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by _zagj 1y ago
The alternatives were that they were enriching well beyond peaceful thresholds primarily for leverage in negotiations, or that they wanted "breakout" capability, so they could build multiple bombs quickly, if they ever chose to.
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The goal should be no nation, including the US, possessing nuclear weapons, similar to the situation with chemical and biological weapons already. How does Iran acquiring nuclear weapons gets us closer to that goal?
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The author is Bryan Cantrill (bcantrill on HN), Sun (and Joyent) alumnus, kernel hacker, principal architect of dTrace, and a major contributor to ZFS. I doubt he uses LLMs to write his blogposts. Go watch any of his talks: he seems to have
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> Honestly though, the biggest impact I've seen across my friends has been what's happened to art commissions Given the author's eccentricities, when I read "art commissions," I immediately suspected they really
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Does that mean he read the Harry Potter fanfic?
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Worth noting that TI primarily makes logic semiconductors, and those don't require the advanced 2nm, 3nm or even 5nm node processes that TSMC's and Samsung's most advanced fabs support. However logic semiconductors may have s
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> Counting CPU cycles And that's assuming they aren't lying about the counting: https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/104831348/#q104831479
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> No wonder they got into Natanz with stuxnet. While the PCs used to program the PLCs were running XP, the 0-day that Stuxnet exploited affected all versions of Windows, at least from 2000 onwards, including 2008 and Vista. EDIT: to clar
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> account frozen due to sudden peak of activity I'm paranoid about checking online bank/brookerage accounts late at night because this.
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LED headlights are much bigger problem. Way too bright, way too blue.
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Sadly, Dan Ariely still has tenure at Duke (the Harvard of the south).
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PL/I is still used on IBM Z (formerly zSeries) mainframes, along with COBOl and JCL (JCL = Job Control Language. DEC had their own version called DCL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIGITAL_Command_Language ).
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On the plus side, the UK must be doing pretty well economically if they can afford to waste police and prosecutorial resources on people saying mean things on the internet.
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Reddit bans an anti-natalist group after Palm Springs explosion(nbcnews.com)
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Everyone assumed it was some ultra religious nutjob opposed to IVF, and instead it was an anti-natalist, vegan consequentialist redditor.
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> About 48 percent of investment income went to student aid How much of that "student aid" just covers some of the astronomical tuition Harvard charges?
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> all non-profits are "tax dodges" No, some of them operate like genuine non-profits by promoting some public good and compensate their executives only modestly. For example, the Salvation Army.
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They pay no corporate income or capital gains tax.
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> what a 501(c)(3) nonprofit In the case of Harvard and many other institutions, it's a tax-dodge, and nothing more. Same thing with non-profit hospitals whose administrators pay themselves seven-figure salaries.
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Harvard currently has a $52 billion endowment on which it pays no tax: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/business/harvard-endowmen... Why are progressives not bothered more by this?
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> I'm surprised there isn't a constant archive of what news sites put into the "memory hole". Maybe Google being shit isn't them failing, but deliberate (I don't seriously believe this). archive.is
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> Why would that be a desirable state of affairs? You can't see why an ADHD diagnosis (which isn't hard to get) no longer being a quick ticket to getting amphetamines--one of the most commonly sought-after and regularly abused
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Policing the internet in Germany, where hate speech, insults are a crime [video](youtube.com)
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There are newer, non-amphetamine drugs for treating ADHD like Strattera, an SNRI (Selective Norepinephrine Re-uptake Inhibitor). It will be interesting to see what happens if and when these drugs displace the amphetamines (the current front
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> when you have below average body fat % I can't speak to their choice of taking the drug, but it's wild how warped people's perceptions are now of what constitutes "healthy" and "fat" thanks to the obe
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Interesting that in this thread discussing a new Mozilla EULA/AUP (among other things) banning pornography, not one person has mentioned that their image library was once called libpr0n: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/sho
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People aren't having kids because of stagnant real wages and soaring home prices. In the US, the median home price is now $450k. In Canada, it's $650k . And when people do have children, they're on average having fewer, late
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Thanks for your thoughtful replies
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> But it is much easier to read an article like this, where the same point is repeated multiple times, with some “they said this,” “they said that,” etc. than to understand even a small portion of a field. More people will do the former

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