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hindsightbiason Floating nuclear power plants to be mass produced for US coastline

Consider a Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs applied to an AGI.

I predict weird nuclear and space proposals in the next few years.

hindsightbiason Trump will kill CHIPS Act by gutting NIST employees

Why are we subsizing Apple when they have $200B in cash laying around?

Repatriate and give them sme tax credit.

hindsightbiason US Space Force reveals first look at secretive X-37B space plane in orbit

When even your secret programs have to do marketing. Don’t cancel me bro!

hindsightbiason Did DOGE Take Credit for Spending Cuts Related to President Carter's Death?

> That item says DOGE canceled a contract of almost $8 billion with D&G Support Services for services provided to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Investigative reporting from the New York Times revealed that the contract was valued at only $8 million.

I guess it's better these geniuses aren't working on FSD.

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The first rule of opposition should be to not embrace the conspiracy memes of your opponents.

hindsightbiason Ukraine not invited to US-Russia peace talks, source tells BBC

Sykes-Picot agreements weren't just for your great grandparents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes–Picot_Agreement

hindsightbiason Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport

People are finally getting acclimated to the crash rates we were used to back in the old days.

hindsightbiason You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)

https://www.baen.com/rip_moc

1990: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Documents/MCC%20Development%2...

Pirates: https://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/the-nasa-pirates-that-transformed...

Head Pirate: https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/hist...

WEX/Display builder/etc: Even when I was there my young peers weren't too keen on legacy/back-end understanding. GUIs were the cool thing. I worked on something that touched many legacy subsystems so got to work with a lot of "dinosaurs" (what the Pirates called them).

MCC testing was all AM shift, pirates/youts up front, retired controllers in the back. Test MOC took 30 minutes to recycle. I always sat in back if they'd let me.

hindsightbiason 'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos

I’ll bet DOGE could code up an auction system in no time. Or turn it over to Ticketmaster. Think of the profits.

hindsightbiason You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)

This is usually doable until it's DEWS/SAGE radar code from the 50's. That's what NASA started with and the last guy died in the 90s. We got every other subsystem off the mainframe, but had to keep it around for the radar stuff until 2004 or so.

hindsightbiason Bezos' Blue Origin to layoff about 10% across its space, launch business

They have to orbit ~1600 Kupiers by summer 2026 per their FCC license.

I’m sure President Musks FCC director will be ameanable.

hindsightbiason New SF public health chief was part of McKinsey opioid-marketing operation

This guy would never have an agenda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moritz

hindsightbiason New SF public health chief was part of McKinsey opioid-marketing operation

You can always go to Cerner and buy Larry a new yacht.

hindsightbiason The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis

paypal brought us freedom.

hindsightbiason The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

That’s by congressional design. Don’t blame the mainframe.

DOGE just shut down the auto prepare because gov’t is bad and wasteful.

hindsightbiason The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

The IMF and BMF aren’t just software. They’re the code in tax code. It’s the law, not the printed thing in a binder.

If you have the gall to question IMF behavior vs printed tax code and write it up internally, you will get a reply from an tax code analyst in a couple of months from WV explaining why you’re wrong, selections from code, selections from IRS legal interpretations, applicable court cases past, present and pending.

It’s all very polite, but you quickly realize they’re lawyers and you aren’t.

hindsightbiason The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

The 1040EZ was being OCR’d forty years ago.

It doesn’t scale to 1040s and schedules because today’s biologics don’t know how to write anymore.

hindsightbiason The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

Why update what isn’t broken?

hindsightbiason Zoning Ruined the Housing Market in Blue-State America

If only the techies would listen to reason and move to Houston. They would be so much happier. Why live somewhere that you hate so much?

hindsightbiason AI is stifling new tech adoption?

> new music

I keep thinking I'm going crazy until Rick Beato explains that yes, I am just an RNN Meat Popsicle and the world is interpolated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9Larw-hJM

hindsightbiason US aircraft carrier collides with merchant ship near Egypt; No injuries reported

The Navy, especially carriers, operate like that drunk guy in a powerboat. With their lights and AIS off.

A destroyer isn’t going to help much when you’re trying to run over a bulk carrier.

hindsightbiason Apple is once again advertising on X, more than a year after stopping all ads

You're not being thick. It's Rothchilds run USAID who control Apple/Amazon crazy.

hindsightbiason Etiological connections between initial Covid-19 and 2 rare infectious diseases

"Our research offers an extremely promising clue, suggesting that the virus may have been triggered by the rare Sennetsu fever, possibly transmitted through consuming raw or undercooked gray mullet fish infected with trematodes or by individuals infected with glanders. This finding naturally connects to the seafood markets and supply chains, offering new etiology insights into the origins of SARS-CoV-2."

hindsightbiason I'm Jolted by Loneliness

Loneliness is almost as old as Eternal September.

http://ereserve.library.utah.edu/Annual/SOC/3030/Bro/bowling...

hindsightbiason Scoop: FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order

Sigh. What Norman Mailer said.

Someone should make a movie where Cuban snipers, Anti-Castro snipers, CIA snipers, KGB snipers, Mob snipers, Oswald and whatever conspiracy is hip today are all in Dealey Plaza shooting at each other and JFK gets hit by ricochets.

RFK Jr’s daddy literally put Oswald’s first assasination target into a mental asylum: https://engelsbergideas.com/reviews/edwin-walker-deep-state-...

Bet you’ve never heard that one.

hindsightbiason Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI

Couldn't the prior actions and TikTok be taken as precedents for a National Security takeover? Put it under DOGE?

hindsightbiason 'The Wheels Are Coming Off ' US Financial Armageddon [video]

When I want advice on debt I always prefer it from a realtor politician.

hindsightbiason The Investor Betting on People in Their 50s

There are many critical legacy systems running on institutional knowledge that no one under 40 knows or cares to know.

Nobody under 40 is writing anything that will have that lifespan.

hindsightbiason Why People Act So Weirdly at Airports

So do “thin places” include cabin isles? It’s 2025 and boarders are still blocking the isles playing with their bags. Could you possibly think of doing that before boarding?

Isle Rage needs to become a thing.