Victerius

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The fact that nuclear-tipped multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRV) have never been tested with live explosives is both a good thing, and a missed photographic opportunity :(

Counterpoint 1: The low barriers to entry of the video game industry make it easy for new players to disrupt the space if Microsoft wants to abuse its position.

Counterpoint 2: The product is video games at the end of the day. It's not exactly as important as life saving drugs or internet service providers, where antitrust resources are more needed. There is an unlimited number of ways for consumers to entertain themselves.

You make good points, which is why proportional responses exist. I will reply to an attack on one of my power stations by an attack on one of yours.

In a war, I mean.

I regard attacks on critical civilian infrastructure as strategically indistinguishable from nuclear attacks, and deserving of a similar response.

Edit: Why is this being downvoted. I'm right. One will kill 100k people instantly. The other will send them back to the Middle Ages. The former group might actually be the luckier one.

The potential geopolitical consequences are huge. The United States could unilaterally initiate such a project, but developing countries such as China would be resolutely opposed. By dimming the planet, the U.S. would impose its own will on the rest of the world. The rest of the world, which includes nuclear powers hostile to the US, might be very, very angry. So that's something we would need to prepare for. Indeed, food-stressed countries like China and North Korea might view geoengineering as an existential threat to their societies.

Please drink verification can.

Investors have already been complaining about Zuck's absolute control over Facebook for years. To see him leave the company and keep a majority of class B shares would be unacceptable to them. Facebook is supposed to be owned by investors, not a single individual. If Zuck intends to leave, he should swap his class B shares for class A ones.

If you're still on HN and you can hack, head to YCombinator's HQ. Bring photos of all your hacks from the last 6 months.

Won't that prevent Twitter from paying severance to their former employees?

No they don't. This is copium.

> But Legoland Korea struggled out of the gate, too far from Seoul and too expensive for what was on offer, and it did not generate enough revenue to honor the bonds. Also, as South Korea’s real estate market softened, the value of the real estate backing the bonds began falling below the amount of the debt.

This is the heart of the problem.

I know the current South Korean president owes his victory in part to popular resentment in the face of the Moon administration's inability to stem the explosive growth of housing costs in Seoul.

Could it be that the target demographic for this Legoland just doesn't have enough disposable income or free time to make the asset profitable? It sure seems like it. Other Legolands around the world don't struggle with profitability. Distance isn't an issue for car owners. But cars are more expensive than ever. And shelter costs in SK are too high in proportion to household incomes.

Housing speculators and NIMBYs are going to kill capitalism.

Why do you need to send money across continents?

Sure, for the 2,000 people who use it without exchanges. (made up number)

It is impossible for a monetary system to be decentralized, safe, and have mass adoption. Because security requires either inconvenience or centralization, and inconvenience is a hard barrier to mass adoption.

> FTX was the antithesis of cryptocurrency

No true scotsman. "The USSR wasn't real communism."

What cryptocurrency could be or should be in an ideal world is irrelevant. If cryptocurrency fails to live up to its ideals, it may be because these ideals are impossible to fulfill. That could be due to technological limitations, human nature, or something else. And in this case, we have no choice but to judge crypto for what it looks like in the world of today.

What matters is what cryptocurrency looks like in practice. And that is FTX, Mt Gox, Three Arrows, and others.

Crypto isn't sound enough to have mass adoption.

The USSR was real communism. And FTX is crypto principles at work.

Had to tick one letter off "Ticketmaster" to make the reduced headline fit HN's 100 character limit.

Bank robberies are no longer a thing in the 21st century. No one loses their savings because of thieves.

Crypto.com's CRO ponzicoin is in freefall: https://i.imgur.com/sJZBv5n.jpeg

The number of Agile apologists in this comment section surprises me.

HN is dead. This comment section proves it.

Only if the rich do it first.

I won't eat bugs, lab grown meat, algae, or any other experimental food until the rich do it first, and do it consistently, not just once as a demonstration.

My logic is simple. If the rich don't embrace an innovation, it tells me that the innovation is either not what it's cracked up to be, that it gives a poorer quality product than the traditional option, or that the rich think the innovation is for suckers or the poor. If that's the case, I'll stick with the traditional option.

Afghanistan is landlocked. To its north is Russia. To its east is China. To its south are Pakistan and India. And to its west is Iran.

Fun neighborhood. Nothing could go wrong with the above countries fighting for their share of Afghanistan's mineral resources.

Don't forget Félicette, the first, and so far the ONLY, cat launched into space: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9licette

She also survived.

I don't see how Twitter can survive as a business entity.

The old executive team is gone and no competent executive wants to work for Twitter.

They're firing half of their employees, and the other half will quit in short order.

Advertisers are pulling out because of the chaos at the company.

In the future, Elon Musk will be able to brag that he single-handedly killed Twitter, for the modest price of $44 billion.

Oh, right. I mixed it with month-on-month inflation.

For the mathematically inclined among us, dp/dt is still positive. It's d^2p/dt^2 that is slightly negative.

Since Twitter is now a private company, its owners are free of the host of laws that publicly traded firms have to abide by. There are many things the kingdom could offer Musk in return for a say in Twitter's content. Like money, in such form as personal bribes, donations to his foundation, tax breaks to open a SpaceX office in SA, etc.