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New comment by M3L0NM4N in "Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike"

M3L0NM4N — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:57:48 +0000

That would be on-brand for European leadership. It's a good thing European countries aren't shutting down nuclear power plants and increasing dependence on Russian oil and gas...

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood"

M3L0NM4N — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:39:37 +0000

We need to push for clean tech obviously. I disagree with Republicans blocking wind farm construction and rolling back regulations, but American energy independence is important for national security, which is a shorter term issue than climate change. And developing more domestic clean energy helps with that as well.

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "Banned in California"

M3L0NM4N — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:15:08 +0000

Texas K-12 performance has decreased significantly in recent decades, largely due to massive poorly-educated Hispanic immigration.

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave"

M3L0NM4N — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:31:53 +0000

That was a grave mistake, but there is no point in continuing to aid those programs with PhD exports.

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave"

M3L0NM4N — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:29:56 +0000

Correct, didn't think I would have to spell that one out.

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave"

M3L0NM4N — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:55:39 +0000

Depends pretty heavily on the destination of the export, i.e. not China.

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions"

M3L0NM4N — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:02:27 +0000

Yeah they seem to have gotten excited to do the probability math (with bad assumptions, conflating a 300m^2(!) cross section collision with an actual probable collision), and with no consideration that this can actually be trivially simulated.

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses"

M3L0NM4N — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:31:33 +0000

Don't attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by ignorance.

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones"

M3L0NM4N — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:44:07 +0000

It's still highly targeted, not sweeping surveillance.

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash"

M3L0NM4N — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:46:02 +0000

What should they be buying instead? The other available multi-role fighters that would all get blown to pieces by an F-35 before they knew what hit them?

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "How Stock Options Work"

M3L0NM4N — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:35:45 +0000

This should be titled, "How Employee Stock Options Work"

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

M3L0NM4N — Wed, 21 May 2025 20:49:24 +0000

I want to know why a burner account posted this comment. There could be many reasons, some more entertaining than others. Of course the answer could be boring, but do you care to elaborate?

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "Building my own solar power system"

M3L0NM4N — Wed, 21 May 2025 14:38:16 +0000

>We can't all live in SF

Thanks to California zoning

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

M3L0NM4N — Tue, 20 May 2025 13:29:05 +0000

I use Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC, which as far as I'm aware has all the features that Pro has (plus the IoT Enterprise stuff) and zero bloat. I switched to it from my already de-bloated 11 Pro installation (because it removes some telemetry you're normally unable to disable) and have had 0 issues with it. I can't say I activated it using a normal retail product key, however, there are easy solutions to that.

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room"

M3L0NM4N — Thu, 15 May 2025 13:59:53 +0000

This is generally how my team works, but we don't have a hard cap on the time. I just think nobody wants to debate about technical implementations early in the morning.

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

M3L0NM4N — Mon, 05 May 2025 13:36:10 +0000

Is the overhead in deciding who gets free lunch and who doesn't and then managing the debt really saving more money than just giving all public school kids free lunches with no strings attached?

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "Elon Musk is wrong about GDP"

M3L0NM4N — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:39:19 +0000

It is funny to compare things of the magnitude of "arm wrestle to win an argument over an operating system" to the defamatory personal smears, political conspiracy theory peddling, and general stupid and crybaby behavior.

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "Elon Musk is wrong about GDP"

M3L0NM4N — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:38:18 +0000

"Outside of his area of expertise" is giving him too much credit when he's been peddling conspiracy theories.

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "Elon Musk is wrong about GDP"

M3L0NM4N — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:36:47 +0000

As one of Elon's ex-fan's (or at least had a generally positive opinion of him) like I suspect many of us here once were, it is astonishing how consistently wrong and ignorant he has been, and it has gotten worse year over year. I think there is a legitimate possibility he fried/is frying his brain on Ketamine.

New comment by M3L0NM4N in "Amazon Wants to Be a Satellite-Internet Powerhouse. It Has a Long Way to Go"

M3L0NM4N — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:24:16 +0000

I think Amazon (not Bezos) is relatively conservative in the space of "trying new things", but I'd argue when they have done it, they have a higher success rate than the other mega caps (excluding Apple I'd say). Somehow though, big tech can't seem to spend most of their cash doing it (insert that Thiel quote here).