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by _djo_ 3y ago
Twitter engagement is definitely lower[0], though it’s difficult to know from the outside how much and we can’t trust their numbers. Anecdotally, the accounts I follow in various niche subject areas have both depleted in number, with I’d es
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Emails Show SpaceX Bungled Elon Musk's Private Jet Privacy(vice.com)
8 points by _djo_ 3y ago|1 comments
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by _djo_ 3y ago
From the article, as many of us suspected, Musk’s aircraft were not enrolled in the PIA programme despite what he repeatedly claimed. So @elonjet was doing nothing other than reporting on public data.
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They were by their own admission complacent, believing that trade and closer economic integration would remove the threat. They’ve changed their minds since Russia invaded Ukraine. Germany has also been able to benefit from the overall NATO
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by _djo_ 3y ago
Looking at what the US has sent to Ukraine, though, nearly all of it has been second tier equipment that was nearing retirement/replacement due to either being close to time expiring or because it was nearing obsolescence. The same is
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Microsoft's CEO Says No Raises for Full-Time Employees This Year(gizmodo.com)
126 points by _djo_ 3y ago|6 comments
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South Africa almost got something similar, the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR). Well ahead of its time and excellent technology, with Westinghouse involved as a partner at one point and having bought some of the IP. [0] If only that had b
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by _djo_ 3y ago
There is no lead in Jet A1, as used on private jets, airliners, military aircraft, etc. Lead is only still part of AvGas, used on piston-engined general aviation aircraft. It’s finally being phased out now.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Right now driverless cars only work in places like that with relatively decent weather and which are meticulously mapped with frequent updates, because the tech still does not allow for safe driving using onboard sensors alone. A self-drivi
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by _djo_ 4y ago
No. Not before Musk took over. For one, it’s the kind of thing likely to get you sued for anti-competitive practices.
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Nope. The US invaded Afghanistan with pretty much full international support and the authorisation of a UNSC resolution. The invasion of Iraq was far more murky, and nearly split the alliance between the US, UK, France, and Germany as a res
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by _djo_ 4y ago
This isn't a question about whether there's hypocrisy in global politics. Of course there is. You're arguing a separate point. It's about whether populations in cases like this can be said to be accountable, and be treat
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Yes, and we do. People absolutely blame Western populations for the governments they choose to elect, and act accordingly. How is this surprising? Should every American be held responsible for all the US war crimes and bombings This is a
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by _djo_ 4y ago
When apartheid South Africa was a pariah state the world held the voting population of South Africa accountable as a collective, rather than just pretending it was only the elite in government making all choices. Although the system was cor
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What about it? It wasn't part of the original question.
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No. NATO deployed some forces in Afghanistan as a result of the triggering of Article 5 in response to the 9/11 attacks, though it wasn't an all-out action and wasn't carried out through NATO's command structures. NATO d
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With social and economic consequences that might dwarf this level of costs. It's seldom that simple.
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Information inside agencies like GCHQ is strictly compartmentalised, with only the most senior staff having broad cross-programme understanding and access. In fact, people can be even more cut off from information if they're at a low e
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by _djo_ 4y ago
At Meta and pretty much all other tech companies Engineering Managers have to have been decent programmers first, so I'm not sure what you're describing applies there. Cases where managers are appointed to oversee dev teams withou
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Clancy is far and away the most famous and notable writer of this kind of stuff though, and the name that would have come to me first too if I wanted to make a similar point. He had a lock on the genre like nobody else before or since.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
You're saying the US government is leaking a message to Sy Hersh, of all people, for him to publish on his Substack? That strains credibility quite extraordinarily.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
> If the source lied, tough. Investigative journalism is always a gamble. That's not how it works. The onus is on the journalist and the editors to ensure that any source they're relying on is credible, in a position to know wh
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by _djo_ 4y ago
International contract arbitration wouldn't be handled by 'a court of the enemy', but by a neutral venue mutually agreed to in the contract signing, perhaps hosted by the World Bank, International Chamber of Commerce, or simi
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by _djo_ 4y ago
I never said this was about a "no lusting after people, even in your heart" rule, nor do I believe it should be. If someone lusts after someone else in their head and never does anything to harm the other person there's obvio
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That sort of scam has been possible, sure, but it depends on both the person being phoned being startled and half asleep, and unable to reach the person or someone else near them in subsequent calls. You're right that I shouldn't
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Maybe, but what’s the relevance? We can’t predict that, nor can we adjust today’s morality to match what technology might enable in future. Perhaps murder will one day be not very immoral, but that doesn’t mean we should treat it any differ
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by _djo_ 4y ago
The question wasn't whether people can be stopped from doing it, because for the most part they can't be, but whether it's moral. Or at least different in a moral sense from merely imagining someone else doing those actions.
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We're steadily breaking down all mechanisms that ordinary people can use to trust information they're getting, such as getting a video call from a member of their family and recognising the face and voice. All previous scams relie
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I think it's a fundamentally different thing, morally speaking. Imagination is fleeting, ephemeral, jumbled, and usually linked to a specific state of mind that passes once the person has either grown bored of the imagination of achiev
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by _djo_ 4y ago
> swashbuckling leadership in support of Ukraine, overcommitting already threadbare armed forces, such that a US general commented today that the UK army is no longer a first class service as a result That's an inaccurate characteri

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