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by themgt 1y ago
SpaceX has two big things going for it: Starship/Raptor factories churning them out cheap, and themselves as a paying customer in Starlink who can dogfood a risky new launch platform. Now that they're demoed pez-dispensing v3 dumm
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Microsoft worked with FBI to prevent its employees from speaking out on Gaza(twitter.com)
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Deeper Than Deep: David Reich's genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past (2017)(laphamsquarterly.org)
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by themgt 1y ago
I’ll be honest: there is a very good chance this won’t work .... At the same time, the China concerns are real, Intel Foundry needs a guarantee of existence to even court customers, and there really is no coming back from an exit. There wo
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by themgt 1y ago
We’ve worked hard to ensure that cultivated salmon cells are the first ingredient in our salmon saku (after water). After we harvest our cells, we integrate them with plant components to create the desired texture and flavor of a tradition
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China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon(arstechnica.com)
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Suddenly, Trait-Based Embryo Selection(astralcodexten.com)
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by themgt 1y ago
There's disposable FPV drones that launch with 50km spools of kevlar cable. Seems like smart people could work out a way to "hitch" a probe on a comet without fully matching velocities first.
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by themgt 1y ago
If you see a bank that says "federally chartered" or "federal deposit insurance corporation", stay clear!
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by themgt 1y ago
i never saw anybody been against migration of population out of war zone to safety. I can't think of any comparable historical example of declaring a people's entire territory a war zone and migrating a substantial/majority
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by themgt 1y ago
If you don't believe Gaza's health ministry, how about Agence France-Presse? The journalists' association of the French wire service Agence France-Presse (AFP) warned on Monday that staff working with the agency in Gaza are
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Structural and semantic deficiencies in the systemd architecture(blog.darknedgy.net)
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by themgt 1y ago
This project looked like an interesting example of what was possible: https://github.com/atopile/spin-servo-drive https://github.com/atopile/cell-sim/ also quite interessting.
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by themgt 1y ago
Just do a quick skim of China's reusable rocket projects: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1lncgi8/status_of_ch... There's over a dozen! They're blatantly ripping off SpaceX, which
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by themgt 1y ago
This is like asking why your employee stopped showing up for work after you fired them.
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by themgt 1y ago
The JCPOA limit was 3.67%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...
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by themgt 1y ago
This looks really cool, but I gotta say I'm a bit uneasy with the apparent(?) closed-source + hosted + branding. "mix phx.new" is the way to generate a new Phoenix project, but "Phoenix.new" is closed source Fly.io
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by themgt 1y ago
The problem Kubernetes solves is "how do I deploy this" ... so I go to Rivet (which does look cool) docs, and the options are: * single container * docker compose * manual deployment (with docker run commands) But erm, realistical
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by themgt 1y ago
Actually they're already "joking" on Israeli TV that Turkey is next, and AEI is on the case making it clear we may need to go to war to take out Turkey next. https://x.com/clashreport/status/19350780
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by themgt 1y ago
Some related topics I find interesting to ponder in relation to the Rwandan genocide and more broadly: Accusation in a mirror: Accusation in a mirror is a false claim that accuses the target of something that the perpetrator is doing or in
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Incident with Actions(githubstatus.com)
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Prepare for archival(github.com)
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by themgt 1y ago
There's a lot to love, but e.g. the whole S2 arc where the Empire is provoking and covertly encouraging a rebellion on the planet they want to gut for resources - our protagonist gets a bad feeling about helping the amateur hour rebels
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A Bead Too Far: Rethinking Global Connections Before Columbus(peterfrankopan.substack.com)
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by themgt 1y ago
CICO, like most tautologies, is both definitionally true and fairly useless. Like being asked for financial advice and just saying "MIMO".
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by themgt 1y ago
A few other commenters have alluded to it, but Obama's 2011 (and then 2014/2016) "Dear Colleague" letters are critical to understanding what's going on here. As FIRE tells it: In April 2011, the United States Depar
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GraalVM Compile Javac to WebAssembly(graalvm.github.io)
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Yale sells up to $6B of its PE portfolio amid federal funding challenge(secondariesinvestor.com)
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by themgt 2y ago
> We don't yet have humanoid robots but they're on the design table, so it may be time to fasten your seat belt. Right ... so about that, here's Morgan Stanley's report on humanoid robots from a couple months ago: In
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by themgt 2y ago
c.f. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/issues/2416

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