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by khuey 4y ago
All nuclear bombs involve fission. Some (termed "thermonuclear") involve fusion. A fission first stage is detonated to ignite a (much higher yielding) fusion second stage. Most bombs deployed today are thermonuclear simply because
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by khuey 4y ago
Gitlab didn't even have retention policies until sometime in 2020. I have a six year old project that's consuming something like 4TB of space in their container registry.
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by khuey 4y ago
It's common for firefighters to work 24 hour shifts.
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by khuey 4y ago
Probably easier to get your hands on some engineering documents than an entire bomb.
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by khuey 4y ago
Atomic bombs are useful for blowing stuff up (which requires detonating them) or threatening to blow stuff up (which requires other people knowing you possess them). "Laundering" a bomb that remains unknown for 50 years doesn&#x27
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by khuey 4y ago
Punitive damages are capped at low amounts in Texas and may not happen at all since they require unanimity (which the jury did not have on the compensatory verdict).
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by khuey 4y ago
> any theft less than $1k isn’t prosecutable. It absolutely is, the cops and the DA just choose not to give a shit.
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by khuey 4y ago
Yes, but the bill is subsidies for actual manufacturing and fabrication companies.
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by khuey 4y ago
Seeing as how NVIDIA doesn't actually manufacture semiconductors, it doesn't seem like they stand to benefit at all.
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by khuey 4y ago
The states with the highest vacancy rates are pretty rural (and Florida, which likely has lots of vacation homes). https://www.lendingtree.com/home/mortgage/vacancy-rates-stud...
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by khuey 4y ago
An empty home in rural Iowa is not a substitute for a home in a thriving urban area.
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by khuey 4y ago
At the one in SF they have two (poorly marked) lines.
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by khuey 4y ago
Even in urban California the DMV is mostly fine if you have an appointment.
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by khuey 4y ago
> the deal is often lost on the landing page In most cases the deal isn't being lost there, you're being qualified out. The products that do this are going to be a lot closer to your $100k/year that you can't afford t
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by khuey 4y ago
> If I have an employee that generates 100M a year, but I have boundless applicants that can perform that same task The 100M a year here is generally rapidly competed away in this situation.
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by khuey 4y ago
We do this in some cases, but in general oil is expensive and water is cheap. A gallon of crude oil costs around $2.50. A gallon of tap water costs a little over a penny where I live (in San Francisco). Transporting expensive things is an e
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by khuey 4y ago
Per the SSA actuarial tables a 100 year old man has a 95% chance of being dead 6 years later and a 100 year old woman has a 92.5% chance of being dead 6 years later.
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by khuey 4y ago
Most blackouts in California are not driven by electricity shortages but rather by hot and strong wind events that lead electric utilities to shut off certain transmission lines in rural areas to avoid sparking wildfires. This distinction p
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by khuey 4y ago
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by khuey 4y ago
Area codes that were not already using ten digit dialing and where the central office code 988 was already in use (i.e. there exist phone numbers in the area code of the form 988-NNNN) were required to switch to ten digit dialing for this (
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by khuey 4y ago
> One trick for better AT&T support here on the Peninsula may be to sign up through Sonic instead of directly with AT&T. In some areas like SF, Sonic runs their own fiber, in others they are an AT&T reseller - with the wrinkl
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by khuey 4y ago
And the long-awaited Soyuz/Crew Dragon seat swap agreement between Roscosmos and NASA was signed an hour or two later. That seems unlikely to be a coincidence.
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by khuey 4y ago
I think the motivation for the EU attempting to deter war on its eastern borders is straightforward.
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by khuey 4y ago
> The primary (?) advantage of methane over kerosene The other big advantage of methane for SpaceX is that it can (in theory) be synthesized chemically from the Martian atmosphere.
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by khuey 4y ago
He agreed to buy them at $44B and they're trading after the news broke at $26B, so Twitter shareholders clearly stand to lose a lot of money if this doesn't go through.
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by khuey 4y ago
> Especially our government. Spending. Salaries. It all needs to be public. A lot of it is. In California for example you can go look up any public employee's compensation at https://transparentcalifornia.com/
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by khuey 4y ago
The flights that are doing that are short haul flights from smaller cities to airline hubs, not long haul transoceanic flights from the US to Europe.
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by khuey 4y ago
I haven't read the opinion in detail but it doesn't appear they touched Chevron, merely ruling this particular case falls under the preexisting major questions doctrine/exception to Chevron.
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by khuey 4y ago
On the individual side, all personal interest (e.g. credit card interest) was deductible and you could claim dependents (and their corresponding deductions) without any evidence (like a child's social security number).
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by khuey 4y ago
If `strace`ing a process fixes your problem you should try `perf trace`ing it instead. It works at a lower level (using kernel tracepoints rather than the ptrace API) so it disturbs the traced process less, at the cost of having less powerf

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