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stuxneton Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile

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

> Terra preta soils are found mainly in the Brazilian Amazon, where Sombroek et al. estimate that they cover at least 0.1–0.3%, or 6,300 to 18,900 square kilometres (2,400 to 7,300 sq mi) of low forested Amazonia; but others estimate this surface at 10.0% or more (twice the area of Great Britain).

stuxneton The Twitter Files: How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate

Separating people into groups of those that should be marginalized and not is a stupid way to look at the world.

stuxneton Show HN: A color picker for named web colors

Looks to be #669900. I was curious as well.

stuxneton Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX Team Among Top Political Donors Before Bankruptcy

https://archive.ph/8FX5V

stuxneton Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke

You’re arguing semantics. No one is arguing that dumping all your money into Bitcoin or PTON specifically is a good idea.

> One, I can buy a Peloton. People pay for Pelotons. Positive sum.

Yes and once Peloton runs out of people to sell overpriced bikes and treadmills to, the valuation will (hopefully) return to reality. Uber continues to lose money on every ride.

If you’re going down the “people pay for it” route, we could say that people also pay for NFTs of monkey pictures.

stuxneton Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke

That doesn’t explain anything. The broader stock market valuation bears no resemblance to reality and hasn’t for a while.

Crypto does have value. Not all of it, but again we could make the same comparison with ridiculously overinflated stocks like PTON or CVNA.

stuxneton Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke

You could say the exact same thing about the broader stock market volatility (read: downturn) we’re experiencing. How one can be considered gambling and the other not?

At least the crypto investors aren’t expecting a wholesale bailout at any point, unlike “sophisticated” institutional investors as we saw in 08…

stuxneton Disney tells investors state can’t dissolve special district without paying debt

Thanks for the links! I agree with you that it's almost certainly related to recent events and probably not the best course of action to save taxpayer money in the short term.

To restate my position - I don't believe that Disney (or any other corporation) should ever have the ability to levy taxes in their own special district as that is explicitly a function of government.

Instances of political revenge, especially in this day and age, are not rare or limited to one side of the political spectrum. I oppose any attempts to target groups of non-affiliated people (by race, sexual orientation, etc), but can't be too upset when the casualty is a mega corp like Disney.

stuxneton Disney tells investors state can’t dissolve special district without paying debt

I'm not particularly a fan of Disney or the Florida legislature so I totally agree with your second point.

The point I was trying to make is that regardless of the recent motivations, the end result is that a mega corporation is stripped of privileges that they shouldn't have had in the first place. I would support that in this case and also the other fictional case I presented with Koch Industries.

So I guess the point of contention is in the motivation, but that doesn't matter to me as long as the end result is the same.

stuxneton Disney tells investors state can’t dissolve special district without paying debt

Some call it retribution, others call it reversing a privilege that should not have existed in the first place.

I find it most humorous that the ones calling it retribution would generally support this measure if it had been forced on, say, Koch Industries in a red district of a purple state.

stuxneton Robinhood: We are letting go approximately 9% of our full-time employees

From what I’ve heard, only E3 and E4 interviews have been affected by the freeze (so far).

stuxneton Espionage or Journalism? After the Snowden NSA Leaks (2020)

They got his 16 year old son two weeks later, also a US citizen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Aw...

stuxneton Former officials say big tech monopoly power is vital to national security

Why would you place stock in anything Marc Elias has to say? He is, at the very least, a partisan ideologue. And he’s certainly not a journalist unlike “the pillow guy, but with tenure”.

stuxneton Americans’ views on the war reveal a striking generational divide

https://archive.ph/btVtx

stuxneton Britain being forced to go cashless 'against its will'

Not to mention a gigantic military budget including all the alphabet agencies... all funded by that inefficiency.

stuxneton No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s UFO Unit Will Make Some Findings Public

My initial assumption was the same, especially with the type of claims this topic has elicited in the past. That being said, the individual making the claim (Eric Davis) seems reputable[0] enough to not risk his career/stature for a buck. He has a PhD in astrophysics and more than a handful of publications and citations in the field. Given the magnitude of the claim, I'd say skepticism is still warranted though.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric_Davis6

stuxneton No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s UFO Unit Will Make Some Findings Public

> Mr. Davis, who now works for Aerospace Corporation, a defense contractor, said he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from "off-world vehicles not made on this earth."

> Mr. Davis said he also gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Oct. 21, 2019, and to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee two days later.

I'm not well rehearsed on the recent history of the subject but this sounds like confirmation of crashed extra-terrestrial vehicles from a reliable/not crazy source quoted by the New York Times? I'm surprised that this isn't bigger news...