sgnelson

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by sgnelson 12d ago
"Asked about the potential for conflicts of interest to arise due to his simultaneous role as attorney for Cerberus, Feinberg, and the DOD, he said “you’ve got to be kidding me” and insisted that the interests of the three clients have
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by sgnelson 1mo ago
Will the Tesla handle getting stuck behind a double parked car without your intervention?
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by sgnelson 3mo ago
I was going to ask "at what point do people who work for Google and Meta ask themselves "Are we the baddies?"" But who am I kidding, as long as you're all making the big bucks for sitting at a computer, you'll
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by sgnelson 4mo ago
I'm going to go with a "lol, Iran doesn't have access to Russian and Chinese state-based and public satellite imagery?" Sure, "this is fine."
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by sgnelson 5mo ago
I'm so tired of hearing this explanation. It completely ignores reality. As everyone has said, what's the point? You get information 2 minutes ahead of time? But how do you know that guy actually has the real info? Because he p
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by sgnelson 5mo ago
I've got a book for you to read... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
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by sgnelson 7mo ago
Got to love the fact that a large amount of users of HN still refuse to see the truth before their very eyes.
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by sgnelson 7mo ago
Why? Seriously, why do we care so much about this? Do we not have better uses of our money. Also the irony considering recent moves by the US government in terms of control of the internet and free speech.
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by sgnelson 7mo ago
What about cobalt? For the largest part of the market, tungsten carbide cutting tools, it's usually a composite of tungsten carbide and cobalt. Thankfully, in most industries that use tungsten carbide, there is a lot of recycling of t
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by sgnelson 8mo ago
fascists are going to fascist. Dang et al will just look away and say. "we don't have any power over what our users do. Email us to let us know." Because apparently the mods don't visit their own website? They'l
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by sgnelson 8mo ago
Thanks everyone who voted for this! I really appreciate you!
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by sgnelson 8mo ago
I would also expect that latitude plays a role in house sizes. Though I don't know. I think that'd be an interesting correlation.
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by sgnelson 8mo ago
"My parents are on Medicare and they head down to the ER every time have a stomach ache and get a CAT scan" Your parents are part of the problem. The ER isn't supposed to be used that way.
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by sgnelson 8mo ago
"Most of the history you are taught in school has a similar bar." No, it does not.
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by sgnelson 8mo ago
Not that I really care, but I've got to ask the question: Is telling people that they can't tell other people which words they use a form of language policing? (In a thread concerning Plato, I thought this question needed to be as
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by sgnelson 8mo ago
That Supermicro story was never confirmed/verified. All the companies involved denied that it happened (that doesn't mean much however) but no other reporters were able verify the story as far as I'm aware. With Bloomberg s
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by sgnelson 8mo ago
I'm not an international trade lawyer/expert by any means, but this seems like an unfair government subsidy. I guess the WTO won't care though. But since this does seem like a government subsidy, I predict over the longer te
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by sgnelson 9mo ago
I agree with the critique on the "socially constructed" part of this article. I'd also add that since it was literally The Times newspaper which created the font, and it was considered one of the papers of record for the
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by sgnelson 9mo ago
Since TNR was designed for print and thus it seems they expected the ink to "bleed" and make the characters appear thicker than they would have been for the actual (leaded?) type face, was this taken into account when turning it i
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by sgnelson 9mo ago
Did you interview Yuan Gongpu or was this part from another source? I'm interested in the laborers who did the work, not just the scientists who designed everything. Thanks for your story.
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by sgnelson 9mo ago
We need an acronym for these types of boards: Yet Another SBC With Poor Longterm Support. YASBCWPLS. Really rolls off the tongue. Or we should just have "STS" (Short Term Support) after the board names to let others know the boa
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by sgnelson 9mo ago
"re-industrializing the USA" Call me when the party starts. Many of the decisions this administration has made are having the opposite impact. The re-industrialization of the US (what little bit of it there is) is in spite of the
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by sgnelson 9mo ago
The common "poltiical scientist" answer to this sort of conundrum/question would be to state: "They're called elections." But, how's that's going for us recently...
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by sgnelson 9mo ago
A CYA letter full of illogical rationalization.
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by sgnelson 9mo ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransDigm_Group#Accusations_of...
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by sgnelson 9mo ago
FYI, this was posted a month ago when discussing thermal effects of clock drift. I thought it was quite interesting view of what the WWVB location looks like: https://jila.colorado.edu/news-events/articles/spare-t
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by sgnelson 9mo ago
One question I have is did DOGE decisions have anything to do with this? Because I know they took knives to NIST.
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by sgnelson 10mo ago
I feel like the "democratization of technology" is on the back slide. For the longest time, we had more and more access to high end technology at very reasonable price points. Now it feels like if you're not Facebook, Google,
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by sgnelson 10mo ago
See: banality of evil
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by sgnelson 10mo ago
Definitely the sign of a stable, well run government.

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