Red_Tarsius

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Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed(theguardian.com)
108 points by Red_Tarsius 6mo ago|210 comments
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Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy(aaronmate.net)
79 points by Red_Tarsius 7mo ago|101 comments
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by Red_Tarsius 10mo ago
I knew it was coming but I didn't expect my post to age so fast! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46027642 Less than a week a go I praised AI chatbots for their lack of intrusive content. It's the number one r
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Tell HN: ChatGPT is freaking amazing and I don't get the negativity
5 points by Red_Tarsius 10mo ago|6 comments
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Citation Diversity Statements(nature.com)
2 points by Red_Tarsius 11mo ago|0 comments
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White House's East Wing partially demolished as work begins on $250M ballroom(theguardian.com)
59 points by Red_Tarsius 11mo ago|23 comments
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Analyzing the scale of Trump's federal layoffs in his first 100 days(cnn.com)
6 points by Red_Tarsius 1y ago|0 comments
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by Red_Tarsius 1y ago
Cybersecurity is not my main field but this sounds beyond suspicious. > Berulis [...] and his colleagues grew even more alarmed when they noticed nearly two dozen login attempts from a Russian Internet address (83.149.30,186) that prese
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by Red_Tarsius 1y ago
New readers might enjoy the tale of Emperor Sh and the Traveller : https://sanctum.geek.nz/etc/emperor-sh-and-the-traveller.txt
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by Red_Tarsius 1y ago
I feel too many people conflate /pol/ with the whole website. I enjoyed browsing through sfw boards like /tg/ (tabletop media), /ck/ (cooking) and /fit/ (fitness). I had long discussions about the SW
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by Red_Tarsius 1y ago
The advancements in medical science alone make the comparison a non-starter. 200 years ago, around 40% of children died before the age of 15±. Any fracture, cold or bruise could devolve into a matter of life and death. And good luck coping
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Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies(whitehouse.gov)
144 points by Red_Tarsius 2y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Affected by the recent funding freeze / mass layoffs? Share your story
13 points by Red_Tarsius 2y ago|4 comments
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by Red_Tarsius 2y ago
Because the US is the de-facto leader of the Free World, the wealthiest country in the Western hemisphere and the winner of the Cold War. Heavy Lies the Crown. Especially when it's about fighting the deadliest infectious disease known
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by Red_Tarsius 2y ago
For context: Tuberculosis treatment requires strict, months-long medication adherence. Even a brief disruption means patients may not complete their courses, allowing drug-resistant TB to emerge. These strains are far harder and more expens
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USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts(cidrap.umn.edu)
91 points by Red_Tarsius 2y ago|119 comments
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Budapest Memorandum (1994)(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by Red_Tarsius 2y ago|0 comments
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by Red_Tarsius 2y ago
I believe most people feel like this. Don't chalk it up to "the crisis of the 30s". That's media-talk. That's years of movies and tv series teaching you that men looking for purpose after 30 are somehow cringe. If t
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by Red_Tarsius 2y ago
It was a real problem. I used to keep hundreds of bookmarks I felt forced to check out, tag and archive. It was mentally draining and time consuming. I was never satisfied with the way I sorted them and I would often move them around, tryin
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Threescaper: A website for loading Townscaper models into Three.js(github.com)
199 points by Red_Tarsius 2y ago|24 comments
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by Red_Tarsius 2y ago
I have used Lua a long time ago and I don't remember ever touching C/C++. You can even make simple games without ever going low level thanks to https://love2d.org/ ! If I recall, most https://stabyoursel
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by Red_Tarsius 2y ago
Agree on what? OP didn't even know the bare minimum (who's the author, what did the author write) to speak up on the subject. You're saying that a pebble is "more or less" like a mountain. OP dismissed an entire phi
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by Red_Tarsius 2y ago
That's a complete mischaracterization of the stoic philosophy. I don't even know where to begin and I don't have the time to write a detailed comment now so I just want to make a few points: 1) That quote comes from his priva
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Child Labour in Cocoa Production(en.wikipedia.org)
30 points by Red_Tarsius 3y ago|14 comments
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by Red_Tarsius 3y ago
I just saw this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT9mrbIxeBE and it sounded like an interesting topic to bring on HN. I didn't know about the "Cancer Alley" in Louisiana, but I figure most countries have
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Cancer Alley(en.wikipedia.org)
181 points by Red_Tarsius 3y ago|87 comments
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The Fat-Farms of Mauritania(stoneageherbalist.com)
3 points by Red_Tarsius 3y ago|0 comments
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by Red_Tarsius 3y ago
I haven't played the original, but Lode Runner: The Legend Returns is one of my favorite games of all time. The later levels can be very challenging and I don't remember ever reaching the final stage but it was an addicting expe
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My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (2005)(npr.org)
92 points by Red_Tarsius 3y ago|75 comments
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by Red_Tarsius 3y ago
Can you point to any place where integration between widly different cultures worked on the long term? One place where mass immigration didn't result in the erosion of social trust, safety concerns and political divide through ethnic l

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