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This sounds like the same level of understanding about copyright law that led one NFT group to spend $3m on a rare Dune art book thinking it would give them the IP rights to the ar…

The WSJ reported US officials saying it looked intentional based on black box data. The main alternative theory was that someone who wasn't a pilot deliberately did it. https://www…

Unfortunately not. The majority of countries have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, but this doesn't include Russia, or Ukraine, or the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

True, but that's why I said "stated reason". Here's the full speech: https://theprint.in/world/modern-ukraine-entirely-created-by...

Ironically, one of Putin's stated reasons for invading Ukraine was that Ukraine might get nuclear weapons.

Awful. A lot of people in threads a few days ago like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30335610 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30405782 were terribly wrong. This wasn…

It's in the Windows 2000 leak.

Ironically, if I had to guess based on the name of this app, I'd have guessed it was a kink-themed dating app.

In their "basic medicine kit": Oxycodone/acetaminophen (severe, short term pain) Paracetamol isn't normally an alternative for oxycodone. Also, if travelling internationally, I'm p…

It seems a lot of us came up with 12347 for the first line.

I thought coming up with primes would be very challenging, but then my first three guesses were all prime (all I did was pick numbers that ended with odd numbers that weren't five)…

> I think the reason you see so many EV announcements from Ford (and GM and Honda and Mercedes and...) in 2021 is because they all suddenly realized they need to press a panic butt…

As far as I know, there is a gradual trend to push Mandarin at the expense of Cantonese, and there is reason for concern, but I doubt there's a connection between this and Apple's …

I doubt this is the case here. Cantonese is an official language of Hong Kong and Macau and the mother tongue of tens of millions in Guangdong. Language politics is complicated but…

Not just ocean water. From Wikipedia: > However, it appears that Bombard may have been misunderstood in regard to the possibility of survival without fresh water. Bombard has never…

I don't know why it should be tiny, given what it's trying to do. Multiple kilobytes are dedicated to CSS color names and ColorBrewer scales, which don't compress well. At the end …

Indeed, it is not off topic when the topic is "Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly." One practical implication of grouping Taiwan with China is that Italy banned travel from Taiwan al…

The scary thing about this attitude is that if it's widely adopted and results in Huawei being welcomed (or something that facilities spying), it puts the people who do push back a…

This contains some links: https://twitter.com/royngerng/status/1224934421540663297

Caixin is the best Chinese news source in normal times, and at this time all Chinese news is more free to report on the virus. As someone very critical of the CCP, I'd say Caixin's…

Re solar power: the short answer is that wind carries far more energy than solar. Tûranor PlanetSolar is a 31m catamaran with over 500 square metres of solar panels. I think I'm ri…

Why do people keep posting this link in this thread? It's a terrible answer because it uncritically accepts the claim that a static rally at a venue that doesn't hold more than abo…

I'm not sure where the Quora link comes from, and it's a bad answer because it parrots the claim that there were hundreds of thousands at a static rally at a venue than doesn't hol…