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The most chilling is that this also inflicts the military. Lieutenant Colonel Heffington on West Point, published in 2017: > Academic standards are also nonexistent. I believe this…

While that was a rhetorical point in the Brexit campaign, in reality the nameless unelected bureaucrats in Brussels were simply replaced by nameless unelected bureaucrats in London…

To add one more data point - Olkiluoto 3, started 2005, was expected to finish in 2009. Completed late 2021, 12 years late Cherry on top - after producing electricity for about a w…

Tesla pulls all sorts of accounting tricks to make gross margin appear higher than it actually is. Warranty repairs are apparently done by pixies for free, so is R&D, factory amort…

Notice who is pushing the narrative of Russia bogged down - journalists, politicians and their nominees, economists, and people with an active career in the military. There are als…

> BRF system in Sweden To expand on this point, and a similar system in Finland called asumisoikeus: Municipalities have a pool of housing units. The tenants do not buy the house i…

Unequivocal yes If Playstation is a cheaper source of compute power than consumer hardware, the customer should be able to turn it into a compute cluster, as many people did (1). T…

On a societal level, once heating, industry, public services and transportation are accounted for, we consume around 500-1000W per person. Saving a few Watts per family is a roundi…

Correct, and the difference is not even close - anything to do with temperature manipulation consumes orders of magnitude more. Literally, not figuratively The laptop I'm writing t…

That's close to the way things work in Europe Pricing for the next day is decided on the spot market, around 2-3 PM. All large consumers and producers place bids on one-hour slots …

My past three workplaces let me choose between a high-end Windows laptop, or a Macbook. I always opted for Windows, due to some tooling I'm used to, but ended up regretting it on e…

It goes both ways - China claims Taiwan as theirs, but also Taiwan claims China as theirs Due to some obscure legalities, Taiwan dropping the claim would amount to declaration of w…

> Furthermore China prefers peaceful solutions where it can In this case, the blind spot of western liberalism - demography. Taiwanese fertility rates are below 1.3 for nearly two …

Good faith communication is maladaptive on large scale Imagine the war scenario. The honest, good-faith communication would be like: If we capitulate outright, the worst thing that…

Zelenskiy's #1 campaign promise was to negotiate peace with Russia - meaning fulfilling Ukraine's part of the Minsk accords, perhaps with some concessions. Overall, about 65% of th…

They also have an example of...themselves - that all it takes to be left alone is being reasonable and not needlessly bellicose towards their great power neighbor

It gets worse than that. Often, code is pushed into an absurdly wrong level of the development stack, just because it makes testing it easier. For example, something should be a da…

This is the best write-up of the Softbank business model: https://www.readmargins.com/p/softbank-robinhood-and-a-margi... In short, the background of Softbank founders is in plumbi…

Interesting fact about trains - a lot of the diesel and gas locomotives do not burn fossil fuels to propel themselves, meaning there's no mechanical connection between the engines …

Because in the US, money has nowhere else to go. Stocks? Wildly overpriced. Real estate? Wildly overpriced. Bonds? Zero returns. Mineral extraction? Risky outlook. Energy sector? S…

> websites don't follow the "spirit of the law" A perfect counter-example to people rambling about EU legislation - Wikipedia. Consistently in the top 10 sites in the world for 15 …

This is already a pattern in HN discussions: legislation is proposed, news outlets vaguely summarize it, the HN crowd interprets the summary in absurdly maximalist way without both…

Also, the term rare-earth metal is really unfortunate. About half of them have no practical industrial use. The other half is neither rare, nor particularly expensive The three mos…

As far as I recall, there were some measurable increases in cancer incidence among children in Belarus, mostly due to milk intake However, all that was completely drowned by a coll…

The problem with this line of argumentation is - why single out phone OS providers as the only link in the very long supply chain that deserves a cut? Why not internet provider? Ve…