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The polls tell us that this is the most unpopular war, going in, in American history. The President claims (and at least possibly believes) that it is 100% supported. It’s impossible to overstate how insane this all is.
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🚨U.S. to allow Iran to get ~14 billion dollars (!!!) in oil revenue 🚨This is a huge financial concession to Iran by the U.S. 🚨It is the first time U.S. is buying Iranian oil since 1996 🚨It's all happening in the middle of a war against...Iran
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Iran has worked for years to get sanctions relief through diplomacy. It has failed. 3 weeks of war, the US has offered sanctions relief to Iran without Tehran even asking for it...
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BREAKING: US Treasury eases oil sanctions on Iran, including permiting the sale of Iranian crude and refined products into the United States. Scott Bessent calls it a "narrowly tailored, short-term authorization permitting the sale of Iranian oil currently stranded at sea."
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JURY SAYS MUSK DEFRAUDED TWITTER INVESTORS BEFORE 2022 BUYOUT
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Iran fired a pair of intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-UK base in the Indian Ocean. One missile failed in flight, and another was engaged by a US Navy destroyer using an SM-3 missile.
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The Khorramshahr-4 is likely the intermediate-range ballistic missile that Iran used in the attempted attack on Diego Garcia, which analysts had previously assessed may have a range of +4,000km, though it had only been proven at between 2,000-3,000km. Such an attack would suggest
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Bigger story here: implied range of an Iranian IRBM from a launch box in central Iran, with a range of ~4500 km (distance to Diego Garcia). Theoretically could also target sites into Central Europe.
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Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists
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Vivek Ramaswamy, Ohio GOP Gubernatorial Candidate, Used Campaign Funds to Finance Luxury Puerto Rico Trip — MTN
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We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster
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Three weeks into the U.S.-Iran war, the U.S. lifts some sanctions on Iran.
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Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
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Has any tweet aged better than this one? It’s basically the defining ethos of the entire last decade. By some objective measure, it might be the best tweet of all time.
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U.S. JURY FINDS ELON MUSK LIABLE TO TWITTER SHAREHOLDERS IN SECURITIES FRAUD LAWSUIT RELATED TO $44 BILLION TAKEOVER, COURT RECORDS SHOW
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Why I'm Not Worried About Running Out of Work in the Age of AI
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RAF Fairford, a USAF B-1B Lancer, silhouetted by the rising sun, is loaded with 2000 pound JDAM guided bombs for an Iran strike mission.
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JURY SAYS MUSK DEFRAUDED TWITTER SHAREHOLDERS THROUGH TWO STATEMENTS ABOUT THE PREVALENCE OF BOTS ON TWITTER'S PLATFORM
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One of Iran’s primary goals during the pre-war negotiations was to ease oil sanctions.
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Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
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Trump administration strategizing methods and options to secure or extract Iran's nuclear materials. — CBS
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Scott Bessent also said that "Iran will have difficulty accessing any revenue generated and the United States will continue to maintain maximum pressure on Iran and its ability to access the international financial system." 🤔
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🔴 Iran has started talks with Japan regarding possible opening of the strait: Iran foreign minister, Kyodo reports
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🔴 Iran's Foreign Minister: Iran ready to allow Japanese vessels to pass through Strait of Hormuz.
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Trump doesn’t want to safeguard Hormuz. #OOTT
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The S&P 500 fell 1.5% today, its 8th daily decline so far this year with a loss above 1%. Expect to see many more of these days in the coming weeks/months - the average year since 1928 has 29 large declines. This is the price of admission. $SPX Video: youtube.com/watch?v=mUGb8h
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Woman in Labor at Florida Hospital Brought in Zoom Court for Refusing C-Section
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As far as technical glitches go, not being able to turn on TVs is just a super weird thing to go wrong.
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The Marine force being sent to potentially occupy parts of Iran, a country of 90 million people, is approximately the same size as the force used to invade the island of Grenada in 1983.
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If a tornado destroyed every OTHER grocery store in your town, what do you think would happen to prices/supplies at YOUR grocery store?
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🔴 Iran targeted Diego Garcia base with ballistic missiles - WSJ
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Ghostling
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% Below All-Time High ExxonMobil: 0% S&P 500: -7% Google: -14% Apple: -14% Nvidia: -19% Gold: -20% Amazon: -21% Meta: -25% Tesla: -26% Palantir: -28% Microsoft: -31% Bitcoin: -44% Silver: -45% Ethereum: -57% MicroStrategy: -75% Fartcoin: -92% Trump Coin: -96% Melania Coin: -99%
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Good morning from Dubai, it’s day 22 of the war and no one knows when it’s will end. These messages suggesting “soon” are only to calm markets, nothing else. And the hurricane of the energy crisis will be felt by everyone #OOTT
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There’s a reason why the U.S./NATO parked what is effectively an Arleigh Burke class DDG in a Romanian field.
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oh my god
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Not the most important point, but this is a well written corporate memo
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Ask HN: Are AI mandates a good idea?
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This waiver actually permits Iranian oil to be brought *into the US* for the first time since the 1990s. Incredible
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The Trillion Dollar Race to Automate Our Lives
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Incredible post, one for the record books.
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Let’s look at the numbers when it comes to Iranian and Russian volumes. Kpler: Oil in transit and floating storage (as of Mar 20) @Kpler Iran Oil in Transit: 156.1 mb Floating Storage: 30.7 mb Russia Oil in Transit: 159.6 mb Floating Storage: 5.8 mb #OOTT
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What a f*cking disaster. For us, and for the world, courtesy of some of the most corrupt, incompetent sociopaths in our country. Iran could easily emerge more powerful and freer to pursue the bomb. But this is much more than Iran. I don't want far left mirror images of Bondi,
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The US is providing a 30-day sanctions waiver for Iranian oil on the water loaded before 20 March. While the US is trying to bomb Iran into submission, it is permitting nations to buy Iranian oil for the first time since 2019. Amazing
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Show HN: Use AI to find customers who have intent to buy your product
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Denmark prepared contingency plans to blow up Greenland airfields to prevent U.S. invasion — NYT
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Show HN: Red Grid Link – peer-to-peer team tracking over Bluetooth, no servers
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The island of Qeshm, which lies along the north end of the Strait of Hormuz, has a population of 150-180k. The city of Bandar Abbas on the coast has 500,000 people. Kharg Island has approximately 8,000.
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Part of the no plan, plan. TRUMP ON OPENING STRAIT OF HORMUZ: AT A CERTAIN POINT IT'LL OPEN ITSELF #OOTT
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US loans ~45 millions barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve — significantly fewer barrels than the 86 million the government offered as part of the SPR “exchange” first tranche.
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