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That's pretty neat, but that's a lot of disassembly and assembly.

If you shut off the local Internet overnight, then half the world wouldn't be able to communicate with the other half.

Dr. Jan Itor?

I'm confused here. Are you implying that funding the New Horizons probe will achieve more Pluto science? Because it's long past Pluto and will never be able to study that object again.

It could study other Kupier belt objects, but never Pluto.

Ok, you're a troll, I get it. But for everyone else reading this - There's already PLENTY of incentive to plea out. Too much incentive.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2018/07/31/are-innocent-people-pleading-guilty-a-new-report-says-yes/

This is just one story, go ahead and do a search and you'll find PLENTY more - how many stories can you find just in your local paper for someone who's been in jail for 10 years before they're released with not much more than a "sorry about that, tough luck, buddy."

Cops already lie to defendants and say "we know you did it, we have 7 witnesses and DNA evidence. Just plea out and take a year of jail, or go to trial and get 20 years." The defendant has no cash for bail, has no way of getting a good lawyer, so they have a public defender. Now they ALSO have an extra "oh, and if you say you're not guilty at pre-trial, we'll add another 10 years for perjury. Good luck, sucker!"

Sure, you might think it's a good thing to lock up more people, but innocent people get locked up ALL THE TIME. Including innocent people coerced into confessing to crimes they didn't commit. You personally could very easily be one of those people someday, even if you never break the law (which itself is almost impossible.)

Finally - here's a very famous historical YouTube video explaining EXACTLY how you can get railroaded into prison without doing anything wrong - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

That's actually a very interesting question. The scientific method isn't foolproof, but it's the best we've got. Science is applying fundamental philosophy onto learning about reality.

There are plenty of alternative ways of learning about the universe, and I'm sure you employ many of them as you go about your daily life, because it works in the most basic of cases.

The scientific method is a very specific way of learning about the falsifiable universe, but if there's no way to disprove an assertion, then you can't "science" it.

Of course, this is assuming the question is asked in good faith, because most of the time people are talking about science vs ... they're either pushing religion, or some sort of pseudo-scientific religion lite.

Hell no. You absolutely shouldn't get to punish a citizen for putting up a defense.

Even someone who 100% committed the crime they are accused of should be able to zealously defend themselves, including pleading not guilty. The state already has too much power in prosecuting people.

Yes, Trump deserves the full force of law applied against him, but let's not give the state even more ammo against the average citizen.

There's a a few governors that would do well as president, but I'd like to keep them in their current position for a while so they can clean up their states before moving on to run for president. The president, while powerful, can't do much with a largely divided legislature.

Currently, these governors are doing so much good because in the last election, they were able to build a state government that largely wants to actually help the state and fix problems. If they didn't have the support of the other branches, they'd just be trying to "compromise" over and over and never actually achieving anything.

This is an extremely well written article.

Regardless of what you think about the prison system, if someone has bad enough dementia that they can't properly communicate, then prison is not the appropriate place for them.

Prison should not be used as torture, and someone that is terminally ill should have the option of being moved to a more appropriate place. I'm sure there are a few cases where it wouldn't be appropriate to release them, but those should be the exception, not the rule.

It should be extremely rare for someone to die in prison.

Just wish it had a US release...

I'd like to see a source on that claim.

Regardless, another option is to hook it up to a dummy wifi network that doesn't connect to anything and then hook up whatever to an input.

https://youtu.be/Mg0jS6F4M10

Found this other option for making your own playing cards on BGG, but again, any variation is going to be obvious, so I'd still put them into card sleeves to even out any differences.

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/631400/my-overkill-card-making-technique

The general consensus on BGG is to use linen cover stock, which is halfway between regular copy paper and card stock thickness. Then print front and back on two different papers and spray adhesive them together before cutting them out.

The problem with printing on cardstock and cutting them yourself, is the minor differences in the cards will cause the cards to be "marked" and people will be able to tell which card is which by feel.

I've found that it's better to print the cards then put them into card sleeves (like people use for magic the gathering, or pokemon, or other trading card games) because the minor imperfections will be hidden by the protective sleeves. You can even get ones with opaque backs to make it so printing changes won't impact the card shuffling (but it will make them a little less interesting). But you can find ones with designs on the back too if you want.

https://www.thegamer.com/best-tcg-card-sleeves/

Hell no. The WHOLE POINT of this endeavor is to get these skills and manufacturing back into the US. They'd be missing the whole point by replacing local workers with temporary visas.

If they want to hire and build the way they want, then they don't get the billions in federal funding.

If they want the federal funding, then they need to take the time to train up the local workers and build it in a way to get the entirety of the workforce and manufacturing local.

The fiction of no-skilled-workers available always means that skilled workers are unwilling to work for peanuts and/or poor working conditions. If they want to pay pennies, then you hire someone straight out of college and train them. If they want experienced people, then start offering enough $ to bring them in. They should strive for both, so they can build up an effective, and sustainable workforce. But corporate penny pinchers don't want that, they want cheap visa labor that they can abuse or threaten them to lose their job (which means deportation.)

That has been, and is still, common in the IT industry. They want to hire "skilled" workers for entry level jobs/pay. They complain that nobody applies for these jobs so clearly there's no skilled workers available. They end up begging for unskilled contract workers instead of inexperienced college graduates.

The lack of "skilled" workers is people unwilling to work for specific pay and/or work conditions. Same as it ever was.

Sure, but those are two different things. Offsite is good to protect against natural disasters (or attacks, or...), offline is good to protect against digital disasters (ransomware, admin mistakes, etc.)

Tape libraries are a way to store offline backups, but they don't have to be offline and aren't the only way to run a backup solution. They are a way to store data in bulk for cheap. They are also a way to help protect against technological changes (if all your backups are on 5 1/4" floppy discs and you can't find any 5 1/4" floppy drives, then your backups are no good).

Some people like to use a 3-2-1 solution (3 copies, 2 different technologies, 1 offsite), but that doesn't specifically mention anything about offline, which is critical for these types of situations, and the exact solution has many different correct answers.

It's not offsite backups that would have saved them, it's offline backups.

You can have all the data centers you want, but if they're all connected, then one ransomware attack can (and did) nuke them all.

If you have just one system that's unplugged with a copy of all the data, then your data will be fine. It's just time at that point, which could still be very very bad, but the data still exists.

Watched it again last night, it's such a classic Coen movie.

I just love how you can see exactly why everyone does what they do, even when it's the worst possible decision, there's just no other choice.