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by ajross 5mo ago
This is some extraordinary up-is-down construction. Hormuz was open in February, and for decades preceding that. It's closed now. How is this situation the result of the "guarantee of safe passage of shipping", exactly?
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by ajross 5mo ago
Exactly. My point sort of the converse: that the upthread comment reflected a set of values that, while grounded in "cyberlibertarian" thought, do not reflect actual market value as measured by an actual market. The libertaria
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by ajross 5mo ago
> having my entire music library on a single USB stick Worth pointing out how this too is an example of somewhat mistaken value analysis based on libertarian ideals. The market winning solution, of course, is to put THE entire music
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by ajross 5mo ago
It's like clockwork. Everyone who hates Tesla just so happens to be a preturnaturally fantastic driver. Yet everyone I drive with, and me, and everyone around me isn't. I just can't understand it. To wit, I, uh, don't
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by ajross 5mo ago
I mean that you stomp on your brakes to avoid rear ending a car you didn't notice stopping. That is objectively more dangerous a situation than "phantom braking" and far, far, FAR more common. I know, I know, you're a p
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by ajross 5mo ago
So, that's not my experience with current FSD versions. But whatever, sure. Let's accept your data point as measured: Every... TWO HOURS ?! I mean, come on. Put a camera on yourself or another human driver. There's an u
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by ajross 5mo ago
It seems like the embargo bit is a bit spun. The exploit is a reasonable extension of ideas from Copy Fail and was independently discovered in public (on X, it seems like) before Kim's "embargo" had expired. No one broke an
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by ajross 5mo ago
Lest folks get too carried away, the headline is a lie. The failure is "brake rotor stud separating from wheel hub". Now, sure, that's a serious failure. It's not "wh33lz f411 oFF!". Everything about this co
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by ajross 5mo ago
Yeah, this blog is misguided. As a higher level criticism: it's confusing[1] the technical details with the payload with the exploit chain that deployed it. The interesting thing is obviously not that you can get code to run at high p
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by ajross 5mo ago
> If it were that obvious we would have specifically heard it it predicted People absolutely predicted Trump military adventurism in the 2024 election cycle! It failed to break through in the media because of a deliberate reflection a
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by ajross 5mo ago
> Wind turbines are ugly. Are they? I mean, that's very much a taste thing. I think they're pretty nifty looking, especially the enormous modern ones with blades longer than airliner wings. Great products of industry and eng
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by ajross 5mo ago
Absolutely hilarious to me that the biggest catalyst toward global attention to renewables in the last two decades is Trump's ridiculous adventure in the gulf.
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by ajross 5mo ago
RC-scale tiny turbines are sort of a boondoggle. They are loud, dangerous, and quite frankly reliability disasters. Expected component lifetimes are in the hundreds of hours, most folks overhaul them every 20-50 hours of use, and they fa
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by ajross 6mo ago
> the amount anyone would actually pay is [...] That's.... like a pretty shocking erasure of the idea of a demand curve given the forum here. To be glib: no, that's not how it works. Increase the price and fewer people will
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by ajross 6mo ago
There are literally thousands of people alive today who would have been killed absent backup cameras. This point is laughably wrong.
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by ajross 6mo ago
> I am looking in the direction I am driving Unless you're using a backup camera... I mean, I know that this seems like a pedantic and silly quip, but the point is that doing actual safety analysis requires careful thought and preci
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by ajross 6mo ago
So screens can replace "mirrors" and not "buttons"? Seems like excuse-making to me. I repeat: I'd prefer to see more analysis and less sloganeering, especially where you "assume that was obvious".
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by ajross 6mo ago
> The eyes and the attention of the driver should be on the road So, that's attractive as a slogan but it's 100% incorrect in practice. Non-road UI features like backup cameras and blind spot warning alarms save lives. Period.
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by ajross 6mo ago
Historically, savings accounts do much worse than the stock market. People are spoiled from the last decade and don't remember what corrections or bear periods look like. Over time you get 4% over inflation. That's it.
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by ajross 6mo ago
Stock market's historical average is actually just about 4%/year after inflation. So it does beat it (absent fees), but just barely.
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by ajross 6mo ago
FWIW, you're nitpicking a strawman. I put "justified" in scare quotes for a reason, qualified it with "if it works" (which is, quite literally, the definition of a justification) and put it immediately after a sent
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by ajross 6mo ago
> I'd much rather hire a junior engineer who spends $100-$200/month I'd much rather hire a junior engineer at $1.20/hour too! Can you hook me up with your contract services provider? Obviously I know you're talk
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by ajross 6mo ago
For the record: it was both, more or less. Some of the elders in this community were around in the Slashdot days, so it was sort of a pun on our shared cultural heritage, albeit not geopolitical strategy.
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by ajross 6mo ago
Which is to say, it's a speculative bubble and it will burst on its own schedule and for essentially arbitrary reasons and not due to the economic fundamentals of the industries involved. Which... is something we all basically knew eve
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by ajross 6mo ago
Again, there's no need to "break" a blockade that is an empty threat. I mean, yes, they could try to open it with military force or the threat thereof, but literally just painting a red flag would do just as well. Trump won
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by ajross 6mo ago
> Asian countries in particular are going to burn They won't sit still, though. Eventually, if this were tried, we'd see Chinese-flagged tankers buying passage rights from Iran and being escorted by PLAN ships. No way does Com
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by ajross 6mo ago
> if we take a wholistic approach, most things were more affordable. I don't know exactly what "wholistic" means, but in actual numbers, corrected for inflation and median wage growth, this is 100% the opposite of true. A
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by ajross 6mo ago
> You believe China and Europe would go to fight with US instead of Iran No, but I believe China and Europe believe that they can stare down Trump and force a TACO more than they believe in their ability to successfully navigate the ridi
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by ajross 6mo ago
Again, no, before that happens we'll see Europe and China submit to Iran's tolls and start escorting their tankers through the straight in "violation" of Trump's insane blockade. The US position is 100% untenable h
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by ajross 6mo ago
> I look at facts on the ground The "facts on the ground" are that the strait is closed to shipping, has been closed, and seems likely to remain closed for the foreseeable future. Yet you think that is somehow not because o

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