SideburnsOfDoom

It's gambling, and it's gambling in dodgy unregulated casinos.

"This guy won big!" is absolutely a part of the marketing that pulls in the other suckers. It's not a counter-example, it's part of the scheme.

I know people who really enjoy a night out losing a 3-digit sum of money in a casino. Somehow they get sufficient reward from that to make the expense worthwhile for them.

The difference is, that unlike the Crypto enthusiasts, they don't afterwards try to convince me at length that gambling can and should replace money transfers, foreign exchange, banks in general, pension funds, the governmental exchequer etc. That would be cultish lunacy.

> he is described

Still no specifics on who does this describing?

Wikipedia says that he is "soft left". i.e. not "hard left", the "very left wing" part of the Labour party that you claimed.

> he is described as being on the very left wing of the party

By whom, and why are they worth taking seriously? Some politicians these days say all kinds of deranged nonsense about their opponents, and very often paint them as "far left" regardless of actual position. It's not worth taking at face value if it comes from there.

I would argue that none of "Weltschmerz", "Gaekwar", "Ucalegon" and "Houghmagandy" are really English words, although I already knew 2 of them.

And one of them prevented me from a perfect score, when I guessed wrong.

On the second run-through there was significant overlap. Maybe 30 or 40% of the words were from the first run-through.

The difficulty goes up once every 20 words.

The final 2 categories were the ones that I found interesting, I had to guess a few times.

Got all correct though.

> there is no threat of invasion of Greenland by the USA and there never has been.

This is a dumb take. You're starting with "I don't take their threats seriously" and conflating it with "it didn't happen at all". But it did happen.

> The Trump administration threatened military action to take control of Greenland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_crisis#Annexation_th...

> Synology recanted immediately

Is that correct? Looking at a common flagship model, the 4-Bay DS925+

and then the "Compatibility list" here https://www.synology.com/en-global/compatibility?search_by=d...

I see only Synology branded drives.

Synology do not make their own hard drives. They are rebadged.

> with ... no firmware restrictions on drive models, organizations can scale capacity without being restricted by proprietary hardware ecosystems.

This looks like a dig at Synology, who do this.

You should not treat it as fact that "performance" of an individual, not a team is a thing that actually exists in any way that matters and is measurable.

The worst motion sickness that I ever got was from an early VR set, hacked together at someone's home.

With regular motion sickness, the eyes say "you're standing still", while the inner ears say "you're moving".

With VR, it's the other way around.

> This is just NIMBYism, literally.

No. OpSec is not Nimbyism.

> It brings humanity closer together.

Sure, then they show up at your door angry about something they saw online. No thanks.

> The question that I asked is an irrelevant derailing, but I'm not sure how it is a non-sequitur.

OK buddy, you do you.

More or less, but "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." And also that the sticker price is a good indication of how easy it is to get an new one quickly.

The side with $25M helicopters and $4m patriot missiles is at a big disadvantage to the side with $40K shaheeds here. Attrition favours the latter side. Assuming that both sides have stockpiles, the latter side will have more items in the stockpile, and will replenish it sooner. What happens when the air defences run out?

You think that he's wrong about the same money getting more ROI if invested in Solar + battery because ... "it needs more land"?

This is not just incorrect, it's nonsensical, non-sequitur. These comments with perpetually moving goalposts are not serious.

Pivot to a different cheap shot playing on a disinfo talking point.

For people who want more a substantive look at it,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936236 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936236

Already answered by parent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477998 Not equivalent, more power and faster.

> Net Zero has left us more exposed to Putin, not less

Spain and Portugal are less exposed to oil price shocks. Why do you think that is?

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Why-Portugal-and-...

> The case against wind and solar is that it only works when it is windy or sunny.

It is 2026 and "solar" can for a while now be read as "solar with battery storage". Similar, grid-level storage for any other intermittent power generation method.

We all know this, you included. This tired and childish talking point that "solar only works when it is sunny" is boring and increasingly at odds with observed reality of these power systems as they are now rapidly being built out.

That does not mean that these parents understand the technical aspects of it.

e.g. How effective it will be: less than they might think, software is not infallible magic

What the side effects might be - more than they might think - excluding the underage means verifying the age of everyone.

So articles like this aim to raise awareness, all of this is clearly spelled out in the article.

> The real surprise ... is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.

Industrial Policy FTW.

I agree, and as the article makes clear, this current liminalism really does not come from the world of "High Art":

>As an internet phenomenon, the most recent iteration of liminal aesthetics can be primarily traced to a 2019 Creepypasta collaborative short story entitled "The Backrooms"

This is ground-up, the opposite of high art. It's even kind of "outsider art".

Germany's official name in English is "Federal Republic of Germany". (And in French the official name is "La République fédérale d'Allemagne").

Another country's official name in English is "Republic of Türkiye". Since 2022.

In both cases, that is what officials from the country expect the country to be called, when using the English language.

For instance here

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states/germany

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states/turkiye

I hear that yes, Azure is capacity constrained at present.

It's interesting in the personal sense that I have read multiple news articles about it, and checked to see if people heard it (they did).

It's not interesting in the scientific sense of being an outlier, unusual and noteworthy. It isn't, it's a common enough occurrence.

> if they completely changed the name, like a when Swaziland switched to eswatini.

It's "Eswatini" with a capital letter and no, it's not a complete change. In both cases the word means the place of the Swazi/Swati people. If you're not aware that Southern African languages use prefixes such as "e-" as well as suffixes (like e.g. the suffix "-land" in English) then I guess it's harder to recognise the word stem. But they are related terms, not a "complete change".

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swazi_people

> I won't be calling Turkey Türkiye anymore than I would call China Zhōngguó.

Whyever not? It's their stated preference. And it's hardly the same kind of change as "China" vs. "Zhōngguó" or "Germany" vs. "Deutschland". It's just a slightly different spelling and pronunciation of the same word. You can change your ways.

> When the consciousness itself not understood and well defined in the first place, it is pretty pointless to debate if something is or isn't conscious.

I don't think that this actually follows. Compare: "When Angels are not well defined in the first place, it is pretty pointless to debate if a pebble is or isn't an Angel"

i.e. even if X is poorly defined, you can still often say that Y isn't plausibly X.

> Interesting this also happened in South Carolina and Ohio within the past few months.

Not that interesting, apparently this scale of meteor happens on average multiple times a year, just not usually over such an urban area.

The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor (1) was larger and caused ground damage and injuries from e.g. flying glass from broken windows.

> Sounds like the beginning of an alien invasion movie. Sleeper ships buried themselves into every state.

Based on the last Alien invasion book that I read (2), it would rather start with air bursting the bioweapons, spreading the plagues to weaken us. Which ah, also fits this incident.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Against_the_Chtorr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution

No joke, MS's offering for this is Q# "Q-sharp"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qsharp-overv...

Q# is what Microsoft are offering. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qsharp-overv...