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drstewarton NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

The rest of the world should maybe try take care of its own problems first, starting with the active wars in Europe.

Too bad all's they can do is sit back and condemn things, by your own admission.

Because it isn't america.geography, it's america.gov, and everyone who isn't playing dumb knows exactly what government that refers to.

Not to mention the only context you ever hear people using America to refer to both South and North American continents is people complaining that it should be only used in this way.

drstewarton America.gov

>Maybe some things just are not easy. Maybe they should not be.

Okay. So why should government websites like the French one be well designed? Maybe it should not be.

drstewarton Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

>a day of savage terrorism

This has the tone of "a few minutes of action": https://www.espn.co.uk/college-sports/story/_/id/15997412/br...

drstewarton Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

Sounds like quite the impotent organization then

drstewarton Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

Can you share your short positions so we can see how confident you are in these predictions?

drstewarton US Forces Exit Iraq

So is being in Iraq a bad thing or not? Is it balloon popping?

drstewarton US Forces Exit Iraq

>Iran is becoming the new regional power

Is that what the Iranian state media is telling you?

drstewarton US Forces Exit Iraq

How many European forces are in Iraq? I guess the EU balloon has already popped, by your metric.

drstewarton Meta VR Glasses

>I guess if you want to be alone

Probably a good bet looking at the numbers: https://www.readers.id/en/global-studies-reveal-post-pandemi...

drstewarton The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly

The price of wisdom is unchanged, however

drstewarton Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel

Gee, I wonder what the difference between "dangerous killer baby formula" and "marketing tactic I don't like" is

drstewarton 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"

So what do "US advertisers" have to do with the "US" instead of the CEOs of those companies and their friends?

Europeans sure don't like to use their own rhetoric against themselves. European-style arguments are sure disingenuous.

drstewarton NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

Try reading the entire context of the thread this time.

drstewarton NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

>What view do you have on the trajectory of the U.S.?

What view do you have of what programs have been cut from Chinese government budgets? Can you link to some of the HN discussions around them so I can also see people commenting on the internal policy decisions that the Chinese government has made available for people to openly comment on?

drstewarton NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

Wow, what Chinese government site in Mandarin did you use instead?

drstewarton NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

At least we definitely know they shouldn't be learning German or French

drstewarton AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

God forbid some overworked volunteer make a poster in 30 seconds instead of taking a college course to please some huffy internet commentators with an axe to grind

drstewarton Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

I remember when this was the prevailing thinking online until about 2024. But that's when everyone was trying to justify their own piracy of GTA or whatever.

Suddenly, they don't like other people pirating.

drstewarton Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds

No no no, they didn't know that it was a school because they're incompetent, but ALSO knew it was as school because they're evil.

drstewarton Is anyone else losing their motivation to nerd out and tinker because of AI?

I'd further say it's not a TRUE Scottish tinkering unless you're hand writing machine code yourself and feeding it via punch cards.

drstewarton EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

Define what "friendship" means here and how that differs from "economic or political interests", please?

drstewarton EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

>we seem to be the only large institution that countries still want to voluntarily join, and can voluntarily leave.

Really? Because there's this organisation called CUSMA that nations can voluntarily leave (the US) and some want to stay in (Canada).

It's economy is larger than the EU btw.

drstewarton Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance

>Suggested next steps are to form a single market

>thereby restoring sovereignty

So Canada will be able to be in the EU single market but make its own trade rules and agreements then?

Let me fix your chant for you: No, it can't!

EU can't even shun Russia, let alone the US.

drstewarton EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

Meanwhile Poland's share of trade with China is growing over that with Germany: https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/09/16/china-overtakes-germa...

The pivot away from Germany / France is starting and will not stop.

All it took was Merkel and sucking up to Russia.

drstewarton Show HN: I couldn't afford interview prep, so I built a free alternative

I resisted getting one out of principle till I realised this. Landed a job at FANG ~7 years ago after doing so and that $30 subscription has probably paid for itself 20,000x over at this point.

drstewarton iPhone Duo

>Open a bottle of champagne anyone?

Over the top European celebration that doesn't translate to the rest of the world. Especially countries in the Middle East that don't drink.

drstewarton Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished

The real propaganda is pretending people weren't complaining about copyright for decades and crying "Pirating isn't stealing!!" when it came to them getting GTA for free.

Suddenly, you really seem to care about copyright laws though.