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by species9606 4y ago
The US bombs the air defense, then it bombs whatever else.
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by species9606 4y ago
Relevant interview with Senator Schumer: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/3-objects-flying-us-canada-b... He's claiming they're all balloons, and that recovering them has been an intelligence windfall for the
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by species9606 4y ago
“Roughly 1,900 people work at the company” Doing what?
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by species9606 4y ago
Not to worry, HBO Max has replaced all that with “Velma.”
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by species9606 4y ago
There aren’t any resources in interstellar space. It’s a near-perfect vacuum and the temperature is a uniform 3 Kelvins.
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by species9606 4y ago
> I read somewhere (don't remember where) that if a ship constantly accelerates in space, it can reach another star system in a few decades and another galaxy in less than a century. The problem is, it also has to slow down and stop
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by species9606 4y ago
Yes, I had one, and it was awesome. The thing went high enough to disappear from view, then gyro’ed safely back to earth.
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by species9606 4y ago
Meta comment, I love HN for comments like this. Collectively, this website is a super-brain that’s far more impressive than any language model.
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by species9606 4y ago
Binance will likely be subject to clawback of the funds FTX used to buy them out. If they can still be fully liquid after surrendering $2 billion, they just might make it - assuming the rest of their balance sheet is legitimate and accurate
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by species9606 4y ago
As CZ has said repeatedly, they’re not a Chinese company. If the CCP bails them out, they’ll have an entirely new set of reputation problems.
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by species9606 4y ago
I predict Binance will collapse before the end of this year.
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by species9606 4y ago
Right near the CalTech campus, there was a barbershop owned and operated by a sole older gentleman. You’d sit down, tell him what you wanted, and he’d give you a magazine (often Scientific American) and cut your hair in silence. It was perf
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by species9606 4y ago
Yeah, this chart didn’t really make much sense. I think it’s mostly a setup for the “Tories” joke.
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by species9606 4y ago
You have a point, but you may be thinking of the CDOs they and other sold, knowing that they were full of risky mortgages but laundering them through overly-chummy ratings firms.
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by species9606 4y ago
Yes, we had a neurosurgeon run for the Presidency who, according to experts, had some foolish tax policies he wanted to implement. You don’t hear me making pronouncements on tax policy, because I don’t know enough about it. Nor should a “ha
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by species9606 4y ago
“state certified harm reduction counselor here” Which means almost nothing. Unless you’re a pharmacologist, or a neuroscientist (as I am), please refrain from giving scientific opinions in this field.
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by species9606 4y ago
“VICE News reached out to several manufacturers and retailers that sell tianeptine to ask for comment on the health concerns surrounding the drug but did not receive a response.” Name them. Why not?
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by species9606 4y ago
Indict them too. There’s every indication that they were beneficial participants of the scheme.
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by species9606 4y ago
The reputation washing will have a mixed effect, since he’s portraying himself as both innocent and incompetent. Not sure I’d do business with someone like that.
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by species9606 4y ago
You should watch “The Unbrellas of Cherbourg” to experience a world absolutely full of color, color everywhere, and more beautiful because of it. Not every city has to have the same chromatic sensibility as men’s business wear.
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by species9606 4y ago
The term originated in avionics, I believe with the F-16. Before that, IR imaging was top-down, something mounted under spy and reconnaissance planes.
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by species9606 4y ago
Recent example: Kalthi
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by species9606 4y ago
I’d say that’s true up to a point, and that point is when unsophisticated customers watch an FTX commercial during the Super Bowl and then send $10K into SBF’s pocket. Those people are innocent.
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by species9606 4y ago
That would be terrific, certainly. MC and Visa fees in the US are outrageous, though Congress seems to finally be taking a look at this. I wonder, though, if there’s an inevitable tradeoff between efficiency and decentralization? The credi
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by species9606 4y ago
If you can afford one, which most people can’t.
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by species9606 4y ago
Merriam-Webster, 2023: “No it wasn’t, we never said that.”
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by species9606 4y ago
It is a solved problem, UPSIDE (and I believe one other company) now have animal-component-free medium.
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by species9606 4y ago
This is wrong. UPSIDE’s meat is grown in animal component free medium. That’s one of their key innovations.
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by species9606 4y ago
Exactly this. The "AI race" is yet another nuclear arms race, where the American public is terrified into believing in some sort of (nonexistent) capabilities gap, and the only way to avoid utter defeat is to funnel billions, eve
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by species9606 4y ago
I added an edit, indicating that this thread already has quite a bit of it.

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