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mmooss
6mo ago
Many users leave their browsers open for months.
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mmooss
6mo ago
The article doesn't seem to reveal the source of its information about these alleged disappearances. Is it the letters from the members of Congress? Also, what interest would a foreign power have in planetary defense against asteroids?
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mmooss
6mo ago
I just looked it up, and found this in a Philadelphia newspaper: "The numbers of homicides and shooting victims in Philadelphia have continued their sharp declines since the pandemic. There were 222 homicides last year, the fewest sin
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mmooss
6mo ago
Note this exchange with the OP author: > [Paper author:] Englund's claim that the Model 680 "records raw light measurements as it sees them without any post-processing" is incorrect. [...] It converts analog intensity sign
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mmooss
6mo ago
Now the personal attacks; I'd rather ride with the person who talks to themself than the person telling me what I must think (or else I lack dignity!) - which of course is what they think. > not put up with that That's a bit co
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mmooss
6mo ago
> Quote me where I talked about difficulty of bringup (layperson: “ramping up”) production. In your GGP comment you wrote, "Making it isn’t hard. The issue is that it’s such a low margin product that anyone spinning up a facility wi
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6mo ago
> I’d say the most prevalent attitude I see towards Canada is to wish you well. Trump has said otherwise many times and in many ways, and is elected and widely supported. That conveys a lot, regardless of your anecdotal experience.
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mmooss
6mo ago
The article says it would be difficult to ramp up other production. What is your claim based on?
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6mo ago
> weekly or monthly basis So not "extremely common" as the commenter upthread said. > liquid left on seats As in, something spilled? > litter Lol. Only on a weekly or monthly basis? > gag-inducing smelly people I think
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mmooss
6mo ago
Invest in futures contracts to make the price for you more predictable and within a narrower range.
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mmooss
6mo ago
That's not what the article is talking about as a chokepoint, and it does describe US bromine production.
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mmooss
6mo ago
> preventing athletes from modifying their biochemistry turns most sports into a genetic lottery showcase. Genetics are necessary to a point, and are not at all sufficient. Any follower of a sport knows of athletes with incredible geneti
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mmooss
6mo ago
> What else are you looking to see from such deep space? Deep space itself - that's what the Voyagers are measuring.
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mmooss
6mo ago
If you make that number round, others become not-round. I read [0] that the meter was defined as 1 / 10,000,000th of the distance from the equator to the (north?) pole. The measurement on which that was based was wrong and the actual d
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6mo ago
> the sequence of commands to shut down the instrument will take 23 or so hours to reach the spacecraft Closing in on one light day!
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6mo ago
> Engineers are confident that shutting down the LECP will give Voyager 1 about a year of breathing room. They are using the time to finalize a more ambitious energy-saving fix for both Voyagers they call “the Big Bang,” which is designe
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mmooss
6mo ago
These are clearly leaks and probably violate other laws. If the Trump administration actually cared, they would pursue them. They aggressively pursue other leaks, including searching journalists' property.
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mmooss
6mo ago
The full paper described in the article is available here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13070876/ Mark W. Moffett. The First Cleaner Ant? A Novel Partnership in the Arizona Desert. Ecology and Evolutio
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6mo ago
> It's extremely common for there to be human shit in the train cars, and lunatics going nuts Where does that come from? Not from your experience. You've never been on NY subways, clearly. I've never seen feces - and anywa
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6mo ago
> Philadelphia in 2025 had a higher murder rate than Belfast during the height of a civil war. Do you have a cite? In American cities crime is at generational lows, including / especially murder.
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6mo ago
That depends on an arbitrary perception of 'my tribe'. Irish and Italians used to riot against each other. Germans were hated (look up a quote from Benjamin Franklin). Protestants and Catholics used to riot. Every wave of immigran
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mmooss
6mo ago
> I’ve been upset about this for thirty years Completely normal. Trauma at a certain level, unlike other memories and emotions, doesn't seem impacted by time. I'm sorry to hear what happened to you. > that is quite normalize
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6mo ago
The burden of proof should be on not contaminating the water supply. That is too dangerous to risk. > Japan had great civil engineering for 100 years, they have made lots and lots and lots of tunnels. Japan overall has fantastic water qu
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mmooss
6mo ago
> I always hear all these weird stories The weird stories, about anything, are nonsense; sensationalized to either be emotoinally compelling or even active disinformation to serve some political end (especially about American cities, esp
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6mo ago
> Japan’s culture of harmony is a big part of why they were able to choose sensible regulations that benefitted everyone. Is there evidence of that? It sounds like a broad stereotype of a complex, large country by an ignorant outsider. &
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6mo ago
> Fight densification wherever someone tries to push it. What do you really mean? On that basis, we all would live on isolated farms on the prarie. Humans are social animals that live in groups, just like other primates. Humans like livi
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7mo ago
This approach means only a tiny portion of the population will every qualify. Doesn't that make everyone else beholden to those few, who are beholden to OpenAI? Another solution is to make software makers responsible and liable for the
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7mo ago
> look at Iran and US. Where is "rule of law"? Who is going to give it magically? Rule of law - in this case, international law - has governed the Strait of Hormuz and relations between the US and Iran for decades. It's no
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7mo ago
> it is part of the "packages" and totally depends on whether the one wants to use. Could you explain what packages are and what depends on (what?)? > Historically violence has been a very...effective tool. This is dramatic
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7mo ago
Why aren't databases the solution to many memory problems? Maybe this is a naive question: For example, for the invitations in the OP: Have Openclaw write incoming rsvps to a database, probably a flat file here, and use the db as persi
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