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At some point, folks who object to epic incompetence in government need to focus on where the buck stops: > The University of California is governed by a twenty-six member Board of Regents, eightee…

From the PoV of our enemies and rivals, perhaps. But in the bigger picture? We're still futzing around at amateur hours. The quagmire of the Roman-Persian Wars lasted almost seven hundred year…

Is your phrase "stops bombing countries just because it can" shorthand for something like "America is a too-often-immoral-or-incompetent global superpower"? A quick peek at post-WW…

> actually tips the balance closer to "Taiwan, with US help and proper preparation, can deny China control of the strait of Taiwan" Sadly not true. So long as the US is unwilling to laun…

Your phrasing implies that someone with real authority tried to think it out, and had realistic plans. Vs. I see an angry, frustrated C-in-C, who has maybe a 1-move look ahead, playing out his emoti…

How many hours do you think our current President could stick to that strategy, if it didn't instantly - Poof! Magic! - make everything better?

Collecting their paychecks, occasionally launching a really nice rocket, and never rocking any boats. Compared to Blue Origin, they're world-class overachievers.

HN title is a mix of the article's title & subtitle, with a dash of the (linked) research paper which it's about.

> Defenders are now in the process of patching every bug they can find, often with AI helping them. Entire development toolchains are being rebuilt to incorporate powerful vulnerability scanning be…

The electrodes are physically uninvasive. Selling your brainwaves to the data brokers is a different issue. And just how creepy can it get, if ads are being generated in realtime by AI's that m…

No - but it'd be pretty amusing if the government called it that.

Daydream: US Gov't says "Sure, go for it! BTW, we'll now be talking an extra 15% cut of all transactions that you do using our dollars."

Maybe read the very first sentence of the article - > Jonathan Ott is blind with some remaining vision and had spent nearly ten years working as a machinist at The Lighthouse for the Blind, manufac…

Boeing's internal processes (in hiring and handling the obviously near-blind worker) sounds FUBAR'ed enough that they shouldn't be allowed to build dog houses. Let alone airplanes. Tha…

What country and year? I'm not in this space, but having a kid regularly kicking around a major US hospital pharmacy seems inconceivable these days.

No. But from Isolationist and "America First" points of view - one can see Afghanistan as a place we poured vastly more money into (vs. Israel), and have vastly worse results (vs. Israel) t…

+1 for Dr. Becky's expertise and high content quality. In theory, [] tags for length (19 minute) and starting with a 2-minute summary could be added to the title. In practice, I probably wouldn&…

I remember a small local dept. store in the US still using them in the mid-70's. If you had to take a little boy or few shopping for clothes, the combination of "small, local, has a fascinat…

[sigh/] While I'm sure this ugly mess inspires undiluted joy in a whole lotta very malicious people, I suspect that most brighter Jews understand that it is just one more in a whole series …

Does your uncountable set of propositions include some which cannot be written as a finite string of symbols? If "yes" - how might such as proposition be proven true with a finite string of …

Outside of static defense or close formations, a combat veteran solder has always been worth far more than a green soldier. ("Green" = no combat experience.) No matter how well trained the…

I'm less familiar with Dutch history - but that happened to the British Empire because its situation went from being the world's obvious #1, to barely avoiding national bankruptcy, due to th…

> ... even if paying a wealth tax forces stock liquidations that cause stock prices to plummet ... Points, but I'll argue that: (1) Such plummeting would prove that the stock valuations were …

> The ballot measure has caused an uproar among some of California’s wealthiest individuals such as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, both of whom have donated to org…

"Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday li…

The big discussion is here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260250 - based on the WSJ's article.

> The Soviet-built plant, which uses water from the Danube to cool its four reactors, is currently operating at little more than 10% of its 2,000 megawatt capacity due to low water levels. It suppl…

> The best practice for investigating potential bodies inside things like wheelie bins and suitcases is not to open it, but to X-ray it, Paola Magni, a Murdoch University forensic science associate…

A much longer, deeper, and more detailed article than I expected. Is anyone in this space, to comment? I'm thinking it'd be reasonable to keep the FCC in charge of communications (radio, …