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Nowadays it seems more of a coping mechanism for fading relevance rather than respecting the actual competence.


IMO, PM2.5 sensors are essential nowadays. What's the point of a device without one? Especially for $229. I can get a chinese thingy like qingping for ~$115 with PM2.5 and other stuff.


They will happily oblige and put your review down if the host asks nicely. Happened to me, happened to my friends. Also they don’t care a bit about fake obvious reviews. Not like “not actively monitoring”, like telling you idk if you care to report it.


>DNS is fundamentally broken

Is it? Seems to be working as intended. Don't like a specific resolver? Cool, switch to another. Or run your own.

The problem is entities like Cloudflare trying to centralize the internet, DNS included, not the protocol itself.


>ultimate

Who knows? Maybe when and if that happens, civilizations will be advanced enough to try to reverse this: manipulating the local Higgs field, pocket universes, and counter-decay waves


The problem is that false vacuum decay spreads at the speed of light, leaving no time for preparation, and the laws of physics would be completely altered without warning. Perhaps future civilizations could resist it, but with our current understanding, it’s a doomsday in a blink of an eye


It's hard to take him seriously or consider him a good guy. While advocating for the environment, he doesn't hesitate to short tesla, an EV company (questionable nature aside).

There are two possible reasons for this (the 'why' remains -- not enough money?):

- He's admitting he doesn't care about the environmental mission, just the returns

- He thinks tesla is a fraud, but isn't saying it publicly

Either way, it's sus, so it's tough to trust him.


Well it seems obvious why anyone would (and morally should) short tesla... but let me break it down for those in the bleachers with two facts.

Musk 1: behind the presidential podium during the inauguration with the country watching twice did a salute of the enemy of the American people in WW2. And 2: controls the vast majority of tesla shares and is their current CEO.

It is patriotic to short tesla. And Bill Gates clearly cares about the future direction of this country.


Sure, but the shorting happened in 2022, when Musk wasn't clowning nearly as hard as now. Unless Gates has a time machine, this argument doesn't really stick.


What educator taught you that to short a company was to attempt to destroy it and it's mission, and to go "long" on a company was to support its mission?

I'm guessing it was Musk, and you should ask for a refund of your tuition fees.

A Google search suggests you are paroting Musk comments about Gates and shorting as if they were your own ideas.


Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Agreed, pretty meh. Tried my usual accent (the one where natives mostly can’t tell where I'm from) — got 78%. Then went full cartoon russian ‘bad neighborhood’ mode — somehow scored 68%.


> you might get dangerous X-ray and gamma ray emissions from its accretion disc

There’s not enough matter nearby to feed it enough to form an accretion disc

> we could send probes to orbit it

Hitting a cm-sized black hole orbit at a lunar distance sounds insanely hard, given it’s invisible (even with occasional lensing).


Obviously we've managed to orbit the moon. To find the blackhole that replaced the moon just enter lunar orbit and keep firing your thrusters to slow down.


Hey there, nice shilling for brave. 1 thread, 4 comments!


Yeah, ignore the crypto and tons of other stuff about phoning home or doing malicious 'oopsies' things.



How were they phoning home?


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