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New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted"

WorkerBee28474 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:26:48 +0000

The Indian derivatives market is huge. Lots of people gambling there.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4"

WorkerBee28474 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:04:49 +0000

99, according to Wikipedia, but yeah

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2"

WorkerBee28474 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:34:07 +0000

To be clear, it's "Built almost entirely by women, men refused to fly it citing safety concerns [about the engines catching fire]." and not "...men refused to fly it citing safety concerns [because it was built by women]."

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "MSc Thesis – The Limits of Generalized Sync"

WorkerBee28474 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:32:23 +0000

Well I have seen A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits here quite a few times, but I suspect this post will get far less engagement.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:31:18 +0000

Another version of the idea is still around:

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

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:26:08 +0000

It doesn't appear to be in normal operation, but it has been tested:

https://harbourair.com/going-electric

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "HPV jabs cut risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 to almost zero"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:13:50 +0000

Looking at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11733696/ it seems like the base rate was 0.04 per 100,000. So ~70 female deaths per year in a population the size of the USA. That link suggests the mortality rate was reduced by a factor of 2-4, so vaccinating 2 million (?) girls per year saves 30-50 lives.

Some back-of-the-napkin math puts the price tag per life saved in the 8 digit range.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

WorkerBee28474 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:14:32 +0000

It's already solved (by humans) for Java, which can now be used for HFT. It seems like it's possible to do for C#.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

WorkerBee28474 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:03:13 +0000

Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program is a horrible program that has been flagrantly abused for years to the detriment of Canadians. There's record high youth unemployment yet every Tim Hortons is filled with Indians.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Why are cells small?"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:25:13 +0000

Another answer is: They're not - at least in some plants:

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

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

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "No Babies? Blame Capitalism"

WorkerBee28474 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:19:30 +0000

Congratulations you just reinvented eugenics.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

WorkerBee28474 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:24:02 +0000

For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.

2 Timothy 4 (NLT), circa 65 Anno Domini

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

WorkerBee28474 — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:18:10 +0000

747s were in commercial production for 54 years (1970 to 2023).

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

WorkerBee28474 — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:23:56 +0000

Nobody has ever been killed by a Waymo. You're being dramatic.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:20:21 +0000

> What will happen is they will leave us to die.

Lots of people want to rule a nation, but no one wants to rule a nation of bones.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:50:32 +0000

The Montreux Convention only covers the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits. Not all straits in the world.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry (2017) [pdf]"

WorkerBee28474 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:27:09 +0000

As the Soviets knew, apparatus are expensive but pencils are cheap.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Iran hit more U.S. military targets than has been reported, satellite images"

WorkerBee28474 — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:48:21 +0000

This is normal. Confirming hits gives your enemy valuable information about their accuracy.

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Artemis II fault tolerance"

WorkerBee28474 — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:40:32 +0000

> Orion utilizes two Vehicle Management Computers, each containing two Flight Control Modules, for a total of four FCMs. But the redundancy goes even deeper: each FCM consists of a self-checking pair of processors.

Who sits down and determines that 8 is the correct number? Why not 4? Or 2? Or 16 or 32?

New comment by WorkerBee28474 in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

WorkerBee28474 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:35:49 +0000

No lol

https://youtu.be/DQgqEFOc894?t=267