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Gold is back in vogue. Look at the White House, for example. All gold and glitter. Of course, others are trying to immitate the style, hence the demand for gold.

I read his autobiography. Besides the genome work, which undoutedly was of historical importance, one thing that impressed me the most, was how he slept on the surgery table in the opersting room after cleaning blood from it in Vietnam. Somehow it was safer than in the barracks. I was like wow, this guy definitely knew how to think outside the box!

I did not read this book but I read another one by Mallaby about hedge fund managers. It was pretty biased to the point that I did not recognize one of the managers I knew about (Michael Steinhardt). The guy who himself confessed in a lot of his past shady stuff in his 2001 book. Mallaby's book from 2010 did not bring up any of that shady stuff. It was like reading about a totally different person.

Of course, I am not trying to prove moral equivalency between Steinhardt and Hassabis. But it is worth keeping this in mind when reading something by Mallaby. Do not expect completeness or impartiality.

"You are absolutely right! This is a very deep, professional level insight. Yes, I have blown up your account but we can try more of my investment ideas. What would you like to do next?" /s

I just looked it up. Those are turboprop (slower) but have a high ceiling of 50k feet. So Iran did have something better than stingers left. Maybe they just got lucky this time.

Maybe it was friendly fire but I did not see that in the news yet.

Downvoters, care to explain?

Seriously, it's been sitting on this for entire month and now, all of a sudden, rolled out antiaircraft defense? What's going on?

Why didn't Iran use its capability to take down enemy jets for an entire month?

Surely, Ukraine being such an awefully corrupt country, Putin was easily able to bribe his way to Kyiv and take it in three short days. Oh, wait... maybe someone is spewing russian propaganda here?

Cui bono? Just asking...

I personally miss Snowden's revelations so much. Such a brave soul! He should keep doing what he does best and never stop. It's sad that we have not heard any new revelations from him for a long time, though. Any ideas why he stopped?

The "race condition" bug that did not allow the CEO to answer the call from the CTO was hilarious, though.

I fugure XCM must be cross country marathon, where 62km is the distance. But what is mD? Difference in elevation in meters?

Wouldn't selling covered calls on Nvidia have been like selling a goose that lays golden eggs?

ROTH IRA contributions have to be from earned income, though. The rest of the advice is of the same quality, imho. Beware!

Wasn't it a self-driving car project first and foremost not just an EV? It was the self-driving part that was not working.

Well, you are denying facts and obvious things, e.g. Musk's erratic behaviour. It's a waste of time to talk to you. Bye!

Well, per other comments, Starlink terminals apparently do work in Russia.

And Musk did exactly that per numerous reports. Given his erratic behavior since around 2018, it's not hard to believe. The other day he was literally threatening to stop Dragon launches for NASA.

Is Crimea on "this big hex grid" or not? If not, why not?

This. It used to be that customer service agents in America were super helpful and would go an extra mile for you. Not any more, dealing with customer service is just a lot of pain, and often a waste of time.

As an example, let's say you have a problem with Windows. Would you rather ask AI for help or a human support agent on the microsoft's website?

Well, somebody has to HODL the bag at the end. Why not the taxpayers?

It's pretty common in third world countries.

This is an outrageously blatant lie. Of course, Russia is trying its best to damage as much civil infrastructure as it can.

A quote: "The latest available assessment by the World Bank, European Commission, United Nations and Ukrainian government found that direct war damage in Ukraine had reached $152 billion as of December, 2023, with housing, transport, commerce and industry, energy and agriculture the worst-affected sectors." [1] By now, it should be over 200 billion.

The reasons why Russia failed to cause more damage have nothing to do with demoraphics, good will, or anything like that. After all, Russia sent to death hundreds of thousands of ITS OWN citizens. Had it cared about russian lives as much as you are trying to whitewash here, it would not have been fighting this war to begin with.

The real reasons why Russia has not caused more damage or killed more civilians, are, first, it has failed to achieve air superiority. Second, Ukraine, with the help of its allies, was able to set up more less effective air defense against missiles and drones.

"Nearly 12,000 missiles have been launched against Ukraine by Russia since this full-scale conflict started.

Some 80% of those have been intercepted by Ukraine." [2]

The number of drones must be comparable or higher.

The limited number of civilian casualties is easily explained by the number of refugees from Ukraine which is in the millions. Its definity not because Russia did not try too hard.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-russias-invasion-h...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c20726y20kvt

Whose lives are we talking about here?

"The military industrial complex" has pocketed trillions upons trillions of tax payers money to arm NATO for a possible confrontation with Russia. Now that Russia is being beaten up and worn down on the cheap, people are throwing tantrums over the amounts that are essentially a pocket change (a half of which stays in the US anyways). How does this make sense?

Looks like Putin, at 72, still enjoys working with high profile agents personally. What a dedication to the craft.

Actually, not only could but was willing to. And that was a year ago. It is reasonable to presume their admin and monitoring tools have only become better since then.

Starlink could shut it down for Ukraine on a whim, right in the middle of the mission. That's all one needs to know.

Read this, for example. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66752264

It's naive to think this is a technical problem. Someone powerful at Starlink does not mind Russia using its tech. More than that, a lot of US allies, even NATO members, supply Russia with dual use tech even now and the White House cannot do much about it. The United States does not have that much power in the world as we used to think.