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Those children who were at the ice skating rink were also attacking Ukraine? Quite precocious!

Is there a judiciary that determines whether the mob was within their rights to light your restaurant on fire, and can stop the mob from lighting the restaurant on fire?

Even if you think the FCC is just an extension of trump(fair) at this moment, their rulings aren't the final word. They still need to follow the law. If the FCC improperly attempts to withhold a license from the affiliate, the affiliate can sue and let federal judges, who are not an extension of trump, decide on the matter.

Sheesh, good thing G-d decided to take a chill pill somewhere between the Old and New Testaments.

The 1990s famine, if you want to call if that, is also sometimes described as a series of famines.

Here's more details about the aid I'm referring to.

700,000 tonnes in 1999 alone, from one country.

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/R40095.pdf

If you look at the graph, life expectancy didn't really diverge until the 90s, 40 years after the bombing campaign.

And, any way, the North Koreans started it.

I'm glad you're getting healthier, but what are the odds that all of your theories have any basis in reality, after spending , I'm guessing, years or decades living an unhealthy lifestyle.

Like, do you really think your tongue position is affecting your facial and jaw structure? I'm guessing you believe in "mewing", and every before/after image I have seen has just been a joke.

By "a period in the nineties", you mean "since the nineties", right? So basically for the past 35 years North Korea has been heavily lagging in life expectancy.

Another way to put that is it's been 75 years since Korea split, and half that time North Korea has been much worse than south Korea.

Let's not even get into what that chart would look like if humanitarian aid wasn't shipped during those famines.

Activity might not be a directly efficient way to lose weight, but (imo) increased activity leads to increased willpower to make healthy eating choices.

Waste of space: Not really? The plot of land the building is on is ~ 1/3rd of an acre. Immediately adjacent to it are multiple street level-only parking lots that have a larger footprint. I guess providing parking to 60 cars is more useful than an empty building, but not by much, especially considering the building will probably be rehabbed eventually. For reference the LACC 1 block away has parking for 6000 cars, and done in a reasonable, space-efficient manner (multilevel underground parking).

Waste of money: Whose money? The developers? Sure. But it isn't like random tax paying citizens of LA had any kind of stake in it.

What exactly is the story? "These people suck at building buildings"? Surely, the incompetent managers wish they didn't screw it up and turn their idea into a money pit.

"Under the broken windows theory, an ordered and clean environment, one that is maintained, sends the signal that the area is monitored and that criminal behavior is not tolerated. Conversely, a disordered environment, one that is not maintained (broken windows, graffiti, excessive litter), sends the signal that the area is not monitored and that criminal behavior has little risk of detection."

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

It is 'just' a criminology theory, with many people who disagree with it.

Sure, and that's because you(or some previous owner of your property) gave away certain rights relating to the property to the HOA.

I thought with the rollout of STIR/SHAKEN it wouldn't be possible to spoof called ID anymore?

Shouldn't it be up for grabs then?

According to the logic of "you don't call retarded people retarded. You call your friends retarded when they're acting retarded."

I don't accept that premise. I've certainly downloaded things that I also considered buying, but just didn't because of some small hurdle.

My guess by family of 4 you mean two young adult children, which will significantly increase your rates, especially if they are male.

You don't kill the tree when you harvest cork. You come back later and harvest more cork from the same tree.

He would still be rich, but not as crazy rich. And if he did want to return money to the share holders, it would come at the cost of reducing reinvestment into the company, probably lessening their moat.

It might just be me, but every Temu ad I see is a normalish product, but the image is designed to look like something sexy or illicit when viewed as a small thumbnail.

Well, if you connected to my service I can probably geolocate you. Or I can use a SSID=>lat/lon database to find where your wifi is assuming you have a unique name for your Wi-Fi network. Then I can go there and connect a laptop it and do nefarious stuff from there, and attribute it to you. Threaten the president, torrent Linux ISOs, etc.

Why is it a given that "managerial incompetence" is what caused the demise of The Messenger? Maybe the vision was just wrong. Maybe the journos never produced any compelling content.

And when the author writes things like

The idea that the affluent out of touch gentleman behind The Hill — itself a longstanding purveyor of clickbait and timid “both sides” journalism — was going to single-handedly change modern reporting was always laughable.

Then why should I feel sorry for the staffers that took the job, who now need to find another job?

And, finally, while I'm sure Finkelstein will be okay financially, I have a hard time seeing how him burning $50M of his stash as "failing upwards". What opportunities are now available to Finkelstein since The Messenger died, that weren't there before?

Just because you can come up with an unlimited number of ideas, does not imply that all ideas are of the same value. I can think of an unlimited number of numbers with > 10,000 digits, but almost certainly, none that I think of will be special(lets say, prime). But, those special numbers (or ideas) are out there, lurking.

I think your line of thinking discounts how absolutely novel and groundbreaking even the idea was. It's an example of someone seeing something about reality that basically the rest of the population of the world managed to miss. I think that's pretty special - even if there was no realistic plan to implement the idea.

Old ways of keeping things cold is an evergreen favorite of HN

I have a foolproof plan to deplete the wealth of the American oligarchs: stop coveting what they have. Bezos is super rich not because he has a huge pile of cash, but because he owns a slice of Amazon. If people just refused to buy his stock, the price would drop immensely and he would be worth far less.

I'm curious how much the curved route affects the effective speed of communication with skywaves. You also have many situations where communication becomes impossible due to space weather or other atmospheric phenomena.

Well, the courts might not be able to do anything (unless some officer goes to India). But Rajat could direct his cadre of hackers at whoever ignores his demands.

The hacker mindset that pg had in mind when naming the site isn't restricted to tech.

It's possible for starlink to beat radio, because radio can't always go straight to the target. If I wanted a radio link from NY->Tokyo, what would that path look like?

How exactly are those figures arrived at, since insane amounts of abuse went on unreported for...centuries?

Garth has a net worth of like $300M so I guess it worked out pretty good