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42,657 karma · joined March 12, 2007

www.bermita.com mitch_hn@bermita.com
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mhb··on US and Iran announce deal to end military operations
And what are you going to do with that money?
mhb··on Hacking for Defense Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations
How do you reconcile that aspiration with lunatics and their regimes that would like to do harm to other countries?
mhb··on Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
What is shameful about the "military stuff"? Isn't that's what is protecting you from your neighbors and their patron?
mhb··on CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
> Cancer is best understood as a family of tens of thousands of diseases

There's a site that lists the AWS instance types, so maybe...

mhb··on Hacking for Defense Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations
I don't need a 13 page pamphlet to convince me that people are motivated by making money. But that's orthogonal to wanting a powerful military under whose umbrella you are pontificating.
mhb··on Hacking for Defense Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations
If you think suicidal fanatics or megalomaniacal dictators are motivated by sub-optimal resource allocation, you haven't been paying attention.
mhb··on Hacking for Defense Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations
> “I’m not going to spend my time doing war” (in my case anymore)

It's less convenient to indulge that opinion without the protection of the most powerful military in the world.

mhb··on I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
Better title: Fn Fn keys
mhb··on Hacking for Defense Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations
Couldn't resist dragging Israel in, right?
mhb··on Hacking for Defense Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations
You don't think the US military should have the best technology?
mhb··on New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
I don't know why you want to argue about this here. Your proposed solution elsewhere of "How about an across the board $1/W hook up fee for new customers?" agrees with what I'm saying about having a neutral policy to handle new customers who impose externalities.
mhb··on The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Thanks for sharing. Do you have a name for that feeling?
mhb··on New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
That clears things up. You want to use the cudgel of the state's power regarding zoning issues to address ventures which you find morally objectionable in some way.
mhb··on New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
So why doesn't the way New York addresses new aluminum smelter businesses apply to new data centers?
mhb··on [dead]
You don't have to guess. That's why he wrote an essay for you.
mhb··on New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
Not really the point. Should we have separate laws for stealing from grocery stores, electronics stores and drug stores because they have different characteristics?
mhb··on New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
Other than data centers being the bogeyman du jour, why isn't the bill written more generally to address potential impacts of any large new business that is anticipated to create effects like noise, pollution, infrastructure requirements, etc.

It's not already required for proposed businesses to address these issues?

mhb··on DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors
Power use would be immense and it would be insanely slow.
mhb··on A Fundamental Principle of Aeronautical Engineering Has Been Overturned
https://www.wired.com/story/a-fundamental-principle-of-aeron...
mhb··on The Lone Lisp Heap
Also building furniture.
mhb··on FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home
The In-Laws:

Shel: "You robbed the U.S. Mint on your own? The CIA thought it was too crazy?"

Vince: "Too risky."

mhb··on Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers
> Why trust anyone?

Because comparative advantage.

mhb··on Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
Oh FFS. The difference between polyps very likely becoming cancer and some polyps maybe becoming cancer is not pedantry. And it probably wouldn't be as annoying to you if you just said that you didn't know instead of attempting to dig deeper by providing a source that you either didn't read or didn't understand.
mhb··on Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
Yes. That is the recommendation because "some" polyps are or may become cancerous. Not because all do. Unless you are saying that they do?
mhb··on Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
You claimed that "polyp will very likely eventually become cancer". I don't think this is true, in general, for polyps even though some might become cancerous. The paper you provided is pretty dense, but it didn't see to me as though it is saying that polyps generally become cancerous.
mhb··on Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
> Left alone that polyp will very likely eventually become cancer

I don't think so. You have a reference?

mhb··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
Courtesy of TFA and capitalism:

"In 1985, if you were a reasonably affluent American, the best computer that you could afford was the IBM PC AT. The PC AT would cost you about $6,000—$19,400 in 2026 dollars—and thus represented about a quarter of the median American’s annual income; and it ran on an Intel 80286 processor, capable of something like 900,000 instructions per second. Today, if you find yourself in a market stall in Nairobi or Lagos, you’ll be able to find a cheap smartphone—like the Tecno Spark Go, manufactured by China’s Transsion—for somewhere between $30 and $120. That phone will run on a processor capable of billions of calculations per second."

mhb··on No more JetBrains products for me
I want Jetbrains to fly! What settings should I use?
mhb··on Gaza is rebuilding with Lego-like bricks made from rubble
I'll bet they could discover some useful building materials underground. Concrete arches, ladders, water pipes, computer servers...
mhb··on The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme
I don't think the article asserts that the better bird vision is primarily due to the absence of occluding blood vessels, although that is an advantage.

Scientists noted that the bird eye produces good results with a less efficient process. This article is only about the explanation for that. Presumably they would have been just as interested if a human level eye also operated without oxygen.

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