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Re:Trump is halfway to making America a police state on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @11:09AM (#43693898)
Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling, establishes a precsenent that could have horrendous consequences
Allowing startups to begin as non-profits for tax benefits, only to 'flip' into profit-seeking ventures is a moral hazard, IMO. It risks damaging public trust in the non-profit sector as a whole. This lawsuit is important
I don't think it makes sense for a humanoid species, but silicon based, perhaps? Iain M Banks' The Algebraist [0] has a near immortal species called Dwellers that manage it somehow :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Algebraist#:~:text=Dweller....

I've often thought planet TrEs-2b [0], the darkest planet ever discovered orbiting a star, would be the best candidate for extra terrestrial life. My theory is that its darkness is down to the fact that the civilisation there has figured out a way to harness solar energy to near 100% capacity, along the lines of a Dyson sphere [1].

[0] https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/1716/tres-2-b [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere

Re:Introducing GPTs on Monday November 06, 2023 @05:34PM (#38170082)
What's the file upload limit? I can see many junior roles being replaced if a large corpus of data can be uploaded.
Re:Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered on Thursday April 13, 2023 @02:58AM (#35552009)
Has anyone built a js version of this?