The question as always is, where should the line be drawn? And realistically, the parents are the ones with the most say over the decision, so it's never going to be a purely logical choice.
This starves society of resources to overcome far more pressing social needs like building hundreds of thousands of units of public housing.
Given current events, defense IS a social need. The US can no longer be trusted to defend the western world, given how willing they are to elect idiots who will sell out to the highest bidder. Anybody who shares a border with Russia needs to get their military in tip top condition.
It's not like there's a single standard way to spell it
So... you unilaterally decided to change the method of comms you and your friends had been using, then decided they were bad friends for not falling in line?
See the linked article elsewhere in this post, they had to wear safety goggles around it when it was in use.
This is one joke I didn't get, and still don't. Anybody care to explain?
Run the installer in Proton, then point the steam shortcut to the installed executable. No tools needed except steam
You're thinking of 'rm -fr /', easy mistake
MFW I hook up a Factorio spaghetti section to inputs and it works the first time.
You cannot scale it. It is dangerous. It is expensive to keep running / maintained.
Your source:
for the demonstration, I had to wear protective goggles since that type of laser is not safe for your eyes; And no one has yet worked out how to make the device cheap enough to be useful in the places it is most needed, places where most people’s mosquito-defense system consists of sleeping under nets every night.
You were saying?
But despite Myhrvold’s enthusiasm, the Photonic Fence hasn’t been all that easy to actually build. It’s taken years of development to figure out how to continuously track and identify a specific type of insect and then dispatch it safely and efficiently. For instance, for the demonstration, I had to wear protective goggles since that type of laser is not safe for your eyes; I was assured that when it’s market-ready, the laser they deploy will not potentially blind human passersby. And no one has yet worked out how to make the device cheap enough to be useful in the places it is most needed, places where most people’s mosquito-defense system consists of sleeping under nets every night.
You mean the patent on an item where they haven't figured out how to make it work yet without blinding its users? Yeah, it's definitely patent trolls and not user safety /s
The author outright stated that it was meant as a critique in the 2nd edition, so there's no need to guess :)