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by science4sail 1y ago
A lot of Hacker News posters work for Google and/or SaaS crapware companies. There's economic self interest at play here.
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by science4sail 1y ago
But how does raising awareness help anything in this case? In the current political climate, companies are likely more afraid of presidential punishment for not supporting Israel than of any public disapproval for supporting Israel.
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by science4sail 1y ago
> This is easier than it sounds from a military perspective because Israel is small and simple to isolate. Does that sort of thing even work against nuclear powers? You could certainly isolate them like North Korea, but no country would
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by science4sail 1y ago
I thought that there were only four planets? Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
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by science4sail 1y ago
The banner doesn't always seem to display; here's the direct link to the White House YouTube if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLhwIQUE0DU
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by science4sail 1y ago
Tax havens aren't immune to economic disaster though. If the US dollar becomes worthless, then it doesn't matter how many dollars you have in your offshore bank account. Ditto if you're storing wealth as equities or bonds. R
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by science4sail 1y ago
> Nvidia, the report said, will “continue to spare no effort” to make products that comply with regulations and “unswervingly serve the Chinese market.” > A few weeks ago, Mr. Huang met with Mr. Trump in Mar-a-Lago at a dinner that co
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by science4sail 1y ago
I don't understand this question - professional wrestling is a form of sport/entertainment and generally irrelevant to international relations. Is "wrestling" supposed to be a metaphor for something else?
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by science4sail 2y ago
After looking at the author's bio, I don't think that the author of this article is particularly specialized in the Middle East. They probably have the same level of understanding of the area's ethnography as most Americans:
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by science4sail 2y ago
The article notes that state backed entities and the Chinese government itself are showing interest in DeepSeek. The investment money may be "an offer that they can't refuse".
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by science4sail 2y ago
If you're okay with just a flyby of the Voyager probes though, then you can use a laser sail. Breakthrough Starshot[1] is aiming for 60,000 km/s of delta-v. Lightsails have already been demonstrated several times in practice[2]. [
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by science4sail 2y ago
It's definitely doable. The "'Momentum Limited' Orion" concept[0] has a delta-v of 10,000 km/s, which should be plenty enough to catch up to either of the Voyager probes. It can also carry ~25,000 tons of paylo
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by science4sail 2y ago
As a thought experiment, if one wanted to advantage labor over capital, then a durable way to do so would be to engineer a simultaneous labor shortage and a capital surplus. The amazing Silicon Valley employee perks of the 2010s were the pr
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by science4sail 2y ago
Don't most billionaires have at least some of their assets in the American financial ecosystem? If so then one could find buyers via extortion: first sanction them or freeze their assets, then make permanent residents and citizens exem
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by science4sail 2y ago
When I hear about ESR nowadays, it's usually in the context of extreme right-wing politics. I'm not sure whether that's an accurate description of the man or a smear campaign against him. That said, if you dig into the Jargon
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by science4sail 2y ago
What other jobs? I guess that they could pull a fall-of-the-Soviet-Union scenario and sell their skills to foreign countries? Surely there must be a lot of countries interested in starting their own nuclear weapons programs in the aftermath
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by science4sail 2y ago
Probably similar given the same yield unless the bomber has some way to utilize the kinetic energy of the orbit. The difference though is that a nuking from orbit has less chance of retaliation since the aggressor is no longer on the same p
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by science4sail 2y ago
> In addition, BYD’s Xuanji architecture will be connected to the Deepseek R1 large model to improve the AI capabilities of the vehicle and the cloud. This part smells suspicious. Just like Volkswagen putting ChatGPT into their cars, t
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by science4sail 2y ago
I think that's a common phenomenon that I see among both right-wing and left-wing Americans. Both are convinced that the other side's leaders are morons and refuse to entertain the possibility that the other side is full of intell
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by science4sail 2y ago
Source WSJ article: https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-incorporation-texas-delware-f0... > Last year, Delaware’s legislature made it easier for big shareholders to use stockholder agreements to assume powers normally hel
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by science4sail 2y ago
What is a crime? At the end of the day, laws and legal processes are just social norms. To quote The Onion: "Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole"[0]
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by science4sail 2y ago
There's no need for evidence. The administration's belief is that DEIA is axiomatically "radical and wasteful", so any investigation would be nothing more than a Tautology Club[0] exercise. [0] https://xkcd.co
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by science4sail 2y ago
If you have too much free time, it may be worth reading the (long) "Debanking and Debunking" essay for an exploration of all of the perverse and bizarre behaviors that result from banks' fear of AML/KYC regulatory action
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by science4sail 2y ago
The 1990s-2010s Internet was a golden age in the sense that even though the Internet was a child of the US military-industrial-research complex, political powers didn't yet perceive it as a potential threat vector or even comprehend it
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by science4sail 2y ago
I think that the law "banning" TikTok applies to any Chinese app with over 1 million US users, so Xiaohongshu/Rednote or anywhere else the TikTok refugees flee will be a target - except YouTube shorts and Facebook/Instag
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by science4sail 2y ago
Perhaps the investors felt that DEI programs would produce benefits in the long run? For all the accusations of Wall Street short-termism, the stock market was very patient with Amazon during its reinvest-all-profit years and the Saudis wer
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by science4sail 2y ago
When you're living in the Metaverse, it doesn't matter whether all of the other players are biological humans or bots. Your friends, parents, spouse, and even children will all be LLMs. Humans will eventually go extinct, and then
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by science4sail 2y ago
Doesn't that strategy only work for a temporary amount of time? Surely investors will ask questions when Facebook claims that it has 100 billion active users?
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by science4sail 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42442922
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by science4sail 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42442922

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