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Unsubstantiated story from Vanity Fair.

Small Spanish forces could defeat much larger Aztec forces, particularly in open terrain where cavalry, steel weapons, and armor were effective. Alliances played a role, but better weaponry and warfare isn't just an anecdote. Spanish military strength helped make those alliances attractive.

It's v1 - let's give them some grace

Canada has faced nearly a decade of weak per capita GDP growth and secular stagnation. Statistics Canada confirmed the country slipped into a technical recession after two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth in late 2025 and early 2026.

Oral phenylephrine is considered to be ineffective, phenylephrine in a nasal spray is considered effective.

Could you please read the resources above that debunk the points you just made?

This looks terrible. Ferrari sells dreams, not "safe choices".

I think it's a backward compatibility problem.

Windows 2000 is based on the NT kernel which is a complete different operation system. ME is Windows 3.x with a 32-bit hack on top of MS-DOS.

Windows 2000 was such a major improvement over NT4 and of course 9x that yes, you're right, it was awesome, but it still had issues and in terms of device drivers future versions brought a lot of things that improved overall stability.

I think the best benefit of Windows 2000 was that the GUI was extremely coherent. Even in Windows 11 for some sub menu and options you sometimes have a Windows 2000 UI popping up out of nowhere.

We have evidence that Russia funded anti-fracking groups, and it's been long alleged that Greenpeace has been heavily funded by Russia. It's not clear if the Green Party is Russian funded, directly or indirectly.

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/596304-invest...

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-9-2022-00127...

AI is a scapegoat. These companies are bloated. That's why they are laying off people en masse.

This article is poorly written. No new wealth was created.

They monetized an existing accounting/revaluation gain by selling older, non-standard bars and replacing them with compliant bars, while keeping the overall gold quantity unchanged. That is not the same as "we moved gold home and earned $15B on the move."

In simple terms:

- You buy x of gold at $10

- You sell it much later for $100

- You made a profit of $90, and you hold $100 of cash

- You rebuy x of gold for $100, back to the same gold exposure, but on the books, you have $90 of profit

Look at the Ukraine war. Who is being drafted against their will?

You are correct, we don't know much. Could also have been a failure.

46 airplanes were shot down during the second Iraqi war, and there has been over 150 total aviation losses (mechanical failure).

So far we have lost seven airplanes. There's no deep meaning behind one F-15e being shot down (if that's what happened): it's not a stealth aircraft and it's not heavily armored.

You will always find a report that goes in the way of the narrative you want to push. The goal of these reports is to poke holes and build scenarios. It doesn't mean it's going to happen. This article elevates a niche bottleneck into a headline risk.

- Sulfur matters but we have many substitutes, stockpiles, and alternative supply chains.

- 20% of global oil passes through it, but the US doesn't depend on it, will hurt China disproportionally more. While oil is globally priced, it has different benchmarks.

- The "6% traceability" stat likely reflects formal mapping, not actual operational ignorance.

Unclear if the SC ruling is retro active. But of course, lawyers will try to make money out of this...

See that as winning the "startup lottery", that doesn't mean what he did is rational or smart, he just had a great outcome.

In trading it's the same, you can make stupid bets and make a lot of money, doesn't mean you're good trader.

Nothing to conclude from this, this kind of hype-fueled outcome has always been a part of life.

In the US, you can just get a refund if you decide not to fly (by law) or a rebooking.

Premium airlines usually offer you compensation: a meal, and a voucher for a hotel stay, depending on the cause of the delay. Very likely miles or voucher for a future flight.

If your flight is to or from EU, you are entitled to more compensation by law IIRC.

EU market is by no mean easy, it's heavily fragmented requiring very often intense localization effort.

May be overblown, the IRS accesses this data all the time. Broadly speaking, the government knows your SSN.

It was also my understanding many DOGE employees were Department of Treasury agents.

That he doesn't share your views doesn't mean he is "off the far rights cliffs of insanity".

What is the core use case for this structure? Because it seems like a very heavy price to pay just to keep value stable, as opposed to make a copy of that value when you need it.

Because String Theory hasn't delivered falsifiable predictions, yet keeps expanding to accommodate failure.

Seeing a lot of people shit on Paul, which I guess, why not, but it's not super useful or positive.

I think this is a fairly good essay which can be boiled down to "don't do premature optimization" or "don't try to behave like companies much bigger than you".

There are three advantages to this:

1/As a founder, get your hands dirty, even if in the grand scheme of things it's inefficient. You'll get first hand experience and feedback. 2/Avoid the upfront cost of "something that scales", and thus get quicker feedback. 3/Makes you different, very important in the beginning.

"Do things that don't scale" is a way to drive the point home and must not be taken literally...

You may be underestimating the depth of scope of SAS. You can't just replace it with "a bunch of R and Python scripts".

Doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.