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I thought I also heard that the people who agreed to buy Twitter's debt got the deal sweetened with some XAi stock. Sooo, did that debt get paid off, and they got XAi stock. If so,…

Wait, wasn't there a "sweetener" for recent X debt buyers that they'd get XAI stock? The levels of .. self-fertilizing transactions here boggles the mind. I guess that's the idea.

People don't talk about it now but when he first started the "established" telescope making folks spoke derisively of him, his techniques, and his telescopes. Why? To start with "w…

I made my first 10" telescope - rough and fine ground, polished, figured, and built the telescope and mount at 10 under the instruction famous (later) John Dobson in San Francisco.…

Thanks to the generosity of Stewart and Tiny Speck releasing all the artwork and other assets for the game into public domain, a few non-Flash versions of Glitch showed up. One, Od…

Let's just hope we're not on his "People to Haunt" list.

...under "a few" to 20 kilometers of ice even. * Richard Greenberg suggests "a few" kilometers. * Robert Pappalardo suggests ~20 kilometers.

"More than anything, I think it's good for things to end" You know who else said this (in spirit)? Bill Watterson, author of Calvin and Hobbes. There are few other people I'd be pr…

So does this include paying off all their past obligations, including, but not limited to: Rent(s), Vendor Payment(s), Employee termination and back pay, etc, etc? And this are onl…

There's a story that when Cameron pitched it, he wrote one word on the board and the studio was sold: $Alien$.

I often wonder if it's the writing that's bad or the translation. I really get the impression lots of the sentences and paragraphs are stilted translations which don't succeed, eit…

It may appear that this may get Musk off the hook for buying Twitter because "Look how bad they are!" but, as I recall, Musk's problem is that his offer with without contingency - …

I've actually asked scammers ("Amazon" or "Apple" representatives who are calling me to help me with a "problem" with my account) this question: "So, tell me, do you go home to you…

Was "Manchin" taken? Seriously, they should use this mechanism to call out legislators that refuse to act on client, or, even worse, block client action. They should also include i…

Well, at the risk of your productivity: https://www.oddgiants.com/ It's in "Alpha" and works pretty well. Enjoy!

Heh. Read the news lately? . Religious Cults. If you look at the religiously inspired insanity in US Laws and Politics recently, coupled with what's going on in, say, Afganistan, I…

The "magnificently colored images" are false colored unfortunately - the colors are derived by assigning colors to wavelengths which are faint or invisible to the human eye: purple…

How can you be a "former quantum physicist"? Did you somehow unlearn everything that made you a quantum physicist? Maybe you meant to say "formerly paid to be a quantum physicist"?…

But does it flow through wires? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY

I heard this as part of "You should think of Meta, Metamates, self", as in "Ship, Shipmates, Self". My first reaction was "So, where does you family fit into all this?" This sounds…

Agree. Wolves use a highly coordinated attack, where lead dogs harry the prey and are replaced as they tire. Also, you need more than a simple strategy to take down an animal that …

Thus, the "Aft Momentum flap": https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/deploymentExplo...

Sadly one of the the problems is, it's dark where it is. The mirror side is in complete darkness (because of the sunshield), and the sun side is blazingly bright (because of the re…

I've heard of a situation where people exercised their options at the stock's high point (because of the 90-day limit, or just plain ignorance), but by tax time the stock had dropp…

As I recall, with the Hubble, and presumably the JWST, there were scientific "precedence" rules which limited access to the observational data to the scientist requesting the obser…