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by sigwinch 8mo ago
The 12 days back in June depleted half of Iran’s stockpile and a quarter of the US interceptor global stockpile.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
Or, as the Canadian press wonders, right now, today and continuously, how can we tell if he’s lost his mind?
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
The Kavanaugh rule specifically permits it. If you’re taking odds that this Supreme Court will challenge the Kavanaugh rule, I’ll wager 1:1 against.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
I think his legacy is about stegography and cryptography. I think he relied on handwritten volumes and couldn’t adapt his cryptographic techniques.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
It’s been over 100 years since the exchange was closed for war. They might open it for manual trading if algorithmic (80% of volume) is attacked. I bet we would never get attribution and that the US admin benefits by saying any damage mus
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
Ideally, what should the stamp say?
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
Donald Jr, on the Polymarket board, might have tried that.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
I think it’ll be close to that. Probably some of these benefits-heavy red states.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
We did this with variations of white space characters.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
Or, maybe in a less-literal way, some change might have happened to scripts? Both Egypt and Assyria had female scribes.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
> “Out of the thousands of scripts that are gender-specific to men…” I only know of one, otokode in Japan.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
No, but I don’t think ethics is #2. Someone intrinsically motivated might be technically competent, autonomous and self-confident about his/her goals. I might skip your meetings about ethics; I might be too busy.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
There are several lies in this. The objective of a Confederate victory was to enforce slavery farther south. Mexico was a few years away from collapsing. Brazil would emancipate within 20 years. Would the Confederacy last 20 years as the la
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
The Rockefeller and Ford foundations funded the most successful crop improvement programs. I imagine finance tried to persuade them to use that money somewhere else.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
I don’t hate traders, I just wonder about Jeffrey Skilling graduating Harvard at the top of his class. In aggregate, is it too risky to need so many like him in finance?
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
Would you count Borlaug’s work as biotech?
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
“gift” link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/world/europe/russia-black...
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Russians Shiver as War Worsens Underfunding of Heat and Power Systems(nytimes.com)
3 points by sigwinch 8mo ago|3 comments
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
There's a movement to write JSON to fd 3, as a machine-parsable alternative to rickety fd 1.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
In the past, it was impossible for the Democrats to simultaneously support the needs of labor and their big donors. I wonder if these trends indicate that the party is choosing one over the other?
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
Maybe starting with WorldCom? The banking sector committed fraud along the way, and early after Lehman collapsed, observers wondered aloud about the moral hazard of bailing out everyone without making an example of someone . Worldcom had a
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
Site says he won the election with less than 50% of the popular vote.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
Trump won the election with less than 50% of the popular vote. He has never enjoyed an approval rating equal to or higher than 50%.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
I thought that was communicated by the 134 lbs and objection to pornography.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
Reminds me of Julius Caesar describing the druids. Part of his political career meant precisely performing important orthopraxy. He probably didn’t meet a druid, but amazingly described them playing the same role he did as Pontifex Maximus.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
When she started the CIA described her personality as naively honest. She concludes that the way they treat honest people makes it an unwise career choice. But, a pathological fantasist might have quite a different experience and no motiv
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
Also, noting Peru, this happened on every inhabited continent. The USA figure of 120,000 interned isn’t even high on the list. Stalin interned 180,000 Koreans just in case.
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
Nitpick: it’s not like the FBI investigated a 12-year-old with a library card. That would be humiliating. They investigated an alarming new cipher and doggedly ran down any possibility of a West Coast sleeper cell during an era of Japanese
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
They don’t ask about any of that. If in a drunken blackout you find a USB drive on the subway and plug it in, the system is concerned about the blackout state and not the USB. It’s self preservation depends on telling the difference between
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by sigwinch 8mo ago
I think you’re right. These are human systems always fighting the prior battle. Nowadays, it’s probably true that the threat from digital hygiene exceeds any intention to leak. The way that’s demonstrated is by the Secretary of Defense misu

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