Meal deal prices are higher in certain places, like motorway service stations. If there's a captive market, they'll sneak the price up just like every other company. If there's competition they'll use lower pricing.
I am wondering how state replication works on the backend. The design mentions using crdt and a gossip proto, but I'm not sure what is actually implemented as it is a tad vague. I haven't dug into the code so forgive me if it is obvious or explained elsewhere.
> While the Eight Sleep CEO Matteo seems focused on providing DOGE with great sleep, the real doge (pictured above), whose name is Latte, is sleeping great tonight.
It’s better than that. He’s putting in backdoors where they sleep. I’m sure there’s a market for that data.
Most rural houses in Australia are built this way. They still burn down.
I don't think anyone really understands how intense wildfires can get when fanned by wind. It will destroy almost anything.
See: Black Saturday bushfires, Australia.
> "it really made no difference whether the houses were brick or timber. In fact, with the speed of the fire front some timber houses fared better than brick as it moved too fast for the houses to catch, but the bricks exploded from the sudden change in temperature."
> "When you have a fire front coming through at 800C it'll melt your window seals and aluminum window frames. The glass will fall out then everything is on fire.
In the LA fire most home fires were ignited by the trillions of red hot embers driven by the wind. If these embers can ignite a home then the house is lost. So the key is to make the house from materials that resist ignition from wind driven embers.
Really. Raw Uranium is still pretty rare, the US got it from Congo/Canada, the Russians from Czech/East Germany. You still need a thousand tons to get a bomb and if you got no reactor to produce it for you easier.
The enrichment to weapon-grade U235 is trivial, you just need enough good gas centrifuges or a reactor.
> Oppie, a scientist at the peak of his field, willingly handed over the most powerful weapon known to humanity to... a person with a less-than-stellar moral code: President Truman
As opposed to ...
- not handing it over? Prison, then they figure it out anyway.
- handing it to someone else during wartime? Prison or a firing squad, then they figure it out anyway.
When he walked into the President's office, he held enough power at that moment that he could have told Truman to get out of his (Oppie's) chair, and GTFO of his (Oppie's) office.
Obviously, in reality, it would have required much more planning and preparation, but that's essentially a statement of the balance of power at that moment in history.
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