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57,650karma·19,241submissions·June 16, 2015
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And contradicted Bessent multiple times. How did he contradict Bessent? Genuinely curious, I am only familiar with recent events.
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You jest but there is some ironic truth in your suggestion. Be careful, they are watching and might take your advice. Can not restore from backup? No problem. Department implodes and reduces burn…
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I am not sure I follow. Almost everything Donald has done with tariffs were based entirely on advise by United States Treasurer Scott Bessent and economic adviser Peter Navarro. There are several in…
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I am not an expert in global economics but it may be worth mentioning that both Chairman Xi and Donald Trump have very strong personalities and neither wish to be seen giving in or losing so I could e…
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Could you convince a LLM to launch a nuclear strike? Yes. If LLM's could actually reason they can't and had hard rules of ethics they don't and had a strong desire to preserve its…
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To answer the question look for "lifepo4" and "heated" [1] but it sounds like that's too big for your use case. In your case just use a regular and smaller deep cycle battery…
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Your answer is so much better than mine ... in only three sentences no less.
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For completeness sake there are also many LifePo4 battery options that have heating pads that will activate below a certain temperature. Even Amazon have about a dozen brands with heating pads.
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As an experiment one can stand up a self hosted forum, IRCD, voice chat (Murmur / uMurmur) but I would use a throw-away domain, throw away registrar, optionally a cheap CDN or a self built mini…
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Forget the babies, I'm selfish. Can my existing DNA be modified to make me a super-human? How long does it take to replace all the old DNA and cells? Where do I sign up?
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Have there been a studies on the risks of this exacerbating existing auto-immune disorders? Cancer is bad but some auto-immune disorders when amplified can be acutely life threatening.
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Not just bad and outdated advice but they also do not list some of the caveats for each of their tuning suggestions. The internet is full of such snippets and most all of them leave out the potenti…
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The acts make it illegal to cause distress by sending “grossly offensive” messages or sharing content of an “indecent, obscene or menacing character” on an electronic communications network. That is…
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.monster has been associated with spamming and phishing. I block it on my firewall and my self hosted mail servers. Zero regrets doing so. All the TLD's that go for real cheap are instantly p…
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Archive [1] [1] - https://archive.is/md2h8
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Dystopian are my favorites. I have this fantasy that there are still some people that would rise up to the challenge and level the playing field.
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Let's admit, the single reason to 'bring back' the Mammoth is, it's cool and a tremendous publicity scheme for ecological efforts. That alone, may be reason enough. Don't en…
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I have been planning it out but only for my property. I can not afford to build the national, international or interplanetary bits. Getting a good team together at my location is my only obstacle. …
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I have an old Linux PC and monitor dedicated to HN. I use uBlock to filter out boring topics that I am disinterested in and I consume all the rest all day and part of the night for the single purpose…
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True but if some fake-front group can show we are mass killing bacteria they will hire protesters and start legal battles to shut it all down. "Think Of The Streptomyces!"
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I believe it. Let's not replicate what London got wrong.
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There is probably some truth in this but China have their own major obstacles to overcome that this won't help much with. They have demographic challenges they needed to solve many decades ago a…
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Once one knows it all they obtain the title Principal Armchair Commander or PAC. One should strive to be a PAC, man.
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