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With the expiration of New Start earlier this year, there are no nuclear arms control agreements in effect between the US and Russia, which hasn’t been the case since the 1960s. Ru…

Biggest thing I can recommend is to focus on the fundamentals, even if it doesn’t seem like it’s something you would use in practice. Learn data structures and algorithms. Understa…

+10, I can't stand AI-generated comments. Half the time they are paragraph-length translations of every 5 lines of code into English prose, or just regurgitating whatever prompt th…

One thing that has really frustrated me with "mainstream media" in the last few years is that the level of effort being put into journalism seems to be on decline. I feel like half…

It’s a pretty fine line, and if they want to do anything beyond just telling you things about your data, actually taking any sort of actions or communications with health care prov…

Searching in vain for any mention of HIPAA compliance…

Funnily enough, it was almost discovered several years earlier. The science fiction author Arthur C Clarke wrote in “The City and the Stars” a passage that, as an aside, describes …

The simplest explanation would be the fact that the Riemann zeta function is also equal to the infinite product of 1/(1 - p^{-s}) for all primes p. The proof is rather accessible, …

Curiously, I relate to both. I have a certain degree of fear or trepidation of sharks when swimming in the ocean. I feel vulnerable, and keep imagining a shark coming up under me o…

Elon Musk is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, thanks to the dismantling of USAID and US foreign aid. Not hypothetical deaths in the future, people who…

> I don't give much credence to new allegations. Where were these allegations when he was alive It’s worth noting that it’s common for it to take years or decades for victims to sp…

That article was written 16 years ago and misses a lot as a result. it doesn’t mention the new allegations, including those documented in Leaving Neverland. It also glosses over th…

That’s a very fair point. Frankly I don’t know enough about the Artemis mission and general path, and would like to learn more. I’m certainly open to the argument that NASA’s budge…

This argument comes up a lot, about whether a space program is “worth it” in some sense. One problem I’ve found is that these discussions often treat this in the abstract. And then…

Just comes off like a puffed-up pigeon strutting around the stage, trying to cover up his own insecurities. The true great military leaders dont act like this. Even Patton, who has…

Voter ID is often touted as an important part of election security, but when you look at the threat model of elections it just doesn't do much. Think about how you would try to che…

The entire enterprise of AI for medical advice reminds me a lot of the early 20th century. When X-rays and radioactivity were first discovered, industry rushed to commercialize it.…

Ummm, is it a good idea to use AI for malware analysis? I know this is just a proof of concept, but if you have actual malware, it doesn’t seem safe to hand that to AI. Given the l…

> It indeed sucks for the honest workers like your friends who are losing funding because the CIA can't help itself. So you find an organization filled with aid workers who are ded…

> I'm not saying it's "better" in the moral sense, but from the point of view of the dominant, it's definitely more effective By what metric does the Belt and Road Initiative provi…

> An American belt and road initiative would be politically impossible. I think you misunderstand soft power if you think the belt and road initiative is better. The belt and road …

I genuinely don't get it. I just don't understand how billionaires think. Everyone knows why he bought the Washington Post: it was for clout and prestige. Just like how the titans …

I don’t know much about chemistry, but is there a reason why they are using CO2 as the gas medium instead of something else? I was thinking ambient air would be readily available, …

Frankly, it’s not a lack of arenas that is holding Go back. It’s the fact that, in 2025, we have a language with a runtime that is neither generational nor compacting. I can’t trus…

> pretty sure the process I've seen most places is more like: one junior approves, one senior approves, then the owner manually merges. Yeah that’s what I think we need to enforce.…