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Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million

A quarter-century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/nyregion/trump-columbia-u...


The ones in museums supposedly had their internal wing structure cut to prevent them from every flying again:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211113195112/https://theaviati...

but that part of the post has been removed from the updated version on the original website. The post now just says that one of the main points was identified as incorrect information. So the actual airworthiness of the ones in museums seems unclear. You can find a list of where they are on display here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-14_Tomcat#Aircraft_o...


Why? Google also partners with Broadcom for TPU.


See also Rigetti Computing


Dell is half the racks, the other half are SuperMicro:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1803429159005241780


>They also say they will take liability provided you haven’t misused the system or failed to properly maintain the car.

There's debate about this:

http://safeautonomy.blogspot.com/2023/09/no-mercedes-benz-wi...


And the key blanks are from Ace Hardware!


Fuselage assembled by Spirt AeroSystems in Wichita, KS with final assembly by Boeing in the Seattle area


Reminds me of the classic paper "The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations": https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202


That one was so great, passed around in a number of circles by the credulous. It was a magical time!

Also makes you think.


Any suggestions on brand names, websites, etc. for these Japanese tools?


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