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    Consequences of the US 2024 Presidential Election: Global Geopolitics Edition

    It’s not IP, it’s export regulations (ITAR and EAR). All thing designed in the US (and by US persons) are subject to US export law. For “interesting” stuff, e.g. things and technologies that would give peer-level capabilities to a foreign military (generally ITAR controlled), or militarily...
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    Consequences of the US 2024 Presidential Election: Global Geopolitics Edition

    Sure, but with the caveat that the provided systems shall not be subject to US export controls. The European militaries definitely do not want to have to say “mother, may I…” in the face of someone who is talking about taking over European territory.
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    🦄 Current Events Monday March 31, 2025 through Sunday April 6, 2025

    A centibillionaire has 10 million dollars. I believe the term you are looking for is hectobillionaire. Edit: speeling.
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    The Aerospace Industry Discussion Thread

    The 787’s out of Boeing are fully furnished off the production line. On the 737s, pretty much every bird gets delivered from Boeing to a maintenance shop where the old incandescent equipment is thrown out and replaced by LED.
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    Trans everything

    I think the best counterpoint, after of course the 1st Amendment, is to use The Bible. After all, Jesus had long hair and Sampson was less of a warrior after having his hair cut. Long, luxurious hair is manly.
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    The Aerospace Industry Discussion Thread

    To echo this, seating and the cabin interior is selected by the airlines. The airframer installs it, but is the customer’s choice. Worst seats I’ve experienced were on Air Tahiti Nui, and they were much worse than Air Canada on the same aircraft (787).
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    Lounge random thoughts/stories thread -- CURRENT

    She told the paladin that she kills Goblins only.
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    Self Driving Car thread

    At L3, the car is designed to fail over to you. The manufacturer knows that it can’t handle a significant number of edge cases. The driver monitoring is to ensure that you are ready to take over as the backup system. Driving fatigued means that you are going to incapable of taking over in a...
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    Self Driving Car thread

    raises eyebrow That is a) a disturbingly weak answer against b) a disturbingly weak metric. The better questions, which you are probably too biased to answer (this is not particularly a condemnation of you personally): 1. How many times in the last year have you gone into microsleep while...
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    The mild annoyances thread!

    A few years ago I needed access to to NASA’s materials database, MAPTIS. A year later, my account lapsed. Last week there was a mass email to everyone on the MAPTIS user list BCCed. I quickly determined it was going to get bad, and blocked the chain. Yeah, there are now 65 emails in my...
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    A thread about parenting

    R2 and my wife are combing my leg hair. Was this activity buried in the boilerplate of the parenting contract?
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    Ongoing hobbling of Agencies and general regulation nonsense

    Customs and Border Protection. Basically every shipment into the US has to have a description of the contents and an HTS code. The duty is paid either at time of shipment or on arrival to the US. If not paid promptly, the goods are held in a warehouse and fees levied.
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    Ongoing hobbling of Agencies and general regulation nonsense

    Which means no Child Tax Credit for the parents. Its another tax on being poor.
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    Domestic consequences of the 2024 US presidential election: the quickening

    I think it’s much worse than that. 1: It means that poor parents now have to jump through a lot of extra hoops to get an SSN to claim the Child Tax Credit. 2: It means that jus soli is harder to document.
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    What crazy videos have you found on Google Video (TM) or YouTube?

    Okay… Where’s the permit? Where’s the locate? And since he cut the sewer, where’s the bathroom?
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    I need to be able to ignore Ars Staff

    Based on the Bad Place, it appears many dwellers already have this enabled. Much to the consternation of the moderation corps.
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    Science in a Trump world

    That has impacts starting in May. A whole lot of lab folks are going to be unemployed because their next grant isn’t funded.
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    Domestic consequences of the 2024 US presidential election: the quickening

    Flouted. The word is flouted. Trump flaunts wealth. He flouts rules and laws.
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    The perpetual PCB design/build/help thread!

    Can you get a pic of the chip they are attached to? Sometimes you can get lucky and find a datasheet that can provide clues on what needs to be installed.
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    2024 NFL Thread

    Is it wrong that the first questions I have are: 1) Is there a Bears license plate? 2) Did she have "MAMA" in that license plate?