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New comment by erkt in "Gold is now the top U.S. export"

erkt — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:19:01 +0000

With the proper facilities, isn’t it already economical to transmute mercury to gold via neutron bombardment?

New comment by erkt in "Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics"

erkt — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:22:49 +0000

Is plagiarism actually illegal? This is primarily an ethical, academic or professional violation.

New comment by erkt in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

erkt — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:43:18 +0000

Maybe they should be treated like the festival goers?

New comment by erkt in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

erkt — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:37:57 +0000

Then maybe the civilians should kill their Hamas neighbors, instead of cheering them in the streets and supporting the actions of Oct 7th…

New comment by erkt in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

erkt — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:35:02 +0000

I’m not sure your point? They are not civilians when they are covering up tunnels in their homes for Hamas to use.

New comment by erkt in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

erkt — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:32:54 +0000

The words you are looking for are combatants. How does bulldozing a combatants home have any affect on a tunnel? Because it destroys the entrance to the tunnel. There are no innocents in Gaza.

New comment by erkt in "The great crime decline is happening all across the country"

erkt — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:12:24 +0000

Failure to prosecute crime leads to crime stat drops.

New comment by erkt in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

erkt — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:45:52 +0000

250 years ago some people made some bad posts about throwing some tea into the harbor. Calling for revolution isn't a bad post.

New comment by erkt in "Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update"

erkt — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:20:48 +0000

Fridge owners should start taking them to small claims court. This seems like a financial liability that these appliance manufactures may not have anticipated. Would be a shame if it became a trend for hackers to brick smart appliances in mass?

New comment by erkt in "More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older"

erkt — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:20:40 +0000

Isn’t this often attributed to social security fraud? The family member dies, but the checks keep getting cashed.

New comment by erkt in "iPhone Duo"

erkt — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:51:21 +0000

Who even wants this?

New comment by erkt in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"

erkt — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:13:21 +0000

Take a deep breath.

New comment by erkt in "Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal"

erkt — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:49:22 +0000

You think the vast majority of people do not experience side effects from anti-depressants? Wild.

New comment by erkt in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

erkt — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:47:00 +0000

Inhumane maybe, but our government should owe its first allegiance to our citizens wellbeing, not imported workers.

New comment by erkt in "Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't"

erkt — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:28:39 +0000

Uhh the 5090 alone is double the cost of their quoted PC prices.

New comment by erkt in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

erkt — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:04:53 +0000

I still can't enter a corvid thread without looking for some Unidan copypasta.

New comment by erkt in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

erkt — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:18:18 +0000

I really hope to see the evaporative cooling make a comeback but it seems unnecessary when it’s returning to earth right now.

It would also be interesting to see them do shallower dips into the atmosphere then pull back out and repeat. Like a skipping stone. Lots of expansion contraction, but might work better without tiles.

New comment by erkt in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

erkt — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:14:44 +0000

It looks like the ships software did a phenomenal job compensating by adding that much longer Second stage burn time. It was also very cool to see the sea levels vector to compensate for the thrust asymmetry. All and all that ship is look really realllllly good. Seems like they just need to add some mass to Raptor to reduce the tendency to tear itself apart..

New comment by erkt in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

erkt — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:10:13 +0000

It was also noticeably wayyy faster off the launch mount. These V3 raptors are pretty fierce. It took off so fast it seems destined to be stretched imminently.

New comment by erkt in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

erkt — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:56:43 +0000

Just visited two nights ago and was pleasantly surprised to see domains active with fresh magnets. The people are returning to nature.