One nuke is a tragedy, but not an existential threat. You wait for the nuke to land, and then you figure out who did it, and after that, it’s truly an open question what the follow-up is. This is only briefly mentioned by Gabriel Basso’s character, the only sane guy on the conference call. Just dumb

Nuclear deterrence works because of mutually assured destruction. If the president Elba launched an all-out counter-attack, those other countries would detect those launches and respond in kind The end result is the destruction of all major US cities.

If the nuke hits or fizzles and no one knows who shot it, that’s a compelling story! It’s the same frustration as Ferrari, where a crisis far more interesting than what happened in the movie begins after the credits roll.

I can respect a big swing, but if the tension is whether the POTUS launches a massive counter-attack on three nuclear-armed countries without knowing who’s attacking, the tension is really whether he’s the dumbest guy alive.

The idea of raising taxes is more politically toxic than sitting in the ER waiting room until you lose hope and decide to just go home, apparently.

It’s interesting to me that the problems in healthcare are almost entirely solved by money (med school class sized excepted), and yet across all provincial governments there is an allergy to raising the money it would take to fix them.

We're a wealthy country. The fact that we allow people who need help to live on the street should shock our consciences, and yet here we are.

I'm not a policy expert, but the more the federal and provincial governments can do to strip local gov's ability to stonewall housing projects, the better.

Very well explained video on high speed data transmission through long cables. Includes some analogies and small experiments that replicate the challenges with impedance mismatches, etc. Not as flashy as some of the other videos on the list, but in terms of quality of explanation, great stuff!

His statement also doesn’t refute that the liberal budget aligns pretty well with classic fiscal conservative preferences, and some MPs find that more attractive than the reactionary wing that Poilievre appeals to.

Option 1: YVR to Istanbul takes you north of Baffin, almost over Ellesmere Island then over central Greenland.
Option 2: YVR to Dubai takes you straight over the north pole.

3. You get to experience the race twice: you’re hanging out on one section of track and the cellular network can’t handle the traffic of everyone looking at the live timing, so you really don’t know what’s happening in the moment. Then you can watch the broadcast afterward and have it all filled in.

The Megavalanche is a wheel-to-wheel mountain bike race that starts on a glacier and runs down 2,600 meters of vert. This is a 40-minute uncut race run from Kilian Bron where he started around 100th place and finished on the podium.

youtu.be/KmCdPQ2Xqhk?...

The queue behaviour for asynchronous objects is opaque, and there’s a graveyard of MATLAB Answers posts of questions where the only answer is asker describing a Byzantine workaround they used.