ElectronCharge

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by ElectronCharge 10mo ago
One reason foreign enrollment is declining is concern about (mainly) Chinese espionage. That’s entirely reasonable, given the vast amount of stolen engineering and research…
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by ElectronCharge 10mo ago
Buy a Tesla with FSD. No, it’s not L5 autonomy, but it’s already safer than the average human driver…and autonomous cars will only get better.
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by ElectronCharge 11mo ago
From your linked article: "Musk has recently said that President Trump has agreed to shut down USAID" Anything DOGE did was approved by the Executive Branch, as required.
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by ElectronCharge 11mo ago
I hope you're right, the nuclear option is looking mighty good right now! ;-)
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by ElectronCharge 11mo ago
An "administration" doesn't add debt - Congress does. Power of the purse strings, no? I'm not sure what you mean by "this administration". Are you including DJT's first term? Regardless, here are the numbe
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
Seeing the downvotes, I'm fascinated with the effectiveness of propaganda in 2025. Truly amazing! The midterms should be fun!
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
I'd gladly wager some real money were such a thing feasible. We'll see who's "wildly out of tough [sic] with reality"!
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
I'm not sure of your understanding of America's government. Conservatives control all three branches of government to an extent. The Senate GOP doesn't have 60 members, so the Dems can block legislation (the GOP hasn't i
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
America has a strong executive, as mandated by the Constitution. We'll have a much better idea of how things are going by the 2026 midterms. Then our democratic republic can vote accordingly. :-)
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
I see just the opposite. This current administration is trying to prevent the kinds of authoritarian excesses and illegal acts that occurred under BHO and JRB from ever happening again. Perhaps America will once again be a place with "
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
I can think of three worthwhile goals at a minimum: 1) Access the vast resources available elsewhere in the Solar System. 2) Move most polluting and destructive heavy industry off of Earth (this will take big advances in propulsion technolo
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
Actually one of the fast food restaurants here takes automated spoken orders at the drive through. I've only used it once, but I was surprised that it worked flawlessly for me...
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
The F-35 isn't inferior to many other aircraft as far as raw capability goes. Really only the F-22. Nor is it expensive, at least the F-35A (I'm speaking of the initial cost, not sustainment which may or may not be a bargain). The
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
I guess you didn't read the article. TSMC is building factories in America, and Apple is the biggest customer so far. It's a similar situation for rare earth magnets. So, not just "assembly". As to tariffs in general, yo
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
Sure, it's too bad that almost all of that hatred is due to propaganda instead of anything real. If anyone has benefited humanity over the last couple of decades, it's Elon Musk! I'd argue he's done more than anyone!
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
A hard right turn into politics would benefit quite a lot of HN readers... The anti-capitalism movement is completely misguided. Capitalism has improved the human condition immeasurably! Every other system tried recently has failed miserabl
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
Because the number of senile/crazy people voting is a tiny percentage. The 16-17 year old block is potentially much larger, and might actually swing an election. I share the opinion of many here that almost all those below 18 are too i
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
> The date is entirely unimportant. The date is exactly what was being discussed. I was responding to the mischaracterization of "a military parade for the president's birthday", which is factually inaccurate. Plus, the pl
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
Are you claiming that the Army anniversary date being on DJT's birthday ISN'T a coincidence? That must take some crazy mental gymnastics... As to your other points, most aren't coincidences, though some aren't real eithe
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
> The action of having a military parade for the president's birthday is expensive and doesn't benefit us. The funds for the "United States Army 250th Anniversary Parade" were allocated before President Trump was elec
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
I see. The problem is you left out that only non-networking contexts were considered, so that list missed the most relevant answer with no explanation.
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
That was a pretty bad response, so I tried Grok 3, using the prompt "What's the likely meaning of BGP in a Hacker News article?" Its entire response: "In a Hacker News article, BGP most likely refers to Border Gateway Pr
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by ElectronCharge 1y ago
The Turing Test didn't anticipate super-parrots that converse nicely, instead assuming that an AI would actually reason to participate in a conversation. The "AI" we have now isn't actually "I".
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
Yes. One of my early observations about LLMs was that we've now produced software that regularly lies to us. It seems to be a quite intractable problem. Also, since there's no real visibility as to how an LLM reaches a conclusion,
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
I'm surprised this has no comments/interest, it seems to me Julia is making great strides towards being an approachable, high-performance general purpose language with a great STEM emphasis. My personal list of the most interestin
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
Elon has done and will do more for humanity than almost anyone. You’re a victim of the disinformation establishment. Try to think critically, rather than emotionally - and base that critical thinking on reality instead of human narratives.
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
It's hard to imagine how these services are being cut when we're running a $1.8 trillion deficit this year. Clearly the priorities of our current FedGov admin are askew. One hopes things will improve after November 5...
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
Those “known deposits” don’t include seawater, which is another giant source. It shouldn’t matter anyways, surely fusion will be here sooner rather than later…and possibly LENR.
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
Nuclear fission is a fundamentally different process from oxidation (burning). It produces a much higher proportional power output. The usual figure given is fission fuel is about 1 million times as power dense as chemical fuels like gasoli
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by ElectronCharge 2y ago
Sure, the terrorists will dive right down the mile deep shaft to get non-weapons-grade material. /s Nation-states don’t have any problem getting uranium…and weapons proliferation isn’t a concern with any nuclear power. In other words,

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