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  • Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years

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  • No, it doesn't say why. And it also doesn't actually say Biden spent that money. It says Congress "allocated" $7.5 billion. There are plenty of processes between allocation and actual expenditure that could be holding this up.

  • Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose

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  • The attack vector described in the article uses the VPN client machine's host network, i.e. the local network the device is attached to. They don't discuss the DHCP server of the VPN provider.

  • Pentagon's reduction in military medical costs is criticized as going too far

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  • I hate this basic assumption that privatization will lead to cost reduction unless proven otherwise. Cost reduction is a question of optimization of process combined with requirements for quality. You can either make what you're doing more efficient or reduce the quality. The military can be extremely efficient when it wants to, so I'm not surprised at all that when outsourced to the private sector, costs didn't go down. There was probably just no room to optimize given the existing requirements, and then private companies had to make a profit, so quality had to go down.

  • Two Doctors, Six Others Quarantined Amid Bird Flu Outbreak in Ranchi

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  • The human fatality rate of COVID-19 is 1-3%, depending on how you count cases. From what I've seen reported, the human fatality rate of this strain of bird flu is closer to 50%.

    (Lots of "ifs" coming) If this starts to spread human-to-human, if it spreads as easily as COVID, and if we don't lock down and this becomes endemic like COVID, COVID will look like a walk in the park compared to what this will do. I'm crossing my fingers that COVID was in that mortality sweet spot where it was bad enough to cause a lot of deaths but not quite bad enough to make officials make people angry with actually taking care of the problem. 50% mortality should be comfortably on the side of "deal with it at all cost."

  • Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares

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  • Smith said that she’s also curious how this research would translate to non-domesticated cats like big, wild cats.

    I'd love to see this experiment performed with big cats at zoos. I think zoo-goers might get a kick out of it, too.

  • Russia to grow faster than all advanced economies says IMF

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  • If all countries under discussion ramped up to full war time economies, like Russia is already doing, the West would outproduce Russia by at least an order of magnitude, maybe even two. Any suggestion otherwise is either ignorant or a bad faith argument.

    But I think Putin knows this fact of economical imbalance, as he's doing a superb job undercutting Western support of Ukraine through subversion of the political process via corrupt politicians, keeping the US and others in a state of hand-wringing and infighting. If he truly believed any of his own propaganda, he would already actually be at war with NATO (instead of just claiming to be and not actually touching any NATO territory), and the West would coalesce around the clear immediate threat and begin the war time economic ramp up.

  • Russia to grow faster than all advanced economies says IMF

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  • I remember you saying that that was exactly the plan, so that they could bleed the western economies to death right there at the eastern border of Ukraine

    The economies? I could see the argument for Russia bleeding Western political support for Ukraine, but it's just fantasy (or propaganda) to suggest a single economy the size of Russia could bleed the combined economies of all Western countries to death.

  • there is no need

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