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by XorNot 7mo ago
I don't know that there was a lot wrong with Earth under the Expanse though. The problems there were kind of organic: they just didn't need that many people, but they did have UBI, but even if you wanted to better yourself and wer
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Okay but why does this matter? They're your ISP they also have your address, credit card number and a technician has been in your home and also supplied the router in the common case. The theoretical vague problem here is being used to
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by XorNot 7mo ago
It's because router defaults have been bad for a long time and NAT accidentally made them better. I finally have IPv6 at home but I am being very cautious about enabling it because I don't really know what the implications are, an
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Why might the US be using air power to strike targets which are inland in Iran? What characteristics of a submarine might be considerably problematic to doing that? Would these problems perhaps also effect a defensive mission to prevent ai
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by XorNot 7mo ago
1000 drones of what size? If they're small - like quadcopter size - then how did you get them in range of a ship more then 10 miles off shore? If they're large, like back of a pickup sized (which is roughly a Shahed[1] - link for
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by XorNot 7mo ago
That's a submarine. Which is notably not going to be launching a drone the size of a even a Shahed, nor anything close to the same range. It also cannot detect nor engage incoming air threats, like essentially every single in service s
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Mix and match how? Your entire one-way arsenal is sitting in cargo containers off the coast of an enemy nation by definition within drone range. At this point you've built a very slow, very short ranged undefended arsenal ship. Your pr
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by XorNot 7mo ago
This is just making the very common categorization error here: you're equating low performance drones, implied to be about DJI sized, with the performance of an F-35. Now you're about to say "but I meant drones with better c
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Operation Spiderweb was not a power projection exercise though, it was an espionage mission. This is like arguing you don't need a military because you'll just have 1 spy turn the enemies own weapons on them. Sure...its not that i
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by XorNot 7mo ago
You don't even need to say "lasers" : that's the future. CIWS is already a thing today and Ukrainians have downed Shaheds with ground fire from small arms. There's a plethora of various low cost systems being develo
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by XorNot 7mo ago
It doesn't really eat you though: HF is so small that the problem is it just traverses straight through the skin into your blood and causes fluoridosis. There's been more then a few metallurgy lab deaths because someone spilled a
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by XorNot 7mo ago
They're not but it also won't end world hunger. Because world hunger is not being caused by accidental deficits in food availability: it's caused by serious local security threats and in many cases deliberate political action
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by XorNot 7mo ago
When asking for moral progress rather then technological progress, it's not an inverse. People can build technology, or I can build technology, but we generally all get it. Its distribution requires nothing of me or others psychologica
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by XorNot 7mo ago
I have no control over the morality of others. Whereas I have direct control over how I use technology.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
At its peak the Apollo program was about 6% of US GDP.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Labor intensive methods aren't automatically better: you have more manual steps which must be done perfectly and validated etc.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
The issue is that simply saying you're going to deliver food aid is elliding pretty much the entire problem. You cannot simply deliver food aid, because to do so you might have to fight and win an entire war against one or several in
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Also famines are political problems to start with. We have more then enough food. Getting it to people reliably is the issue - i.e. there's usually a plethora of other issues like an active war. It also isn't an economically isola
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by XorNot 7mo ago
The short version is yes! This would be a significant concern.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
The problem here isn't the idea, it's that absolutely no one has done any useful precursor research. Discussing replacement bodies is pretty rich when spinal cord injuries prognosis is still lifelong paralysis. And if I were to ex
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by XorNot 7mo ago
If you read the article you'd find that what they are finding are not microplastics - they're stearates[1] These are soap-like chemicals used as mould release agents on gloves, but what also means are chemically similar to plast
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by XorNot 7mo ago
The history of predicting innovation even a decade out is full of misses, even then the actors involved were all human. It is significant that if machine-intelligence can improve itself, then there's obviously a transition point at whi
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by XorNot 7mo ago
I mean you're eliminating an entire consumable supply chain though. Being able to have your packaging inputs be _just_ paper is a huge advantage.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Also the only major economy which didn't fight World War 2 on its own territory.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
Conversely prices with rebates have gotten very cheap recently. I'm getting a 48kwh battery put in with a 3 phase inverter for $6500 AUD in like a week.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
I assume the scam would be you rewire the breaker so the grid is on the apparent load side. It's not exactly hard to do, just dangerous.
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by XorNot 7mo ago
You got it in the third sentence and then dismissed it for some reason? That's exactly what the Singularity is: it's the transition point beyond which meaningful predictions aren't possible. In a black hole it's the cent
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by XorNot 7mo ago
It's probably closer to the suppliers don't think this will last and are ramping slowly if at all so they're not left holding the bag. The US is headed for a cataclysmic crash at this point and it's not clear what will t
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by XorNot 7mo ago
I hate incandescents and am glad they're gone. People chronically under light their homes at the best of times. My whole house is neutral white LEDs except the bathrooms where we go to cool white to make it easier to clean and be sure
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by XorNot 7mo ago
This isn't a complicated war. The US can't and won't do occupations, so the only thing you need to do is cause problems till they leave. Iran doesn't have to conventionally defeat the US military and can't: so they&

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