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Seems pretty clear that it's meant to be malicious compliance with consent, with consent being automatically assumed unless you say no to this specific scrapper, as though there were even a reasonable chance millions of sites could possibly know about the exact tag.

I imagine that brazenly lying about it doesn't help.

China already has been doing that. No need to help them do that.

Not in how you're going to be treated. During Covid permanent residents were kept out because they're foreigners while citizens were able to travel to Japan[1]. Anyone who expects a western immigrant experience in Japan would be sorely mistaken.

[1]: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/19/national/social...

Perhaps you should got to Beijing and correct Xi Jingping then[1].

[1]: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/xi-jinping-says...

I was responding to the OP who was claiming that "There is an enormous anti-Washington bloc" in reference to BRICS.

Non aligned movement has existed for a long time, but in the context here India is not completely non aligned. They have been the target of aggression by China which has resulted in the deaths of Indian soldiers. And the US has supported them against this aggression[1].

[1]: https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2023-03-20...

India being characterized as a member of an Anti Western bloc seems rather far fetched considering their partnership with Washington, against another member of that block (China).

>Really makes you wonder what procurement is actually about.

He seems clever on the surface level until you consider that not only did the existing M113 which the Bradley was to replace was worse by every single criteria that Boyd had selected, but so were the BMP-2's which the US Army was facing. If there wasn't a contemporary vehicle which could meet the specifications Boyd had set, and the Bradley was a improvement over the existing vehicles, one would think that it's pretty clear the requirements Boyd had set were wildly incorrect.

The Bradley's capability was later combat proven in the Gulf War as an incredibly effective vehicle.

It shouldn't be unrealistically romanticized, but with University tuitions only reaching ever higher, much faster than inflation what other good solution is there for Young Adults to get a career and secure their financial future? These options being elevated precisely because of out of control student debt and universities which face zero consequences to financially crippling their pupils.

>13 years is immediate?

Yes. Please tell me the alternative solar or wind solution which can provide us with a carbon free grid in 13 years. There is none. You have to hand wave and pretend that maybe the next 13 years of battery technology will be fundamentally different than the past 30 years since the invention of the Lithium ion battery. Even if we had the battery solution today we don't have the global manufacturing capacity.

Solar and wind go online fast and turn stable grids into pricy unstable ones as you increase their share of production. Meanwhile Nuclear is ready, today. And if you cut down on some of the regulatory burden it could be built sooner.

For 50 years of operation your solar plant would have had all it's panels replaced at least once and your batteries would have probably been replaced 5 times, if using todays' technology.

Solar only appears cheaper if you removed every external cost from it.

That implies that using linux doesn't have you still beholden to a black box which is controlled by 2 US companies, when most likely you're still using an X86 Intel or AMD processor. But let's say you're using some ARM chip instead. Now your black box was built by TSMC or Samsung instead. It's black boxes all the way down.

>Supporting the spy angle is the pretty obvious connectivity (looks to be Ku-band satellite or similar) but it also doesn't really make that much sense... surely a satellite does what this does but better? China has no shortage of high quality spy satellites.

Two things. It will be significantly better at ELINT, soaking up signals over which it floats. Second, at 60,000 feet it is at least an order of magnitude closer than LEO spy satellites are, if not more. Simple physics dictates the limits of resolution for the lenses for spy satellites. Being significantly closer makes it much easier to provide better images than a multi billion dollar spy satellite. All at a significantly lower cost.

The chance that a ring form factor wearable will be the first to reliably, non invasively measure glucose is zero. Yes they got SpO2 and HR, those are easy and well established technologies. But blood glucose? Forget it.

A ring form factor is too aggressive and difficult of a target.

Why do you think that it's so certain? There are moments in history were the number of humans in existence numbered in the thousands. What kind of event are you imagining of that is certain to occur that will kill every single last human?

A breakthrough would be well welcome, but I would stress for everyone who reads any potential news about non invasive blood glucose monitoring from a small wearable to be very skeptical. It is an extremely difficult task, one which numerous startups have attempted and failed using Apple's approach of optical absorption spectroscopy. I'd wish anyone working on the project the best of luck, as it would be truly ground breaking if it could work, but I fear that it will take many, many, more years if it's even possible to do so with any real reliability.

I don't think anyone who is in the know would be surprised about that. Noninvasive blood glucose monitoring is a multi billion dollar product, should anyone be able to figure it out at all. It's fiendishly difficult, and quite possibly impossible to do it sufficiently accurately, even more so over long periods of time. C8 MediSensors was trying to do it 10 years ago, but ultimately went under. Even with Apple's budget, it's a herculean task.

The 3 Balloons which were shot down after the known Chinese one were all flying between 20,000 - 40,000 ft. In truth it's kind of insane to me that drones seem to have greater FAA regulation than these balloons, some of which were close to active airports.

I don't know how that is a surprise. That's what unions have almost always done. Especially if someone had seniority. Public Unions are even more egregious in this regards, just look at Police Unions.

Spray his crops with something that will 100% kill all of his original crop and only keeping the cross contaminated crop, which he will then specifically cultivate. Common now, it's really a shut and close case. He had no explanation as to an alternative valid reason to have done so and lost the case.

What you described is insane and illegal. Hiring on the basis of race is illegal. Demanding a pledge to offset some perceived original sin because of your immutable attributes is abhorrent.

This absolutely will leak into MBA programs and become "best practice".

You don't want to hire a racist now, do you? No? Good, so mandatory DEI pledges for all!

Academia is such a brutal cutthroat battle for faculty positions, you have zero choice but to participate. An acquaintance was applying for faculty positions and every single position they were applying to required a DEI statement. It's only a matter of time till it starts bubbling out of academia to industry.

The Chinese already have confirmed it was theirs, so there is that.

There’s a direct parallel where a high altitude balloon survived thousand rounds. It just doesn’t shoot it down in a reasonable timeframe.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6737831

Upperclass men are not the only source of academic help and if they were then there would be significantly greater problems.

So what, you're hoping that potential love interests just stagnate like you and don't date and find other partners? No. This is highly unrealistic of normal young men and women.

Yeah this was completely known among all where many members of the opposite sex congregate be it courses, clubs, or other places.

This has to be one of the worst pieces of dating advice ever written. Universities are one of the best places to meet people as a student.

Are they actually? Providing tutoring and help doesn't seem to degrade the learning environment.