So, if you have enough money, you can just fire off a shitload of ex-post-facto patents after a competitor releases a prior-art product, sue them, and win using patents that didn’t exist when the competitor’s product was created???

Might as well just close the whole patent system and leave, there’s quite literally no point to obeying it if you can so blatantly steal anything and everything.

“Or what? blows raspberry”

I’m sure additional victim blaming will win the progressives the next election for sure.

What are we even doing.

Taxing the poor to give to the rich.

great depression speedrun any% world record

Who pays: you, the American consumer

Who collects: the Nazis, to fund additional Nazism

Yeah but at least we could have retained our domestic civil liberties and our own right to civilly protest the genocide under the other guys? Now we have nothing, less than nothing.

biggest understatement of the millenium

And now they have infinitely more technology to be even more efficient!

upvote for live reporting, downvote for CCP propaganda rag that dares me to pay for a subscription to read 6 paragraphs about why Taiwan isn’t a country. Net zero vote tally for me.

Bro just quit buying avocado toast and pull yourself up by them bootstraps, you’re just not working hard enough bro get on the grind and then you can maybe retire in a slightly larger cardboard box

That’s a really good question, you’d have to ask Google about that one.

Looks like I made the right choice pulling most of my 401k out of stock/blended funds and into stable bonds.

This seems a bit too nitpicky tbh.
The author is correct, Signal is not “perfect”, because the weakest link is always the endpoint device and the end user. Which is kind of the whole point of this article; The issue is not that Signal was used, as it’s reasonably secure, it’s that the people using it are not secure at all.

“Yes” with the asterisk that there is no phase change, and the flow paths are segregated.

In a heat pipe, water is installed such that it is kept near it’s liquid-gas phase change point on the pressure-temperature curve. When heated, it turns to “steam”, travels thru the center of the pipe, condenses back to liquid on the cold/fins side (giving off all it’s heat), then returns via capillary action on the metal foam walls of the pipe.

In a thermosiphon, the water never leaves the liquid phase. It simply relies on the density change based on temperature (hot water becomes less dense, and will rise to the top of a column) to force some circulation to occur. The hot fluid rises out of the heatsink and displaces the cooled water in the radiator, which then flows down the other side to return to the heatsink.

Very old cars (<1920) used to rely entirely upon the thermosiphon effect, rather than a pump.
It’s not terribly efficient, especially at higher dissipated power densities. They are also very prone to being overloaded with heat, if the overall loop temperature gets too high and/or the radiator loses some efficiency (e.g clogged with dust), the water can start to boil on the hot plate side and you’ll lose basically all cooling effect when your siphon is blocked with steam.

If Email is ever sorted in any order other than purely Chronological, it is a deadly affront to humanity. Even the “sponsored” two emails at the top of Gmail is an insult.

We have no annual inspections, only limited emissions tests inside two major metro areas.

Oregon does all commercial vehicles based on weight-mile-axle taxes. More weight, more axles, more miles, all increase the tax burden proportionally. Then you buy PUC credited diesel with no state gas tax. Works fine and can be extended to electric vehicles fine.

The issue I’ll take with it is the filing and monitoring system they’ll try to make private citizens do, which options are limited to either direct government GPS tracking (fuckkkk no) or an inefficient bureaucratic hellhole of odometer pictures (will cost additional tens of millions to administer). The Oregon system works fine because commercial vehicles are fairly strictly regulated, but that will break down with the general public.

No terrorism, just normal infrastructure collapse of a failing stagnating state.