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I think his legacy is about stegography and cryptography. I think he relied on handwritten volumes and couldn’t adapt his cryptographic techniques.

It’s been over 100 years since the exchange was closed for war. They might open it for manual trading if algorithmic (80% of volume) is attacked. I bet we would never get attribution and that the US admin benefits by saying any damage must be Iran.

Ideally, what should the stamp say?

Donald Jr, on the Polymarket board, might have tried that.

I think it’ll be close to that. Probably some of these benefits-heavy red states.

We did this with variations of white space characters.

Or, maybe in a less-literal way, some change might have happened to scripts? Both Egypt and Assyria had female scribes.

> “Out of the thousands of scripts that are gender-specific to men…”

I only know of one, otokode in Japan.

No, but I don’t think ethics is #2. Someone intrinsically motivated might be technically competent, autonomous and self-confident about his/her goals. I might skip your meetings about ethics; I might be too busy.

There are several lies in this. The objective of a Confederate victory was to enforce slavery farther south. Mexico was a few years away from collapsing. Brazil would emancipate within 20 years. Would the Confederacy last 20 years as the last slave state in the western hemisphere?

The Rockefeller and Ford foundations funded the most successful crop improvement programs. I imagine finance tried to persuade them to use that money somewhere else.

I don’t hate traders, I just wonder about Jeffrey Skilling graduating Harvard at the top of his class. In aggregate, is it too risky to need so many like him in finance?

Would you count Borlaug’s work as biotech?

“gift” link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/world/europe/russia-black...

There's a movement to write JSON to fd 3, as a machine-parsable alternative to rickety fd 1.

In the past, it was impossible for the Democrats to simultaneously support the needs of labor and their big donors. I wonder if these trends indicate that the party is choosing one over the other?

Maybe starting with WorldCom?

The banking sector committed fraud along the way, and early after Lehman collapsed, observers wondered aloud about the moral hazard of bailing out everyone without making an example of someone.

Worldcom had a different ending. Enron had a different ending. But Wells Fargo left 2008 with attitudes that tolerated widespread fraud.

Site says he won the election with less than 50% of the popular vote.

Trump won the election with less than 50% of the popular vote. He has never enjoyed an approval rating equal to or higher than 50%.

I thought that was communicated by the 134 lbs and objection to pornography.

Reminds me of Julius Caesar describing the druids. Part of his political career meant precisely performing important orthopraxy. He probably didn’t meet a druid, but amazingly described them playing the same role he did as Pontifex Maximus.

The orthopraxy requiring those precision rituals, take Rome and Greece, had little or maybe no mandatory beliefs. City-state-sized gods in Mesopotamia probably functioned the same way. Traditions still have precise orthopraxy today. But we talk about differences in belief whereas Caesar doesn’t even acknowledge any.

When she started the CIA described her personality as naively honest. She concludes that the way they treat honest people makes it an unwise career choice. But, a pathological fantasist might have quite a different experience and no motivation to write an op-ed.

Also, noting Peru, this happened on every inhabited continent. The USA figure of 120,000 interned isn’t even high on the list. Stalin interned 180,000 Koreans just in case.

Nitpick: it’s not like the FBI investigated a 12-year-old with a library card. That would be humiliating. They investigated an alarming new cipher and doggedly ran down any possibility of a West Coast sleeper cell during an era of Japanese internment.

The right answer was: the FBI was investigating the note.

They don’t ask about any of that. If in a drunken blackout you find a USB drive on the subway and plug it in, the system is concerned about the blackout state and not the USB. It’s self preservation depends on telling the difference between incompetence and deception.

I think you’re right. These are human systems always fighting the prior battle. Nowadays, it’s probably true that the threat from digital hygiene exceeds any intention to leak. The way that’s demonstrated is by the Secretary of Defense misusing Signal instead of being one level smarter and intuitively making the right messaging choice. The system is very much ready to build a preternaturally superimposing file on Pete Hegseth. But the system as a substitute for imagination is not elaborated to improve itself.

My understanding is: each WO bids in confidence and the budget is secret. The winning bid is the largest X such that X * (number of warrant officers signing up for another six years) = budget. Everyone bidding X and lower wins X. Everyone higher loses out. 0 and lower would only be permitted by an evil admin.

I presumed Hershey was a valuable brand name. If they can't distinguish "chocolate" from "chocolatey", why would they even risk the Hershey or Reece's brand names? Why not release it as generic? Otherwise, we're left with Occam's Razor.

Last year, someone’s experience when LinkedIn required interacting with Persona:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44435997

Sorry, yes, I wasn’t clear. The point I wanted to make was that this tariff strategy seems to fail propelling any job creation at all. To the degree that if it wasn’t tariffs but some kind of protection money, we’d more clearly call it a strategy.