The details of this story are horrifying. The assassin went to the houses of two different lawmakers in the middle of the night (2am). Dressed as a cop.

In the dark, the people in each house had no reasonable way to know that the person ringing their doorbell at 2am was not a cop. Presumably he shot whoever came to the door then entered the house and shot the other spouse.

There’s no way the people who were shot could have reasonably prevented being killed

So, just like the 9/11 hijacking changes everything about how people respond to a hijacking event, this changes everything about answering your door. You see someone dressed as a cop at your door, you don’t answer the door. You call 911, then have then identify the name and badge number of the cop at your door and you don’t answer the door until 911 acknowledges its a real cop at the door.

From the very limited viewpoint of Trump’s self-interest, how is this an error? Nobody who is upset by this decision was ever going to vote for Trump anyway.

I was surprised by how Mickey 17 used a similar plot point.

I’m no Musk apologist, but this statement is nowhere close to being true.

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-elon-musk-falcon-9-economics

You’re not going to change your mind.

What you’ve described is often referred to as a rainbow table and is generally not considered to be GDPR compliant:

https://skymonitor.com/why-hash-dont-anonimize-an-ip-address-and-what-this-affects-gdpr/

Thinking about this a little bit, I realized that I practically never use my USB port for anything, and only rarely use it for charging. On Pixel, is there any app that will just disable the data features of the USB by default unless I explicitly turn it on?

I assume that a feature like that would eliminate vulnerability to tools like cellbrite.

https://www.ndtv.com/feature/man-fired-from-microsoft-after-22-years-becomes-goose-farmer-see-viral-linkedin-profile-5586211

I view the patent process as furthering the ability of others to benefit from the results: without patents, the only way to keep clones of your product from immediately appearing on the market is obfuscation and trade secrets. Patents grant a limited monopoly, but at the price of full disclosure. That full disclosure serves a useful social benefit as others can learn and innovate on what was done before. The limited monopoly encourages innovation because it helps people get exclusive rights to sell their work.

There’s a lot of bad patent behavior with patent trolls, etc. The duration of the patents should be relatively short and not extensible. But I think the disclosure aspect of the patent process does further overall innovation.

I’d like to get back to ‘for limited time’. Patents 10 years, no extensions. Copyright, 10 years, no extensions. Trademarks indefinite as long as the owner still has a meaningful business still operating and using the trademark ( this one is tricky to define well).

Oil being priced in dollars is a primary driver of why other countries need to buy dollars. I’m worried we’re about to find out what happens when OPEC decides to start allowing oil to be traded in euros or yuan.

Why can’t they deport you? Does the jail in El Salvador care what the nationality is of the people the US is paying to hold and torture?

Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who also has the initials ‘J. G.’

That is how it works in this case. Musk took loans backed by the value of his TSLA holding as collateral in order to fund his part of the twitter purchase. Value of TSLA drops enough, those loans get called.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/elon-musk-faces-margin-call-on-loan-used-to-purchase-twitter

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/25/23141940/elon-musk-tesla-twitter-margin-loan-buyout-deal

I don’t know if we have enough visibility into how much he’s currently margined to know when he’s at risk of getting called again, but it doesn’t seem realistic to think that he’s not currently margined.

Part of the answer is that mortality rates were far higher 150 years ago. A couple might have 5 children but only 2 survive to adulthood.

Yes, sooner rather than later is the Project 2025 plan. They need violence to break out soon in order to get martial law in place so that the '26 midterm elections are suspended.

It’s explicitly not a dealership.

This article explains what a dealership is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_dealership?wprov=sfla1

Specifically:

Today, direct sales by an automaker to consumers are limited by most states in the U.S. through franchise laws that require new cars to be sold only by licensed and bonded, independently owned dealerships.

Tesla does direct sales and does not use the dealership model.

Tesla only does direct sales, no dealerships. Otherwise, point taken. Carry on.

Deep blue Washington state has the advantage of giant amounts of hydroelectric generation combined with a relatively small population to consume it.