AwesomeLowlander

You appear to have confused crime with homicide. You called them DEADLY, not high crime. Their homicide rate per 100k pop is about 8, barely above the US. For comparison, Jamaica is rated as the world’s highest homicide rate at 53 per 100k, and all the top 10 are above 25 per 100k. Laos is barely above average.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/murder-rate-by-country

Maybe cure your own ignorance before projecting it onto others?

PS: Do you think you’re the only person on lemmy raised in the 3rd world?

Deadliest? What junk media have you been consuming?

This starves society of resources to overcome far more pressing social needs like building hundreds of thousands of units of public housing.

Given current events, defense IS a social need. The US can no longer be trusted to defend the western world, given how willing they are to elect idiots who will sell out to the highest bidder. Anybody who shares a border with Russia needs to get their military in tip top condition.

So… you unilaterally decided to change the method of comms you and your friends had been using, then decided they were bad friends for not falling in line?

See the linked article elsewhere in this post, they had to wear safety goggles around it when it was in use.

Run the installer in Proton, then point the steam shortcut to the installed executable. No tools needed except steam

MFW I hook up a Factorio spaghetti section to inputs and it works the first time.

@Maalus@lemmy.world:

You cannot scale it. It is dangerous. It is expensive to keep running / maintained.

Your source:

for the demonstration, I had to wear protective goggles since that type of laser is not safe for your eyes; And no one has yet worked out how to make the device cheap enough to be useful in the places it is most needed, places where most people’s mosquito-defense system consists of sleeping under nets every night.

You were saying?

But despite Myhrvold’s enthusiasm, the Photonic Fence hasn’t been all that easy to actually build. It’s taken years of development to figure out how to continuously track and identify a specific type of insect and then dispatch it safely and efficiently. For instance, for the demonstration, I had to wear protective goggles since that type of laser is not safe for your eyes; I was assured that when it’s market-ready, the laser they deploy will not potentially blind human passersby. And no one has yet worked out how to make the device cheap enough to be useful in the places it is most needed, places where most people’s mosquito-defense system consists of sleeping under nets every night.

You mean the patent on an item where they haven’t figured out how to make it work yet without blinding its users? Yeah, it’s definitely patent trolls and not user safety /s

Source?

Probably haven’t solved the issue of friendly fire, i.e. potentially blinding users.

They totally would, until they disagreed with a single one of his policies.

A hundred years supply, probably more, at the current market rate, is not enough of a reserve? Also, the cost of uranium is not the major cost of nuclear power. It’s barely even a drop in the bucket.

Oh gee, that’s your best argument right now? Usage of caps? Lmao

Oh this is hilarious how badly you’re misunderstanding your own source. This is akin to ‘peak oil’ 30 years ago. The reserves listed in the article are about how much known reserves are capable of supplying AT FIXED MARKET RATES OF $130 - $230 / KG. And even then, those known reserves are sufficient for another century of mining. Where did you dig up ‘15 years’ from? Reserves are sufficient to last us ‘only’ a century because there’s no commercial benefit to more prospecting with the existing supply being that large.

Some choice quotes from YOUR linked source:

Further exploration and higher prices will certainly, on the basis of present geological knowledge, yield further resources as present ones are used up.

An orebody is, by definition, an occurrence of mineralization from which the metal is economically recoverable. Orebodies, and thus measured resources – the amount known to be economically recoverable from orebodies – are therefore relative to both costs of extraction and market prices. For example, at present neither the oceans nor any granites are orebodies, but conceivably either could become so if prices were to rise sufficiently. At ten times the current price*, seawater, for example, might become a potential source of vast amounts of uranium. Thus, any predictions of the future availability of any mineral, including uranium, which are based on current cost and price data, as well as current geological knowledge, are likely to prove extremely conservative.

They even SPECIFICALLY addressed your concern!

Of course the resources of the earth are indeed finite, but three observations need to be made: first, the limits of the supply of resources are so far away that the truism has no practical meaning. Second, many of the resources concerned are either renewable or recyclable (energy minerals and zinc are the main exceptions, though the recycling potential of many materials is limited in practice by the energy and other costs involved). Third, available reserves of ‘non-renewable’ resources are constantly being renewed, mostly faster than they are used.

Did you just try to google and link the first result or something? HALF THE ARTICLE IS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT HOW WE HISTORICALLY KEEP TALKING ABOUT RESOURCES RUNNING DRY, AND WHY THAT ENTIRE IDEA IS NONSENSE.

They can mentally justify THEMSELVES being blocked in China, they’ll justify anything being blocked

No, the UK isn’t in the EU. Unless I’m misremembering your posts

1. No

2. Because #1 is no

we actually paid for something and got the full product

That’s generally not online platforms, though. For obvious reasons, those have ongoing operating costs

Industrial diamond is extremely common, you can find diamond saws at reasonable prices in any hardware store