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pantone159

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  1. Yep. Sensors show something that imploded, triangulate its position, then send an ROV deep down and find it. And you didn't plan any of this so it tests how well you can do all that quick with no warning.
  2. What if what that guys says is a superposition of 50% saying "quantum" and 50% times square root of -1 saying "muledick"???
  3. Rep entirely as this post fucking deserved.
  4. Cleopatra's children with Marc Antony were not massacred. They were taken to Rome and paraded through the streets in chains, but then they were raised by Octavian's sister, who had an orphanage of sort for royal connected children. Her daughter with Antony, Cleopatra Selene, ended up marrying Juba and becoming queen of Mauritania, a Rome client state in North Africa. I don't count becoming a Queen as being massacred.
  5. I like this version, as it is also pro-snek.
  6. Unfortunately metal foil will not block magnetic fields. Electrical fields, radio signals, light, yes, but magnetic fields no. Magnetic field shielding is expensive.
  7. Well it is called the 'work function' not the 'working function', and it is not the fundamental basis of quantum mechanics, though it did feature prominently in Einstein's famous paper back in 1905, so I call this debunking as debunked. But it is true that 60 hz radiation cannot destroy biological molecules the same way as e.g. xrays or gamma rays. In the case of xrays ('ionizing radiation') the electromagnetic chunks (photons/quanta) have a large amount of energy, enough so if they interact with a biological molecule, they can blast it apart, which causes a variety of bad things. But the quanta from 60 hz radiation will have an extremely low amount of energy, and one photon by itself is not going to do anything to a specific biomolecule.
  8. Sounds like a great trip, I have wanted to do something like that. In a previous, and now hardly imaginable world, I would have added Saint Petersburg to that itinerary. I have heard that the ferry rides across the Baltic involve large amount of drunkenness, but I have never been there to check.
  9. I no longer have any worries that Elon is capable of getting something like that done. So there is that.
  10. Could the front end be less fully developed, since it is a juvenile? My vague sense in walking past this guy was that the head made it look like a young-un. But I am not a snake naturalist so I don't really know anything.
  11. Found this guy enjoying Joshua Tree National Park. Is it a juvenile? It was about 2 feet long.
  12. The couple who used to own Hawkeye Point (the Sterlers?) had a reputation for being very friendly to state highpoint collectors, so I give it good vibes. When I visited almost 20 years ago the husband had passed but the wife still owned the property, but everyone was welcome to visit. My parents had both been to Ocheydan Mound (which was for a time thought to be the Iowa highpoint) so I went there too, and collected several ticks. Most all of the western state highpoints do have really great views, as you would expect. But once you set yourself to visiting all the state highpoints, you will go faaaar out of your way for even sillier places. (Ebright Azimuth DE, aka road intersection, holla!)
  13. Don't miss Iowa! Guadalupe Peak is one of my favorite of the US state highpoints. The views are very cool and pretty varied as you hike up. It can definitely be windy, so be prepared for that, but otherwise it is an easy hike, besides the moderate elevation gain.
  14. The Chinese have this figured out. They have lots of banknotes for the afterlife, known as 'Hell Money'. You can even get them on eBay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_money
  15. Day 3 actually sounds harder than Day 2, just be prepared to be pretty worn out, but that may be ok for you. I have climbed Guadalupe Peak and driven back to Austin the same day, so it is possible, but I do not recommend that schedule. There is snow up there sometimes, but that probably won't be much of a problem on the GP trail. Fwiw, Carlsbad NM is as close (or closer) to Guadalupe Peak NP as Van Horn is. Carlsbad is not much of a town but Van Horn is not either. (Though Van Horn does have the Chuy's with the shrine to John Madden, who was still going the last time I was there, I suspect his table is still waiting for him though.)
  16. Well, that is literally what that means. Come and take it!!!
  17. That is a good question. Is the $250K coverage from the FDIC per each fraudulent account, or are they all combined?
  18. Huh? The debtors, especially the depositors should absolutely be in front of the shareholders. The shareholders get squat until the depositors get ALL their money back.
  19. But if they do indeed hold them to maturity then they will in fact get paid in full, and the market price does not matter, or whether the interest rate changes or not. Works until a bank run forces you to sell.
  20. But is has to be easy to sell for cash, and a bit at a time. You could take off a couple of links from a gold chain and sell for a little cash as you need it. Gemstones are probably a lot more trouble to sell, and a lot more trouble to get fair value, there is no 'melt value' for emeralds. I hadn't thought about the markup on jewelry though.
  21. Yikes. It has occurred to me that a gold chain may not be a bad way to 'stack'. To me the use for gold is if somehow I need to flee for my life. Unlikely, but possible, and with a chain on my neck I don't have to waste pocket space to hold my gold. But gold did not work as insurance for that guy.
  22. Yes, T bills would have been a lot less profitable for SVB. To be fair to SVB being a bank has to be hard in ways in a zero interest rate environment, you need to earn something on the money, and there were probably no easy answers for them. The actual easy answer is that the whole VC industry should not have all piled all this capital into the same medium sized bank and assumed that everything would just magically work out (like it always has seemed to for them) and that is a mistake made by SVB's customers and maybe not even so much by SVB.
  23. They will be made (mostly, at least) whole, because the assets of SVB are (presumably) not garbage and will be sold for their market value which will mostly or even entirely cover the depositors. But these deposits are no longer the liquid cash they thought they were.
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