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811.
by fastball 2y ago
I don't disagree that Russia might not be spending their military money effectively (including with copious corruption), but that really has no bearing on whether the US is spending their money effectively, which as far as I can tell
812.
by fastball 2y ago
Why did you purchase a domain on GoDaddy if you know better?
813.
by fastball 2y ago
Software you like for the equivlaent of 0-2 hours of that dev's pay seems worth it.
814.
by fastball 2y ago
Yeah, I remember reading a headline like: "Kremlin can't account for 63% of nearly $4 trillion in assets" Gotcha! That was actually the Pentagon[1]. [1] https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pentagon-audit-2666415
815.
by fastball 2y ago
These are not magic tricks, they are things businesses/organizations/countries do every single day.
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by fastball 2y ago
> Reducing health reimbursements requires a top down overhaul of the whole US medical system. Great let's get started. > Either that or just telling poor people they can die in the streets outside of the hospital Does the lion&#x
817.
by fastball 2y ago
The counter-point to that is that Russia has continued to spend a lot on their military and yet wasn't able to steamroll Ukraine at all, so maybe the US is also spending more to get less. Not doing less with less doesn't mean you
818.
by fastball 2y ago
All of those DoD line items can be reduced: salaries (firing people), maintenance and fuel (fewer, more efficient bases, vehicles, etc), and equipment (cheaper, more re-usable equipment). Anduril seems like a good example here, given that t
819.
by fastball 2y ago
How do you measure the profitability of military aircraft?
820.
by fastball 2y ago
Where did I mention Elon Musk?
821.
by fastball 2y ago
Everyone chooses how they want their life to shape up before it ends.
822.
by fastball 2y ago
Honestly "astronomers" have really started to annoy me, which surprises me because I love space and astronomy and star-gazing and such. I have bought multiple personal telescopes over the years, so I guess I even qualify as an a
823.
by fastball 2y ago
How do you know what happened if you were blackout drunk?
824.
by fastball 2y ago
> It's disheartening to see services with limits > If they had a free tier I'd give it a go Maybe these two things are related.
825.
by fastball 2y ago
It's not an "argument", it is a fact. Neom has many parts, one or more of those parts are finished. It is not an "imaginary" project, period. An imaginary project does not get to the construction phase. You cannot c
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by fastball 2y ago
The plan was never for 170km of The Line to be finished by 2030. The original plan was for 5km. And yes, recent reports are that they've scaled back their ambitions to half that by 2030. However: 1. That has no bearing on how much they
827.
by fastball 2y ago
Is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYimVfnGNGY https://skift.com/2024/08/07/saudi-takes-2-million-photos-of...
828.
by fastball 2y ago
Neom: $1.5T
829.
by fastball 2y ago
Some previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34788020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37908760
830.
by fastball 2y ago
I haven't seen anyone argue that TikTok provides zero value.
831.
by fastball 2y ago
What prevents JohnSavesEnergy from posting content on any other platform?
832.
by fastball 2y ago
They weren't talking about pessimism, they were talking about propaganda.
833.
by fastball 2y ago
Yes, that. But also that these different externalities will have different responses to reduction at scale, which also impacts how effective action on a more "personal" level really is. For example the OP was talking about plastic
834.
by fastball 2y ago
> Tiktok doesn't push government propaganda to the same degree as Meta and Google. Do you have a source for this claim?
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by fastball 2y ago
China absolutely does pretend to be a democracy. They call it a "whole-process democracy".
836.
by fastball 2y ago
This assumes all emissions / externalities are created equal, which they are not.
837.
by fastball 2y ago
The ship runs on LNG, which is probably cleaner than charging the cars in China and using that for energy, given China's grid mix.
838.
by fastball 2y ago
I actually assumed that was part of the impetus for creating their own ship – standard cargo ships probably aren't well-suited to the job and simultaneously are a bit concerned about transporting such cargo.
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by fastball 2y ago
No, I think he is claiming that if they kept flying straight they would not collide with any debris.
840.
by fastball 2y ago
So you think producers are putting corn syrup in food just for kicks?

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