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What you quoted refers to Intel's efforts to act as a fab for external customers.

This is not about about some microbe conservation effort. The whole idea is to preserve the conditions in which life can be discovered, and if it is, studied. Think about how much harder it would be to detect Mars life if organic molecules from Earth are present in quantity, let alone the interaction that could occur.

ABS pipe?

From the article it looks like you must pay $11 for pleasure of using this monstrosity as well? Wild.

Jerrrry, thank you for your opinion.

Babel will still pollyfill async await too if configured.

Nah it's a brand of synthesizer.

$15 at MicroCenter. They get new stock pretty regularly too. The og zero is $5.

Why is that? With no need to handle USB a simple HDMI switch will be much more cost effective.

Huh? Do you constantly stare at a car gas gauge too? Battery level is important information for planning your usage, with both phones and cars.

If you are driving close enough for drafting to have an effect, you are driving dangerously.

I'm guessing you live somewhere that does not get very cold. I love my ebike but sometimes it's just not feasible.

> If you operate in USA but earn money globally, then you’re subject to at least double, but sometimes a polynomial combination, of reporting and filling obligations from combinations of jurisdictions.

Again, you literally state that it's for tax avoidance. Are you reading your own words?

H1-Bs are not an "extreme instance", to they are incredibly common. At my previous company I knew a excellent engineer who was treated poorly and paid way less than he deserved. He had no choice though because loosing the job means he's kicked out of the country. Obviously he was grateful for the opportunity, but there's a flip side to it as well.

Why exactly do you think people use the Caymans at all then? If it's as you claim the surely keeping the money domestic makes more sense? Of course the truth is more complicated, and you even skirt around it with "global funds", i.e. a way to operate without repatriating the money and paying taxes.

I completely disagree. Major cities all have English signage now, especially for transportation.

> Plus electric goes out often.

On the US east coast it does not. Very rare occurrence, to the point where a major blackout is a noteworthy event.

This is quite interesting actually. I wonder if Google has been burnt by a zero-day allowing audio / video extraction in the past.

What's happening in August?

It's sad to see comments that are so obviously bait on HN.

I don't care either way, but generally the term is used in specific context where the writer feels "American" would be too imperialistic as it excludes all others that live in the Americas. It devolves into debates about whether the US "stole" the demonym. Right or wrong, it's going to trigger some people.

Fair enough, however the Fermi Paradox and the consequently postulated Great Filter are a thing precisely because the evidence of this competition should be present but is not.

> The local group is bigger than the galaxy.

You are certainly correct, I misremembered the terms. Substitute for the local regions of our galaxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Bubble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion-Cygnus_Arm

You are not thinking in a sufficient timescale. Human civilization is less than 10,000 years old. Barring some type of great filter event, it seems likely that human civilization will saturate the galaxy, or at least the local group, within the 400m years the OP mentioned.

Did you miss the M1 / M2 series?

Some impressive cognitive dissonance here.

Possibly, or possibly it will follow the same pattern as the F-22 / F-35 where the aircraft that was the true breakthrough (F-22) was expensive and had production slashed but the "cost optimized" version (F-35) is now being produced in large numbers [1].

1. I'm aware the F-35 development program itself was a boondoggle, but there are still building a ton of them right now.

Maybe they are referring to Elon's recent unhinged polls as testing.

US missiles are entirely solid fueled but they do not achieve orbit either. They spent short time exoatmospheric and then reenter, well, ballistically.

Well, your first problem there (among many) is that Twitter is no longer a public company.

I don't think I've ever seen a company leave a question of "possible" layoffs up in the air like that. If they happen the announcement is made the same day, otherwise you have people questioning their employment for months.