sxcurry

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by sxcurry 1y ago
All of this makes more sense when you realize that it has nothing to do with saving money or reducing the deficit. It's all about causing fear and uncertainty, and reducing structural defenses against the grifting and looting connected
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by sxcurry 1y ago
I think he’s referring to Mike Brown’s book “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”. It’s a great read.
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by sxcurry 2y ago
That would be "Running Man" Hawley who was recorded scurrying like a rat through the House while his buddies were trying to overturn the election.
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by sxcurry 2y ago
This is completely incorrect.
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Apple to Replace CFO Luca Maestri on Jan. 1(cnbc.com)
27 points by sxcurry 2y ago|12 comments
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The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron(physicsworld.com)
54 points by sxcurry 2y ago|15 comments
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Cancer papers mention cell lines that don't seem to exist(science.org)
1 points by sxcurry 2y ago|0 comments
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Pair of six-year-old LNG carriers primed for scrapping having never traded(splash247.com)
3 points by sxcurry 2y ago|0 comments
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by sxcurry 3y ago
Well, I don’t agree with your opinion of Science News, but that’s OK. What I was pointing out is that she was indeed referring to Science News (and also Science Perspectives) as sources for her reading and understanding of a paper.
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by sxcurry 3y ago
I guess you didn’t read the article very closely. The Science editor was talking about Science News (note the capitalization) which is a well respected information resource.
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NASA Finds Likely Cause of Osiris-Rex Parachute Deployment Sequence(blogs.nasa.gov)
1 points by sxcurry 3y ago|0 comments
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FTX lobbyist tried to buy Pacific island of Nauru(cnbc.com)
5 points by sxcurry 3y ago|1 comments
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by sxcurry 3y ago
My 24 year old truck can do things an iPhone still can't do
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by sxcurry 3y ago
What’s the Apple hardware tax? I’ve never seen it applied, but maybe that’s because I live in Oregon, no sales tax.
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by sxcurry 3y ago
Could you show some facts please? Everything I’ve seen shows the cost of solar especially to be much lower than carbon based generation.
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by sxcurry 4y ago
My very first programming experience was with APL\360, using a time share IBM terminal with the APL type ball. We wrote code in a Geodetic Sciences class to compute Least Squares solutions to survey networks. I really liked APL...
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Apple says it will allow iCloud backups to be fully encrypted(washingtonpost.com)
40 points by sxcurry 4y ago|9 comments
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by sxcurry 4y ago
Rather than geodesic I think you meant geoid.
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by sxcurry 4y ago
"(Only as those stars exploded did they forge heavier elements such as oxygen and spew them into the cosmos.)" I don't think this is correct - can't elements up to Iron be created through fusion in the stellar core?
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by sxcurry 4y ago
It’s Declination not “decline”. This article makes very little sense - computer generated?
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by sxcurry 4y ago
Also the article is garbled and gibberish.
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by sxcurry 4y ago
Also, to be more precise than the original article, Volkswagen AG is the parent company, which owns a number of brands, including Volkswagen and Audi.
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The legacy of Liverpool’s forgotten synchrocyclotron(physicsworld.com)
6 points by sxcurry 4y ago|0 comments
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Dear Julia, Dear Yuri: A mathematical correspondence(celebratio.org)
3 points by sxcurry 4y ago|0 comments
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by sxcurry 5y ago
The article might have been organized by Carmen Ortiz at the time - she was planning to run for Governor on the back of this case.
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Battery-Powered Speedboat Looking to Become the Tesla of the Sea(gcaptain.com)
3 points by sxcurry 5y ago|0 comments
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by sxcurry 5y ago
Because they're fouling up everything for everybody else. Where I live (Oregon) if I were to get hit by a car and need an ICU bed, odds are I'd be put on a stretcher in a hall somewhere. All the ICU beds are filled with unvaccinat
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Crowley Planning Zero-Emission Electric Tug(gcaptain.com)
2 points by sxcurry 5y ago|0 comments
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by sxcurry 5y ago
Just a reminder that AstraZeneca has not applied yet to the FDA for emergency use authorization.
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by sxcurry 6y ago
Years ago I was on a 747 from SFO to LHR that landed in Iceland - oil pressure problem in an engine. A guy drove out with a pickup truck, climbed into the engine using a ladder in the back of the truck, and started hammering away. After a f

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