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Looking at the dissents (Justice Gorsuch) it appears that he would consider illegal immigrants’ kids are citizens, but kids of legal non-immigrants are not based on the fact that o…

The man who saved Pumplesdrop By W. J. Turner

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Press releases are partly to create a paper trail and partly for the stock market.

Swift blocking and ignoring is what I would do. The AI has an infinite time and resources to engage a conversation at any level, whether it is polite refusal, patient explanation o…

Reminds me of George Gamow and his wife's attempts to escape from the Soviet union by kayaking across the Black sea (first attempt) and the Norwegian sea (second attempt) until he …

Also The Fist of God and Icon, although the ending of Icon is a bit rushed. Another exciting cold war thriller is the Devil's Alternative.

Or short sell one day before the tarriff announcements.

Unrelated but on the topic of squircles, an interesting factoid: Among all squircles having arbitrary exponents (|x|^p + |y|^p = 1), PI (3.14159...) is the smallest value of ratio …

What is the play here? Using money invested in xAI and its inflated valuation to bail out the X investors?

The only profession where there is a legitimate case for the "cannot drink in free time" requirement is Emergency medicine physicians. And even among physicians, they are some of t…

Something about the East African runners is just built differently to excel in endurance running. Probably a combination of genetics and training.

Indeed. When two black hole merge, the resulting blackhole has larger mass and size.

Roger Penrose is 93 and as sharp as a tack!

Out of curiosity, why cannot hospitals fund residency slots on their own with some riders (the resident should work in the same hospital for x years)? It seems odd that the medical…

No. I want the DNC to provide some basic money all valid candidates (say those who get above certain percent of votes) so that they can spend their time making their case to the pr…

With all their talk of campaign finance reform, it is not clear to me why the DNC does not finance their most valid primary candidates? Why make them jump through hoops and raise m…

Only if the sitting President resigns or is incapacitated. If there is a new election, then it is best if she earns her candidacy.

Care to share your file format with some dummy entries?

Because the goal of DEI is not to hire based on diversity of thoughts. Else the places in the world where DEI was the dominant philosophy (university professors especially in the h…

The board members should have a high degree of trust and cohesion. That does not mean they should see eye-to-eye on everything. But lack of trust and backstabbings like this can cr…