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  • Well that and the fact the people inside and outside have tremendous difficulty opening a door or window if power fails.

    In situations where emergency responders can't open a door, they try:

    1. To smash a window. Which is difficult if the window is designed to stop 9mm parabellum.
    2. Cut the door posts with the 'jaws of life'. Which is difficult if they can't smash the windows, and even more difficult to cut stainless steel bulletproof panels.

    Basically the Cybertruck is the only commercial vehicle designed not to be opened.

    I acknowledge there are manual ways to do this inside the car, but they are hidden and drivers (let alone occasional passengers) don't practice this, and so don't remember at times of stress.

    These are specific points in UK road safety regulations and those are just 2 of the reasons why the UK banned the CT.

  • Absolutely!

    Another example is HIV: Initial infection is just a minor flu, you're then infectious and active for 5-10 years before becoming seriously ill with AIDS (of course this is for untreated HIV). This allowed the illness to spread for decades adapting to humans before finally being identified in the 80s, killing millions.

  • I think this is the primary reason, but I'll add a couple of thoughts.

    1. His people. The core of his actions right now is 'project 2025' which was written by an extreme right wing think tank in Washington called 'The Heritage Foundation'. They've been around since Reagan and have been thought leaders in the GOP all this time. In other words, they know the system extremely well and they are well organised.
    2. His supporters. A large number of his supporters are poor, Christian folk, often from red states. They are poor because the structure of the American economy has been designed to extract money from the non-rich and channel it to big business and rich individuals. Think Walmart and Musk. For 40 years GOP have been telling the lie that billionaires as job creators, that taxes, regulations and unions are bad, that trickle-down economics works. This has led to staggering amounts of money taken from the middle and working classes and piled into bank accounts of the real elites (here meaning billionaires and biggest companies). Trump's supporters know the economy is rigged and they want to change it. Unfortunately they believe their church leaders (who have unabashedly instructed their flocks on politics and single issues like abortion) and the mainstream media (meaning Fox) who push these lies incessantly. The Democrats have not attacked (let alone resolved) these issues under Obama and Biden. But Trump claims he'll shake up Washington as an outsider and tackle these issues. His supporters somehow do not equate a nepo baby, ivy-league educated billionaire ex-president as one of the elite. They think of him as 'their man'.

    In short, the propaganda from Fox, the Internet, their churches and their neighbours has persuaded them to vote against their interests and elect a group of elite political insiders and businessmen who have taken 4 years to plan the hostile takeover of the government in order to channel even more money to themselves.

  • A 'nonce' is something used when encrypting data - it adds randomness into the data, so that identical messages will be encrypted differently. This stops hackers executing attacks where they can guess the first bit of the message, and work backwards to the encryption key (among different attacks).

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce

  • The counter:

    When the president does it, it's legal

    The supreme court went and said that anything vaguely related to presidential duties can't be questioned by the court.

    This is frighteningly close to President = King and tyranny.

  • Umm, it's your immune system that detects the vaccine and responds to it by developing antibodies specific to the vaccine (and by extension to the actual disease). Just as it would when challenged in real life by the pathogen.

    Vaccination basically gives your immune system a several day head start on producing antibodies.

  • Depending on the location, but

    1. Often rain comes along for the ride on a warm front as it moves over the property (although cold fronts also carry rain)
    2. In winter, the rainclouds act as insulation and so rainy days are warmer than blue-sky days
  • This is the right answer. I had the job of planning a schema update to fix this shitty design.

    Saying that, unicode and character formats are incredibly complex things that are not easily implemented. For example two strings in utf-8 can contain the same number of characters but be hugely different in size (up to 3-4x different!). It's well worth reading through some articles to get a feel of the important points.

  • Many years ago, my mother used the electric lawn mower without unspooling all the wire. When it finally shorted, all the plastic wire insulation was in the process of turning into a melty plastic soup. A Lesson Was Learned.

    The reason isn't resistance - it's that the coiled wire makes an electromagnet that stores energy in the magnetic field. The alternating current in the mains switches 50 or 60 times a second. In each cycle the magnetic field is created, destroyed then recreated in the opposite direction, then destroyed. This dumps a lot of energy (and therefore heat) into the coil.