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room temperature superconductor does not need 'spice', save the clowning for something trivial

obviously. we all get that part.

Dude. If you are serious, check in with your friends and family. I think you actually might need help with something. Like, really.

yeah, this looks like a sensible post from a sincere reader of sound mind, not a troll at all.

the silicon is not a critical cost here at all.

Huh. I saw something blocking me from reading halfway down but it is not there now on my phone anyway. Still don’t trust em, but I guess it’s not paywalled.

I don't trust The Guardian, and it has a paywall. Here's a BBC piece :

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65775159

It's about the Galleri Test, which looks good enough to be useful. It's a DNA fragment analysis of a blood sample with lots of false negatives, but few false positives. This study was of people already suspected to have cancer, but the test helped determine what kind and where it was. cool

your global trade link stops in 2014, but the world bank shows the trade decline trend continuing to the present [1]

you raise concerns about the interpretation of GDP and use trade as a more believable replacement - but how about using manufacturing as a more direct replacement? it seems to have continued it's rising trend through the present. [2] rising by 50% in the last 10 years.

this seems to show that growth has not been flat, but has been rising in line with long-term trends.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.EXP.GNFS.ZS

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/manufacturin...

Clickbait and lying.

It did immediately respond - by detonating the self-destruct explosives. It's just that that didn't immediately destroy the whole rocket.

same. turing test failed. it's over-wordified, too formal, message-light. how did it get to the top?

"hey siri, start a 10 minute timer for the oven"

"hey siri, set a 30 minute timer for the rice."

it works just fine for me, use it all the time.

flagged. this is totally irrelevant for HN and brings out the worst sort of comments.

don't be this way. pouring conspiracy nonsense onto a tragedy is gross

Jumps out at me too - it's a meme spreading all over the online discussion world. not that it's improper use or a new idea or anything, but it's become really popular in the last several months. It is a useful nuance - signifying that ownership has transferred, not just possession. But, also cringe it seems like a lot of users are trying so so hard to fit in with the cool trendy kids.

skimmed. no idea what he means about a horizontal product. doesn't seem to be about, like, beds or baking sheets or train tracks.

"steam-actuated dials" - this article is trash. they are trying to say "steam gauges" but for some reason are up-complicating it and since they don't know the subject they made nonsense.

It’s a figure of speech

oil supplies are so vast that they are practically infinite : we must stop using it because of the emissions. peak oil has always been junk science and clickbait news.

synthetic hydrocarbons as energy storage is interesting, but all about the economics.

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dude. they are anti-air missiles, pretty easy to understand they were flying west chasing a target

the key that they seem to delight in not telling you is that the 100M debt also came with 100M in assets - you borrowed 100M cash (an asset you now have) and promise to give it back later (a liability you now also have). Apart from those offsetting 100M entries on your books, you also have 10M other assets.

so you may have started with 10M - then you borrowed (and promise to repay) 100M more. there's your 1:10 (10:100) ratio.

did no one point out that the new logo is looking down a rifled gun barrel - hardly a visual metaphor for education. Maybe they were trying to connect with the globally revered UK institution of James Bond?

holy cats, a real live one

content of article is ok, but why is it written like an SEO recipe website?

clearly the current model doesn't work well enough. US laws don't stop Nigerian scammers abusing weak telecom systems. Adding a tax paid by the carrier incentivises them to collect it from the upstream chain all the way back to the caller.

and here's that at night, seems like a similar resolution:

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/79800/city-lights-o...

the world of arbitrage calls this arbitrage. there are other, more pure, arbitrages - but this is very mainstream one. you are buying the stock at the market price, while you think it will be worth the offer price - there's a risk that it blows up. risk arbitrage. (not to be confused with garbitrage)

I'm baffled that MIT's PR is so cringeworthy. They had a priceless, universally recognized and irreplaceable brand and they are just trashing it with a sustained campaign of cheap clickbait seemingly aimed at a technologically ignorant audience. WTF? WHY? The Fools!

I wish I could tell if it was trolls, idiots, or villains - it's hard to respond appropriately if unsure. regardless, this is very sad to see on HN.

if you tell them then it stops being a useful indicator