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Who, SPECIFICALLY PLEASE, at the CDC "branded the lab-leak hypothesis a conspiracy theory and quickly dismissed it"? Not the press, not some rando on twitter, not some anonymous and probably made up "source", not "p
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If you think that's unfortunate, we used to call it "crib death".
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>Western powers embraced an ideology of peace and safety that stalled technological growth Does Thiel have a hose running from his rectum to his nose so he can get high off the smell of his own farts? More technological growth has occurr
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>You're asking a lot from law enforcement if you're giving away something for free and then demand that law enforcement make sure that people use the thing exactly as you have mandated. I don't think the Free Software Foun
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A country must have a people. Who are the people of the Vatican? The only persons who live there are temporary government employees and not even all of them are citizens because that is optional. You cannot own property, vote for your gover
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I don't understand why the Vatican is considered a country, besides as a quirk of history. It is smaller than high school campus nearest my house, is not a UN member, and seems to exist solely as a tax haven. It also has no native citi
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by os2warpman 1y ago
US government spending is (for now) easy to track, and you can get totals for spending by corporate entity. In total across the entire US federal government, $518.8 million was paid to Microsoft for products and services in 2024. That is ap
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> Why, given that the foam strike had occurred at a force massively out of test conditions had NASA proceeded with re-entry? What was the alternative? Columbia could not have made it to ISS. Columbia could not have repaired the damage in
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by os2warpman 1y ago
> Lounges used to feel special, a perk reserved for business travelers. Now they’re overcrowded, uninspired, yet somehow more coveted than ever—thanks to social media flexes and pricey credit card perks. I think one of the author's
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Hypercard died because in 1997 Apple was 3-4 weeks away from bankruptcy and 1998 wasn't that great either. Before that, Hypercard was so valuable to Apple that they kicked it out the door to Claris and only took it back when Claris tur
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Nissan, Chevrolet, Fiat, and Hyundai/Kia all make small, lightweight, low range, low power EVs. With a 0-60 of 9 seconds, the Fiat 500e may be too low power. A 1993 Honda Civic is quicker than that and if you optioned a Civic coupe up
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>I forgot how I loaded it into the machine, but perhaps it was easier then putting a usb stick in a computer. My library had two forms of microfiche. One was a cartridge containing a single spool, which upon being inserted into the reade
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Why do you assume the person selling the PCB is the one who designed and ordered its manufacture? Olimex sells kits, kits made by others. They don't know how much copper is in the MPS430F5438 because Texas Instruments made the MPS430F5
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> now the likes of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are GSE’s. Uh.. they've been GSEs since their founding. (12 U.S. Code § 1717) "Yeah but in 2008 the government bought shares in th.." Doesn't matter. Still GSEs before tha
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You don't need to pull quotes or provide references in a comment about the article you've just read and are commenting on.[1] Of course, I read every word of the article instead of just the title, or skimming it, or having an AI s
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by os2warpman 1y ago
>That business, Step Up Social, helped companies grow on TikTok and Instagram Reels. I would rather push around a shopping cart full of aluminum cans whenever I'm not sleeping under a bridge than (waves hand) build that. Instead, I
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There is no such thing as settled case law anymore. There is only what the John Birch Society and Heritage Foundation tell the Supreme Court to do.
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>You are projecting an ideology onto these people for no reason other than to satisfy your own bias and/or earn a few cheap upvotes from likeminded readers. No, I read what they said during the interviews used in the article.
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by os2warpman 1y ago
One of my favorite genres of non-fiction is when people who claim they value independence and off-griddyness are forced to be independently off-grid. "No no we meant off-grid in every aspect save one!" I know these people, half my
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In this scenario am I a railfan or neurotypical?
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There is a difference. Excavation is an inherently dangerous and physically strenuous job. Additionally, when precision or delicateness is required human diggers are still used. If AI was being used to automate dangerous and physically stre
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The varieties of person are as varied as the total number of people so there will always be those who seek those things out, but if you look at the trends for clubs and organizations you will often see that participation and membership is d
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Installing and learning to use NixOS probably takes a layman longer than ordering a laptop from amazon, receiving it, realizing something's wrong with it, returning it, getting a replacement that works, then downloading and running thi
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>Klein's influential posters still look extraordinary to this day and "define the excitement and enthusiasm of the early years of post-war air travel." I wish they were influential. Modern corporate messaging is.... not in
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>American greatness has produced a society whose members know not what to do with the freedom and abundance that earlier generations secured. There have been several posts on HN about this. I have commented every time I have seen one bec

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