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I'd love to see that result, purely for the hilarity of watching the people I share a house with, who voted for Brexit, explode at the idea of the UK government not policing an external border.

The only reason they voted for Brexit was because they think it means they can get rid of all the migrants, they tell me this quite regularly.

One of them moved here from Bahrain, though apparently this means their family were ex-pats, not migrants. The other is from a long line of Christian overseas missionaries.

If they thought for a second that Brexit would mean leaving the border with Northern Ireland wide open, they would be screaming blue murder.


like Republic of Ireland joining the United Kingdom.

Or Arthur rising and reinstating Camelot in England's hour of need.

Or Nessie being discovered, then rampaging south to destroy London in a Gozilla inspired attack, wiping out the entirety of the Square Mile.

Or the entire human population suddenly realising that the borders were only in their heads all along and finally living together in peace and harmony.


>a good and not entirely unpopular solution

Where and for whom?


Vice really needs to hire some proofreaders.


I hate when I see a sciency article from them. They are great with human interest stuff (if you like their spin) but the technical stuff is always lacking. You can tell where the writer hits their wall of undertanding and tries to fill it with quotes instead of working with someone knowlegable on the subject.


The magnetic field will tend to concentrate in the iron, meaning it shouldn't propagate as far.

Same as using Mu metal for magnetic shielding - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu-metal


It shouldn't propagate, but the whole thing should be magnetized at that point, right? While you've got that electro magnet on you could probably stick fridge to the big iron magnet you've created with the container?


Depends on how the field moves relative to the iron. If it expands then contracts, which seems highly likely, the overall effect on magnetizing the iron could be surprisingly low, as far as I am aware. Though I could be wrong on this.

edit - ahh, reading through you mean during the experiment, rather than it being left magnetized afterward.

During the test it should focus field lines within it. The overall strength of the field will remain the same, but field lines will be concentrated on the cage, meaning it does not propagate as far.

Though there should be people on here that will be able to explain this better than I can. And correct me if I am talking rubbish. I am solidly an amateur on this, and there are definitely some professionals floating about.


The USA has high punishments for murder but less then 50% of murder investigations are solved.

Germany has much lower punishments for murder, but around 90% of murder investigations are solved.

Which of these do you think is the greater deterrence?


Per local German coverage on reported crime statistics, many crimes go unreported, and a number of crimes that would be included in US crime statistics are exempted from German reporting.

Also, now that Germany has...diversity...the crime rate went up pretty significantly.

So I would say, all in all, that homogenous populations are the greatest deterrence, followed by the magnitude of punishment being significantly more important at a societal level, though the risk of getting caught dominates the thought process for regulatory/low-punishment crimes.


are you saying that murders go unreported in Germany? I have a hard time believing that.


There’s also another aspect: whether it’s one life sentence or 5 consecutive might make very little difference. Since prisons in US are big business nobody deals in short sentences. Rehabilitation or deterrence are not the goals, so of course the strategy won’t have the effect you imagine.

When punishments are so disproportionately high a good chunk of the ofenders will stop caring. The preventative effect is gone, it’s more an incentive to escalate the crime to a level where it matches the punishment.


But without knowing how many murders and the relevant population sizes I'm not sure that your point is made.


Hey, numbers and letters are hard. FCC, FAA, 100 reports per month, 100 complaints per day. Same thing, surely. Besides drones are bad, so exaggerating and misrepresenting is morally justified, as it will save the lives of billions that would otherwise have died from the flying evil.


>The growing possibility of midairs with drones is more significant than bird strikes

That seems amazingly unlikely.


>“Each month, the FAA receives more than 100 reports of drone sightings by pilots, citizens, and law enforcement,”

Drones interfering with manned aircraft or emergency services is already illegal.

And these things are transmitting radio in both directions, putting money into tracking and prosecuting people interfering with flights is completely achievable, without any change in law.

I suspect that this is more about protecting the interests of the commercial businesses by introducing licensing as a barrier to entry.

>The bill is supported by the Commercial Drone Alliance, a Washington-based advocacy group representing Alphabet’s Wing as well as other drone businesses.


I love the concept behind the chameleon pasted with money.

Though I do feel a bit sorry for the chameleon. It probably wasn't too impressed.


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