count_dongulus @ count_dongulus @lemmy.world

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My point is that regardless of whether investigators say "this ship tore cables intentionally" or "oops, they screwed up", penalties need to apply so that:

A) Insurance rates reflect these risks

B) Operators are incentivized to care about not damaging undersea cables

C) Intentional damage will be more obvious, because shipping companies won't want to risk getting dropped from their insurance for repeat expensive cable cut offenses. (This kind of insurance is mandatory for major shipping ports to allow those ships to dock.) Bad actors will have to use other means to destroy these cables that cannot be easily blamed on negligence.

Intentional or not is irrelevant. Damaging critical national infrastructure through negligence should still be considered a criminal act with mandatory prison time for the negligent captain and navigator(s), and a heavy fine assessed against the shipping company.

What kinds of repercussions do these cases have right now?

Maybe. But the biggest employers are national if not international. They're gonna withhold federal tax.

No, businesses directly pay the federal government. More insidiously, it's impossible to opt out if you're employed full time; you have to be self employed to get to decide when/if/how much tax you send the federal government.

Apparently before 1943, people paid taxes individually once a year. Then a law was passed requiring their employers to do it regularly instead without their consent.

Is it gonna "solve" a problem that hasn't already been solved two more days from now?

The idea is to have water or molten salt cool the walls of the torus from outside, and those drive ordinary turbines like any other generator. The main issue is that particles fly out of the confined plasma donut and degrade the walls, whose dust flys into the plasma and reduces the fusion efficiency. They're focusing on the hard part - dealing with the health of plasma sustainment and the durability of the confinement walls over time. Hot thing that stays hot can boil water or salt to drive regular turbines, that's not the main engineering challenge. I get your frustration where it feels from news coverage that they're not focusing on the right stuff, but what you'll likely eventually see is that the time between "we figured out how to durably confine a healthy plasma" will quickly turn into "we have a huge energy output" much like inventors puttered around with flight for hundreds of years until a sustained powered flight design, however crappy, finally worked. From that point, it was only 15 years until the first transatlantic flight.

Epic kinda tried that by giving away tons of free games in the Epic Games Store. It didn't work.

If I want Steam games cheaper, I go buy a Steam key for that game from a separate retailer and activate it on Steam. Save like 50-70% irrespective of Steam sales. It's remarkable that Steam allows us to even do that in the first place.

Never knew that, wow.

To be more accurate, smallpox killed somewhere between like 65-95% of the native american population after contact with Europeans. And, of course, many of their remaining descendants ended up concentrated into reservations.

So, I imagine if you were going to find native american cuisine restaurants, they'd be rare but typically in and around reservations.

Uhh...its not peace talks if one of the warring sides is not present. It's just the US talking to Russia about some deal to stop supporting Ukraine.

In this case, it is. The Republican candidate actually won the overall popular vote. Was this because of voter apathy? Probably. But we're talking about "what the people who cared enough to vote" wanted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election

Technically speaking, you're looking at what most voters thought they wanted. Seems like the people with the most means and influence are in favor of what's happening too.

Are most voters easily conned? Sure. The NSDAP won its early seats freely until the other parties were outlawed.

You can at least take solace in that with the deconstruction of federal institutions, your state government and state institutions wield comparatively more power. Don't live in a poor and/or conservative state I guess?

So you want to tax all companies a percent of their stock ownership every year? Good luck with that.

You're falling intro a trollhill. The point is the ultra-wealthy pay very smart people to work out loopholes. If some internet retard can run around your ideas and keep you busy, a team of full time financial experts will have a field day. This is not an easy problem to solve. Pretending like it is leads to support for crappy subpar legislation that doesn't work.

Lol have you not used o1/o3? They show the inner monologue too. Fun little pretend detail to keep you entertained while the model takes 30 seconds to respond.

Uh...yes it's about the same, maybe slightly dumber than o3. Which is already mediocre.

I see Tiktok in the news, never downloaded it. Does that make me special?

I don't get it. Why would DeepSeek supposedly get more downloads from the app store? It's not like it's any more interesting to consumers than other LLM apps. It was just notable for purportedly being cheaper to train. Something seems fishy.

My accounting team told me they would open more Panamanian shell companies for me, and the shares would get distributed across them. I'd retain full ownership, of course.

You're thinking like one of the poors. Us ultra wealthy don't get paid in dollars. We get paid in shares. And we don't sell the shares, we take out long term low interest bank loans with the shares as collateral any time we absolutely need to use cash.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/invest-borrow-against-die-scott-114400643.html

Yeah anything involving human behavior is ultimately...just based on how people feel and act. There's (currently) no Robocop programmed to enforce laws to the letter.