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Correct. One reaction involving mercury would be Oxymercuration, a process that is usually covered in Organic Chemistry 1.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymercuration_reaction

You probably don't need HACM. Microsoft Research has produce quite a number of software and compilers for producing provably secure low level code and drivers.

Organic chemistry should probably be made mandatory as part of high school science education like physics. Parent looks like Exhibit A for anti-thiomersal hysteria.

One way to fix this is to completely break the apprenticeship model of higher academia and professional careers. For Law, Medicine, and any other field requiring significant time in the classroom, ensure that accreditation is state administered (or outsourced test like the SAT) with no requirement of time spend in the classroom. This breaks and limits the prestige factor conferred by institution and reduce their overall influence. The way software engineers are hired, while flawed, remains one of the most meritocratic ways of hiring and distributing funding.

Monero can be traced with CipherTrace.

Because idling the engine is bad for the environment, because the lack of cameras makes things more dangerous for everyone.

Most of the spacetime manipulation are still within the realms of physics, or at least can be reasonably described as long as you change a few assumptions e.g. the existence of negative mass, an infinite energy source etc. Only the time turning and fidelius have actual philosophical implications and former has been thoroughly studied and debated in both normal philosophy and natural philosophy.

The most important crux of the matter is that it can hide both a posteriori and a priori knowledge. An existing piece of information in the world can literally be rendered unavailable except to a select group of people.

In the book:

> As long as the Secret-Keeper refused to speak, You-Know-Who could search the village where Lily and James were staying for years and never find them, not even if he had his nose pressed against their sitting room window!

This raises a lot of uncomfortable metaphysical and epistemological questions. Is this a purely psychological effect? Or does this operate on the information itself? If it operates on information itself, how big can you scale the effect?

Ignoring magic, if such an effect truly exists, what are its implications for information theory? (Especially since the information is clearly not destroyed as the spell can be undone.) Information itself could become weaponized. Can a RAM bit flip be triggered though the application of such an effect? Or is this effect purely mental?

What about second and third order effects? Does the effect propagate? Assume a machine learning system with the following knowledge/word vectors: Food + Italy = Pasta. If Italy is placed under the fidelius, are the vectors and weights going to magically re-arrange themselves? How will people talk about the dish pasta?

Of all the spells in J.K. Rowling's world this is probably the most creative/disturbing. The whole gimmick with the seven horcruxes is merely distributed systems theory applied to a lich's phylactery, a concept that can be traced back millennia to various ancient civilizations. Splitting and and anchoring soul has nothing on arbitrarily erasing, manipulating, and restoring information itself on an infinitely large scale.

The fidelius charm violates every known law of information theory and machine learning heuristics, not to mention the philosophical implications.

I am willing to add to the pool, I am also betting core components of Windows will be open sourced soon.

Can Twilio be held liable and sued?

A government agency can still order them to hand over all data they have, they are still a single point of failure from a privacy point of view.

Would you truly consider old money, government regulatory capture/lobbying and defence to be in the same category as startups? They are completely different types of innovation. There job is done once a specific policy is achieved. Overarching changes to the system is often not their priority.

Because it requires a non-trivial amount of static analysis work on the compiler side to make the UX comfortable. Rust's borrow checker mechanism took years to become pleasant for the end user to use. There is still next to no adoption of Ada outside of aerospace, defence, and certain embedded programming sectors.

Seems like some sort of gRPC alternative for microcontrollers.

Thermal imaging resolution is restricted by arm control laws unfortunately. There are forces at work beyond market forces.

Without a proper G clamp, it is a quick way to lose a couple thousand dollars to a stray elbow.

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I don't doubt they are hard workers and intelligent. But if OP is judging them by SV standards of talent then it's not exactly fair. Building a successful company requires a certain drive, risk appetite, and revolutionary zeal that are not easily found in government (and to a lesser extent, academia). There are smart people everywhere but most would never make a significant impact.

I don't think MarkMonitor is for casual domain owners.

X comes with subscription, microtransactions, ads, wants your personal data, and/or is the result of regulatory capture.

Try living in some of the African states. Good luck using cheap locks and not securing your house.

Welcome to academia, may I offer you tenureship?

There are many many companies in this space. All of them offer paid software.

The word you are looking for is "minimal artificial life/cell". They are being worked on, a lot. A bigger problem is increasing funding for life sciences and making commercialisation cheaper.

There are exactly three other countries with the supply chain, manpower, funding, and infrastructure to build large scale commercial access to space. Not a single one of them are members of NATO. Space X doesn't really have many options.

I wonder how long this post will stay up before it gets flagged.

Proxmox has been around for decades, they are not exactly a new player.

Plaid is a fintech unicorn, not just a library.

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