> an innate ability for language

His theory is pretty good descriptively but there's a South American tribe that speaks in a way differently than what his insistence on specific biological structure supports.

The precept that language is innate vs. how language works being innate are probably different claims.

Academic linguists of the Expert Class type get super mad when people bring up that tribe.

IMO it's better to be a scientist than an acclaimed Expert.

People who trust Zuckerberg.

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That's an interesting comparison I had missed. Good call.

Presumably the military needs decent chips fabbed on US soil. Doesn't have to compete with AMD or Samsung in the PC CPU market.

GF bought IBM fabs, TI isn't relevant, TSMC is just coming online but is still controlled by Taiwan. Is Motorola/Freescale around anymore?

With an engineer in charge maybe Intel stands a chance of a rebound. Competition is good so let's hope so.

I haven't bought an Intel desktop or server chip since 2018 but plenty of their low-power SoC's , Atom/n1xx. They still make good stuff in certain markets.

Selling railcar loads of Xeons for a 20x markup to buy Marketing people McMansions is likely never coming back.

Your long winded analogy is flawed on so many levels. Let me correct it for you. We will stick with the Americans vs Aliens scenario:

The Aliens and Americans were part of the same country for quite some time. The aliens had originally conquered America, and America became intertwined socially, economically, culturally and even genetically. One day, the aliens government fails, they spin America off into its own country, and left some of its people behind, as they have been there many generations. The Americans then treat the aliens as second class citizens, Balkanized into a section of the eastern seaboard, near the aliens mothership. They will not acknowledge the alien culture or language, even though it's quite similar to standard Murrican. To the uneducated outsider there is barely a difference racially, culturally, linguistically, but nonetheless they see a difference.

The American government proceeds to supply its militias and tacitly supports them as they shell, machine gun and harass the aliens. Aliens are killed by the thousands over many years, all the while the world turns a blind eye. The new alien government in the mothership scolds America and warns they will use their death ray to attack America if they don't stop.

America does not stop, and the violence escalates. In response, the aliens hover their drone ship over Boston harbor and use their ion canon to capture the area. The americans are completely unprepared and are easily overwhelmed.

Some peace accords are made, but they are soon forgotten, and America resumes punishing the aliens but now they're armed with more advanced weapons supplied by the rest of the worlds militaries.

The aliens continue to warn America, and posture their clone army, and the attacks continue. This time, the aliens deploy their mothership and launch a ground invasion.

That was at least 500% more apt than your analogy.

Stop having Venmo narc every non-trivial txn to the IRS if you want people to unload their stuff.

They already paid taxes on the income and first sale.

OK, wait ... don't tell Trump that would help EV adoption.

Screw it, just promote Monero in your community. It's actually fungible.

FWIW I've installed several 220 outlets outside my house (generator, pressure washer, etc.). Not difficult and high voltage actually makes it easier becauae you need less copper.

The metal box I used has a cover that protects the outlet in all but driving rain. Only 50A for mine; it looks like this is high-end for home use with 80A being commercial, typically, based on one guide that came up on search.

> if his manager's account was disabled

Oh the chaos that would ensue. :)

Narcissists often get caught because they lack subtlety.

Perhaps the same concern about petrol tanks is why non-EVs are also parked outside. Filling the garage with junk is just a symptom of the extreme fire-safety concerns that come from living in wooden houses covered with plastic siding.

I bet it could if it increased the cost to send a basic letter to $4.55. With prices like that I'd argue that cost is a bit more than just a "contributing factor".

There's some evidence that Meta provided Israel with targeting data from WhatsApp used to flatten civilian apartment buildings in Tehran.

The IRGC put out an urgent plea to its citizens to uninstall WhatsApp within a day or two.

But people will say, "yeah, but there's no good alternative," so actually providing one is smart military strategy, if they've actually built a viable competitor.

If Americans think In-Q-Tel funded Facebook but don't have access to its data ... yeah, well they slept through the Snowden drops.

That's fine for the eastbound flight that happens at night but for the westbound flight this generally takes off in the morning and lands a few hours later in the same day local time or evening in the starting location. The best way to reduce jet lag is to expose yourself to the day/night conditions of the place you are going to. Heading east this means having the plane dark and heading west this means daylight. If someone still wants to sleep and need darkness to do so they can wear a sleep mask. There is no such workaround for someone who wants to look at the view out of the window and if they charge extra for a window seat then they have paid to be able to look out of it.

Terms of service have limits. If companies could legally get out of negligence or fraud - lying for financial gain - by putting something in their terms of service they would not be waiting for AI salespeople to do so - they be doing it now for their human salespeople.

Probably because that will be much less efficient. Not only will you lose energy in the conversion from light to microwaves but with a longer wavelength that beam will diffract - i.e. spread out - far more than a light beam would.

Plus for any unlucky wild geese or ducks who fly through the beam, they'll taste a lot better being roasted in sunlight than microwaved.

I'm less worried about Dr Evil and more about Dr Minimum-bid who'll be building the system. Any failure of the orbiting platform's alignment system will send that solar death ray wandering randomly across the surface.

It sounds more like a complete ignorance of science and basic ethics. If you are testing for things like ozone and formaldehyde you do not want to have people in those spaces because you do not want to expose humans to either of them. We already know enough about their effects on people that the only thing you need to test for is the level of their presence.

As for infections, reducing the number of bacteria and viruses is clearly good and the more you reduce it the better. However, translating that into how much it reduces infections is probably hard to impossible since it will depend a lot on both the specific microbes and the specific people you put in the room and there are significant ethical concerns in trying to measure this using humans.

No it is not, it is a serious problem in ANY country regardless of the medical system present. If the government has everyone's DNA with the means to connect that DNA to the individual then there is no telling what that information could be used for. It could be used for ethnic cleansing, eugenics, the withholding - or requiring - of medical treatments or any of a whole host of other nasty possibilities. Even if you trust that your current government would never do such a thing current events have shown that democracies may be only one election away from having the inmates running the asylum with full access to your DNA data and any one of a number of crazy ideologies they may be trying to implement.

I would have had no issues with my kids being tested for suspected, specific genetic conditions that can be treated or mitigated but there is no way I'd agree to having their entire genome sequenced unless there was some clear and necessary medical benefit to them directly.