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Comment · 6 days ago
There's another layer. For rich and powerful people, being confined to one place is very dangerous. Every one of their enemies know where to send an assassin. Every lender know where to correct payment. Every burglar knows where the money is.
Comment · 9 days ago
This is a non-argument. There are no spelling system in the world that takes into account every variation in the spoken language. Heck, even the current English spelling is based on the specific pronunciation of some part of England a few hundred years ago.

What all spelling system do, is just pick one dialect as the reference dialect, and build the spelling based on that. Is it perfect? No. Does it work? Yes, if the dialect that you pick is the most widely spoken and the most prestigious.

Comment · 16 days ago
The way I look at it, the money I've spent is the money I've spent. That it will only be deducted from my account balance at a later date is irrelevant, I can't touch that money either way.
Comment · 16 days ago
Rockets have been around for a hundred years.
Comment · 22 days ago
In some jurisdiction, you cannot call that a jam, because you added foreign pectin. A jam must only use the fruit's natural pectin, plus sugar to activate the pectin.
Comment · 25 days ago
The training data set is a huge corpus of text from a wide variety of styles and time period. A human writer knows to adjust their writing style to fit their intended audience. A skilled LLM user knows to direct the LLM to generate in the appropriate style. A naive LLM user doesn't, so that's how we get this uncanny valley ick, where the text feels wrong.
Comment · 1 month ago
Whenever a new version of React releases (which lately has been performance improvement and bug fixes only), the discussion has been all about how htmx and server-rendered is obviously better. But when a not-react frontend framework pushes a new version with breaking changes, somehow the htmx fans are nowhere to be seen.
Comment · 1 month ago
In another comment, you said that he should try to enter the US despite his passport being cancelled, which is also breaking the law.

Russia actually did the legally correct action, in giving refuge to a stateless person.

Comment · 1 month ago
The radius is based on visual observation. We have good theories and models about what's happening inside the star. We are quite sure that it's mostly empty space inside the radius. But that's not a good enough reason to say that the star's radius is anything other than what we see through our telescope.
Comment · 1 month ago
There is zero evidence that deflation has any effect on spending.

At the micro level, the change in price is too small for every day purchases. Would you starve yourself for one day because the pizza will be one cent cheaper tomorrow?

At the macro level, every interest rate will be adjusted based on the base inflation/deflation rate, so the net effect is zero. Banks will offer a higher profit rate for their savings account to entice people to deposit their money in the bank instead of their mattress.

Comment · 1 month ago
Please, literally every other country in the world store their petroleum reserve in surface tanks. We have fifty years of experience in designing the safety systems around oil tanks, and the only recent major incidents are from drone strikes in Russia and Saudi Arabia. Just because the US luck out in having the specific geological formation to store oil cheaply doesn't mean the alternative is untenable.

> It would be sufficient to store dry salt

Absolutely impractical. Storing and moving around solids in the megatons is very difficult compared to liquids that can be pumped. For comparison, the absolute largest solids moving operation in the world is a copper mine in Chile, it moves 300,000 metric tonne of mineral per day. The east-west pipeline in Saudi Arabia can move three times that in liquid, 1,000,000 metric tonne per day.

Comment · 1 month ago
If you're gonna build a bunch of tanks on the surface to store that saturated salt solutions, you might as well store the oil in those tanks. The point of this salt cavern system is how little infrastructure it needs to store the huge volume of liquid.
Comment · 1 month ago
These are problems with it being a smart ring RELATIVE to a smart watch.

- wrist size changes far less dramatically, and even if it do change, a strap swap for a smartwatch is far cheaper and easier than a whole-device change for a smart ring - wristwatch doesn't interfere with any hand activity - wristwatch far less likely to trap debris from your activities.

Comment · 1 month ago
Not for the Sami people who have to inhale the rocket exhaust blast.
Comment · 1 month ago
Why would language matter?

Anyway, Frankfurt is the next biggest financial center after London, and it tend to get the business when a firm wants to move out of London .

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