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by bell-cot 2mo ago
How many hours do you think our current President could stick to that strategy, if it didn't instantly - Poof! Magic! - make everything better?
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Collecting their paychecks, occasionally launching a really nice rocket, and never rocking any boats. Compared to Blue Origin, they're world-class overachievers.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
HN title is a mix of the article's title & subtitle, with a dash of the (linked) research paper which it's about.
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Europe is stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch costs & rocket reuse(arstechnica.com)
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> Defenders are now in the process of patching every bug they can find, often with AI helping them. Entire development toolchains are being rebuilt to incorporate powerful vulnerability scanning before software reaches the testing phase.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
The electrodes are physically uninvasive. Selling your brainwaves to the data brokers is a different issue. And just how creepy can it get, if ads are being generated in realtime by AI's that monitor how your brain is responding seco
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
No - but it'd be pretty amusing if the government called it that.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Daydream: US Gov't says "Sure, go for it! BTW, we'll now be talking an extra 15% cut of all transactions that you do using our dollars."
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Maybe read the very first sentence of the article - > Jonathan Ott is blind with some remaining vision and had spent nearly ten years working as a machinist at The Lighthouse for the Blind, manufacturing parts for Boeing. - and don'
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Boeing's internal processes (in hiring and handling the obviously near-blind worker) sounds FUBAR'ed enough that they shouldn't be allowed to build dog houses. Let alone airplanes. That said, a competent airplane manufactu
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
What country and year? I'm not in this space, but having a kid regularly kicking around a major US hospital pharmacy seems inconceivable these days.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
No. But from Isolationist and "America First" points of view - one can see Afghanistan as a place we poured vastly more money into (vs. Israel), and have vastly worse results (vs. Israel) to show for it. Obvious Lesson: No more
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
+1 for Dr. Becky's expertise and high content quality. In theory, [] tags for length (19 minute) and starting with a 2-minute summary could be added to the title. In practice, I probably wouldn't bother either.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
I remember a small local dept. store in the US still using them in the mid-70's. If you had to take a little boy or few shopping for clothes, the combination of "small, local, has a fascinating pneumatic tube system" was ofte
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
[sigh/] While I'm sure this ugly mess inspires undiluted joy in a whole lotta very malicious people, I suspect that most brighter Jews understand that it is just one more in a whole series of self-inflicted strategic defeats. (No
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Does your uncountable set of propositions include some which cannot be written as a finite string of symbols? If "yes" - how might such as proposition be proven true with a finite string of symbols? (If your proof symbols are from
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Outside of static defense or close formations, a combat veteran solder has always been worth far more than a green soldier. ("Green" = no combat experience.) No matter how well trained the green soldier might be. > [About the
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
I'm less familiar with Dutch history - but that happened to the British Empire because its situation went from being the world's obvious #1, to barely avoiding national bankruptcy, due to the staggering costs of WWI and WWII. The
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> ... even if paying a wealth tax forces stock liquidations that cause stock prices to plummet ... Points, but I'll argue that: (1) Such plummeting would prove that the stock valuations were already very near the peak of a bubble,
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> The ballot measure has caused an uproar among some of California’s wealthiest individuals such as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, both of whom have donated to organizations against the measure. Brin com
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
"Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.[1][2][3] The term sociology was coin
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
The big discussion is here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260250 - based on the WSJ's article.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> The Soviet-built plant, which uses water from the Danube to cool its four reactors, is currently operating at little more than 10% of its 2,000 megawatt capacity due to low water levels. It supplies Hungary with around a third of its e
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> The best practice for investigating potential bodies inside things like wheelie bins and suitcases is not to open it, but to X-ray it, Paola Magni, a Murdoch University forensic science associate professor, said. > Even after realis
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
A much longer, deeper, and more detailed article than I expected. Is anyone in this space, to comment? I'm thinking it'd be reasonable to keep the FCC in charge of communications (radio, lasers, whatever) in space, but have som
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
U of Mich's standard seems to be 69 class days - a touch under 14 weeks: https://ro.umich.edu/sites/default/files/calendar/pdfs/Cal_2...
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
I'd categorize it as "sounds reasonable, so long as you never actually reason about it ": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Point, however... Assume you're the Secret Service's Grand Poobah of Presidential Protection. And actually trying to do your job. How , exactly, might you tell a gaggle of reporters that the President slipped out of the baddie&
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> ...reporters who thought they were traveling on the same plane as the president and were unaware of the risk to their lives. Unaware that Iran might be eager to kill the leader of the Great Satan, in retaliation for the killing of Ir
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
When's the next election for county commissioners, where are candidates running against them likely to come from, and is there any local vibe on the issue? Running yourself would be a whole lotta work. Fear that they'll soon be

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