I misread the comment a bit, I thought they meant tax like a person. I wouldn’t put it past the owners to have their agents apply for small business grants or some other exemption.

The owners can just divide the income among enough agents that they fall into the lowest tax bracket. The real solution is to properly tax excessive profits and unrealized gains.

So should everyone bring their own rope/tent/boat/… to any activity where they are usually shared?
How about activities where noone can safely leave on their own?

The longest lasting meat is in the unslaughtered pig.

Obviously, it keeps them fresh for longer.

That’s just resistor-diode logic with a 555 instead of a transistor. That means the timer only does buffering/inverting but not the actual computation.

It would prevent Iran from mining the straight for weeks, maybe months, because the gulf would be on fire for a while.

Yes, but if you take the train or a private car you won’t be searched. To get it across international borders try smuggling among other cargo or by submarine, maybe even diplomatic courier.

The paper you linked says “1 microgram is sufficient to trigger one thermonuclear weapon” which corresponds to 6×10^17.
This makes your “few thousand” of by 14 orders of magnitude instead of 15, I bet you feel vindicated now.

For example, a device the size of a hand grenade with tons of TNT equivalent output

A man portable nuke has existed since the 60’s so it wouldn’t be a game changer.

I don’t know, but they must be strong.
He considered himself upper middle class while owning a private jet.

[…] then once plants get started it will work towards making even more compost/soil.

Compost is biomaterial so it manly consists of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen. The only part of that you can find on the moon is oxygen, so you can’t expand beyond the amount of air and biomass (manly food) you ship from earth.

Iran did claim to shoot down an F-35 last year which was an obvious lie, […]

So Iran is behind the F-35 ejecting it’s pilot in a thunderstorm and flying away?
I thought it was just trying to get out of South Carolina.

Write down deadlines!

You have done something, that it’s worth breaking backwards compatibility over.

Earlier this week I found a vibe coded web calculator, that allowed code injection. I thought this would be interesting, finding out which functions would be callable and how to exfiltrate data in a plot.
Then I realized the input was evaled and the you could get back text by throwing an exception. Where is the fun in that?
The biggest challenges where that everything got converted to lowercase and the json encoding was a bit broken so I had to do some f-string manipulation.

Someone smuggling drugs. Given we have a medical image something has probably gone wrong.

The first half of my comment is the one that matters, the second half is a sleep deprived Wikipedia binge.

The units are kg rounded to the next power if 10. The numbers come from reverse engineering the article and Wikipedia. Sagittarius A* was a the first black hole I could think of. The scale was between mass of electron (like in the article) and mass of an atom (relevant to the post).

“Mass of electron cloud equivalent to black hole” what electron cloud?

An imaginary cloud of electrons similar to the one in the what-if. One that has the energy equivalent of the mass of a black hole. Due to the reduced charge density there would be less energy and therefore black holes, but I am convinced that a lot of objects would collapse.

In the example in from that what if, they are putting a universe’s worth of mass in the volume of the moon, so it would create a super massive singularity. That’s not what is happening in here.

Not quite, xkcd put a moons worth (by mass) of electrons together, so if we add an electron to each atom we go down four to five orders of magnitude.
The black hole came about, because the electric charge creates a electric field in which the electrons have a potential energy that by E=mc^2 is equal to the mass of the universe. If we apply our scaling factor we still end up with black holes everywhere.

Lets play with those numbers:
Scale factor between Sagittarius A* and the observable universe 10^37 / 10^53 = 10^-16
Mass of Moon 10^23
Mass of electron cloud equivalent to black hole 10^23 * 10^-16 = 10^13
mass of electron added object equivalent to black hole 10^13 * 10^5 = 10^18
That means adding an electron to each atom is enough to rival the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Even if I miscalculated by many orders of magnitude, at least each planet collapses into one.

https://whatif.xkcd.com/140
Not quite the the same scale, but a similar idea is explored by Randall Moore. He explores a lot of weird questions like this and regularly consults scientists.

It would probably go crunch not boom. https://whatif.xkcd.com/140