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funnymony··on Why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?
For brain gymnastics: People who would be in the know are camera man, actors, upward chain of command, final finisher of the set. I could keep it below hundred (pm if you need next fake landing; sun costs extra)
funnymony··on Why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?
For such proof to be effective, one has to trust lot of formulas from physics books. (Source of flat-earthery is extreme distrust in everything that is not a first-hand experience. You can’t prove much if your limited exclusively to first hand experience)
funnymony··on Google announces Q1 2023 earnings [pdf]
At 5% growth energy usage will consume whole universe in about 3000 years.

Economic growth might not stop in next 10 or 100 years, but natural limits exist and eventually growth will stop.

funnymony··on Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave
Morality or revenge?
funnymony··on Unpredictable black boxes are terrible interfaces
Not sure if you heard - Gordon Moore just recently passed away. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore
funnymony··on Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money
Stock owners are not liable. The company is. Right?
funnymony··on Banking in uncertain times
House of cards is bad, but in the mean time consider such hypothetical situations - gov orders you, that you MUST sell a suburban house:

- within next 15 minutes

- within a year

Each time frame will definitely result in different price. All of them will be what market was willing to pay, but prices are somehow still different.

Forced sell does have an impact.

funnymony··on Atlassian to shed 5 per cent of workers
There should special circle of hell for person coming up with these kind of features.
funnymony··on Saying goodbye to Stack Overflow
Moderators like to close questions and link to questions/answers posted by them. (Possibly hoping for upvotes) I guess this could count as petty corruption.
funnymony··on Saying goodbye to Stack Overflow
We have only these descriptions but not the answers them self, grain of salt is applicable, possibly not in small quantities.
funnymony··on Beautiful Binary Search in D
Conveniences like closures depend on gc
funnymony··on Sea life bounced back fast after the ‘mother of mass extinctions’
> This shows the acceleration of CO2

Thanks for the explanation of what I provided.

funnymony··on Sea life bounced back fast after the ‘mother of mass extinctions’
I know I shouldn’t, but … your in the wrong here.

A bit off topic - picture of co2 history is available here: https://skepticalscience.com/EmmissionsAcceleration.html

funnymony··on Sea life bounced back fast after the ‘mother of mass extinctions’
Do fungi exist at sea?
funnymony··on Voice.ai: GPL Violations with a Side of DRM
GPL is a briliant trick.

It is a extreme reaction to extremely dire copyright situation.

If information cant be free in this system, then let’s add a restriction that it must be free.

Briliant!

funnymony··on Voice.ai: GPL Violations with a Side of DRM
> Yet, most firms do put in many paid hours on kernel development etc.

Linux kernel uses GPL.

funnymony··on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
Rsa encrypted content size limit depends on the key size, which does not scale well.

Is GPG not a subject to this limitation?

funnymony··on Microsoft Azure Outage
Its public relations page.
funnymony··on Microsoft Azure Outage
At least they have a sense of humor
funnymony··on OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership
Accounting tricks will make it look zero profit.
funnymony··on Modules, not microservices
Couple of calls is normal. But if you make everything a microservice. And there are dependencies between them, then by design its destined that some hotter loop eventually will contain rpc.
funnymony··on Power on the moon: What will it take to survive the lunar night?
Do you? If we assume robots building stuff. Mapping is a task way easier to automate.
funnymony··on Ask HN: What's a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong?
It will work that way with anything :)

Especially gradle.

funnymony··on Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)
Growth hormone called food
funnymony··on Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
… Hype. Fanboys&fangirls.
funnymony··on The Right to Be Lazy (1883)
This analogy got me thinking, but only for a little bit.

Similarity: people are forced to do things which they would not choose to do. (Different form would be preferable or for some none).

Difference: level of freedom. Wage slave can choose a lot (whom to slave, what to do with the wage, if to change occupation or if to invest). Sex trafficked person has far fewer options.

funnymony··on The Right to Be Lazy (1883)
Counterpoint: Youtube influencers, standup comics, foo critics. (No investor chose to pay them)
funnymony··on Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political tolerance
A bit tangential, but in discussion with flat earth people, the “A” is “main stream media and education system and scientists are lying”.

Thesis “Earth is flat” can’t be disproved then.

funnymony··on A Dad Took Photos of His Kid for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal
Get your own dns record first.
funnymony··on It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia
In a way, current support can be viewed as fulfilment of budapest memorandum obligations.
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