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Are you suggesting that he was targeted before he became the director of the FBI? That seems unlikely. Once he became an obvious target surely the FBI should have secured his past,…

>>decorum and professionalism Yes, the hallmark of the Trump administration.

Surely it can only calculate its current position, calculating its future positions would seem to require a divination machine.

This is great fun--and accurate. My lettuce floated just like the picture I drew when I tested it in the bath.

Yes, the article does seem a little sketchy: > Even by the standards of 1914, Russia was a backward country. Most of its citizens were serfs, often tied to the land they worked, li…

> NUCLEAR WEAPONS laboratories don’t often help solve serial-killer cases. Because mass murder is their specialty...

This is a world that I have no knowledge of so I expect my comment is commensurately naive, but it does remind me of the days when I was an avid race-goer. If I bet on a horse to w…

The rather good YouTube channel "Our Own Devices" has a couple of interesting episodes about these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNhjfk9BTNA&pp=ygUcb3VyIG93b... https://www.yout…

Fair enough, I must remember to wake up properly and think before I type. I suppose it was the lack of a preposition that threw me. The jibe about the quality of their journalism w…

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This is the second time that I have notice a title change in HN where the original article has "The Man..." or "The Woman..." changed in the HN title to "A Man..." or "A Woman...".…

I don't know anything about facial recognition software so I'm probably underestimating the difficulty of alerting the system and it's operators to the interesting possibility of g…

> propelling you to a flood of potentials I've been looking for this for a long time, the exquisite, electric pleasure of bathing in a flood of potentials...

Your wife loves you very much and/or your nasty food poisoning had very nasty external effects.

Why is it a thought experiment? After all envelopes, cash, experimenters etcetera exist. It could be a real experiment. On the other hand what theory or hypothesis would it be test…

> Imagine you are given two identical envelopes, each containing money. One contains twice as much as the other. You may pick one envelope and keep the money it contains. Having ch…

Hackaday has an interesting article about this: https://hackaday.com/2022/05/23/fighting-back-against-dodgy-...

> I probably acquired close to a thousand books on mentalism I'm surprised/skeptical that so many books on this subject exist.

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At the 1940 New York World's Fair Westinghouse displayed a machine, the Nimatron, that played Nim. From May 11, 1940, to October 27, 1940, only a few people were able to beat the m…