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> To the extent that high value workers knew that they were treasure to be looted they might have decided that the US was a least worse option. Yes, that lines up with von Braun's …

Here are some quick links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Group#1991_Soviet_coup_d... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat... The gist of it is in Augu…

"were taken" suggests they had no say in the matter, which is not true at least in the case of many. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#Surrender_to...

von Braun and his team specifically sought out Americans to surrender to. Characterizing a surrender as "theft" (as though people are property?!) is truly bizarre.

What is this whitewashing? The Soviet Union never stopped assassinating people, and the practice clearly continued into present day Russia. Boris Yeltsin was one whim away from bei…

Just how many $5/mo subscriptions do you expect people buy, and how much does that all add up to per year? The privilege here is real.

General anesthesia is fraught with peril. Every time somebody is put under they're dicing with death.

> Shouldn’t they have a paper-based/offline downtime procedure for this? If they did, I would expect their employees to be out of practice with such methods since they weren't work…

Does it really make a difference, with respect to whether they should be kicked off HackerOne? Incompetence and disorganization is no excuse for what is essentially (if not literal…

Exactly right. The American government considers associations inferred from this "metadata" to be sufficient evidence to execute people via drone.

Depleted uranium has indeed been used in airplanes. Some models of 747 have a ton or so of depleted uranium, though I believe this practice was phased out in later models. It's not…

> Also, slightly unrelated but Cloudflare protected websites are almost impossible to access via tor, the captcha never succeeds. Yes, I've never understood why it's seemingly so i…

Perhaps Elbakyan should promptly convert to Islam so she can claim she's being persecuted by Islamophobic investigators. I'm only half joking. As dumb as that may be, I think it do…

I did some more research and it seems I am substantially correct; paying a ransom to a terrorist organization is illegal.

Is this the reason Hydrogen is grouped with the alkali metals on the periodic table?

Yeah, that's a bizarre headline. I'm not sure it's wrong, but it's quite strange. Edit: I'm not sure actually right either. It was not the act of eating that transported the bodies…

If the mugger isn't bluffing, then he'll get your money one way or the other. This makes it different from paying ransoms. Furthermore, a corporation's bottom line is not truly com…

> How does anyone justify these obscure tokens and coins being worth billions. The Greater Fool Theory. This stops working when you run out of fools, but the notion of "there's ano…

Until high ranking government officials start getting very length prison sentences for this sort of shit, I doubt it will ever get better.

I don't think it has anything to do with energy or the environment. I think Elon Musk distancing himself from Bitcoin is a consequence of the recent spat of highly publicized ranso…

Maybe this could work for some. Personally, if I watch more than a few movies in a week I begin to feel like I'm losing my mind. I think variety is key, and not just having a varie…

> These are the people that have been selected to be astronauts. How often have you seen one have a breakdown during a mission? I'm not sure about mental breakdowns per se, but the…

I fear the US government might allow Elon Musk get away with anything, as long as he keeps launching satellites for the military.

Perhaps the niche for a space elevator is bulk passenger transit. An elevator could perhaps ferry more people than a reusable lander, while not turning them into goo as the g-force…

This use of the word 'handy' reminds me of the classic Red Green Show quip: "If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy." I have always taken this to mea…