ilinamorato @ ilinamorato @lemmy.world

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That's kind of what I was thinking.

Mathematically speaking, almost no one is.

Or, more likely, just borrow the money. Then they get to keep everything they have. They have plenty of stuff as collateral to secure it with.

Back in the middle ages, the code of chivalry came to basically be a gentlemen's agreement between nobles which was generally adhered to even in times of war: "hey, there aren't very many of us, so kill all the peasants you want but try to just capture and ransom the nobles."

I wonder if there's a similar agreement among the 1% today.

At least you could use it to make pretty much everything else!

On smartphones you can tap and hold, and on physical keyboards there's usually an alt key combo you can put in.

It is used that way here, yes. I'm not familiar with any other meaning.

This is fascinating to learn.

When Windows 7 reached EOL in 2012, ChromeOS wasn't even a year old, MacOS was too expensive, SteamOS wasn't close on the horizon, tablets weren't really usable, smartphones were severely underpowered, and most applications didn't have web-based versions or replacements.

This time around, none of those things are true, and Windows 11 lost market share last month (which is frankly unprecedented).

Plus, even with that dearth of options, people griped and complained and refused for so long that Microsoft made a big marketing deal out of Windows 8.1. And even after that, they offered Windows 7 users free Windows 10 licenses to get them to upgrade.

Linux probably won't get the crown (though I'd say a bump as high as 1-2% isn't out of the question). It'll probably be ChromeOS, if anything, simply because of the commanding lead Google has held for the past decade or so in K12. But in any case, if Microsoft doesn't shift their strategy, they're unlikely to win this one; there are a lot of options.

That's not completely accurate. Remember, a lot of people want a full keyboard for typing; and an iPad with a keyboard is way more expensive than a mid-range Chromebook. Plus, a whole generation of students are growing up and entering the workforce having used nothing but ChromeOS for their entire middle school and high school careers; for them, a Chromebook feels very familiar.

Microsoft is VERY close to losing every install advantage they have. Gaming, corporate, devops, and government are the only use cases their leads are still in any way commanding in; and they're fiddling while Valve puts the finishing touches on Steam OS, they're about to lose their tenth consecutive K12 graduating class who will go into the workforce more familiar with ChromeOS than Windows, devops is increasingly moving toward web portals, and government...well, let's face it, that's not a particularly lucrative single game to win.

Google has already eaten Microsoft's lunch and dinner. And now they're about to split Windows' breakfast with Valve. Unless they make some major changes, and quick, Microsoft is going to go into the 2030s less relevant than they've been in decades.

Betcha he's gonna do it anyway.

Edit: Or this whole idiotic scheme will fall apart and then he'll stop talking about it. Have you heard him say the word "wall" even once in the past five years?

Most of this is going to be "eh, agree to disagree" because we just don't have enough data. But I do want to call out a couple of things:

No, both heat up. The air cushion transfers its heat to the object next to it.

Over time, yes. But the bore cap doesn't have very much of it. Heat transfer is not instantaneous; would it be long enough for the air to transfer its heat to the object, before the object reaches the Karman Line? Radiation is pretty quick (like, speed-of-light quick), but conduction is much slower; particularly when one of the bodies (the air) is an insulator. And with iron being an excellent conductor, any heat transferred will be spread throughout the body more quickly than it can be absorbed.

If it disintegrated in the lower atmosphere it wouldn't matter that the air got thinner in the upper atmosphere.

True, but it's not like there's a line (er, well, I mean, not a physical demarcation...there is the Karman Line, but...ah, you know what I mean). Atmospheric density is a decreasing gradient from the ground to the Karman Line. So as it approaches its mechanical and physical limits, the amount of energy acting upon it decreases millisecond by millisecond. Is that enough to save it? Shrug. Not enough data. But it's possible.

Is a metre the original size, or the final size? [of the meteorite chunk]

Actually it's almost three meters, and as far as we can guess that was about its original size. Though in fairness, it was entering the atmosphere at a steeper angle and may even have come down entirely in "dark flight." Still, there are other large meteorites which have impacted at a size greater than 1 meter across, though obviously we have no way to confirm exactly how big they were before they landed.

Rather than getting slowed down initially by the thin upper atmosphere and then only hitting the thick atmosphere once they're slower, they start out in the thickest atmosphere. [...] Something in a thicker medium is going to experience more stress. Try pushing a cracker through the air vs. through water vs. through gelatin. Which medium will cause the cracker to crack first? Obviously it's the thicker medium.

True! But remember, the "reverse meteor" (great phrase, btw) is not hitting the stationary atmosphere at full speed like a regular meteor (or space capsule) does. The iron plug accelerated (incredibly quickly, but it did accelerate) while already in contact with the air above it. This means that the air accelerated at the same rate the iron did, reducing the fracture forces that would seek to crack it. Imagine the difference between swishing your hand in a swimming pool vs. slapping the surface of a swimming pool; it may require more force, but it won't hurt as badly.

OTOH, a meteor is a random collection of rock and metal formed by gravity in space. A pure metal plug cast on Earth is probably going to be a lot less prone to breaking apart.

Oh, great point, and one I hadn't thought about. Something that's an aggregate of 80% iron and 20% "other stuff" isn't going to have nearly as much tensile strength as a homogeneous plate of iron.

Ha...ha?

Which is why I said "supposed to," not "in actuality."

Let the idiots have their racist homophobic dictatorship if that's what they want.

I'm sure it would never cause any lasting problems, sharing a substantial land border with an actively malicious enemy nation. /s

Besides, allowing them to leave because they wanted to continue actions antithetical to our values would be tacitly condoning them. "You can keep on trafficking humans, we just don't want any part of it" is a pretty cold-blooded response.

No, letting them go was never a valid option. We just needed to actually finish reconstruction. You can thank John Wilkes Booth for eliminating that.

The people didn’t hold President Yoon accountable. Parliament did.

How do you think representative government is supposed to work?

Frankly, the American Civil War isn't really even completely settled yet.

So first, you need to know that the definition of "genocide" is larger than you probably think.

The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". The acts in question include killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group.

Emphasis mine.

Second, hastily-built private prisons constructed for the purpose of keeping a group that has committed no crime in one place long enough to "dispose of" them? They also have a technical term: a concentration camp. If they're also performing work, they're a labor camp.

So what Trump wants to do with Latiné folks is a form of genocide.

Third, there are multiple levels of supporting a genocide, from being a member of the society that created the out-group, all the way up through pulling people from that out-group from their homes. Somewhere in the middle of that list is "voluntarily providing aid to those committing the genocide."

Fourth, each level of support bears a different culpability, and each individual within the levels bears a different culpability based on their knowledge and understanding of what's happening, their intentional decision to participate or not, and the amount of protest they raise at the treatment of the out-group.

So, knowing all of this, where would you put such a decision?

I don't know about that. I regularly forget what year it is.

Then again, I'm pushing 40.

Yep. I work in the edtech industry, actually, and ChromeOS has something like an 80% market share. It's an incredibly dominant platform in K12.