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You'd get sentences full of words like: tangential, orthogonal, externalities, anecdote, anecdata, cargo cult, enshittification, grok, Hanlon's razor, Occam's razor, any other razo…

It was a unique period of interplanetary space travel where most projects were simple flybys - the first time for each planet. Because the goal was just to flyby, the secondary ben…

Per Wikipedia: It has a 3.7-meter (12 ft) diameter high-gain Cassegrain antenna to send and receive radio waves via the three Deep Space Network stations on the Earth. The spacecra…

Totally agree. There's no real complaints, and the coalescing around the Chrome layout engine means far less compatibility issues in general.

No, the awarding of a prize for promises is the exceptional part.

Obama was very explicitly promising to get out of the middle east wars. Of course it's hard, but if that's true, then why is he making those promises, or worse, why is he being giv…

The Obama prize decision kind of made the Nobel prize a joke.

This does not make any sense. There's far more economic opportunity with AGI.

If society only consisted of the people in a given sector/industry, could it continue and flourish? If we only had engineers, how would society fare versus if we only had influence…

So your criticism of him is that "I assume that he called for violence even though I have no evidence that he did"?

>Despite the constant braying of right-leaning people, left-wing violence is a tiny fraction of domestic terrorism compared to the right. Only if you buy into the various biased st…

>why even target the poor guy There are plenty of dangerous mentally ill people out there who don't use any type of logic or reason as a basis for their decision-making.

Constantly fear-mongering that every event that occurs is a prelude to a repeat of history's worst atrocities is exactly the type of rhetoric we should avoid.

You're worried about Google hardware but your requirement for a phone is that it must have Google Pay? Bizarre.

>it isn’t worth working there anyways There is a potential downside, and it's this scenario because things go south.

Neon acquisition was ~$1B.

This speaks to the low quality assurance bar that most of the software industry lives by. If you're programming for a plane's avionics, as an example, the quality assurance bar is …

Replace "Harvard" with "Trump University" in this conversation, and I believe many HN types would have a different opinion of the policies. The argument is, if educational institut…

The US should go back to subsidizing its shipbuilding industry.

Not to mention, short term cost cutting is what ever business tends to prioritize. Companies would prefer not to pay anyone for anything, including random "researchers".

>the rest of the record of the case Is that not available somewhere? You'd think it would be presented in detail, since this is the key reason for the default judgement.

Okay, this is a different article. Nevertheless, this one liner about this topic does not specify what the discovery requests were. If the request was about finding text messages r…

The judgement document does not go into any detail therefore we don't know whether the Jones team responded with "these documents don't exist" or not. If that was their position, w…

>And then they accidentally sent all of the non-existent documents to the plaintiffs That's not what these two linked articles say. The AP articles about this state that the improp…

This doesn't answer the question about when this was occurring.