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> This article assesses whether Hellenistic war-elephants were given alcohol before battle…Unfortunately, despite the recent rise in scholarly interest on war-elephants, this issue…

FoundationDB was originally a startup, purchased by Apple in 2015.

Sadly — > "The number density of primordial black holes with a mass above this cutoff [MP BH > 1.4×1017g] is far too small to produce any observable effects on the human population…

Ideally, trying to reform the government & its activities shouldn't require a team to burrow all the way down to the literal payments system & call individual balls and strikes. Bu…

I thought the article was pretty level headed. Here’s the status, here’s the future, here’s what AUKUS is doing, here’s what China is doing and is capable of doing. What smugness o…

This is the way.

Married, 4 kids, she’s stay at home mom. Joint checking, savings, investments, home ownership, cars, everything. I do most of the account management and planning because she hates …

If you mean the subsequent detonation of an ICBM in the atmosphere, I think we are in uncharted waters there. The expert discussions of what effect the atmosphere-EMP would be is f…

In your water example, perhaps that liter of water used to cool the datacenter is offering software to a hospital that offers life saving treatments. How will you measure the trade…

> I think we need better regulation of these companies to prevent them from doing actual damage rather than trusting them to self-regulate against hypothetical ones. What is the ac…

I think the unspoken assumption here is that China is already producing at near-maximum capacity, while the United States is barely trying and has lots of headroom. Is the assumpti…

Population is a single, low-resolution parameter into a theoretical ship-building-capacity equation, which really needs a basket of parameters. Raw resource availability, fuel capa…

American, yes. Can’t speak for the whole country, but in the Midwest, rural community I grew up in, people had a “better safe than sorry” attitude, and would call police on mere su…

We did night CTF (~9 pm) at our local grade school campus. Easily 40-50 kids. We just rode our bikes to the gathering. Similar rules to what this article had, except no out of boun…

> We asked adults who say the public education system is going in the wrong direction why that might be. About half or more say the following are major reasons: > Schools not spend…

> I remember hearing about "Daniel in the Lion's Den" and Daniel sitting in flames in church and in my Children's Bible stories. Minor nitpick, but it was Daniel's three friends wh…

You mentioned twice focus on inputs instead of outputs - can you elaborate further? This feels counterintuitive to me.

> What Thursday's revelatory reentry footage promises is a world in which launch is cheap and abundant. No longer will we need to worry so much about mass or volume, which have bee…

Here’s the KKR link - https://media.kkr.com/news-details/?news_id=48701629-ae4d-4d... VMWare (Broadcom) link - https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2024/02/broadcoms-euc-division-...

Great to hear about your MIL improving! Last year my wife got the “you need to lose weight now or else” speech from her doctor. Diabetic signs starting to appear in her numbers. I …

> [Gila monster] venom helped to turn an obscure hormone into potent diabetes medications, and then into the most promising weight-loss treatments in history. We’re still discoveri…

No doubt the phrase “bring home the bacon” will outlive our civilization and future historians will confidently assert to one another that we were all paid in rashers of bacon.

The review thread (start at the bottom & work your way up) reads like a Show HN thread that went negative. The paper initially received some questions/negative feedback, so the aut…

> [CTO] Elshenawy reiterated the company would be narrowing and refocusing its efforts, information shared last month following the resignation of co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt and …

If you're like me, and you had no idea what "goodwill impairment" meant, and wondering 'what does this billion dollar expense get Etsy?' Investopedia: "Goodwill impairment occurs w…