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by freshair 5y ago
> To the extent that high value workers knew that they were treasure to be looted they might have decided that the US was a least worse option. Yes, that lines up with von Braun's account of his motivations. > We knew that we
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by freshair 5y ago
Here are some quick links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Group#1991_Soviet_coup_d... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat... The gist of it is in August of 1991, hard
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by freshair 5y ago
"were taken" suggests they had no say in the matter, which is not true at least in the case of many. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#Surrender_to...
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by freshair 5y ago
von Braun and his team specifically sought out Americans to surrender to. Characterizing a surrender as "theft" (as though people are property?!) is truly bizarre.
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by freshair 5y ago
What is this whitewashing? The Soviet Union never stopped assassinating people, and the practice clearly continued into present day Russia. Boris Yeltsin was one whim away from being assassinated in 1991 on orders from the KGB; the only
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by freshair 5y ago
Just how many $5/mo subscriptions do you expect people buy, and how much does that all add up to per year? The privilege here is real.
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by freshair 5y ago
General anesthesia is fraught with peril. Every time somebody is put under they're dicing with death.
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by freshair 5y ago
> Shouldn’t they have a paper-based/offline downtime procedure for this? If they did, I would expect their employees to be out of practice with such methods since they weren't working that way day-to-day. Unless they're
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by freshair 5y ago
Does it really make a difference, with respect to whether they should be kicked off HackerOne? Incompetence and disorganization is no excuse for what is essentially (if not literally) wage theft.
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by freshair 5y ago
Exactly right. The American government considers associations inferred from this "metadata" to be sufficient evidence to execute people via drone.
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by freshair 5y ago
Depleted uranium has indeed been used in airplanes. Some models of 747 have a ton or so of depleted uranium, though I believe this practice was phased out in later models. It's not just planes though. Some sailboats have been made wi
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by freshair 5y ago
> Also, slightly unrelated but Cloudflare protected websites are almost impossible to access via tor, the captcha never succeeds. Yes, I've never understood why it's seemingly so important to CAPTCHA me before serving me less
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by freshair 5y ago
I did some more research and it seems I am substantially correct; paying a ransom to a terrorist organization is illegal.
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by freshair 5y ago
Is this the reason Hydrogen is grouped with the alkali metals on the periodic table?
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by freshair 5y ago
Yeah, that's a bizarre headline. I'm not sure it's wrong, but it's quite strange. Edit: I'm not sure actually right either. It was not the act of eating that transported the bodies; rather the bodies were brought
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by freshair 5y ago
If the mugger isn't bluffing, then he'll get your money one way or the other. This makes it different from paying ransoms. Furthermore, a corporation's bottom line is not truly comparable to a human life. However it is my u
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by freshair 5y ago
> How does anyone justify these obscure tokens and coins being worth billions. The Greater Fool Theory. This stops working when you run out of fools, but the notion of "there's another sucker born every minute" proba
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by freshair 5y ago
Until high ranking government officials start getting very length prison sentences for this sort of shit, I doubt it will ever get better.
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by freshair 5y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with energy or the environment. I think Elon Musk distancing himself from Bitcoin is a consequence of the recent spat of highly publicized ransomware attacks using bitcoin. Elon Musk is connected
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by freshair 5y ago
Maybe this could work for some. Personally, if I watch more than a few movies in a week I begin to feel like I'm losing my mind. I think variety is key, and not just having a variety of movies. Mix in some books and video games (p
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by freshair 5y ago
> These are the people that have been selected to be astronauts. How often have you seen one have a breakdown during a mission? I'm not sure about mental breakdowns per se, but there has been some insubordination. I can't re
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by freshair 5y ago
I fear the US government might allow Elon Musk get away with anything, as long as he keeps launching satellites for the military.
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by freshair 5y ago
Perhaps the niche for a space elevator is bulk passenger transit. An elevator could perhaps ferry more people than a reusable lander, while not turning them into goo as the g-forces of a railgun might.
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by freshair 5y ago
This use of the word 'handy' reminds me of the classic Red Green Show quip: "If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy." I have always taken this to mean that if you aren't good to
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by freshair 5y ago
Maybe so, you could be right. But if this man is taking contracts from the general public, I think that must be a good lead.
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by freshair 5y ago
Maybe my grandchildren will somehow have better luck than I did. Archive.org doesn't have several forums I used to post on. I'd like to get copies of my old posts, but gave up on that years ago. I did manage to track down the
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by freshair 5y ago
Unless the hitman has decided to retire, it's probably only a matter of time before they catch him using good old fashioned detective work. For instance, investigators might be able to catch the hitman in a sting operation, if they k
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by freshair 5y ago
> "A space elevator makes no sense on the moon. First of all the orbit is unstable and you would need constant station keeping." In a typical space elevator, the counterweight end of a space elevator is not in orbit. The cen
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by freshair 5y ago
In this analogy I am still a hypocrite but I'm still dead-right, so sure.
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by freshair 5y ago
Manned suborbital launches are little more than glorified pogo-stick rides. This has been true ever since America tossed Alan Shepard into the air as desperate PR damage control after the Soviets put Yuri Gagarin into orbit. If nothing el

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