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US House rejects FISA Section 702 extension, warrantless surveillance expires(axios.com)
93 points by ck2 4mo ago|25 comments
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by ck2 4mo ago
There you go, so someone turn that into a frictionless service Every year you just exchange the car/lease/plate whatever Once enough people drive $5000 electric cars they will insist politicians allow them officially Detroit is do
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by ck2 4mo ago
Canadian snowbirds drive their cars and RVs into the US all the time all the way down to the southern states There's just a limit to how long the car can be in the US So lease for a year at a time from Canada Musk himself was an illega
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by ck2 4mo ago
There is a huge startup opportunity, steal this idea: US Governement doesn't allow BYD imports BUT you can lease a car from Canada for a year in US So lease BYD a year at a time with Canadian plates, etc. to US drivers
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by ck2 4mo ago
I'm still struggling with the idea that 4,400 millionaires are going to be created overnight (out of 22,000 employees) Because many of them are going to sell sell sell at least half of their shares Which then means the value will PLUMM
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by ck2 4mo ago
considering Iran War is likely to still be happening January 2029, imagine what costs will be like by then every single day $5/gas is taking a BILLION dollars out of the economy that could have gone elsewhere but it could be worse, we
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by ck2 4mo ago
the 100 meter "starshade" probably has much higher chance to be built/launched next decade it will block overwhelming starlight physically so objects around them can be imaged by existing telescopes rather simple/clever,
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by ck2 4mo ago
am I reading that right, 15 minute sustained reaction as soon as 2027? wow we really are living in the future I love this PBS Space Time explainer on the final technical hurdles: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAJN1CrJsVE
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by ck2 4mo ago
I just want to live long enough for space telescopes to evolve exponentially to observe kilonovas in the visual spectrum I mean laser interferometers are an amazing advancement but just imagine seeing an earth-sized chunk of gold pop out of
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by ck2 4mo ago
the way the original mathematicians figured all this out absolutely melts my brain no computers, no calculators, barely working telescopes looking at the moons orbiting Jupiter (don't be limited by episode title, lots of amazing astrop
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by ck2 4mo ago
that probably happened a few times as well we "stolen" planets or mass from other star systems in the same baby nursery as our sun there is also likely a planet that passed through and yanked away a lot of debris, most of the simu
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by ck2 4mo ago
It's an easy guess because either human genetics either radical changed or the environment did "Silent Spring" came out over sixty years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring got massive covera
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by ck2 4mo ago
So every 1000 physical bots are going to need the power and cooling equivalent of those super-popular datacenters they are trying to build everywhere And I am virtually positive I know what the most popular application for them is going to
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by ck2 4mo ago
the Vitamin D cult is a bit insane it is -exactly- like Linus Pauling and Vitamin C cult in the previous century Vitamin D is very important Too Much is as bad as Too Little The "RDA" is too low at 600IU and should have been chang
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by ck2 4mo ago
directly related: https://fortune.com/2026/06/04/peptides-crypto-looksmaxxing-...
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Fentanyl-to-Peptide Pivot by Chinese Cartels Supplying Gray-Market Ecosystem(chainalysis.com)
7 points by ck2 4mo ago|1 comments
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by ck2 4mo ago
glad it's getting more coverage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309667
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by ck2 4mo ago
People are complaining about a clickbaity title but it's a fascinating article I am not sure most would read otherwise What's interesting to me is how out of date US GPS system is compared to China's BeiDou and while most US
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by ck2 4mo ago
it's the speed of causality (limit of information transfer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yhk1EZq9tY fortunately that video is more gentle but the math in that youtube channel absolutely melts my brain some days, I
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by ck2 4mo ago
Do they have things like Oxygen Candles or can those not be used in space?
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by ck2 4mo ago
meanwhile Trump administration just bypassed Congress (again) to give nearly a billion dollars to sustain COAL industry the spite is the point (do we survive past 2029? are you sure? I'm not) https://www.investing.com/
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by ck2 4mo ago
actual paper: * https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0... not sure if that sciverse website is "AI" but it does a really good roundup of interesting study news? * https:/
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Cannabis meta-study finds no evidence it helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD(thesciverse.org)
7 points by ck2 4mo ago|1 comments
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by ck2 4mo ago
sociopaths sometimes study people to learn how to emulate emotion that's exactly the state of "AI" right now, it's cold, mathematical emulation btw there are some fascinating papers on the concept that consciousness in h
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by ck2 4mo ago
when I saw "NMDA receptor" I was immediately fascinated I have long-covid and purposely take low-dose Dextromethorphan (just 15gm) because it acts as a NMDA Receptor Antagonist by blocking NMDA Receptors, it helps mitigate over
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by ck2 4mo ago
I still don't understand how "AI" is ready for serious use beyond entertainment purposes Every time I ask ChatGPT to make a table for a subject I know well, I will find an error in one of the results and it is very confident
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by ck2 5mo ago
I read somewhere this morning there is now more spending on datacenter infrastructure for "AI" in the US than all other infrastructure combined, roads, bridges, ship ports, etc. Sounds plausible but I doubt it outmatches ICE wareh
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by ck2 5mo ago
yes but thorium reactors, not plutonium once you learn about how much safer and controllable thorium reactors are you'll never vote for plutonium again here's a great PBS SpaceTime on it https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by ck2 5mo ago
apparently they were also doing this going back a decade? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14772926 wild to see a 2017 post on the same subject
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US Department of Energy will give weapons-grade plutonium to energy companies(cnn.com)
6 points by ck2 5mo ago|6 comments

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