That’s an advertisement, not financial analysis.

Why? There’s no crime here.

This sounds like police carelessness rather than a problem with the technology - they just decided to arrest the closest person the system could find who had the same rare car. The license plate reader did not malfunction.

And they seem to be doing ok so far.

I hate the feeling of getting even a tiny bit of food on my face so I have to cut the mango into delicate pieces.

I think the author underestimates the extent to which Japan will be able to innovative, or to copy innovations from other countries with shrinking populations. Dramatically falling birth rates are a global issue and so is hostility towards immigration (although generally not to the same extent as in Japan). There is going to be a vast amount of effort invested into developing new technologies to compensate for that.

Now if only it were body on frame too then I could finally own something like my first vehicle (a '98 S10) again.

The last ceasefire lasted little more than a year and Hezbollah used that time to rebuild, so I think that a new ceasefire now is not likely to be in Israel’s best interest, especially if it involves ceding occupied territory. Trump just wants to claim victory (and he might get away with it politically because the effects of failure on life in the USA will be significant but indirect) but the security of the people in northern Israel depends on actually achieving victory.

Maybe some damage is irreversible but the goal should still be a return to the liberal status quo that was actually working quite well before American voters decided to break it anyway. I don’t concede that the goose that laid the golden eggs is quite dead yet despite voters’ attempts to kill it.

Ah yes, the 20th century, well known for not having serious problems…

Actually so far 2000 to 2026 is looking much better than 1900 to 1926.

It’s not actually ridiculous in principle.

Let’s say I start out owning a bank with ten billion in assets, and the bank’s value comes entirely from its assets so it’s worth ten billion.

The bank loans its ten billion to you, and you pay me those ten billion for the bank. Now I have ten billion in cash instead of a bank that was worth ten billion, and you have a bank worth ten billion to which you owe ten billion. No one’s net worth has changed.

You default on your loan to your own bank. Now the bank is worthless (its worth came entirely from the loan) and you have no debt, so your net worth still hasn’t changed. Effectively nothing has happened.

The choice to compare data centers to canals rather than to railroads seems rather arbitrary.

I think they do. The logic holds as long as there is a method of faster than light communication, regardless of whether that method involves objects actually traveling faster than light or objects traveling through a wormhole.

Why FTL implies time travel

A bit technical but still readable. There’s fundamentally no way to travel faster than light that couldn’t be used to send information back in time.

The trick seems to be not sculpting the veil in places other than the creases?

I didn’t say that Israel is not on the offensive right now - it is. My point is that if the Iron Dome system is indeed compromised, that’s going to put pressure on Israel to stay on the offensive rather than to back down.

Let’s hope they keep this up and force Israel to back the fuck off.

I don’t see the same connection here that you do. A failure of Israel’s defensive weapons would require them to go on the offensive. The status quo from before the October 7 attacks was tolerable to Israel because they could shoot down incoming threats but if they no longer can, they must neutralize the ability of their enemies to launch those threats.

A life form perfectly adapted for hitting below the belt.

A friend of worked at a company that sold CNC cutting tools and they had an issue at a customer site that they couldn’t replicate back at the factory. It turned out that the customer’s internet connection was so slow that the CNC machine would boot up, the customer would actually start cutting with it, and only then would the NTP daemon synchronize the time. This caused all sorts of failsafes and sanity checks to trigger and shut down the machine (which tracked its own velocity by looking at its position sensors and the system time) but when the machine was shipped back to the factory it would work just fine because it had a much faster internet connection.