Gagarin1917

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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Would you have been uninterested in Apollo at the time because of the Vietnam war? Or are you maybe just generally uninterested in space exploration?
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Most people don’t care about Apollo 11 period. They know it happened but they have zero interest in it or the history. That’s why the average person doesn’t cares now. They never actually did.
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
During the Apollo missions, the US was melting babies in Vietnam, amongst other war crimes. Young men were being drafted, taken from home, and forced to kill people across the world. African Americans were fighting for basic rights and equa
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
That’s not it. Most people don’t even know what Apollo 8 was. The average person thinks NASA’s only mission of note was Apollo 11, they don’t even realize there were 5 other landings.
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
The basic truth is, the vast majority of people couldn’t give less of a fuck about space and space exploration. It’s just too abstract, too complicated, and too far away for them to feel connected to it. It’s not attached to national pride
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Why does the article keep mentioning footage “from the surface of the moon”?
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
You’re not going to get a YT alternative if it can’t make money with ads.
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
None of those are moats, though. None of it is “something competition cannot do.” The concept of moats just has too much weight put on it around here.
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
The Apollo 8 book I read once ended with a letter to NASA thanking them and saying “You saved 1968.”
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Alphabet is worth $3.5 Trillion. What’s their moat?
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
I imagine they get a bigger slice of the pie with OpenAI than they do with Google, an extremely mature company who’s had investors buying in for 30 years. Alphabet’s market cap is $3.5 trillion, compared to OpenAI’s $850 billion reported he
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Challenge accepted
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Sora was not the only video generation service, it wasn’t even the gold standard. Offerings like Kling and ByteDance are considered much better.
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
If the definition of slot machine is so vague that it includes LLMs then it’s not really meaningful. If someone only ever paid $20 a month on slot machines AND typically came out ahead, that wouldn’t be any kind of gambling issue. Playing r
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
It shouldn’t even be just you and others with dyslexia either. Processing images is always faster than processing text for everyone.
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
That’s so awesome, I had the exact same idea since LLMs came out because I’m a regular Civ player. I thought about trying some kind of mod for Civ IV but never got around to it. FreeCiv does make more sense. Very cool stuff.
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Trying to decide whether to refinance now or not feels like gambling too. Yet it’s financially beneficial to make some bet. Defining “Gambling” like isn’t really helpful.
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
MBA’s have a goal for growth. That doesn’t mean it will happen. Lots of companies fail or shrink. Also, it’s not an MBA/capitalism thing. Every socialist leader throughout history promised more growth, they just thought it should be mo
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
At least there’s a major silver lining: Higher oil prices and more volatility in the oil market makes renewables even better of an investment. Climate change has somewhat faded from popular culture, but the problem still persists. The faste
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by Gagarin1917 8mo ago
>It is there to reduce our agency Complete bullshit. The individual has never had as much ability to take on large projects as they do now. They’ve never been able to learn as easily as they can now. >to make it easier to fire us As o
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LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy(arstechnica.com)
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by Gagarin1917 8mo ago
They’re at this level because the editors have always had low standers. I don’t know about you guys, but I feel like 50% of Ars headlines are completely misleading. They’ve had this problem for years. They will publish anything that gets th
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by Gagarin1917 8mo ago
Are Technicas editors fabricate misleading headlines all the fucking time. The editors are the ones ultimately responsible for what they publish. Yet they’re not taking responsibility.
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by Gagarin1917 8mo ago
The system they’ve crafted relies on having enough of a working population to pay for the older benefit-receiving population. Their benefits are so large and unwieldy, they know the whole thing will fall apart if they don’t find a way to fu
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by Gagarin1917 8mo ago
I mean the message in The Dark Knight is really messy. The characters believe it’s immoral, but they use it anyway, and it saves lives and stops the Joker.
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by Gagarin1917 8mo ago
Bullshit. The only people worried are the ones that were already concerned and never bought a Ring. I guarantee the vast majority of people LOVE this new feature.
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by Gagarin1917 8mo ago
Anything can become cool and desirable if enough people think it is. The acceptance of LGBT was largely won this way. Same with women’s rights and environmentalism (although that one is still in the midst of fighting for success). You just
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by Gagarin1917 8mo ago
More and more women have the power to choose when they get pregnant every day. This is the number one reason for the decrease in fertility. Unplanned pregnancies are becoming a thing of the past.
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by Gagarin1917 8mo ago
That’s looking at history through a modern lens. The reality is, women were not able to control when they got pregnant for almost all of human history. It was just part of life and sex. They weren’t having children as some kind of decades l
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by Gagarin1917 8mo ago
Yep. Birth control made it so women can choose how many times they get pregnant. Pregnancy is not exactly a walk in the park, so it’s no surprise it’s decreasing as birth control increases. To override this, society needs to make having kid

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