Curious to see what the economics of starship will shake out to be

Those are normal crystalline panels, not tandem

Are there any perovskite/monocrystalline cells in commercial production yet anywhere in the world? I keep seeing a lot of buzz for adding a perovskite layer to crystalline silicon cells, but I’m not seeing any in actual production. Maybe I’ve missed something?

This only works if the bridge is financed as an NFT

Wow that’s terrible design

Israel does this all the time. Prisoner / hostage swap is pretty much standard operating procedure. It’s why Hamas took hostages in the first place. Israel already traded back 240 Palestinian prisoners during the first truce back in November.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israeli–Palestinian_prisoner_exchange

What’s going on now is negotiations. How many prisoners, exactly which ones, etc. The specific prisoners is likely the more salient point because Israel has effectively an inexhaustible source of Palestinian prisoners. It’s a renewable resource. Meanwhile Hamas needs decades to plan a border raid so it can get a few hundred hostages to trade away.

Good job imagining a version that could go 3D

Yeah it’s pretty neat. You can also imagine a version that goes 3D, maybe replicating uneven ground or stairs.

What does anti Zionism mean?

The article does a decent job of going into some of the nuance about the different ways the apartheid label might or might not fit things that are thing on. But in the end who cares if we can fit a class of actions into the apartheid label?

Why don’t we just look at the actual actions that are taking place and discuss them for what they are. If Israel levels half of Gaza in intense bombing campaigns that kill tens of thousands of people, then we can see that and discuss what to do about it. Who cares if it doesn’t fit the apartheid label.

I see similar arguments every day now where people are arguing if it’s genocide or ethnic cleansing or apartheid or whatever. What does it change if you’re able to cognitively classify a set of actions with the correct label?

Maybe if you justify your favorite label then you can condemn Israel/Hamas harder, but this doesn’t actually change anything and it doesn’t lead to greater understanding. I’d actually argue that settling on your preferred label actually leads to less understanding. That’s because once you’ve categorized something to your satisfaction, you tend to become more blind to contradictory evidence.

For example, let’s say we all agree that Israel is an “apartheid state”. That label comes with a lot of baggage that’s going to color our views of future actions. We might miss out on changes in Israeli laws or courts or political leadership that contradicts the apartheid label.

Better instead to try and see things clearly as they are instead of trying to force labels onto things. This takes more effort because labels serve as cognitive shortcuts, but the result is a better understanding of what’s actually going on.

That seems like a really low number. According to the article it’s almost half the number of people from a few years ago. And even that seems low considering there should be something like >60 million Russians in the ROC.

1.4 million people is less than 2% of the total number of Russian Orthodox Christians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Russia

After the 10/7 Hamas attack, one of the biggest fears that Israel had was that Hezbollah would join and attack Israel from Lebanon. Hezbollah is one of the most serious existential threats to Israel, so it became a priority to prevent them from joining the war with Hamas.

That meant stepped up rocket and drone attacks that was intended to signal strength and serve as a warning to Hezbollah. Of course Hezbollah did the exact same thing with rocket and artillery strikes against Israeli targets, also intending to signal strength. These cross border attacks basically started up immediately after 10/7 by both sides.

The attacks have escalated slightly over time, but have not escalated into full out war. Neither side really wants to go to war right now. Israel is focused with its war in Gaza and wants to keep Hezbollah from joining. Meanwhile it’s the perfect opportunity for Hezbollah to attack while Israel’s attention is split, however that has to be balanced by the fact the vast majority of Lebanese people oppose going to war because it would devastate their country that’s already in the midst of a many-years long economic, political and social crisis. So Hezbollah is effectively prevented from joining the war with Israel by internal Lebanese issues.

Most likely the border attacks will continue as they are without escalating into an all out war that neither side is really prepared for. Unfortunately the immediate result is that entire communities on both sides of the border have become internally displaced. The article mentions ~100,000 Lebanese have fled their homes in the border region. The numbers I’ve seen for Israel are also >100,000 people evacuated from their communities near the border.

I’m sure that’s a part of what’s going on, but to claim that “this is all about oil” is highly reductive. There are many different entities involved with competing interests.

Oops I dropped the laptop.

Oops the hackers encrypted all my data in a ransomware attack.

Oops my credit card expired, so my cloud storage didn’t renew.

Oops I forgot the password to my encrypted thumb drive.

Oops I lost my micro SD card.

Oops I dropped my phone in the toilet.

Oops my photo hosting company went out of business 6 months ago and I forgot to download my photos.

Yes, that is how active sonar works. The ship emits a very loud noise and listens for reflections to map out the surroundings. Sonar pings can be very loud and can damage the ears of underwater life forms.

Wait, are you saying Bin Laden’s propaganda isn’t a good faith argument?

From the second paragraph of the article:

These remarkable findings position elephants as the first non-human animals to use a form of address that doesn’t mimic the receiver’s call, a trait previously observed in dolphins and parrots.

It appears dolphins have a “signature whistle” that they produce and other dolphins use this like a name. Sort of like if you enter a big room and yell out “Wazzup” and then everyone starts calling you Wazzup.

Elephants appear to be different, seems like they will name other elephants. Sort of like you enter a big room, the other people notice you’re short and everyone starts calling you Shorty.

Yeah it’s a huge effort to do large scale biochar production. The dream is to take all those waste stems they’re burning and sequester the carbon in the soil. This will improve soil quality and improve air quality by stopping the burning, but it will cost big bucks.

Come on guys, we can do this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar_carbon_removal

But can I play Protoss?