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I appreciate the semi-functional trial so I can get a sense of the look and feel before paying.

I didn't know mammoth ivory was becoming more common (due to thawing permafrost). There are still some ethical considerations at play, it seems--this article is decent overview: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/why-woolly-mammoth-ivory-coul...

Street View free solos: https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=Scov79

No. The “good school district” in your comment is the tell. As long as access to good education is gated by housing, parents will plow any salary gains back into bidding up homes in “good districts.” See “The Two Income Trap,” two decades ago.

The owners of the assisted living facilities will. The workers there will presumably continue to be paid peanuts.

... I tried to remember to use smile for years and never knew about the app setting :-(

> Settlement outside solar system should become one of humanity priorities as a matter of survival.

> Going to Mars can be a suicide mission

These goals seem contradictory.

> If some street hustler challenges you to a game of three card monte you don't need to bother to play, just hand him the money, not because you're going to lose but because you owe him for the insight: he selected you. Whatever he saw in you everyone sees in you.

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/05/dove.html

This is a highly biased and misleading account, both of Webb's role in the Lavender Scare and of the supposed rigor of the arguments deployed in support of the JWST naming.

Personally the most compelling accounting of this matter I've seen is in the internal emails exchanged within NASA discussing the naming, which were made public by FOIA [1 & 2]. I would especially draw your attention to the analysis of an external historian (whose name is redacted) beginning on page 301 of [1], which rightly emphasizes Webb's direct, personal involvement in Oval Office discussions with President Truman about these matters. NASA chose to ignore this information and retain the JWST name. After substantial community pressure a more detailed historical report was released [3], which in my view clarifies that Webb was not the motive force behind the efforts at State but in no way exonerates him.

At the end of the day, the telescope was named by a NASA administrator for another NASA administrator. Was Webb personally a bigot? Unclear. Was Webb a person of his time and a practitioner of realpolitik? Seems likely. Did the actions taken under his direction make life worse for gays and lesbians? Definitely. Would it have been better if NASA had chosen to honor someone else with the naming of a $10B telescope? Indisputably.

[1] https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-022... [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00845-6 [3] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-shares-james-webb-history-...

While I agree with you:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

For folks who might be interested in astronomical calculations but who don't want to roll their own library, astropy (https://www.astropy.org/) is widely used by professional astronomers.

GP was making a dark joke.

Here’s the paper by the discovery team: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16530

I must have missed the part where the Kavanaugh protesters showed up in body armor with zip ties and plans to hold members of the Senate Judiciary Committee hostage.

Berkeley Bowl used to regularly sell them—not sure if they still do.

This appears to be one person’s subjective nonsense—I personally think SweetTango apples taste cloying artificial, for instance.

I like the website https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/ambrosia instead.

It's going to be one! https://theankler.com/p/hwood-ftx-frenzy-as-michael-lewis?sd...

> the returns look nice

Only if you cherry pick when you imagine you would have entered/exited the market

Anyone know if this works on Chrome iOS?

I don’t doubt those feelings are sincere. But I will note that there is already an alternative media ecosystem dedicated to amplifying and enhancing exactly those issues.

For example: someone will be a lot more concerned about crime if they’re getting steady messaging reinforcing the message that crime is out of control.

The “Exodus of the Bluechecks” was foretold…

https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/#22

The “Exodus of the Bluechecks” was foretold…

https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/#22

Sure, but so does your toothbrush. Chill out.

“The Perfect Machine” by Ronald Florence is the definitive history of Palomar. It’s surprisingly gripping.

Remarkably, the 200” was the largest telescope in the world for half a century!

The benefits of both breast milk and breast feeding are nonzero but are often overstated. Many of the studies are not very good.

The book “Lactivism” provides an entertaining account of recent history: https://www.amazon.com/Lactivism-Fundamentalists-Physicians-...

You have to watch out though, if you hold the card to the reader too long it will end your (perhaps prepaid, multi-day) reservation.

Astronomy is moving more and more to cloud computing:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02284-7

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06320

… actually yes, if you haven’t seen it: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/03/1126570725/fish-weights-walle...

Jared Kushner would like a word: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-ku...

Yeah, rolling hills are tough…. “Rouleur” is a cyclist type for a reason.