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by dh2022 7mo ago
Humanoid robots and lots of memes (this post has only 50% sarcastic content)
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by dh2022 7mo ago
Tourism to Mars and back (this is the easiest interplanetary travel) means years confined in a space rocket just to circle around Mars and get back (it is not possible to land on Mars and get back). Not that appealing…
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by dh2022 7mo ago
Matt Levine commentary with no paywall: https://archive.ph/OSzvG
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by dh2022 7mo ago
The market will not drive index fund purchases of SpaceX - the 5x multiplier of the floating shares will. And that’s the rub.
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by dh2022 7mo ago
Nobel prize winner predicts oil price spike the same day oil prices started to fall.
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by dh2022 7mo ago
I think the concern was conserving memory ( which was scarce back then) and not iterating through each substring.
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by dh2022 7mo ago
BTW - after 4 years of war Russia got around 30,000 sq km [0] - this is less than the smallest Baltic state Estonia. So I think the Baltics will be fine by themselves - because of the crass Russian military incompetence. [0] https:/&#
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by dh2022 7mo ago
I do think that the Baltics are Russia’s next target IF they ever conquer Ukraine. So far this is not happening. And just because NATO will not be there does not mean Russia will be able to conquer the Baltics. Baltics by themselves may b
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by dh2022 7mo ago
“American empire will end sometime this century “ - at the rate things are going American empire has a good chance to end this decade :).
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by dh2022 7mo ago
Oh really? <s> I will believe you after you convince Wikipedia to fix the page i linked in my previous post </s>. Snark aside, your total may be including victims of radiation that died months and years later. If so, these
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by dh2022 7mo ago
And to address your last phrase. I do not know what you mean by Truman did not order Hiroshima, and did not even know about Nagasaki. But it should be clear that, while Truman delegated authority for picking up targets and dropping the bomb
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by dh2022 7mo ago
Japan did not surrender after the Tokyo raid in March 1945 which killed more people than the individual bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [0] and the emperor urged Japanese people to fight. Japan planned a full out defense of the 4 main is
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by dh2022 7mo ago
Plus the Japanese beating the British so badly all over Southeast Asia. This gave a lot of momentum to independence in Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and eventually India.
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by dh2022 7mo ago
This feeling you have is representative democracy in action.
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by dh2022 7mo ago
Actually these two indices will not be affected k as the article explains
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by dh2022 7mo ago
The Uber drivers I talked have their families back home. That is how we end up comparing airports. That tells you where third world people see their future.
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by dh2022 7mo ago
Afghanistan - economically not a big impact. The economic pressures in the 80s were low agricultural productivity requiring imports from Western countries, low oil/gas prices and productivity, endemic corruption. And if we really want
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by dh2022 7mo ago
I beg to differ. The collapse of USSR was 100% caused by internal causes. First was the abominable low productivity in oil/gas and agricultural sectors from 1950s through 1980s. Then came the corruption of Brezhnev era. Andropov tried
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by dh2022 7mo ago
Take a drive on an interstate highways. Whenever I take an Uber/Lyft to the airport I ask the usually (more like 100%) foreign born driver to compare the highway (I5) and the airport (SeaTac) with the same from his country. The compari
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by dh2022 7mo ago
Maybe you should choose your words more carefully, Walter Bright. To eviscerate means to disembowel. Nobody is pushing to physically hurt the rich. But people are upset that their standards of living are declining while every opportunity to
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by dh2022 8mo ago
Soviet people’s standard of living was way below Western standards. Stalin took Russia out of the Middle Ages and into the w0th century at the cost of millions and millions of Russian luves.
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by dh2022 8mo ago
Quick question about US folks traveling to Canada: are cars with US plates being vandalized in Canada? I was thinking to drive and stay in Vancouver for a few days but I would not want to get a graffiti on my car (or worse)
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by dh2022 8mo ago
Thanks for sharing this chart. I am amazed how Poland has less poverty than Germany. Maybe is East Germany bringing the average down for the entire country? Even then, still very impressive.
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by dh2022 8mo ago
Re: "reviewing code is very different from producing it, and surely teaches you less" - I feel this so much when reviewing the code one of my coworkers writes. My coworker makes plenty of mistakes and I learned the hard way that r
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by dh2022 8mo ago
Google Search used to be awesome, heads, shoulders, belt buckle and knees above everyone else. Seriously, I still remember the moment I first used Google. I was using Altavista / OpenText and Yahoo now and then. I thought Altavista was
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by dh2022 8mo ago
The article starts off explaining the lack of reliable data sets. And most of the stuff in the article was either anecdotal (like some company that took 3 groups of people around Europe looking for places to move, and now projects to have 5
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by dh2022 8mo ago
They retrofit Yorktown in 3 days instead of 3 months. The Japanese thought Yorktown was a different aircraft carrier-they could not imagine such a fast retrofit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CV-5)#Battle_
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by dh2022 8mo ago
and how is unzip not a dedicated app?
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by dh2022 8mo ago
Not anymore. Today I tried to copy paste a string of 15 ascii characters into an Excel cell. Excel spun around for 20 seconds then blurted out an error that "the data is too big". I hit F2 (enter cell Edit Mode), pasted the 15 cha
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by dh2022 8mo ago
"You’ve built a generation that can’t extract a zip file without a dedicated app and calls it innovation" OK, I'll bite - how does anyone extract a zip file with no dedicated app? Does one write their own un-zip app?

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