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The article doesn’t mention it, but I wonder if this has anything to do with ASU’s President trying to cozy up with the Trump administration [0]. Trump has already at least tried to cut federal funding for PBS [1]. I’m not sure where that’s at now.

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/arizona-state-universi...

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-en...

The goal was never to destroy the gas-enriching centrifuges at Fordo(which does the enriching to 60%), but to bury the final step at Isfahan which enriches it to a weapons-grade 90%. The article even says “… the senior Israeli official did not express concern about the assessment that some of the stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium, stored in casks, had survived the attack”. In the words of Seymour Hersh: “No enrichment, no Iranian bomb.”
10mph is fast from my pedestrian point of view on the sidewalk
Re:Who owns a car in New York City? on Sunday September 10, 2023 @09:31PM (#37461818)
One of the few places you can get by car-less in a society that makes it almost essential to own a car. No car payment, no car insurance, no fear of being one of the many people killed in traffic accidents in any given day in the US. Heck it was even a deciding factor when I decided to move to NYC.
Re:Overthewire.org on Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:13AM (#37283462)
Something similar for PowerShell:

https://underthewire.tech/wargames

Re:First Came the Crypto Crash. Now Comes the Taxman on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:04PM (#33648896)
It seems like the majority of people who invested in Bitcoin (and I'd assume crypto as a whole) lost money[1]. I'm definitely not a tax expert, but these people with losses should be able to at least write those losses off their taxes.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-16/vast-majo...

Re:What is this thing called Personality Type? on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @07:47AM (#33608475)
I’ve always had a hard time taking the accuracy of personality tests seriously. I think the mood you’re in at the time of the test greatly influences not only how you read the test but how you respond as well. I also tend to lean on the side of personality not being permanent. I see you touched on that in the article but I’m curious as to your thoughts on whether personality changes or stays the same during the course of a persons life.
Some brands like Our Place[1] and Caraway[2] sell specifically non-toxic cookware

[1]https://fromourplace.co.uk/

[2] https://www.carawayhome.com/

I think you might’ve misread this table. If you count up the number of bear markets in the table and then look at which of those periods also had a recession, the number of bear markets that coincided with a recession is actually ~50%. Further, the table says they count a S&P500 decline of 19% as a bear market, which by our arbitrary standards, isn’t. So if you take those 19% drops out a recession actually coincides with a “true” bear market about ~65% of the time according to this table. I fail to see how you got 20%. Maybe you were looking at the length of recovery which it says on average is 20 months?
Re:Ask HN: Is all code crap? on Friday April 29, 2022 @08:18PM (#31212112)
The client probably doesn’t care how clean the code is…all they want is to see it working and they’ll pay a lot of money for it. I’ve found it better to move fast and create code that gets the job done rather than spend more time on making “prettier” code that does the same thing from the client’s perspective.

Ask HN: How do you apply what you've learned?

For example, a friend of mine digs deeper into a concept to find out why that thing works the way it does and connects that to what he already knows to understand it better. What are some strategies you use to make those connections between a topic you are learning and what you already know, especially a topic where that real-world application might not immediately be clear?

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