It's impressive how the US intelligence agencies must have been gutted under Trump. I'm guessing if there were anybody competent left, this is the kind of thing they would have known.

I can't imagine the level of secrecy it would take to hide something like this from a competent NRO - the amount of construction work, the little girls coming and going - what did they think, it was a military Epstein island?

They've hit about 8000 targets.

One in 8000 is incredibly good for an actual conflict.

There are only about 120 versions to target if you pick each individual age - or a handful if you bracket it. You can simply create a lookup table for eachage group and let the user's device decide which one to show.

> If you don't see the value of laws being written down

I don't think this is helping much in the US right now. The orangefuhrer has shown he is willing to ignore clauses that are inconvenient.

Nobody claimed it's helping or hurting. The debate is over what constitutes a constitution, whether good or bad. There have been great governments without a constitution and terrible governments with one. "You don't have a constitution" does not mean "your government sucks", but it seems somehow people take it as such.

> If you don't see the value of laws being written down - especially the most important ones! - I can't really convince you of it here on HN.

It's a shame you can't really explain it. It's ineffable, isn't it.

"I like scrambled eggs."

"I do too, but the way Trump is behaving, pretty soon it will be illegal to ..."

Pretty soon you won't be able to afford eggs.

> paying 71% income tax

Do you have a citation for this? I'm interested in how this figure was extracted from where it came.

I think they're confused/disingenuous and talking about the _marginal_ tax rate at 100k.

There's a segment of a few thousand pounds where your marginal tax rate skyrockets because you lose your tax free allowance at that income level.

It's stupid, annoying and has some minor economic effects, but it's very different from a 71% income tax rate.

It was a rhetorical question, of course they were being disingenuous. Marginal tax rate doesn't have the same ring as 70% tax.

Can't you run a 5V supply from where your router is all the way to every god damn device in your house, and then pretend the wifi is also going through it? If you just want it to be inconvenient, there's no reason to let a lack of PoE stop you!

Hey now, I call linear regression AI if I want senior management to get excited about something.

And only exists because of Google.

Are you sure? If chrome didn't have a choke hold on the web, I have a feeling firefox would have been fine.

it'll just cause a lot more people to become aware of it and cause mirrors to pop up everywhere.

RIAA already tried to take down the Github repo for youtube-dl (basically the original yt-dlp was forked from) back in October 2020. But outcry from among others EFF got it reinstated just one month later. Google is probably on the fence about this because they saw how it went last time. The slow killing of adblockers in Chrome seems to be something they are getting away with, so maybe that will make them bolder once things have moved along far enough that there's no way back.

And in that light, you're worried two blocks the size of a small car will get picked up on the alien's hyperspace scanners?

I'm not, but other people seem to think it's a problem worth worrying about.

Yet we spend tax dollars trying to do the same thing.

No, we don't. If you're talking about SETI, that's looking at radio signals. If you're talking about killer asteroid early-warning detection, we generally don't have the capacity to reliably detect voyager-sized asteroids even in our own solar system, let alone in interstellar space.