krayj

joined 1 year ago
[–] krayj@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Please cite your evidence for review.

[–] krayj@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I am comparing linear distance to surface area, but if we call that 66 mile distance a diameter, were talking about roughly 3500 sq miles...which is a rounding error compared to the vastness of the south china sea.

The south china sea is longer than it is wide, but even at its narrowest width between Phillipines and Vietnam, it's over 550 miles across. That's just incomparable to the distance between Florida and Cuba. Anything between Florida and Cuba is figuratively parked right in USA's backyard.

I legit tried to find the exact location of this latest aerial encounter between China fighter pilot and allied forces aircraft (because you're right, that's relevant) but couldn't find it...the info must either be classified or intentionally censored.

[–] krayj@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's only 66 nautical miles of international water between FL and Cuba.

The South China Sea is 1.3 million square nautical miles.

You are a few orders of magnitude off for a rational comparison.

[–] krayj@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think they suck at forecasting...I think they are probably exceptional at forecasting but willfully lie about project costs when submitting bids for projects in order to come under the competition and win the contract. There doesn't seem to be any penalties for this, so why would they stop?

[–] krayj@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Trump is likely trying to persuade Michigan voters

Why would this persuade Michigan voters? Are Detroit auto-makers forbidden from manufacturing electric vehicles?

[–] krayj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This piqued my curiosity but I couldn't find any video. I'm now wondering if this is even possible and how weird it might look/taste.

[–] krayj@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Have you contacted the operator of the bot?

The L4sBot user bio lists how to get in contact with the handler @L3s@lemmy.world .

[–] krayj@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

True. And yet Cloudflare has to maintain its own army of lawyers to defend the constant barrage of lawsuits against Cloudflare claiming that they are facilitating copyright infringement. The average salary for 'Associate Legal Counsel" at companies like Cloudflare is about US $303,400. (source is Cloudflare themselves: https://www.salary.com/research/salary/employer/cloudflare-inc/associate-legal-counsel-salary )...and that's just one of many. They are literally paying MILLIONS of US Dollars a year to defend against that. You think the admins for Lemmy.World have that kind of pocket change?

Also, "caches" are temporary in nature and are different from permanent local copies (which is the model employed by lemmy). There is a technical difference, and even with that technical difference, Cloudflare still gets sued all the time for it.

[–] krayj@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It depends on the jurisdiction. In the United States, we have the DMCA which has been weaponized by content creators and publishers, but we also have a "safe harbors" provision to the DMCA that is supposed to protect online service providers from being liable for copyright infringement based on the actions of their users - as long as they meet certain provisions and restrictions and perform certain duties and dilligence. And yet even with that in place, it does not stop content providers from suing service providers and forcing those service providers to incur the pain and expense of mounting a legal defense.

I am pretty sure that Lemmy.world admin team are European and that the instance is hosted somewhere in Europe, so they would have their own jurisdictional laws to follow.

TL/DR: even if a service provider is technically protected from the actions of their users it is still subject to provisions and conditions, and that still doesn't stop them from being sued and having to mount a defense. Some people just don't feel the hassle of all that justifies the whatever benefits they'd gain from fighting that fight.

Certainly you've heard of 'The Pirate Bay', who's 'users' famously used their platform to share copyrighted materials...the founders of The Pirate Bay were arrested, tried, and convicted, and were forced to serve jail time. Turns out the "but it was our user's doing it" defense wasn't as reliable as everyone here seems to be suggesting.

[–] krayj@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how federation works and either don't know or don't realize that content is replicated across instances that are federated with each other by virtue of users subscribing to it.

If you are a lemmy.world user subscribed to a piracy community on another instance, then that content is replicated and hosted locally on lemmy.world also. You've never noticed how you can access content that originated on a foreign federated instance and still be able to access that content when the federated instance is down? That content physically resided on the lemmy.world instance until it was blocked.

[–] krayj@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A mix of "willfully ignorant", "narcissism", and "intolerance".

 

We know that light and even gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light.

So if something catastrophic happened to the black hole at the center of our galaxy (about 26,000 lightyears away), would there be any way for us to have advance knowledge of it before we could observe it with telescopes or before we could measure the gravitational changes?

Ludicrous example: say the black hole at the center of the galaxy disappeared 25,999 years ago. Is there a way we would have known about it by now, or do we just have to wait out another year to see if we're all screwed?

 

Some vehicles just need their own special place, and the Honda Element is one of those vehicles.

Honda Element - On Lemmy.World

!hondaelement@lemmy.world

 

Im guilty of accasionally expanding an NSFW photo to satisfy curiosity, but once it's open I can't figure out how to collapse it again without scroling past it a bit. Is this the only way or am I missing an easier gesture to re-collapse it?

 

I've been making sourdough bread for the past 2 years and got very good at it. About 9 months ago, I started working out a sourdough pizza dough recipe and began learning how to make my own homemade pizzas.

After much trial and error, and a lot of experimentation, my pizzas started getting much better. Here's my latest.

Details: 100% sourdough pizza dough - 70% hydration. Custom cheese blend: 60% mozzarella, 15% cheddar, 15% sharp provolone, 10% parmesan. Sauce base: made from scratch using canned whole san marzano tomatoes & some seasonings/spices. Toppings: mushroom, green bell pepper, red onion, and hard salami.

The most awesome part is that we no longer order pizza delivery - my pizzas are coming out better than anything we used to get delivered (and it saves a ton of money)!

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