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by Retric 1y ago
Economic incentives never point in just one direction. There’s always tradeoffs around time horizons, risks, etc which is where individual people’s decisions come into play. Should we subsidize industry X is rarely a question decided on eco
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by Retric 1y ago
A narrower definition is fine, but now you need to define why those specific differences were important and the timeframe + geographic limitation on those specific differences must match what you’re describing. In other words on paper paten
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by Retric 1y ago
Stars hitting stars isn’t the metric a baseball sized object clearly counts as a meaningful collision at these speeds. Add up all objects in terms of 2d cross sections and it’s the small stuff we’re going to care about, but getting near sta
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by Retric 1y ago
Patents go way back possibly as far as 500 BC, with other examples dating to 1331 etc, yet the introduction didn’t kick off any great wave of progress. Instead a wide range of factors like better plants feeding both population growth and an
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by Retric 1y ago
Most ransomeware isn’t exfiltrating data. For small business you can automate the ‘pay to unencrypt your HDD’ model easy without care for what’s on the disk.
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by Retric 1y ago
So are the core of stars, “mostly empty” of matter isn’t specific enough to do calculations.
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by Retric 1y ago
> Falcon Heavy isn't relevant to anything SpaceX is doing with Starlink. You misunderstood my point, Starlink only cares about lower cost per kg to LEO. Spaceship is trying to do that and increase payload capacity. Spaceship tryin
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by Retric 1y ago
For a cashier sorting a customers change and presumably multiple small denomination bills is more effort than the rote action of handing out change. Handing exact change is therefore significantly slower for everyone else. > using SYZ t
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by Retric 1y ago
SpaceX’s strategy has been really questionable for a while. Falcon Heavy has done 11 flights since 2018 and now they’re building an even larger platform despite heavy launch not really being a viable market segment. Starship has been slower
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by Retric 1y ago
The benchmark for good management is higher than “often delivers.” I have no issue calling Musk a wildly successful businessman as he has made several great investments including getting companies off the ground, however his track record fo
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by Retric 1y ago
Each have their on individual problems. An aircraft’s ability to avoid obstacles is a massive benefit over a train’s only option being to very slowly come to a complete stop.
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by Retric 1y ago
The pedantic answer is to point to a bunch of shell companies without any electronic presence. However in terms of actual businesses there’s decent odds the closest dry cleaners, independent restaurant, car wash, etc has not had its data e
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by Retric 1y ago
> It's amazing to me that people consider "saving time while paying money" to be a good thing. If you’re checking it at a grocery store it’s likely there’s someone in line behind you waiting to pay, it’s a fairly common as
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by Retric 1y ago
“In 40,000 years it will get to within 1.6 light years from a star, that’s such an unimaginable distance it’s irrelevant.” On most human timescales that’s a long time, but here it’s only 0.004% of a billion years and in general stars are ~5
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by Retric 1y ago
I doubt that’s true. At minimum it’s going to hit an enormous quantity of micrometer sized objects. It’s gravitationally bound to the Milky way so it’s going to keep wandering into and out of star systems for a very long time. We’re talki
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by Retric 1y ago
Repositioning is far from the only concern but it is something they care about. For example the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower crossed the Suez Canal in 2021. The much smaller Wasp-class amphibious assault ship on the other hand can carry as man
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by Retric 1y ago
Wasting people’s time is rude here not illegal. Courtesy may seem outdated to some, but it can occasionally come back to bite people. Being overly rude to waitstaff is something I’m concerned with around promotions because of how they might
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by Retric 1y ago
The US military doesn’t want to sacrifice the capacity to go through the Panama Canal without getting a large benefit. As to cost, in many ways a cruise ship is a better comparison than a cargo ship. The giant crew needed to maintain and o
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by Retric 1y ago
I’d regularly use quarters in vending machines, but not waste time during a retail transaction.
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by Retric 1y ago
I agree that the F-22 is gorgeous, but it is also extremely expensive to operate, couldn’t be exported, can’t do carrier launch or VTOL so the demand was inherently lower. That said, we could have made more than 195 of the them, but even at
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by Retric 1y ago
> I don't recall ANY examples where it completely failed to do anything > I’ve reviewed your examples, and it hasn’t changed my mind. I think I have a better understanding of your thinking, but IMO you’re using a bar so low effec
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by Retric 1y ago
The SR-71 had a strait forward mission well suited to a specialized airframe, and again you’re focusing on the airframe. Just the software for the helmet alone provides a huge technical advantage that has little to do with how the aircraft
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by Retric 1y ago
I don’t want to go through every image, for the mountain: It failed Remove background, Isolate the background, long exposed (kept people), Apply a fish-eye lens effect (geometry incorrect), Strong bokeh blur (wrong blur type) Some were mor
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by Retric 1y ago
It didn’t take 20 years to make an airframe it took 20 years to do lots of research which eventually resulted in a wide range of systems and multiple very distinct airframes. Hell F-35B does vertical takeoff and still mostly uses the same
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by Retric 1y ago
How many of those result did you actually look at? I thought it did ok with the cats, but check the other images and OpenAI strait up failed to do the prompt a large fraction of the time.
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by Retric 1y ago
Cases are an ablative layer of protection, you can’t get the same thing by making larger phone of some uniform material. Young kids can go through multiple cases each of which look like they have been run over, but it’s relatively common fo
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by Retric 1y ago
That stray spark’s survival is heavily influenced by the herd immunity of the rest of the population. Put another way if the overall population sees an average of 0.5 or 0.95 infections per case there’s zero chance of a huge outbreak. But
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by Retric 1y ago
We don’t have the iPhone 17e, so for now there’s no way to tell if they will do this every year or what. Similarly people have called the 16e as a replacement for the SE line, but that’s a cost assessment not one based of form factor. It c
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by Retric 1y ago
There was a 4 year gap between the iPhone SE1 and iPhone SE2, it’s been less than 4 years since the SE3. It’s not clear if they decided to move just add E models to their lineup, or given up on SE models entirely.
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by Retric 1y ago
While small iPhones don’t sell nearly as well as larger sizes, I suspect they are still a very profitable product as Apple keeps releasing them.

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