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by gammarator 1y ago
Response by the Planetary Society: https://www.planetary.org/press-releases/the-planetary-socie...
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Dozens of active and planned NASA spacecraft killed in Trump budget request(science.org)
16 points by gammarator 1y ago|4 comments
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by gammarator 1y ago
Ironic how “no VC makes all the right picks” becomes “VCs are indispensable.” In a rational market, LPs would index, but VCs justify their 2 & 20 by controlling access…
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by gammarator 1y ago
> veneer wood furniture If I were wealthy, I’d be getting solid hardwood…
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by gammarator 1y ago
It _was_ a trainwreck. Now it’s in space making great discoveries.
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by gammarator 1y ago
> But 50% of NASA's science funding is gone. The proposed cuts to science are catastrophic, but there’s still time to call your Congressperson. https://aas.org/posts/news/2025/05/week-of-action
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by gammarator 1y ago
> The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% and accounts for roughly a quarter of American productivity growth since Wor
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The NSF Is Being Dismantled – With Broad Implications for the American Economy(forbes.com)
14 points by gammarator 1y ago|1 comments
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by gammarator 1y ago
This is wrong, wrong, wrongity wrong. Here is the chapter and verse for what can count as "Broader Impacts" for NSF grants: > Such outcomes include, but are not limited to: full participation of women, persons with disabilitie
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by gammarator 1y ago
The vast majority of homeless people in the Bay Area are from the Bay Area. https://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2017-10-2... There is lots of homelessness because housing is expensive. https:/
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by gammarator 1y ago
Whatever the term “vibe coding” is taken to mean, it assuredly doesn’t apply to a large scale migration undertaken by a professional software organization.
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by gammarator 2y ago
> A college degree (especially from good old State U) serves first and foremost as a white-collar job permit. It’s worth pointing out that this is a perception that has been cultivated. Position the degree as first and foremost a job cre
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by gammarator 2y ago
The NYT sent me a free Google Cardboard once!
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In Pursuit of the Bitcoin God(nymag.com)
4 points by gammarator 2y ago|1 comments
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by gammarator 2y ago
So you’re not _interviewing_ them, you’re having them complete expensive work-sample tests. And your evaluation metric is “completes lots of steps in a small time box.”
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by gammarator 2y ago
The “large pyramids” are largely funded by federal grants. If the grants aren’t there, the grad students won’t be either.
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by gammarator 2y ago
Most colleges don’t have billion dollar endowments.
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by gammarator 2y ago
Serious question: is there anything other than their own scruples keeping these guys from siphoning off a few billion dollars for themselves?
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by gammarator 2y ago
Not an expert myself, but I don’t believe $200k/year counts as a “FAANG salary” for anyone with founder-level responsibility.
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by gammarator 2y ago
Do you, Patrick, believe that “Chicago’s African American community is impoverished in part because of extractive practices of vice entrepreneurs?” Phrasing it this way winks that you don’t think so, but perhaps I am misreading you. Howeve
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by gammarator 2y ago
… Bluesky offers a clean, strictly chronological following feed as well as your choice of algorithmic feeds.
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by gammarator 2y ago
These aren’t “forests” like in other parts of the West so much as cliffs covered in dry, scrubby brush. I’m pessimistic that they could be systematically cleared or burned in a controlled way.
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by gammarator 2y ago
Here’s an extended comment by another astrophysicst: https://telescoper.blog/2025/01/02/timescape-versus-dark-ene... The most important bit: > The new papers under discussion focus entirely on supernovae m
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by gammarator 2y ago
The wide range of preferences expressed here makes me think that the best apple is one grown near you—and different varieties are better suited for different climate regions.
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by gammarator 2y ago
Keep a look out for https://www.collinsfamilyorchards.com/ at your market, or try their CSA!
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by gammarator 2y ago
The SweeTango I had was cloyingly, almost artificially sweet. Can’t tell if it was an unlucky pick or I just have different preferences—I like an Ambrosia.
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by gammarator 2y ago
It also rarely applies to farms. https://www.cbpp.org/blog/the-myth-that-the-estate-tax-threa...
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by gammarator 2y ago
It’s part of their life cycle https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21
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by gammarator 2y ago
Compare Google’s cost per query to ChatGPT’s.
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by gammarator 2y ago
The unit economics appear to be substantially different.

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