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by themgt 3y ago
Those are real interest rates. The real rate currently is still extremely low. There's still a huge difference between an economy where you get: * 2% mortgage, 2% real growth and 2% inflation * 7% mortgage, 0% real growth and 5% infl
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by themgt 4y ago
This BBC article from 7 years back is a great read [0]: For its part, Airbus Safran does not envisage making Ariane 6 recoverable, not in the short term. Mr Charmeau believes that different market conditions apply in Europe and the US, w
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by themgt 4y ago
NPR was founded by the CPB, which was created with an act of Congress and is governed by a board of directors selected by the President. If it's "mendacious" to claim NPR is state affiliated, presumably it would be completely
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Photos of Ukrainian UAV used to drop 82mm mortar rounds equipped with a Starlink(twitter.com)
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Ignore the conspiracy theories: scientists know Covid-19 wasn't created in a lab(theguardian.com)
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Russia’s pockets of support are growing in the developing world(eiu.com)
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by themgt 4y ago
[Off-topic] but they've got absolutely bizarre webserver/blog behavior. I noticed "page not found" flash briefly on my screen before the content loaded, and indeed you can confirm with curl or network inspector it's
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by themgt 4y ago
You can check their latest numbers at Yahoo Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DOCN/financials?p=DOCN A 60% margin, wow, can't do much better than that! What's their P/E ratio? Oh ...
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by themgt 4y ago
How exactly does the FBI asking a private sector company to take down posts violate this amendment? In our system, law including the Constitution is interpreted by the judiciary. You could as well ask "where is the Miranda warning in
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by themgt 4y ago
Just found this article with some research from earlier polymetallic nodule mining finding significantly decreased carbon sequestration in the mined areas. Won't be great news if mining the "Planet’s Largest Deposit of Battery Met
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by themgt 4y ago
China just built a new space station by itself in about 18 months. A lot of these rationalizations for going the slow bloated pork route are going to evaporate as it becomes clearer we have a great power peer competitor. Hopefully it doesn&
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by themgt 4y ago
Weird take since NASA's Artemis page on landing humans on the Moon opens with a giant rendering of Starship on the Moon[1] and their plan[2] for getting to the Moon involves ~6-8 Starship launches plus orbital refueling against 1 SLS l
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by themgt 4y ago
As a result of our unprecedented sanctions, the ruble was almost immediately reduced to rubble. The Russian economy is on track to be cut in half. It was ranked the 11th biggest economy in the world before this invasion — and soon, it
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by themgt 4y ago
Interesting little discussion linked about this fork of WAI from wit-bindgen: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wit-bindgen/issues/306
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by themgt 4y ago
Frank Karlitschek also tweeted just two weeks ago: "Elon Musk just axed key Twitter teams. Sure. Who needs human rights, accessibility, AI ethics and curation. " Not sure I fully understand the synthesis of "communication is
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by themgt 4y ago
It's incredible that SBF was being touted by Sequoia, WEF, Fortune, chumming it up with Clinton and Blair in the Bahamas, getting meetings and kid glove treatment with the SEC, relatively glowing profile as a "do-gooder" by t
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by themgt 4y ago
"Musk killed the California bullet train" is basically a pizzagate-level conspiracy theory. The NYT reporting among many others makes clear the tragicomic level of shambolic mismanagement from the CA gov't. The state was war
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by themgt 4y ago
In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA, lists Swarm Technologies as one of their startups. I bet the military/intelligence community has all sorts of ideas!
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A “Safety Emergency” Happened at Wuhan Institute of Virology in November of 2019(marginalrevolution.com)
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by themgt 4y ago
I don't think the tweet said regulation is bad by definition. The beauty of a simple < 280 chars tweet is that it can contain ambiguity and admit multiple readings. The way I read it is more like if you substituted the EU for say, S
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by themgt 4y ago
America: Let's have a party. I'll bring the software! China: I'll bring the hardware! EU: I'll bring the regulation! - @paulg https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1231699385525903360
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by themgt 4y ago
As a counterpoint, a recently released via FOIA transcript of Obama to reporters in the last days of his presidency: Obama: Privately, that's not -- [Trump's] interactions with me are very different than they are with the public,
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by themgt 4y ago
There was a cooperative agreement between the USSR and host country Cuba in 1962 to move nuclear missiles to 90 miles from the US mainland.
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by themgt 4y ago
The resident hawk at National Review is already doing a touchdown dance. "Who Will Rid Me of This Meddlesome Pipeline?" Three leaks in two days? Wow, that’s a shame! Sounds like the pipeline’s falling apart and just won’t be a re
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Nord Stream AG operator says looking into decline in pressure in Nord Stream 1(reuters.com)
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U.S. Officials Grow More Concerned About Potential Action by China on Taiwan(nytimes.com)
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by themgt 4y ago
I realize this is more of a pop culture, human-framed narrative driven story but words like "insulin", "leptin", "mitochondria", "carb(ohydrate)", "glycemic", "glycogen", "ket
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U.S. public health agencies aren't ‘following the science,’ officials say(commonsense.news)
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More Regulation Please(npatterson.substack.com)
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My guess is this comment is not going to age well. Fundamentally the point this article is making is: how many of those weapons / missiles do we have in the entire NATO stockpile? What's the annual production rate? How fast can th

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