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by throwaway5752 9mo ago
Yes. They are playing chess while the US is playing "shoot yourself in the dick".
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by throwaway5752 9mo ago
natural consequence of the post-truth world we live in We _currently_ live in. Truth and trust are older than computers. They will outlive computers, too. Computers and the system we have built will eventually yield to truth, not the othe
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by throwaway5752 9mo ago
It's stupid gambling, nothing more and nothing less. Sports gambling is at all-time highs, also, because people have money to waste and haven't faced consequences for their poor decision making. When people have less money - and u
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by throwaway5752 9mo ago
I'm afraid I completely disagree with you and am not interested in arguing further than this. Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Gaza, and so many others are atrocities but they are well understood by anyone with a casual understanding of 20th cent
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by throwaway5752 9mo ago
Gold stocks, basic materials, MSCI world and emerging market indexes. Look at their prices and see how very smart people are positioning their money.
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by throwaway5752 9mo ago
Holders of US debt have no obligation to give a shit about the statutory background of the Fed, and to just make decisions about who is the best fiduciary of their currency. If holders of US debt goes away, we have immediate inflation to th
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by throwaway5752 9mo ago
Yes, of fucking course it is. The US elected a convicted con artist who is incontrovertibly violating human rights law, breaking treaties with allies, militarily threatening neighbors, and in general making a global outcast of themselves. T
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by throwaway5752 9mo ago
Aging is lonelier and more stressful than ever. The aging brain is already less flexible and there is a net loss of synapses and brain mass. The internet has become a more unkind and manipulative place that ever. It is making people into th
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by throwaway5752 9mo ago
It's not okay to casually appreciate the vacation pictures of a corrupt Russian oligarch, even if they overlap with an area of technical interest. Kapersky is part of a corrupt regime that has killed tens of thousands of innocent Ukrai
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
> there are parts of the Florida keys Then allow me to ease your mind. Leeches are not a problem in the marine environment of the Florida Keys, unless you are a turtle. They person you replied to changed the topic slightly from the Everg
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
Incorrect. There is more fructose in HFCS used in Coke, HFCS 55. Fructose is metabolized in the liver, and stored as fat there. Glucose is directly metabolized by cells throughout the body. Also there is no single reason that HFCS is demoni
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
He's going to mortally wound the US economy, which was already precarious. The US is not competitive with China, absent the USD. The Federal Reserve is a foundational reason why the USD is the most important global currency for trade.
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
This is not some reciprocal action, it's just logical fallout that the US is no longer reliable as a military ally under this administration, and capable of electing similar leadership in the future. Much, much more of this is ahead. I
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
Plants and any organisms in photosynthesis-dependent food chains may have issues with modifying the degree of insolation. Also, again, the Mediterranian is 1/100-1/200th of global ocean surface area. And we have melted a lot of ic
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
You can mock this, but the data doesn't care what either of us think. Current Mediterranean water temps are +6C above normal, as observed over peak human civilization in the 20th century. That is 6kWh per cubic meter, in just the Medit
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
At this point you just have to make peace with very bad futures. We will all die, and sometimes there is nothing you can do to prevent things. To save the world, more people have to be willing to fight for this than currently are. The pure
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
One and the same. It would be like if I tried to call my product Tactical Software as a Service It would still only be software as a service, but I would just brand it in a way to make it more appealing to certain buyer personas without a
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
Forward Deployed Engineer = Consultant I will not allow Palantir to extend their reality distortion field to me. They are consultants. They are also engineers. Other places call them FEs. But they didn't invent some new class of engine
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
Question, are they morons? Is your disagreement with them really that simple? Was it necessary to call them that? I don't like posting this comment, because it will be distracting and tone policing. I was just going to downvote and fla
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
I missed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44760734 that previously posted about this.
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Trump orders firing of labor stats chief after data showed jobs growth slowed(theguardian.com)
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
I indelicately started a contentious topic that didn't have to exist. If I were given a fresh chance, I'd have just said that carbon emissions and the changes they are causing to the planet are a bigger problem than any single eco
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
Having a child is on of the most carbon intensive actions any given person can make. The numbers are what they are. Rich people have much greater obligation to reduce their emissions. They benefit most from economic activity and they cause
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
Yes. Poorer people buy things made overseas that requires a lot of shipping, and are lower quality that require more frequent replacement. They tend to have more children. They usually have more polluting energy sources. And there are many
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
While I think this is borderline in terms of following guidelines, it is much more concerning that the comment accurately quoted the source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/trump-effect-hig... nic
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
I've come to think that it is a case of "the distinctions between types of computer programs are a human construct" problem. I agree with you on a human level. Operators and controllers remind me of COM and CORBA, in a sense.
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
I feel like there is a straightforward biological analogue for this. But at in this case, one wouldn't subject to macro-scale nonlinear effects arising from the uncertainty principle when trying to "restore" the system.
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
I appreciate the civil and informed discussion. I appreciate your expertise and connections, but I think we will end up disagreeing. I think interested parties should look at the JATR report (Joint Authorities Technical Review Observations,
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
1. The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) system existed because the plane was unstable at high angles of attack. 2. The 737 MAX was unstable because Boeing wanted to milk the 737 airframe further than it should have bee
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by throwaway5752 1y ago
I see in a sibling comment that you do not think the MCAS system on the MAX was well designed, and the reliance on a single AoA sensor was not a good decision. I agree. The aircraft should have never been declared airworthy. There should ha

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