M_Grey

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by M_Grey 10y ago
I'm more a fan of The Great Filter hypothesis. We're not finding life for the simple reason that in a thousand years, no one will find us; we'll be banging the rocks together again. It might just be that the stage between whe
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by M_Grey 10y ago
No one is arguing as to why these issues emerge, they're just arguing that they don't want to subsidize them.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You're right, I should have said "product" or something similar and made it clear that I wasn't referring to EV tech on the whole.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
No need to apologize, it was a reasonable assumption. As you say though, I don't think living memory (at least not much) extends to that kind of crisis. Most living memory no longer recalls a lot of important lessons that we culturally
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by M_Grey 10y ago
One of my favorite anecdotes is from an old episode of Car Talk. A woman called in to ask if the following was ok (I'm paraphrasing from memory): "So my neighbor, who's from a former Soviet Bloc country is a great guy who hel
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Soviet Russia didn't exactly support the entrepreneurial spirit.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I wasn't thinking of anything in particular, sorry. I was just thinking in terms of what you're saying, if you break your messages down, hash them, send them in drips and drabs in the background noise, it would be almost impossibl
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by M_Grey 10y ago
For me, this is just more evidence that this a highly promising technology that isn't ready for me to invest in yet, as an owner of a Tesla vehicle. That said, even this guy who's had a nightmarish experience is essentially crying
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That is certainly a factor, although if Abe and his type get their way, that may change.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I wasn't thinking about young people... they're not the only generation on the planet, and not the one who've been making the bad calls re: infrastructure either.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Yes you do, everyone does, we just don't want to accept it. The problem with humanity is humans, and human nature. The solution is that we're going to stop being that kind of human, either because we're going to die, or chang
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It starts of strong, then you realize that a comparison is being drawn between a decades-long conspiracy circulated by the largest talk show personality in the country, with Tweets and blog posts with 13K shares. There isn't much of an
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Why Did Life Move to Land? For the View(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I think the Japanese get more out of what they spend/sacrifice for their government than the US. That's not to imply anything approaching perfection either.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
"The burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart." A whole generation is going to learn a bunch of lessons that have been forgotten, among them that infrastructure doesn't maintain itself. It&#x27
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That was a good read, and I agree with your conclusion.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The best anyone can hope to do is roll things back to text-based systems... beyond that the cat is way too far out of the bag as you say.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
At worst... you'd go in circles. At best you'd just sort of lazily zig-zag to your destination. "Goddamn it Roger, port #2 is in a superposition of existing and not existing again!" "Calm down Wilco, just take a goo
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Could they unite those elements of the industry again if given the chance, or has it moved on to just be too specialized?
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's all fun and games until a careless measurement causes one set of engines to be "on" and the other to be "off".
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that you'd need a pretty catastrophic failure of the engine for that to happen, and the event might start to strongly resemble an explosion.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
> Where it lands for me: If the CEO wants to disclaim responsibility for the culture, he needs to step down as incompetent. If the CEO wants to take responsibility for the culture, he needs to step down for running an institution that ro
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by M_Grey 10y ago
No, they're a criminal organization that took over for another criminal organization. It's true that in the end, two wrongs failed to make a right, but there's no need to demonize the notion of upending the disgusting monopol
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The Jet Engines with 'Digital Twins'(bbc.com)
85 points by M_Grey 10y ago|37 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Leave the thing on a timed kill switch requiring secure input to reset the timer. It acts like a warrant canary, because the default is that without acting to intercede, your data is physically destroyed. That said... unless you have some
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Thanks very much!
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I don't think the difference is so obvious even that far in the future, or even right now. If you targeted an attack correctly, I'm pretty sure you could achieve a statistical range of casualties. Does it matter that you used data
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Do you have a model number, or a link?
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Dishonesty Gets Easier on the Brain the More You Do It(aeon.co)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Eventually you end up facing a guillotine.

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