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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Let's hope he's a lot more careful with the chemicals than the early chip makers were. Most are now Superfund sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Superfund_sites_in_Ca... These are just the semicond
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
441 nuclear reactors have been operating flawlessly for over a decade. Fascinating choice of timeframe: "over a decade". How about going back just one more year. We can find multiple nuclear reactors blowing themselves up quite
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
We have BSL level 4 and people don't often prick themselves. Wuhan Institute of Virology was BSL level 4, and yet here we are. People aren’t perfect. Accidents happen.
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Sometimes the media does it, which is a good thing for people with different middle names. Here are a few examples I thought of. Not good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald https://en.wikipedia
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
This isn't really about renouncing citizenship, it's more to do with how lazy and/or corrupt government employees are, and how we the sheeple have allowed them to get away with that for so long. For example, in Oregon, our De
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
This is largely urban legend There are numerous anecdotes about cost/benefit analysis. Not just Corvair. The Ford Pinto fuel tank is one of the most notorious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Cost%E2%80%
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Which particular Tupolev? Apparently, until the USA recently withdrew from the Open Skies treaty, there was indeed a possibility of seeing a Tupolev in the area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Open_Skies#Aircra
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
compare for example the following 2 cases Certainly you're right about the difference money makes. However (we have an international readership on HN) it's important to point out that this happened in two different states. In th
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
They have done it before with New Mexico. Talk about grasping at straws. The Mexican-American War ended in 1848, and the USA bought the rest of New Mexico in 1854. Maybe we should discuss instead when Joe Stalin starved millions of Ukrain
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
The biggest thing that puzzles me about this (and about many recent geopolitical events) is the elephant in the room. Nobody mentions it: The United Nations Why isn't this issue being discussed there, prominently? If it's
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Could civilization actually end like this? Not in a big bang but slowly grinding to a halt because no one knows how stuff works besides some nonfunctional web forms? No. I'll give you a clear counter-example: my iPhone 13 mini. Go re
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
The craziest part of that story is: "El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, whose country holds bitcoin on its balance sheet and has purchased coins during previous dips, announced another purchase of 150 BTC for around $48,700 each.&quo
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Also the president immediately expressing disappointment on Twitter at the jury's decision... what a slap in the face to due process I don't think that's quite true. Biden's initial comment was "Look, I stand by
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
It's probably good you've given up. Too many surgeries can mean a serious problem outcome like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_nose_syndrome It sounds like you may already have some symptoms of that
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Assuming you are using the squeeze bottle method, as the below linked comment says, put 8 oz distilled into the plastic bottle, then nuke about 25 secs to reach approx 100 degrees F. After you do this a few times you will learn exact amount
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
the author (who works for Microsoft Holy Fuck, Batman! Way for the author to bury the lede. Nowhere in that diatribe is the word "Microsoft". You have to go to the About link to find that info. How many people do that?
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Just clicking multiple times will bring up wallet, siri, or do nothing. On my iPhone 13, just now, I rapidly clicked the power button 5x. The phone immediately made a loud sound and put up a screen that said "Emergency SOS". The
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Yes, one very big advantage Apple has is focus , it's a benefit of "a stack they fully own". They are developing for a single customer, i.e. themselves. Contrast the situation when developing something for a number of OEMs.
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
The ongoing deforestation of the Amazon Basin is probably just as much of a long term threat.
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
The bull case from here is thinking that Tesla's valuation will permanently stay in the upper atmosphere for decades to come, but at some point, the growth rates slow. The valuation may eventually adjust downward. But there was a ver
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
I have a basic problem with Sabine's claims. In a response comment she says: "No signal analysis can confirm that the signal was of astrophysical origin." I know nothing about the actual hardware. But I can reasonably specu
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
On the other hand, a fluoroquinolone like Cipro might be the only way to treat an MDR bacteria such as P. aeruginosa. All the black box warnings in the world don't matter if Cipro is the only available drug. Use it or (probably) die. W
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
There's a "Portland Police Bureau" activity going on right now, using a C182. I think they are following a car on various local highways. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a1d296 But that's misleading
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
That is absolutely not true. Here is an image linked elsewhere in this thread. https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2021/11/munger-hall-univer... And from the fine article itself, 2nd para: only about 6 percent
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
I'd bet $1000 their HVAC system will be inadequate. Yeah, in the "age of Covid" there are few things as stupid as sharing HVAC with 4,499 other people.
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Capital One has that Sort of. Do they still require using Chrome for that feature? Fuck Google, I'm not about to use them for that!
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Browsing to meta.com takes me to https://about.facebook.com/meta Ergo Facebook already controls the one most important thing to know about Meta. Hard for me to believe that some little Arizona company would be able to trade
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
I am considering whether to have a CT scan done CT is an absolutely amazing tool. The amount of health information produced is astounding. I had a CT done to follow up on an adenoma. As part of the evaluation of that scan, the MD noted so
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
This can't be upvoted enough. Activists love it when judges stretch words far beyond their original intent. Same happened in Roe v. Wade, involving "due process". The majority found a meaning in words far beyond what was ther
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
We have viable fusion, today: Renewables are fusion at a distance. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23580174 As a high school senior, I went to visit a college back in 1973. I visited a lab where they were playing aro

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