainly the 10TB of backups that were found and destroyed by the attackers. Which makes sense: you want your most frequent backups to be fully 100% automated so they're as up to date as possible whenever a hard drive dies (which, for most organizations, happens considerably more often than this kind of successful malicious attack). So your continuous and daily backups go onto media that are online 24/7. So when something like this happens, you're going to have to go back to the last time a secondary backup was made, and that's less automated (among other things, someone has to physically swap the media in and out, and if we're talking about 10TB of data, that's probably going to have to happen multiple times, over the course of a couple of days, to complete the backup), so it generally happens less frequently. Since this was a munitions factory, we can charitably assume they would have known they were a potential target for this sort of thing, and so probably would have at least done a secondary backup weekly? Probably. Most organizations don't have their sysadmins practice restoring from secondary backups on anything resembling a regular basis, so they won't really know what they're doing and will run into all sorts of minor-but-annoying setbacks and delays. Software that's needed won't be installed, and there won't be a complete list of it anywhere, so they'll have to fool around by trial and error figuring out why blah-blah-blah won't run, oh, we forgot to install foolib on the design department's database server, have to do that, ok, now why does it still not run, oh, it also wants the foolib extensions for Postgres, install that, rinse, repeat. Some data that are stored in oddball locations (typically, configuration stuff) will have been missed, and will have to be recreated. And so on.

It's hard to predict exactly how long that stuff will take, but my first guess would be more than a week.

Granted, that's a far cry short of the timeframe if the factory had been, say, bombed into craterdom. But this may have been cheaper, and in any case it also gives Ukraine a significant amount of information about the factory's operation, which could be valuable in other ways.

Clearly, AI has taken over our government and is now redirecting all resources to its survival and propagation

> Why aren't you calling for Russia to give up more land?

I would, if it would help the cause of peace. But it won't. So I won't. Instead, the most we can do is ask Russia to accept the land it has taken so far, plus some minor concessions (like Pokrovsk) and freeze the conflcit.

> How quickly you changed you mind.

My position has been consistent. I have lived in a land of a frozen conflict.

When this war started, you were enraged (justifiably) at your sense of justice being trampled upon. But I get the sense you are also speaking from ego now - your predictions and exhortations have been proven wrong by reality, and you don't like it.

> Don't Russian lives matter?

Don't all lives matter?

In a war with a million casualties, the easiest thing for foreigners to do is exhort one side or the other to keep spilling their guts. Both sides have millions of families with a serious loss -- there is enough anger to continue.

The harder, but more correct option, is to push for a peace that stops loss of live,and protects both parties from further losses. The most likely option for this is (a) asking Russia to accept the land it has taken so far, (b) some minor concessions from Ukraine (like Pokrovsk) and (c) freeze the conflcit.