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by smcin 2y ago
It's not all "very likely" the next president of France would be far right. The 2024 French legislative (not Presidential) snap election was Macron calling the electorate's bluff that even though they disliked low growth
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Merz (CDU) is the new chancellor-elect, Scholz (SPD) was the previous chancellor (although really hed of a weak, unstable three-party "traffic-light" coalition). Weidel (AfD) also doubled voteshare to 20.8%. The SPD and also the G
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by smcin 2y ago
Quora 2011 = Treehouse 2020. An invite-only community with a lot of specialist knowledge.
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It's no more "strange" than US Senators from Wyoming or N Dakota or Vermont or Alaska having a veto. To pick one example, the US Senate veto is why the US consistently refused to recognize the Armenian genocide for many decad
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Who absorbed 5 million Ukrainian refugees? Europe, not the US. (Even Canada took more). And there could be millions more yet depending on the ceasefire/settlement arrangement. Who paid € billions more in energy costs since 2022? Europe
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I know that. There's nothing forcing you to join Quora+ premium subscription to see a small subset of answers. I wouldn't. Most Quora users don't. It's not necessary. The vast majority of Quora posters are unmonetized, a
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Quora was fantastic back around 2011. It did provide value. That has been decreasing gradually as the site declined. No you don't have to pay on Quora to get answers; that's incorrect. Having said that, these days most questions l
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by smcin 2y ago
Many prior threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Automattic
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Well yes for a strictly non-consumer company, since their revenues don't depend on Superbowl, Valentine's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Amazon Prime Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving/Cyber Monday, Christmas. They prob
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by smcin 2y ago
Cheap asymmetric warfare against an adversary without electronic countermeasures. Not just port defense. The Ukraine war showed satellite-guided USV ships could work against a Russian navy ship (Sergey Kotov, damaged 9/2023 and then su
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Saronic raises $600M in Series C to mass-produce autonomous warships(techcrunch.com)
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Quadrupling its valuation to $4bn from its last round 7/2024. Plans to build a shipyard ('Port Alpha') for 24ft autonomous surface vessels (ASVs), and in future large unmanned ships. Defense tech is the new hot sector in Sili
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Also got into the news at TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/hackers-planted-a-steam-ga... - PirateFi was designed to distribute Vidar [info-stealer] payload - PirateFi was built with minimal effor
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by smcin 2y ago
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Steam did in fact did remake a isometric 2D of "The Warlock of Firetop Mountain": https://store.steampowered.com/app/324740/The_Warlock_of_Fir... alongside the classic (static HTML images) book version:
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by smcin 2y ago
Noone suggested cheapness, efficiency, and a lack of repetitive tasks were goals, this is a bad-faith take on what I wrote. I said if you want to play those titles a) right now without all the months of wait and uncertainty of a Kickstarter
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3M's decades-long litigation about PFAS: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=PFAS+3M And even after the settlements ever get resolved and it's no longer being produced in developed countries, economics says they'll jus
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Not just due to the Pb dust though, also Al, Fe, Cu, fiberglass: "Mineralogical analysis of dust collected from typical recycling line of waste printed circuit boards" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art
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by smcin 2y ago
i.e. reprint the books. You can get them as video games on Steam, with isometric 2D graphics and it automates away the dice-rolling and bookkeeping (and also allows you cheat and reroll any roll up to two more times). For cheaper than this
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by smcin 2y ago
What their current (advertising) revenues ($3.1bn?) are is only one piece of their valuation; their future growth depends also on whether you think they'll add micropayments and get regulatory approval. If they did, they could pass out
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Archive: https://archive.ph/dFUAe Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group 7/2023 for $4.9bn, a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), and is one of their 5 properties. ... Savv
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Ok. A better, less ephemeral link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_resolution_operator#PHP . 'T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM' is the PHP parser's name for the '::' double-colon/scope-resolut
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Noone suggested Microsoft caused REM. I agreed with you that their separate rises happened to have similar trajectories, your observation was interesting, and I suggested there's not much to it beyond a loose correlation.
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That's cool. I just noticed after skimming it, and mentioned.
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(Public education, that is. Private education is allowed do things very differently.) Here are two people from the Cato Institute [0] cheerfully expounding their ideological belief that the US Constitution doesn’t give the federal governmen
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by smcin 2y ago
Sounds like 'spurious correlations', a la Tyler Vigen [ https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations ] - compare to the cost of butter or the number of pirates in Maine, et al. Anyway there's going to be co
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by smcin 2y ago
It's not some unspecified "they". It's because the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 forbids the US having a national curriculum, and hence having nationwide-standardized tests of an entire curriculu
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Also the article quotes you.
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Some of it might also be NSFW content. Patreon has restrictions on such things.
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I meant non-slur insulting words like 'fail', 'idiot', 'joke'. Since you asked for lists, some Redditor links at (trigger warning: contains some very offensive words): https://www.reddit.com/r&#

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