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3,000 troops to evacuate an embassy seems excessive? How many diplomats are there?

Nonetheless A terrible situation for Afghanistan; I wish the world could help them but I'm not sure what else could be done after trying for two decades.

I hope that GATech one day offers an affordable online math MSc program, like their CS program

I didn't mean it negatively. I wrote it with a smile. They should take pride in their work!

It is being demolished now. The company doing the demolition must be very proud of destroying things, because they make drone & time-lapsed videos of it:

https://johlerdemolition.com/portfolio-items/motorola-schaum...

Edit: I meant this in a positive tone, not a negative. I'm glad they take pride in their work.

I actually haven't heard of the Honor Harrington series; I'll look it up. Do you recommend paperback or audio for it?

(spoiler warning) I gave up on the ExForce series after a half dozen books; it was good, just repetitive. But I couldn't force myself to purchase the Bobiverse #2. While the Bobiverse author's style was irritating to me, I thought the alien interactions in Bobiverse were laughable compared to ExForce and Hail Mary (spoiler sorry). The antagonist also left much to be desired.

But Ray Porter's voice needs to be applied to many more books. I generally only stop reading audiobooks if I can't listen to the reader any longer

While this is good news for the state of New York, I don't think it meets the site guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Putting the Checking account into a fund/security and then selling the fund/security for ATM withdrawals, or individual expenses etc will be a headache come tax time. How does your product simplify this?

From your description, it sounds like this is not FDIC insured?

Comparing New York, the midwest, the south, and SV, it's mostly SV that is entitled. NY has this to some extent (finance) too

> Irony” is a term that everyone uses and seems to understand. It is also a concept that is notoriously difficult to define.

I've always thought this. It's easier to explain irony using examples than to define it.

The market for retirees who are willing to pay $100M annually to live in a pressurized bubble on the moon is maybe one or two, for only one annum

I would like to se it weighted by the number of athletes sent.

> Sure, RAM is always faster.

Well, why not shove it all into L2 cache and leapfrog RAM?

/first joke I ever made on HN

Same with Google. I searched a covid-related question, and Google's preferred answer at the top was "There is no evidence of this", while the next two links were medical journals that did show evidence that directly contradicted Google's statement.

It amazes me.