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Japan may be considered a "virtual" nuclear weapons state because it already has delivery systems, separated plutonium, and the industrial/technical capabilities to quickly weaponize that plutonium should it need to.

Japan's plutonium is reprocessed from commercial reactors and is not "weapons grade." This is a bit of a misnomer, however: weapons grade plutonium is really good for making weapons because it has a low concentration of the isotope plutonium 240. Pu-240 undergoes spontaneous fission frequently enough that it makes a pre-detonation "fizzle" (bomb blows itself too quickly to achieve useful yield) likely in a simple bomb design like that used during World War II. "Supergrade" plutonium, especially pure Pu-239, is also desirable for submarine-launched weapons because it reduces crew exposure to radiation from the stored warheads.

It is however technically feasible to make effective weapons from "reactor grade" plutonium containing more Pu-240 if the weapons designer invests in more sophisticated features like deuterium-tritium boosting of the fission device.

To quote Carey Sublette's excellent Nuclear Weapons FAQ,

"The fusion reaction rate typically becomes significant at 20-30 million degrees K. This temperature is reached at very low efficiencies, when less than 1% of the fissile material has fissioned (corresponding to a yield in the range of hundreds of tons). Since implosion weapons can be designed that will achieve yields in this range even if neutrons are present a the moment of criticality, fusion boosting allows the manufacture of efficient weapons that are immune to predetonation. Elimination of this hazard is a very important advantage in using boosting. It appears that every weapon now in the U.S. arsenal is a boosted design."

(My emphasis.)

https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq4-3.html

Japan could produce its own tritium by irradiation of natural lithium targets in commercial power reactors. It takes maybe 3 grams of tritium to make an efficient boosted weapon. Japan has enough plutonium for perhaps a thousand boosted-fission weapons in the 100 kiloton yield range, comparable in yield (if not efficiency) to France's latest submarine-launched warheads. I don't think it can produce tritium fast enough to supply a large number of weapons, given tritium's short half life and Japan's small number of operating reactors, but many reactors idled post-Fukushima are still in working condition and could be started up again in an emergency. Further, an opponent that does not consider dozens of nuclear weapons a rational deterrent is unlikely to be deterred by hundreds either, so Japan may not need many weapons to demonstrate a credible deterrent.
He's probably done videos on many of them already.
This is taken significantly out of context. From what I recall (and I could be wrong, it was a while ago), in the book he explains that those startups that "follow" others by imitating the first movers have a harder time becoming successful (those are the "losers"). This is because the first mover tends grab the most market share. When he says that monopoly is the goal, he argues that the best startups create something really hard to replicate, obtain a lot of market share, and then become hard to compete with.It can be interpreted in many ways, but I didnt get from the book that he was in favor of monopolies.
> If it's just as good for cheaper, then why have you been 4 times?

Because the lunch and dinner services are different. Because we later vacationed in Japan with a couple that we are friends with and they wanted to go and were more comfortable going with us (both of these places are an intense experience, to put it mildly, though one is a more comfortable atmosphere than the other). Because of that intense experience and the atmosphere that it provides.

Because it's more difficult still to comfortably navigate those smaller towns and regions, outside of Tokyo or Osaka or Kyoto, etc..., without any sort of handle on the language. That alone implies a few things. You or someone you're traveling with knows the language well enough to navigate those smaller towns and regions and that it's very likely not your first or even second trip to the country.

We didn't come to understand that sushi in a place like Shimoda could be better than what you'd find at a Michelin rated sushi restaurant until we were able to find ourselves in Shimoda having that sushi and we weren't comfortable even going to a place like Shimoda until our third trip to Japan.

edit/ Because my wife and I are just as vulnerable as everyone else that is being talked about here for falling prey to "top 10 lists" and the like.
What kind of apps does Elementary OS support?

Can I install .deb packages or other Linux-compatible ones?

Otherwise it's going to be hard to adopt an OS if there are not enough of the apps I use, no?
amp-free link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/14/spinning...
It does feel like an inferior macOS, but macOS and increasingly proprietary hardware feel like an inferior alternative to open source and open computing too.
I prefer using GPC than AWS, by far.

But I will have to admit that AWS seems a lot more committed to their cloud products than Google. New GCP products and features take forever to be introduced or phased out of beta.

For example, cloud functions entered beta some 2 years ago and went out of beta a year later. Even today it's only possible to use Node and Python. Only recently the Node runtime was upgraded from old Node 6 to Node 8.

https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/writing/

During that same time, a small company like Zeit has created a number of complete cloud products for developers. Not only that, but Zeit Now v2 is better in many aspects than Google Cloud Functions.

Why isn't google invested in GraphQL? They could have come up with something like Prisma with all their talent and resources.
I'm pretty sure that's the only reason that the Lonewolf exists. I've never heard of a time where you can get into Au Chavel without a wait for the time that I've lived here. (About 5+ish years)
That's actually really interesting about TicketMaster. I can't find any info about it online; but if that's actually what's happening, it's genius—I never thought about that possibility.
This looks awesome! Any way I can get an invite code?
elementary is not for me because it limits configuration a little bit too much to my taste, but it's a wonderful project.

One of the cons of Linux--which is the OS I use exclusively--is that most apps are made by programmers, and programmers often don't care and don't have design skills. elementary OS looks absolutely stunning, and it's perfect if you stick to curated apps and you just want something that works.

Most importantly, they were able to finally find a way for devs to get paid, so that they can continue working and debugging their apps. On this aspect, I really don't understand the critics: people need money in life. If a project brings a little bit of money, you can keep working on it. End-users win because there are updates, less bugs, and new versions instead of abandoned projects.

In addition, as for their 70/30 fee they redistribute the money (I don't know in what percentage) on BountySource, so that the project gets developed further.

Honestly, other distros have a lot to learn from elementary.
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Great article, unfortunate choice of title and opening image.

A lot of people are going to skip reading it, and assume this is an article blaming the pilots for this accident, rather than pointing out that neither the airline nor pilots were informed about Boeing's new systems and so couldn't have been trained to counteract it.

Boeing's new system wasn't even in the updated manual. And therefore it wasn't in their QRH, which is likely what they were using while attempting to resolve the issue.

> With only fragmentary data available, Mr. Hansman said he suspects that a runaway of the M.C.A.S. system played a central role in the crash. “The system basically overrode the pilot in that situation,” Mr. Hansman said.

Every thread so far about this topic however have managed to find a way to blame Lion Air, or simply point out how much they suck while glossing over the actual facts.
You didn't even need to fax, you could call. That was literally the only way I would go after my first trip when I stood in that miserable line. Originally you could call in a takeout order anytime. Then he limited it to weekdays. Then he cut Friday's. Sometime in the last year of operation he stopped phone-in orders altogether. There was nothing better than saying, "Excuse me" 20 times as I bypassed the line to pickup an order, as the people standing in line had emotions ranging from bewilderment to rage. Then I would walk out with a bag of food and a smile on my face and everyone was in shock. In summer I would just plop down on that picnic table next door. Good times.
> What a complete and utter lie.

Don't accuse others of lying when even a modicum of good faith points to them simply holding opinions different from yours.

In this case, they are also right. At least under the assumption of taxation linear to property value.

Thats because richer people tend to spend less (as a %) of their income on housing. I hope that's intuitively obvious: making minimum wage, you're likely to spend 40% or 50% of income on rent. At the other extreme, the Bill Gates of the world spend about a Pentium III rounding error of their income.

It's the same with every other consumption taxes. Often, the first $100,000 in value or so are free. That helps a little, but only for the balance between the poor and the middle class. It's almost impossible to adequately tax the super-rich within this framework.
Inferior macOS is how most of my experiences with Linux distros have felt. Maybe the desktop environments just aren’t my thing, the inconsistent UIs feel sloppy, and I always ending up needing to drop down to a command line to fix something or other is was annoying.

Elementary doesn’t fix needing to drop to a command line, and the UIs are only unusually consistent and well thought when you stick with the built in software. But the overall experience of it feels like someone actually thought about it more than the alternatives I’ve tried.
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...at the school where I teach.

You are partially responsible for this. Why is it the first response to blame everyone else but it is never the fault of those who are on the front lines (teachers, parents, people in the community)? I am stick and tired of the parents who can't F' talk to their kids ("the government needs to do more!"), school administrators who are not doing their job (last time I checked, having any tobacco / nicotine products on school grounds is quite illegal for both students and faculty : with fines and possible jail time) and the fact that there are much more dire issues in many communities that need to be addressed (maybe the opioid and Heroin epidemic?). The fact that there are much more harmful things that teens can get a hold of should be a priority over this FUD.

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The media has also failed it’s obligations. Most news articles are practically advertisements for e-cigarettes, promoting them as smoking cessation tools and practically harmless compared to other tobacco products. They are not FDA approved and the evidence for their efficacy and safety is sketchy at best.

The media has no obligation to you or me to do anything. E-cigarettes have helped quite a few people I know stop smoking (to the point that they don't even vape anymore). Running factually inaccurate ads like this [1] NSFW is much more harmful than any AD sponsored by big tobacco / e-cigarette companies. Lying to teens is not going to have the desired effect that you are looking for and it's going to make them want to do the opposite. As for the health effects, it is going to be just like anything else that can have undesired / dangerous substances if it comes from a questionable source. I'm sure that e-cigarettes are much better than inhaling traditional combustible cigarettes (I'm not denying that there could be health issues if use continued over X time).

[1] NSFW FDA AD / The Real Cost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYuyS1Oq8gY

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Learning Vala is still far better than GObject-C. Rust GTK bindings are probably not yet there. So what's left? Python and JavaScript. If you care about native performance the way I believe they are these will also not cut it.

Vala seems then a logical choice, especially at the time they were deciding. The question I have is: will Vala be supported further by Gnome in foreseeable future? I heard some time ago that it's not so sure. I would be pleased to hear otherwise.
If you're going to Au Cheval during the middle of the day, Lonewolf isn't an option. If you're going at peak hours, Lonewolf is likely to be as packeed as anywhere else. I like Lonewolf as much as anyone else does, but if I'm going to make a multi-hour project out of going to a restaurant, it's not going to be Au Cheval.
Thanks I was staring at the code examples trying to figure out which language it was. Some of the examples looked like C# but then some I could have swore were C++. Took me a minute.
Even so, it’s going to scare off a lot of potential contributors long before they investigate the language deeply simply by having a name they don’t recognize. It effectively limits the contributor pool to those who’ve previously written GTK apps, which is relatively tiny compared to the number of devs coming from more mainstream backgrounds.
But which day? Such a second would probably work for everyday purposes (just like to most of us a second is 1/86400 of a day) but it would be woefully inadequate as a universal fundamental unit of time. And defining the second in terms of something like "the length of the solar day at Greenwich meridian on Jan 1 2020" prevents anyone from ever reproducing the exact value based on their own measurements, which is one of the big reasons for defining fundamental units in term of physical constants.
Are you talking about Pointer Events versus Touch Events?

Edge supports both (and has for some time). IE supports only Pointer Events. (There is a polyfill for Touch Events on IE: https://github.com/WebReflection/ie-touch)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Touch_event...

https://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_eve...

Both are W3C recommended standards. Pointer Events has more capabilities, and an easier abstraction for multi-modal input (ie, mouse and touch, or touch and pen). So I often see Pointer Events recommended over Touch Events if you can use Pointer Events. (React recently moved to recommending Pointer Events, as one example.)

The big reason not to use Pointer Events is that Safari/WebKit has lagged far behind on Pointer Event adoption (it is finally in experimental preview in Safari, years after Firefox and Chrome/Blink, and seems to be part of the increasing Blink/WebKit split). There is a Pointer Event Polyfill for Safari (and other older browsers that support Touch Events but not Pointer Events): https://github.com/jquery/PEP
> If the question were, for example, what is the mass of the water contained in a 1m x 1m x 1m box, then the answer is obvious which system is by far the most sane one.

You're not disagreeing, the GP said

> If you're doing science, metric makes more sense because units work out. But most all US science has already adopted metric.

Your question asks for mass of a cubic meter of water, presupposing a typically scientific quantity (mass, instead of weight) and presupposing that a cubic meter (why not a cubic foot?) of water is a useful collection of water for some purpose. Fine, use metric. But imperial units as a system are made for practical everyday utility, which your example doesn't presuppose. On the other hand if we imperial users run across a situation where metric seems more useful, fortunately we can precisely convert, so it doesn't really matter.

In other places of utility (such as engineering disciplines) adopting a unit agnostic approach is the best. Some fields don't use either imperial or metric units but their own domain specific things, and software can always present units in whatever preference someone has or whatever is the most useful for the moment.
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Also worth checking: Skritter.com
Do you use a high DPI display? How is that? I'm reticent to give up my 5k screen and crisp text when programming but I'd love to use Linux as my daily driver (as much as I like macOS).
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Ideally the weight of a kilogram defined by the new definition should be identical to the weight of the old physical "the kilogram" object. The goal of this isn't to change how much a kilogram weighs, it's just to change how it's defined.

For a comparison, it used to be that we measured the speed of light as being 299,792,458 meters/second. Since then, we have defined the meter to be 1/299,792,458 of the distance that light travels in one second. An object that was 1 meter long before is still 1 meter long, but the way we communicate how long a meter is has gone from "it's how long this particular stick in France is" to a precise definition based on fundamental properties of the universe.
Google’s Cloud weakspot is Sales and Support - the handholding to get clients over the finish line. The new hire should be able to layer this on to Google’s existing technical strength.
I absolutely love Fedora, and I think they've even managed to make great progress on sane SELinux defaults (I haven't seen an audit2allow prompt in Fedora 29!) but I think "Workstation" is a great term. It's a wonderful experience for developers and I think it can eventually supplant the Mac as the ideal dev workstation.

But for friends/family I'll always recommend ChromeOS. A little less so these days because of the weird Android integration, but the laptops are incredibly cheap and the system is almost impossible to break. I don't need to spend Thanksgiving fixing my Mom's Chromebook, I know its already patched.
YMMV widely. It's not at all uncommon to have large software and infrastructure deals signed by CTOs and Business Analyst type people based on advertised product features and compliance certifications, without ever speaking to architects, engineers and implementors about technology fit, compatibility, etc.
Thanks. And watch that right flank!
I think part of it has to do with how gofundme started... early on, they made it look and feel like people were essentially donating to a charity. They hid their fees deep in the FAQ and allowed the general population to assume that donations on gofundme were the equivalent of donating to something like the Make A Wish Foundation. It was a toxic company from the very start.
He would, in all likelihood, lose his regulars that had come in for years. For people who just want to make a living, and enjoy life doing it, that might be like losing all your friends.
If a company grows organically to have a large market share due to superior product, service, or even luck, don't break them up. But I would say having a dozen serious competitors in a market really prevents a lot of problems. Don't let companies buy each other when it would put the combined company over 10% of the market. Of course this rule can be immediately gamed in many ways but might be able to be done in some decently reasonable way.
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Slightly off topic, I was always thinking about are there any single point of failure in monetary system. Since bank reserve are accounts in central bank, which stores in some ancient servers. If terrorist or hacker found out a way to destroy those servers. Will the money in economy vaporize? Are there any paper record we could fall back?
Unfortunately that's a problem with they way Linux is structured, or rather it's lack of structure. There's no consistent base system that can be relied upon like you have with other platforms. The community seems unwilling to deal with this issue, some outright deny that it is an issue.

One thing that would be interesting would be to use flatpak "runtimes" to provide a target base system for AppImages, but I don't think that level of cooperation is actually possible within the Linux community.
"Sanctioned" is a weird word, meaning both "approved" and "punished". I always have to look extra hard at it...
NY taxpayers are collectively paying for something of benefit to them with their tax dollars. It's something which can only be paid for by aggregating many people's money together, and creates a spillover benefit for the people paying for it.

That's literally what taxes are for.
Diane Greene is not being fired. She's been enormously positive for Google Cloud.
> If you're a male child interested in science and in high school right now you've been through 8 years telling you that you should not go into science because they need more women of colour who follow the right religions and have the right sexual orientation. You're constantly bombarded with "SCIENCE DOES NOT WANT MEN".

Do you have any examples of teens / young adults being discouraged from going into science because they are white and male? There are certainly some (I'd say good!) programs to encourage women and minorities, but that's quite a different thing from men being actively discouraged.

Scientific fields are still significantly more male than female, even among recent graduates.
> In a world where users desire a "long tail" of brands, corporations continue to consolidate but simply invest in a wider variety of brand names and marketing for them. There's still synergy to be gained from a consolidated entity operating all of those brands. And so we're right back where we started.

Exactly. An example: Whirlpool owns many major appliance brands (e.g. Maytag and Amana). They can afford to make ever crappier products, because they know when a customer is unsatisfied, they'll more than likely buy another Whirlpool under a different brand name.

https://recraigslist.com/2015/10/they-used-to-last-50-years/
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Replacing/overriding humans by shoddy AI will become bigger and bigger problem. From the Gmail auto-suggestions to the labyrinth of voice recognition options when you call your credit card or an airline this is all a part of an unfortunate trend.
See, the US wasn't being stubborn in not adopting metric, it was just waiting patiently for it to progress from beta to 1.0. :)

(Fun fact: all the US customary units have been officially defined in terms of their metric counterparts since 1893: https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/pml/wmd/m...)
Occasionally, I still run into a piece of software which makes me yearn for the days when I built my own /usr/local from source. But as the repos have got better, this is getting to be a rare event. I still don't like the feeling of being boxed into the package management system. And the extra level of complication trying to manage issues from building software from source which reference package managed libraries and other dependencies.
Totally unintentional, came from copying a link from a website. I just removed the referral.
Indeed. And I'll fix it as soon as that happens ;) But I can't really fix something I can't reproduce. At least, I draw the line there if it requires massive changes. For example, how am I to know that my fixes won't introduce further undetectable problems? That last thing you want as a maintainer is to rely on one single user who reported a problem to help you out with testing and maintaining the fix forever..
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