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ljsprague··on Winning the visa lottery
China is really missing out!
ljsprague··on Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree
It’s perhaps a bot.
ljsprague··on Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
>This is who republicans are quoting whenever they repeat the phrase that “you can indict a ham sandwich”.

Do you think that only Republicans say this or something?

ljsprague··on Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops
Consumption itself is unethical.
ljsprague··on Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)
Have you considered the possibility that Enoch Powell was right?
ljsprague··on Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
There’s a scandal/controversy occurring right now after someone leaked photos of the inside of Ariana Grande’s apartment.
ljsprague··on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
I just don’t like the name.
ljsprague··on Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
I've definitely been in situations where managers tell me to "spend X amount before the end of the year." They don't want higher ups to think they can cut our budget.
ljsprague··on Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
Indeed I would bet he knew he would lose money on Twitter but did it anyway.
ljsprague··on More Americans are breaking into the upper middle class
Por que no los dos?
ljsprague··on US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days
"The burn rate is unsustainable: The US fired 850+ Tomahawk cruise missiles in 30 days but purchased only 57 in the FY2026 budget. That is 14.9 years of production consumed in a single month."

Does the author think the US can only make 57 missiles a year?

ljsprague··on Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label
American Democracy Protecting Itself like when Bernie Sanders faced a rigged primary or when Hillary/Obama manufactured "Russia collusion" or when Biden flooded the country with non-citizens.

It's not just "the Left" though, I will concede. Republicans almost equally captured.

ljsprague··on Is it a pint?
Indeed, regular drinkers know what to expect as far as pour and price from any given bar. If I drop into a new bar and I feel ripped off then I don't go back. I do the same with burritos.
ljsprague··on Is it a pint?
I don't think it's overanalyzing to point out a typo.
ljsprague··on Gerd Faltings, who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize
"He proved that if a curve’s equation has a variable raised to a power higher than 3, then it must have a finite number of [rational] points."
ljsprague··on Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
How would you quantify the bonus the Biden/Harris/DNC received by allowing 15 million to cross illegally?
ljsprague··on Put the zip code first
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ljsprague··on We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
Are we ever allowed to stop being a "values country" and just be a normal one? Or are we at least allowed to change our values? Are we allowed to make that decision for ourselves?
ljsprague··on We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
Values don't reproduce; tribes do.
ljsprague··on We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
There's no mistreatment alleged though: the US is bad because it stopped funding their jobs.
ljsprague··on We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
They sound like very loyal people who I would love to have as my compatriots.
ljsprague··on All Look Same?
>are older pictures

I am pretty sure it's 20+ years old. Just based on when I remember taking it.

ljsprague··on How did the Maya survive?
>Some Maya cities were established hundreds of years before the founding of Rome, and they included significantly larger architecture that still stands.

The Pantheon is qualitatively different than the massive pyramids the Maya built.

ljsprague··on How did the Maya survive?
>not only horrific but the biggest hollocaust in the entire human history

Does this number include deaths due to introduced diseases?

ljsprague··on The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
Marvelous.
ljsprague··on Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain
Why do I yawn more when I'm cold?
ljsprague··on X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
No other "AI" companies released tools that could do the same?
ljsprague··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Horseshoes.
ljsprague··on DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online
What are you even talking about. He would have proudly said he was there to disrupt law enforcement.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-appears-show-alex-pretti-sp...

ljsprague··on DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online
I believe it was a chaotic situation and the officers most likely fired because of multiple factors including: The guy had a gun. The gun apparently went off. He also seems to have been reaching for his holster.

You calling it an "execution" is dishonest.

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