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  • Innovation or Overreach? UH Research Casts blame on OceanGate's Submersible Design says: Low quality carbon fibre lead to the accident

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  • I have no issues with the controller either think it was a great addition, were I had a gripe is that it was the only way to operate the vessel, so not an addition but the sum total of controls.

    Like if you were bolted into a vehicle, with no way to interact with the outside except a tiny window and only a game controller, it is a lovely piece of efficient engineering and does everything you need, but if this controller maybe gets damaged for example it's cable was unfortunately pinched off by someone's shoe. When you realise at a 1000m the closest thing to a god is that controller working and taking you safely back to surface in time or being stuck and hoping the guy who got you into the mess, that his, only other plan the dissolvable ropes on the weights actually work and you get to surface and get found and unsealed before air runs out.

  • Innovation or Overreach? UH Research Casts blame on OceanGate's Submersible Design says: Low quality carbon fibre lead to the accident

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  • Was the issues not multiple, like the carbon fibre hul not made using vacuum technologies but just like roll on the sheet and some epoxy in a warehouse, that carbon fibre being strong tensile wise but not compression wise, the titanium carbon fibre interface and their different stress deformations due to pressure, having the Titanic OST playing the whole time, like multiple safety shortcuts and maybe using a game controller as your only form of any interaction, like what happens if some kid bites the cable or something

  • It started with a tweet. What if Harry Potter attended an HBCU? Now it's a book series

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  • Well fucking done, easy to complain, fuck I do it regularly, but LaDarrion put the effort to actually make something where he identified a lack. He stands head above most in actually writing a book and then it mentions he is self taught, may his endeavours yield all the fruit he has sown and tended to

  • It’s 30 years since apartheid ended. South Africa’s celebrations are set against growing discontent

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  • Yeah that is true during Apartheid, and of course there would be spill over. But the new government after the Apartheid regime under the leadership of Jacob Zuma started embracing the system, creating their own elites known as tenderpreneurs. The ANC, and promoted by Mandela,have also promoted cadre deployment where rather friends of the ANC get government positions instead of the best and most qualified person, so also a form of discrimination. But 30 years of ANC rule we might see the first coalition government. I am not sure how it will turn out but it will be interesting

  • Argentina Monthly Inflation Slowed More Than Expected in March

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  • Exactly, stop the runaway inflation. Small inflation is good, stops the hoarding of capital, but runaway inflation just destroys capital. Usually an independent central bank aims for 3-6% inflation to bring stability to a country, and stability leads to prosperity

  • With U.S. aid still stalled and its army at a breaking point, Ukraine warns: We will lose

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  • Exactly, but hindsight is 20/20. What I wanted to show was that a lack of support for Ukraine was then a win for Russia. But even more so now, that a lack of full continuous support for Ukraine today is just another win for Russia.

  • What food experiences from your country would you recommend to tourists?

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  • I was wondering what South African dish I would see here. Can't go wrong with a Bunny Chow. But I would also mention Koeksisters, Melktert and our best braai meat, Karoo Lamb Tjops

  • With U.S. aid still stalled and its army at a breaking point, Ukraine warns: We will lose

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  • I think a lot of people forget how before the war, but after the 2014 annexure, Ukraine begged to be able to buy western weapons, such as the javelin, because one random guy can take out a whole tank (great force multipliers against the russian bear). Great deterrent. But they were not approved because they fought giving arms for Ukraine would provoke and not deter, and that dialog and greater economic integration with Russia would be the solution.

    So the west miscalculated, luckily Russia as well and Kiev did not fall, but now Ukraine is in a war, and unlike previously where they could have put resources into acquiring western weapons, they now have to input their resources into fighting and defending their country.

    The EU and America have stepped up initially, like 90% of the pledges went straight back into the American economy, since the give Ukraine their old stock and manufacture replacement stock for themselves. EU is close to matching USAs total contributions and if you look at France and their economy's size they are percentage wise out spending the US in contributions.

    The nice thing here is most support money gets spend in their own country, stimulating their economy, Ukraine is putting their own citizens and soldiers life on the line and it will weaken a common Nato foe. But not supporting Ukraine will emboldened Russia and now that most of their military ineptitude and corruption has been exposed and is being improved, Russia might calculate further expansion, since that is their modus operandi.

  • President Javier Milei fires 24,000 government workers in Argentina: ‘No one knows who will be next’

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  • Agreed, but similar to how businesses retrench and let good with bad people go they do make mistakes, but hopefully they are not doing it blindly with a dart board and pictures, but rather through analysis in determining what fat they can cut and what part is muscle. I am right now as we speak in the middle of a company restructuring, where they are retrenching about 13% of employees. Won't lie it is not nice going through it but also this is my third time going through it and on a personal note it is not fun but in a broad sense I understand why the company has to do it.

  • President Javier Milei fires 24,000 government workers in Argentina: ‘No one knows who will be next’

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  • Depends on how many people government employed. If they have multiple people in the same positions, or in useless positions then a new government can greatly reduce public spending and free up a lot of funds.

    I know my country is not Argentina, but I am from South Africa, where it is the current and ruling (for the last 30 years) government's policy to employ people closely aligned with them, or as they like to call it cadre deployment. So many people in government are just friends here with salaries way more than the private sector, where the government employs about 2% of the population but 30% of the current budget for the whole country is allocated towards their salaries.

    Don't get me wrong, pulic sector workers do a great deal in ensuring a functional society. But what happens when a government turns this idea into a grafting scheme to enrich their friends.

    Now I do not speak for Argentina, but if their previous government did the same I am with there new effort in reducing public sector wages to lower the tax burden and free up money to rather help a larger part of society than a few

  • Dad has the chops to be a project manager.

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  • Yeah true, many examples could bee true, like the kid could even be a prick and this could be for his buddy that needs a cancer donation page, Like this one.

    I could not know, nor can you, due to the limited information we received, I made up a scenario and you made up a scenario. I think chances, like you mentioned in the start, are neither of us being correct or incorrect, we both are just talking around Schrodinger's website

  • Dad has the chops to be a project manager.

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  • I would take the $500 upfront and just log in to Squarespace or whatever website building service there is, do a simple design, tell him he needs to pay this subscription, argue with him and dad why there must be monthly or annual fees and they could have done this themselves for cheaper, whichever way they chose to pay the subscription or not I still get $500 for 2 hours work and the knowledge my father won't bother me again with website designs

  • videos

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  • Yeah I get issues with video playback sometimes as well. Usually when I try to go full screen, crashes Firefox usually. Not sure if it is my phone or what, but I have gotten used to it, usually after the third time it works

  • 👀👀👀

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  • Ok hot take, just my thoughts and if you disagree please share, nothing is written in stone. Eugenics I feel had a dream of achieving the ultimate human, this dream would of course be abused by anyone who could touch this idea on how to achieve it, doesn't matter how good your intentions are, someone will get the short end of the stick either through being excluded or included against their will or with their blessings.

    But here is my controversial take, the human gnome has been polluted by viruses, other hominids, unfavorable gene mutations.... etc. There are also gene mutations that are unfavourable, such as cystic fibrosis, some that can be beneficial in certain situations but down sides in other, like sickle cell with better immunity to malaria, or characteristics that are not that important like blood type maybe and lastly characteristics that are incredibly desirable such as being less disease prone like cancers, dementia....

    My idea is that we do a huge DNA collection around the world from consenting persons. Then we sequence it and try to make the most standard average human gnome, trying to clean up a lot of useless genes or junk left by viruses or radiation for example, that serve no function, and remove any identified genetic disorders maybe identify beneficial genes and add them. This gnome must be open source and accessible and continually improved. The goal is not to make a person, just like how we have sequenced the gnome of homo neanderthal that helped us study and learn, not to bring them back from extinction.

    I would like this to be done for a purely scientific curiosity and furthering of medical science. Also we should ensure any use or modification cannot be patented or trademarked whatsoever by any entity and editing of the existing genome of people should be totally banned.

    I do not want to see a person coming out of existence from this artificial gnome but rather it be a tool to assist, study, improve and further mankind's understanding and interaction based on the building blocks of humankind

  • Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value

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  • Dammit, but my parents did not raise me to be a criminal. Now Elon, hope you are ready to see my ginormous 1,5inch monster

  • Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value

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  • Sorry not well versed in the technicalities but yes then, trademark violation.

  • Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value

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  • If X platform is pivoting towards video's, shouldn't XVideos sue X for copyright infringement, like Mr Beasts's Deez Nuts being to close to another brand's Dee's Nuts. Even if they are not the same nor similar product but the fact that there is confusion such as have you seen the X video (Elon site video) vs Xvideo ( +18).

  • Frank Herbert: Children of Rule

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  • Didn't Leto get a cool ass suit, like armour that made him a superhero in Children of Dune. In God Emperor of Dune is where he became the wormy fascists