XorNot

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by XorNot 6mo ago
I have no idea why this is downvoted because it's exactly right. Unlike antibiotic resistance where the consequences can be measured in human lives, it just doesn't matter for weed killers: and the iteration time on new compounds
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by XorNot 6mo ago
And yet has no discernible positive effect on modern human survival rates but one of the most acutely lethal negative ones. Pre-medicine you got appendicitis and just died painfully.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Even without understanding pharmaceutical research, your claim to understanding business strategy is braindead: there is not 1 pharmaceutical company. And many pharmaceutical companies work on treatments for the same conditions and disease
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Which is only relevant if you actually find an infectious agent doing something in the right place, which so far we have not. The vaccine prevention connection for example AFAIK is just pure statistics: you get the shingles vaccine, your po
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Yes. Not uncritically, but if the research presents a logically consistent hypothesis, and evidence supporting it, then it would be worth following up on with independent groups and if it remains consistent to scrutiny then it should be acc
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Okay this may actually have sold me on AI coding now because these are both the sorts of applications I've been looking for to solve real problems.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
The American voter openly and obviously said "wow. Despite the numerous management failures, more of that please?" People didn't vote for change, they voted for the same thing they had 4 years ago that changed absolutely noth
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by XorNot 6mo ago
"but China is worse!" is an excuse wearing well past paper thin at this point.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/dart/ As in the mission has been flown and an asteroid deflection has been achieved.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Because Cinnamon exists and has a delightful commitment to functional minimalism.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
True but you basically lose the benefits of being on a planet. The point at which you're just floating in atmosphere I would argue you might as well be in orbit for all the resupply complexities, but few of the benefits - I.e. an orbit
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by XorNot 6mo ago
The biggest problem is it's spin rate: a Venus day is 116 days Earth days or so. Being completely tidally locked would be better because near the transition zones the permanent sun would make solar power and plants quite productive. Bu
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Its valid to say a lot of things. But it doesn't escape you from having to own those choices. You are what you'll accept, and you looked at the choices given and said "I'm okay with either one". Because the conseque
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by XorNot 6mo ago
I'm not American. And surprise: regardless of your reasons you get judged by the government you put in power, since foreign policy is how the rest of us experience your choices. And your choices are evidently you're completely oka
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Ah enlightened centrism rears its head again. Remember folks: at all points both sides are exactly the same /s.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Except those are both done. WhatsApp could not change for the next 50 years, and it would continue doing that just fine.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
I add an autogen.sh script to all my repositories that does things like this as it's first action.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Battery prices are still falling though, it's just demand is enormous. But I works fully expect China to start having "compatible replacement packs" being built once the volume is there to support it. A logical future market
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by XorNot 6mo ago
IMO you're fighting the wrong battle: there'll always be a new model. But the broader concept of fake news and the manufactured nature of media and rhetoric is much more relevant - e.g. whether or not something's AI is almost
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Except DNA may not be present: the probabilities involved with partial DNA matches become very problematic.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
So you know. Glide bombs. Which already exist and are already used and have a range of about 130km for a high altitude launch and a lot payload. Or some absurdly heavy ballistic missile...which would be worse then existing ballistic missile
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Yes a 99% success rate versus like 600 incoming still means some of them will get through. Which is the same reason no level of military power is going to keep the Strait of Hormuz open (or at least, no level beyond a truly absurd one and e
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by XorNot 6mo ago
You could also just write "magic" and say we should invest in wizards. No DJI sized drone using any available or near future technology is going to have a range of more then whatever 20 to 30 minutes of well-below subsonic flight
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by XorNot 6mo ago
The F-35 is currently about the same price to procure as Gripen, a 4th generation non-stealthy fighter. Anyone making claims about cost has a lot of work to do because the F-35 program is actually extremely cheap per unit now for what it is
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by XorNot 6mo ago
I mean not really? People focus on quantity but the German late war tank designs just sucked .
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by XorNot 6mo ago
It was an entire media beat up because the media was too afraid to talk about anything real and the public not interested. There's plenty we could talk about: i.e. the failure scenarios of shallow reasoning systems, the serious limitat
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Which is just worse. When I'm driving I know what I'm doing, what I'm planning to do and can scan the road and controls with that context. Making me have to try and guess what the car is going to do at any given time is addi
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by XorNot 6mo ago
Solar made hydrocarbons are never going to be economical. Confident predictions of the inevitability of renewable diesel at $3 a liter don't add up because diesel is $3 a liter right now . I am literally paying that at the pump. I wil
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by XorNot 6mo ago
It's a drone boat, so no.
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by XorNot 6mo ago
This all reminds me that I'm super curious about those Chinese laser soldering stations. I easily have a few grand of parts and definitely not the patience normally.

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