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by vba616 5y ago
True, and that is why I didn't write 'A judge recently called him a "liar"'.
902.
by vba616 5y ago
Sidetracked Home Executives by Pam Young and Peggy Jones. I don't follow every bit of their advice, but some of the principles have stayed with me.
903.
by vba616 5y ago
A judge recently said he was a liar and it was so far beyond dispute that a jury would not be allowed to decide for themselves, as they might be influenced by Musk's ongoing public BSing such as with the TED talk. So, no, informed peop
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by vba616 5y ago
What I've read is that they did not discuss numbers. People start from the assumption that rich people can get away with any kind of BS, but usually that doesn't apply amongst themselves. As the richest person in the world, perhap
905.
by vba616 5y ago
Perhaps the canopy is supposed to be jettisoned, but the system is designed to send people right through it if that doesn't work.
906.
by vba616 5y ago
>Mental disabilities are frequently easier to hide (much like being bi is easier to hide than being homosexual), which means that people with mental illnesses/disabilities are more likely to know how people treat them before and aft
907.
by vba616 5y ago
What if the rotor destruct system fired when you weren't ejecting tho? I can't find the specific incident easily by Googling, but I read a long time ago about an incident, possibly with F-16s, a training exercise where suddenly a
908.
by vba616 5y ago
Meanwhile, in Soviet Russia: "For improved pilot survivability the Ka-50 is fitted with a NPP Zvezda K-37-800 ejection seat, which is a rare feature for a helicopter." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-50
909.
by vba616 5y ago
>This is why the type of disability activism you see in identity politics is usually limited to mental illnesses You are using the term "mental illness" in a way that seems to exclude people for whom it is obviously a disabil
910.
by vba616 5y ago
"What If We Nuke the Moon? (Kurzgesagt)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25435819
911.
by vba616 5y ago
Ouzo, not orzo & pastis not pasta?
912.
by vba616 5y ago
There was an item on HN and elsewhere, probably reposted every so often, where a researcher asked a bunch of people to draw a bicycle from memory, and not one of them drew something physically reasonable. So that seems to suggest that about
913.
by vba616 5y ago
Do the policies that people are worrying about have anything to do with what people can study, what books are in the library, or what people can write about? I'm not convinced that restrictions on speech in class are really silencing s
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by vba616 5y ago
It's the democratic aspect that is used to argue that US citizens are responsible for the actions of their government. Besides, a democratic republic is a democracy, just like a dwarf planet is a planet.
915.
by vba616 5y ago
Perhaps there's a distinction he and others fail to make most of the time - free speech is generally good, but being free to listen and speak to those who want to listen might be sufficient for a free society, and a more fundamenta
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by vba616 5y ago
Unrelated, but a coincidence from 1946: "To go near The Pit was slow, certain death, and it was respected and feared, and would be for centuries more. It winked and blinked redly at night, and was surrounded by a bald and broken tract
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by vba616 5y ago
I often wonder what it would've been like growing up with an older brother.
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by vba616 5y ago
Earlier this year, Putin gave a speech about why Russia was invading Ukraine that went on and on about history, but conspicuously, even flagrantly, omitted any mention of the Nazi-Soviet pact. It's clear this is a very sore point for
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by vba616 5y ago
I think people have been saying for a long time that Americans are especially responsible because the US is a democracy and not a dictatorship. On the other hand, it is often claimed, and seems plausible to many, that the "military ind
920.
by vba616 5y ago
I have seen nobody mention it, but is "Z" by any chance associated with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z_(film) ? I was thinking perhaps Russians are thinking of the opposition being zombies in much
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by vba616 5y ago
>I tried getting a rental property by just offering 6 months rent up-front and a large deposit in a major tech town, because I had it in cash and didn't want to share more info than I needed to with the homeowner: they flat-out refu
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by vba616 5y ago
>getting raped at a payday loan kind of place where they take 40% and all your PII I think that's an exaggeration. At least, the last time I went to a check cashing place in the early 2000s, that was not true. Fees are high compared
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by vba616 5y ago
"American dream" suggests to me something distinctive that happens in America. Neither your modest scenario nor becoming a millionaire are specific to the US. And neither can possibly happen for all Americans. So if that's
924.
by vba616 5y ago
I agree there may be no intention to produce the article as it came out. I was not using the word "responsible" to mean "caused the end result intentionally". If I run over a squirrel with my car, it's not intentio
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by vba616 5y ago
The pattern that I pointed out, that includes Von Braun, and Musk, is of people who, whatever their advantages and sins, were not privileged enough to be born in the US, and they then found unimaginably more opportunity in the US than in
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by vba616 5y ago
I'm not following you. I didn't take "Companies 101." Nobody has zero interest in society, unless they are a rogue AI that isn't programmed to believe in physical reality at all. Also, nobody owns 51% of Twitter sto
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by vba616 5y ago
If you say you don't like nature, well, sure, I'm not going to argue that. You're entitled to your preferences. I certainly don't like mosquitos. But if you say you would like to live on Pluto, I have trouble constructin
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by vba616 5y ago
>The shareholders of Twitter don’t have interests beyond making a profit The shareholders of Twitter generally have 99.9% of their assets in other companies. Therefore their interest in profits doesn't necessarily translate to an in
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by vba616 5y ago
Diversified shareholders. People who have much more of an interest in society than Twitter.
930.
by vba616 5y ago
An "interest" seems to me like it has a bit of a connotation beyond a "preference". It suggests some substantial motivation that I'm not sure ESG policies rise to the level of. Individuals working for Vanguard have

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