The point I got from it was that Germans can go basically anywhere with low effort. The similar shades reinforce that, as concepts like “Visa not required” and “Visa on arrival” are pretty closely equal in burden.

These are confirmed and identified casualties using 3rd party evidence. From the source you linked,

However, these figures represent only a partial account and do not reflect the full extent of the casualties. […] This week, CIA Director William Burns penned a column in Foreign Affairs estimating the total losses of the Russian army—killed and wounded—at 315,000. At first glance, this figure might seem significantly different from our own count, but in reality, it’s not, and we regard Burns’ estimate as close to the truth.

The reality is that we will not know for a long time the true numbers, but this 43k is the absolute minimum number of dead Russian combatants.

150MB per 10min video, and that means it’s 390,000Mb (or 380.86TB) for their collection.

Your overall point is fair, but your math here is off by a factor of 1000 - it would be around 380 GB.

No I do not underestimate profit incentives. I just realize that these things are not always so nefarious and there’s plenty of money for people to make by bringing things to market.

Regardless - cost effective, portable desal devices will be dramatically more profitable than sitting on a patent for 20 years (if even enforced!). Most people buying imported bottled water due so because they are lazy not because they are without access to potable water.

Jeeze you guys are so cynical 😂It’s true that many innovations from academic research fail to be commercialized or scaled. But it’s also true that many many successful technological innovations come out of academic research and impact the lives of millions.

The biggest barrier here will most likely be whether it can scale, not patent litigation.

Niger is ditching ECOWAS for the security from other states that recently underwent coups. It’s hard to see how this is in the interest of the common person.

Just because France is against the coup doesn’t mean it’s good for Nigeriens.

They are most useful during local development. It’s useful to have project-scoped config that your app interacts with in a manner identical to how it works in prod.

Generally you don’t commit to version control because you want to keep secrets out of there. However, it can be sometimes useful to hold non-sensitive config that you may want to commit but also to customize on prod. For instance like NODE_ENV, so you’re not building multiple mechanisms for configuring your code. But this is less useful and generally solved with a sample config that is copied to the .env file that is never pushed to VC.

I share your concern over the risks posed by the loss of sea ice. However, per the Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, even if the entire glacier were to collapse it would amount to around a 65cm rise of sea level, and the majority of that would come in the 22nd and 23rd century.

https://thwaitesglacier.org/about/facts

I would suggest “custom spinach pesto”, where you serve a base of plain spinach pesto made from lightly cooked spinach, onion, garlic, salt, pepper, and lots of olive oil. Blended, then mixed with spiral pasta in a very large bowl.

Then, you provide your guests with a very large selection of mixins: halved cherry tomatoes, bacon, fried mushrooms, steamed broccoli, grilled zucchini, olives, capers, Parmesan, grilled chicken breast, rucola, chili flakes or oil, pine nuts, pumpkin seeds, anchovy paste, sun dried tomatoes, baked tofu, etc etc.

I’ve made this numerous times for a crowd that was a mix of allergies, vegans, picky eaters. The spinach pesto base can be either mixed into pasta initially or also placed on the side. The most picky of guests eat basically plain noodles and the others are experimenting with different combinations with each serving.

Serve with a very simple classic salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber) with a bright acidic dressing, which complements the pasta in both flavor and simplicity.

You may optionally offer whole pieces of grilled chicken or something on the side to make it feel like a more complete meal.

Another simple dish we made numerous times for this crowd was Levantine mujaddara, which is lentils, rice, and caramelized onions with warm spices. It’s a superb dish for a vegetarian crowd, but your picky eater might find lentils and cinnamon off putting. I serve this often with baked chicken on the side. To match the Levantine theme, just bake chicken thighs kind of plain and after pulling from oven coat in olive oil, lemon juice, salt, fresh garlic.