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From the Wikipedia link (above) - "The seamount that San Francisco struck did not appear on the chart in use at the time of the accident... The Navy determined that information regarding the sea…

History is merely repeating itself - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#Co... - (back in 2005). No bets on whether the Navy will start caring about seamoun…

Don't they already have a whole dedicated tax enforcement agen cy or few, making sure that merchants pay the state the Sales Tax, Fuel Tax, Bottle Deposits, Cigarette Tax, etc., ad nauseum that …

Ditto here (chicken). And ditto for beef. And ditto for pork. And ditto for lamb/mutton. And I generally buy "cook long & slow" cuts, so there is no "my thermometer said the sp…

After reading ~50 pages into the USN's own 400+ page Command Investigation report (dated 12 Jul 2020 and 20 Oct 2021, link further down)...the sailor and officer that you mention were no more tha…

True...but the USN can make it humanly impossible for a Captain to actually do his job. Imagine that you were a WWII submarine captain sent into battle with these lovely torpedoes: https:/…

A less-long read, with some good diagrams: https://news.usni.org/2021/10/19/long-chain-of-failures-left... And a juicy (and damning) tidbit from the parent's secon…

Direct links to sources (far longer, official U.S. Navy) cited by the article: https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/HotTopics/BHR%2... https://www.se…

> "or at least would pretend to." True, and I was obnoxiously snarky. But for something so high-profile and emotionally charged, the loss of face, loss of control, and other big downside…

And doing well academically is a pretty plausible cause of being relaxed in such a setting.

Your "Any other country would allow..." faith in the honesty, transparency, etc. of non-Chinese governments is touching. But not realistic. Certainly not for large, powerful countries - wi…

The article eventually admits that kW/kg is being 3X improved. While rather aspirational, that at least requires no handwavium-plated perpetual motion machines. Whether their 3X improvement is m…

With the reputation & nicknames the place may soon have with students - "Mungertraz", "Gulag Munger", "Black Hole of Chuck Munger", "Bergen-Munger", etc. - …

Is there serious intent to reach orbit here, or is it just a Powerpoint P.R. exercise - maybe angling to get some "$$$ to study the idea of..." funding?

Might anyone happen to know if the New York Times ran a "What Broke The Spectator?" article recently? Because this sounds rather like a name-calling contest between Mr. Pot and Mr. Kettle.

This "invention" (see paulgb's link to the patent) sounds far too much like stackable plastic milk crates with $Logo_Of_Dairy printed on the side of 'em. Or even more like the stac…

The Amish are ~0.1% of America's population. Is there any vaguely-homogenious 0.1% of America's population that could stand alone outside of American society, when you start requiring mega-s…

JIC - "the basics" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI But is the HDMI switch known to work with any other PC and display?…

Not to deny that there is something profoundly wrong with the world's extremes of wealth and poverty...but it sounds like a more honest headline would be "$Small% of $One_Rich_Mans_Wealth, i…

True - but the grain of truth may turn out to be more poetic than literal. And human nature tends to heap so much fantasy on top of any such grains that the average person is far better off using a b…

I'd go with your "Old wisdom". But add that 95% of the 5% (conspiracy) only happens after the fuck-up - to downplay, cover up, blame shift, distract, etc.

Not in good faith? Or non compos mentis ? I keep hoping that somebody will push back on this sort of lawsuit, by asking the court to appoint a trustee or conservator to manage the life of the plaint…

Mmm...back in the early 80's, frosted brown sugar cinnamon Pop Tarts were my usual breakfast. I tried ~all the other flavors - and decided that those generally tasted worse, and had (at best, af…

"One small step for a Musk, but one pipe dream leap for Marketingkind."

I wonder if that's a regional problem. Here (Michigan), TJ's employees seem happy, and appear to be very well treated. As opposed to employees at Kroger - which is unionized (UCFW). But …

This. I'm old enough to have seen how little the great-grandchildren care about things (heirlooms, family photos, you name it) that were profoundly important to their great-grandparents.

My reaction is to say that people should have the choice of being either (1)anonymous or (2)nasty when on-line. Not both. (Non-anonymous and nice obviously being allowed.) Too bad that seems impossi…

While banning ~90% of the bots sounds pretty good to me - how long would it take the folks behind those now-banned bots to replace them, with new & "improved" & less easily detected …

It's annoying at times, but...the discussion on HN is often much higher quality content than the article itself. And what is important (usually not much) in the article can (usually) be predicte…

From the names mentioned, I wonder if the individuals they picked were biased toward people who "the man in the street" might plausibly see as the creators of important and socially valuable…