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Russia is not only on the precipice of giving up territory in Ukraine, it's likely to give up so much more because its ability to function as a country is being systematically destroyed.
The only barrier between Russians and anarchy is the last nine meals they’ve had. How's the summer harvest coming along?
Zelle was built to preempt FedNow. The banks saw what was coming and wanted to own instant payments.
https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/about....
'BYD has pulled ahead on battery tech and vertical integration right now.' - FTFY
'A new piece of electronic warfare equipment appears more precisely targeted, apparently capable of jamming Starlink terminals on the ground across an area of up to 20 square kilometers.'
Here's the result of Russia's efforts:
Elon turning off Russian access to Starlink by whitelisting only authorized terminals in the region was a turning point for Ukraine's success. The conflict has proven that modern warfare depends on Starlink and its mimics.
'Fowler’s A. shawii, with its fused spines, was not typical; from a conservation perspective it would have been more helpful to take one with normal spines.'
Unless it's a new variety/species and not A. shawii?
Yes, sometimes gravity resolves the problem for you.
Nobody with any intelligence is recovering these if they miss. There are a number of Reddit channels with videos of why this is a bad idea.
I'll never work in Mission Control, but the Hayabusa2 website lets me pretend I do. Kudos to whomever designed this website:
Just in time for the big 4th of July celebrations. Happy Semiquincentennial!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/america-may-see-actu...
The US is on pace to run out of its strategic reserve in ~2 weeks.
I've heard that the biggest limiting factor in octopus ocean domination is their short lifespans. Tool use, building structures, communication, facial recognition, multiple brains, it's all there.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/octopuses-keep-surprising-us-...
When did octopuses start breathing air?
There's a 1991 film (and earlier novel) called Black Robe that fictionalizes what it might've been like when the first Jesuit missionaries introduced this powerful black magic to the North American natives in the 17th century.[0]
The WNBA would like a word.
IIRC, Steve Nash wanted to play professional soccer but since there wasn't a professional pathway had to settle for playing basketball in college and later the NBA.
Are there bootlegs on vinyl? Maybe now there can be.
God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
- Reinhold Niebuhr's Serenity prayer
While working in Japan, I once asked my Japanese supervisor what he was doing for his next vacation. He responded that he never took a vacation and had, in fact, accrued some ridiculous amount of PTO over many years that he never intended to use. がんばって!
The honesty will be noticeable. Maybe we'll see some honest assessments like "That is not possible within the laws of known physics", "Your legal argument is nonsensical and defies logic", "There is no evidence to support taking that will cure anything", etc., etc.
If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
- Paul Newman
I once had two onsite interviews with a 20 minute "break" in between. I was given a surprise crossword puzzle during the break to see (if I had a rich vocabulary?, excelled at puzzles?, could come up with synonyms under pressure?). The puzzle was then evaluated and discussed during the following interview.
The job was entirely focused on numbers in spreadsheets.
And the Model S is no longer in production due to poor sales. How many of these $650k family sedans could Ferrari possibly move?
Claude is obviously planning to become a structural engineer.
I think the record profits would be very good reasons. Using "Drill Baby, Drill" as a campaign slogan was not a pointless turn of phrase. Also, the world's largest proven oil reserves, which happen to be in Venezuela, are now de facto controlled and refined in... the US. Lucky coincidence?
Pointless? Have you noticed which energy companies are making record profits? Who is filling demand for oil & gas if the ME refineries are blown up or blockaded?
we don't have oneteen and twoteen
But we do have duodecim, aka dozen. So we just need to add "onezen" to the current vernacular to make the set complete. Let's go team onezen!
You need only have read the HN front page 4 days ago to have seen one reason why 50,000 people may be motivated to get solar. Nothing trendy going on there, just poor regional planning.
Recap of earlier point: Civilizations south of the NA desert border (Mojave, Sonoran and Chihuahuan) had writing. 400+ civilizations north of it did not.
All the weapons, pottery, baskets and even clay structures that we've found are missing any sort of writing. Just like ancient peoples of Mesopotamia, somebody could've easily carved something into the clay bricks if they were so inclined but the dna just wasn't there, apparently.
There's a 1991 film (and earlier novel) called Black Robe that fictionalizes what it might've been like when the first Jesuit missionaries introduced this powerful black magic to the natives in the 17th century.[0]