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by aeternum 5mo ago
False, higher inequality actually boosts fertility. And it's a surprisingly strong correlation. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11620411/
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by aeternum 5mo ago
In some countries engineers wear a ring on their pinky to remind them of their obligation to ethics, safety and humility in engineering practice. In the US engineers don't get that ring and they implement product tours.
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by aeternum 6mo ago
The value of that continuous tract of land along California could easily make all the money back.
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by aeternum 6mo ago
It seems to me that this is the purpose of nightmares. I especially noticed this after having kids. They are not by default scared of snakes and such but if they see a nature documentary of a snake biting something or even a cartoon bad g
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by aeternum 6mo ago
Cancel it and sell what is built to the highest bidder, you can be assured that some company will buy it and complete it.
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by aeternum 6mo ago
Remember this one of OpenAI's principles? > We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions. Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes cl
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by aeternum 6mo ago
I would like to see France ban the tourist scammers before they worry about fools willingly making stupid polymarket bets on a single sensor. Also good luck banning polymarket, isn't that the one that trades using crypto?
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by aeternum 6mo ago
And as a result we should gain stronger epistemology. How many cities base their official temperature readings on just a few sensors rather than a widespread network? Sure you might argue, maybe this was an issue with Polymarket choosing a
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by aeternum 6mo ago
Hopefully all of it. If Starship succeeds, and that seems incredibly likely given the tests thus far, it will create an entire industry. People underestimate how much ships changed the world. It will happen again, the only question is whe
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by aeternum 6mo ago
Did he have it on Mad Max mode? Because if so you could argue..
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by aeternum 6mo ago
Once we have the tech to cross the world's oceans in luxury, I think we will be long beyond the point of desperately needing to transport oil in ocean liner sized ships to do such crazy trips.
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by aeternum 6mo ago
“Not within a thousand years will man ever fly”
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by aeternum 6mo ago
Helium luckily is the second most abundant element in the universe. A good reason to go to the stars.
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by aeternum 6mo ago
Ah so the iron law of oligarchy becomes our salvation if only it were so simple
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by aeternum 6mo ago
A core tenet of Truecrypt + Veracrypt (developer guarantee) has always been no backdoors, even if requested by government. If in a democratic society, the majority agrees that government should have backdoors (with the correct oversight).
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by aeternum 6mo ago
>More regulation won't help here, because the regulation-maker is itself the hostile party. It's easy to paint the big gov as bad, but this is a case where unfortunately the populace seems to be in agreement with the big bad go
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by aeternum 6mo ago
What's the improved security argument for terminating VeraCrypt's account though? SB does have clear benefits but what is unclear is the motivation for the account termination. What's the likelihood that this account ban pro
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by aeternum 6mo ago
Not necessarily, we could reach a point where theoretically it is possible to crack elliptic curve but still prohibitively expensive except for nation states. At that point or near that point, miners would likely agree to engage the thrott
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by aeternum 6mo ago
It didn't even make sense because they didn't explain what was profoundly altered.
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by aeternum 6mo ago
Community control typically doesn't work to constrain great men, a group has more weak points than an individual (look for example how easily Sam dismantled the OpenAI board decision by applying the right pressure). The greatest and of
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by aeternum 6mo ago
I looked into it and the currently leading proposal: Hourglass v2 is pretty clever. Once 'Hourglass' is enabled, the rate at which legacy (P2PK) coins can be spent is (proposed to be) capped at 1btc / block. Thus they will
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by aeternum 6mo ago
Bitcoin has had significant protocol upgrades before, including the highly divisive segwit. IMO immutability is a non-issue, there's plenty of evidence that Satoshi generally agreed that consensus via the longest chain (most PoW) wins
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by aeternum 7mo ago
The most fitting method would be to be to train an LLM on the Claude Code source-code (among other data). Then use Anthropic's own argument that LLM output is original work and thus not subject to copyright.
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by aeternum 7mo ago
At current launch numbers it may not be worth 1.5+ trillion but valuations aren't about current, they're about discounted future cash flows. It seems logical that there could/will be far more demand for launch if the price we
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by aeternum 7mo ago
There are enough Elon haters that you can rest assured there will be an inverse ETF so that you can easily hedge away your index exposure if you really want to.
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by aeternum 7mo ago
>the burden of proof is on the people saying it's not happening again This specifically I take issue with. You had a bug in your software before so now the burden is on you to formally prove your software is bug-free. The burden of
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by aeternum 7mo ago
>Camarda is an outlier. The engineers at NASA believe it is safe. The astronauts believe it is safe. Former astronaut Danny Olivas was initially skeptical of the heat shield but came around. How do you explain so many people believing it
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by aeternum 7mo ago
It's kind of sad that we've become so risk averse. Risks should be fully disclosed but let the adventurers adventure. Would Columbus' ship ever have been allowed to sail in the modern day? Proximity wingsuit flying and free
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by aeternum 7mo ago
It actually would have been better if I kept the end. You don't write your code, a compiler does. You simply described what you wanted in more abstract far less specific language. Before we were at least 2 compilation/translation
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by aeternum 7mo ago
Every Show HN should come with a disclosure detailing exactly how much compiler was used to create it. I mean it's not that using compilers is bad, it's just that those who use them aren't real coders.

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