Hayvok

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by Hayvok 8mo ago
> This article assesses whether Hellenistic war-elephants were given alcohol before battle…Unfortunately, despite the recent rise in scholarly interest on war-elephants, this issue remains overlooked. This is the best abstract ever.
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by Hayvok 9mo ago
FoundationDB was originally a startup, purchased by Apple in 2015.
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by Hayvok 2y ago
Sadly — > "The number density of primordial black holes with a mass above this cutoff [MP BH > 1.4×1017g] is far too small to produce any observable effects on the human population."
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by Hayvok 2y ago
Ideally, trying to reform the government & its activities shouldn't require a team to burrow all the way down to the literal payments system & call individual balls and strikes. But I assume that is indicative of how unresponsi
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by Hayvok 2y ago
I thought the article was pretty level headed. Here’s the status, here’s the future, here’s what AUKUS is doing, here’s what China is doing and is capable of doing. What smugness or jingoism were you referring to? I actually found it refres
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by Hayvok 2y ago
This is the way.
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by Hayvok 2y ago
Married, 4 kids, she’s stay at home mom. Joint checking, savings, investments, home ownership, cars, everything. I do most of the account management and planning because she hates doing it. We have no concept of fairness in spending. If she
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by Hayvok 2y ago
If you mean the subsequent detonation of an ICBM in the atmosphere, I think we are in uncharted waters there. The expert discussions of what effect the atmosphere-EMP would be is fascinating/horrifying to read.
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by Hayvok 2y ago
In your water example, perhaps that liter of water used to cool the datacenter is offering software to a hospital that offers life saving treatments. How will you measure the trade-off of a liter of water used one way vs. another? Likewise,
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by Hayvok 2y ago
> I think we need better regulation of these companies to prevent them from doing actual damage rather than trusting them to self-regulate against hypothetical ones. What is the actual damage you are concerned about and determined to reg
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by Hayvok 2y ago
I think the unspoken assumption here is that China is already producing at near-maximum capacity, while the United States is barely trying and has lots of headroom. Is the assumption correct? I haven't been able to find a study on Amer
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by Hayvok 2y ago
Population is a single, low-resolution parameter into a theoretical ship-building-capacity equation, which really needs a basket of parameters. Raw resource availability, fuel capabilities, naval training, coastline details, etc. Great Brit
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by Hayvok 2y ago
American, yes. Can’t speak for the whole country, but in the Midwest, rural community I grew up in, people had a “better safe than sorry” attitude, and would call police on mere suspicion that you were up to no good or that something was am
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by Hayvok 2y ago
We did night CTF (~9 pm) at our local grade school campus. Easily 40-50 kids. We just rode our bikes to the gathering. Similar rules to what this article had, except no out of bounds. We had kids making huge circuits around a nearby corn fi
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by Hayvok 2y ago
> We asked adults who say the public education system is going in the wrong direction why that might be. About half or more say the following are major reasons: > Schools not spending enough time on core academic subjects, like readin
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by Hayvok 2y ago
> I remember hearing about "Daniel in the Lion's Den" and Daniel sitting in flames in church and in my Children's Bible stories. Minor nitpick, but it was Daniel's three friends who were thrown into the furnace,
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by Hayvok 2y ago
You mentioned twice focus on inputs instead of outputs - can you elaborate further? This feels counterintuitive to me.
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by Hayvok 3y ago
> What Thursday's revelatory reentry footage promises is a world in which launch is cheap and abundant. No longer will we need to worry so much about mass or volume, which have been tyrannical overlords to mission planners since the
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by Hayvok 3y ago
Here’s the KKR link - https://media.kkr.com/news-details/?news_id=48701629-ae4d-4d... VMWare (Broadcom) link - https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2024/02/broadcoms-euc-division-...
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by Hayvok 3y ago
Great to hear about your MIL improving! Last year my wife got the “you need to lose weight now or else” speech from her doctor. Diabetic signs starting to appear in her numbers. I was terrified for her. 12 months of Wegovy and she is down 5
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by Hayvok 3y ago
> [Gila monster] venom helped to turn an obscure hormone into potent diabetes medications, and then into the most promising weight-loss treatments in history. We’re still discovering how much they’ll change our lives. How many times have
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by Hayvok 3y ago
No doubt the phrase “bring home the bacon” will outlive our civilization and future historians will confidently assert to one another that we were all paid in rashers of bacon.
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by Hayvok 3y ago
The review thread (start at the bottom & work your way up) reads like a Show HN thread that went negative. The paper initially received some questions/negative feedback, so the authors updated and tweaked the reviewers a bit — >
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by Hayvok 3y ago
> [CTO] Elshenawy reiterated the company would be narrowing and refocusing its efforts, information shared last month following the resignation of co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt and some executive shuffling that included appointing Craig G
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by Hayvok 3y ago
If you're like me, and you had no idea what "goodwill impairment" meant, and wondering 'what does this billion dollar expense get Etsy?' Investopedia: "Goodwill impairment occurs when a company decides to pay m
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by Hayvok 3y ago
> Now for the harder part: why do some young Americans embrace such views? Perhaps surprisingly, education levels do not appear to be the culprit... the proportion of respondents who believe that the Holocaust is a myth is similar across
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by Hayvok 3y ago
That's what I'm curious about — everybody went up significantly in 2022, but if China was paying double for imports, then why wasn't everybody else having to pay double as well? China procures most of their lithium through
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by Hayvok 3y ago
> The spot price of battery-grade lithium carbonate, trading in Shanghai and serving as a benchmark I'm not sure why the Shanghai price is being used as the global benchmark without any qualification in this article, because in 2022
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by Hayvok 3y ago
Counter-drone warfare is going to be huge over the next couple decades, so this is very interesting to see. Drone warfare right now is small in numbers and small in range, because of limitations around the technology — even so it is having
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by Hayvok 3y ago
Now overlay all of the bases, airfields, and other assets throughout the Pacific. There are several islands that are effectively stationary aircraft carriers. In the event of any Pacific war with the Americans you would be staring down 8-10

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