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"This insistence that acknowledgement of facts has an ideological narrative is a pernicious strain of anti-science thinking." That is very well put. This should be added to the gen…

Different domains. Admiral Rickover focused on the nuclear propulsion aspect of the navy. Its like comparing the CEO of a company with one of the heads of engineering.

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It my impression that most people in the EU and outside of it think the citizens of the member countries can vote to replace that or change things, so its ok. Seems like something …

If you are trying to create satellite internet in low earth orbit (for reduced ping/latency) the satellite moves faster than the earth spins, and the user on the ground loses point…

All I know is I moved to the Dallas area 4 years ago, and I'm still shocked at the housing affordability compared to where I moved from. Both in terms of absolute price and general…

If she likes to hold them to expiry like you pointed out, then isn’t it odd to not have let the nvidia options expire? I’d need to see her full trading history to make sense of whe…

Singapore has high politicians salaries and low corruption as measured by international standards. They also have extremely strict anti-lobbying or to use the sane word anti-corrup…

From wikipedia: Pix is an instant payment platform created and managed by the monetary authority of Brazil, the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB).[1] It enables instantaneous payments a…

17* year history on this site, but the earliest use of "crazy" in a comment was from 9 years ago.

I looked at the uses and it seems like the guy was using the term crazy to describe ideas and things being done, not as a negative label for a human being. Splitting hairs? Maybe b…

It’s not cool anymore. To add to that, I was shopping for a car last fall and did research to compare small suv type cars and I found Tesla’s to be surprisingly affordable - or ano…

What if someone else posts your personal data on the public internet and it gets collected into a dataset like this?

My cousin in Europe drinks milk from one of his neighbors everyday. He does heat it first, I don't know how hot it gets and if it kills as much as the pasteurization process. The b…

You are both completely correct, and incorrect. Here is a 4 year old example on how it is possible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bOo3zLFhEk They are using the lightning network …

Late (born in 79) gen-x here. I learned early on that I wouldn't have a reliable pension or retirement, I would not have the same level of upward mobility that previous generations…

(Disclaimer: I’m not trying to make an argument that there is a link between vaccines and autism, I’m trying to understand a research paper and its methodology and conclusions) I j…

I'm new here but I agree. The ratio of discussions to arguments here is like the inverse of most large forums. Its not perfect of course, neither am I.

Good points. -I don’t see how a lobby group in the USA has any influence over countries in the Middle East. The USA has a bigger military than all the countries in the Middle East …

The main lobbying group in the USA in this area posted a tweet after the 2024 democratic primaries, to brag about how they achieved a 100% success rate in getting candidates they e…

Was there a very active thread that got locked and is now unsearchable? Same country, different but related accusations.

Here’s a good video with overlap on the reasons causing this, with current cost comparisons for Chinese made fire trucks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78nZ-JJNmzQ

It's my sense that globalism kicked off this trend of anti-globalism. If it benefitted more people, or more accurately if it benefitted people in a more equitable way instead of co…

We should talk about the details of this particular strike then. I don't know anything so I'm just copying from wikipedia, they could have a bad analysis: The 1975–1976 Washington …

No. It impinges on the right of Western collective of ideamakers to tell them what to do and how to run their country. The article is from French media sources for example. France,…