astazangasta

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by astazangasta 7y ago
The main problem with this logic is it is much easier to steal technology than invent it, so by doing this you are not only assuring your enemies will end up with that scary tech, you are building it for them.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Non-starter. The whole point of ordinance is its cheap. What's wrong with ye olde ground based x-ray laser and a mirror on a satellite?
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by astazangasta 7y ago
No. The intelligence is crap; the CIA has missed basically everything important in its history. It is frequently politicized. It only goes to the President, who might ignore it or misinterpret it. We do much better just by reading newspaper
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Err? So, suggesting a uniform standard that says hacking is bad is advocating moral relativism? There is no end to this "ends justify the means" crap. "Well, we're the good guys, so it's ok for us to torture, depose
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by astazangasta 7y ago
While i use SFTP a lot using sshfs, it is a terrible storage solution in general. If you don't know, SSH does its own flow control on top of TCP (that is, you have TCP flow control outside the SSH sleeve and SSH flow control inside it)
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by astazangasta 7y ago
You also can't build a brothel, foundry or nuclear reactor. On your own land!
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by astazangasta 7y ago
These are two separate problems. One is the increase in productivity; the second is the application of that productivity to creating new wealth and industry. You are worried about the second not happening; this is a result of capital concen
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by astazangasta 7y ago
That's not what it's saying. It's saying that, as usual, productivity gains lead to new wealth, which produces new jobs as a result. E.g., the automation that allowed us to mechanize agriculture allowed laborers to move into
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by astazangasta 7y ago
For what it's worth, i really admire your advocacy and will take this comment to heart. Even if my intent was benign it is much easier for me to toss off such a comment than for a long-term sufferer to receive it.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
There are theoretical limits imposed by Dawes' limit. For example lets say you want to read a license plate, which you could do with some fuzzy ability at 1cm. The Amazon Kuiper satellites orbit at 367km which means they would need a 2
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by astazangasta 7y ago
The US subsidizes drug development, that's about all. Other medical R&D doesn't really come out of any publicly funded research system, it comes from medical practitioners. The cost of US drug development subsidy is maybe $40
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Have you tried much acupuncture? I've found it extremely effective for nerve issues, although nothing approaching what you are dealing with. But in general western medicine seems bad at resolving these kinds of things, it might be wort
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Lyme Disease is caused by a bacterial infection that can cause nerve damage. Even if you treat it with antibiotics and remove the infection, the nerve damage might remain and be very hard or even impossible to rehab.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
I have the greatest problem with this in early childhood. The extent of psychiatric involvement in the classroom, including drug interventions, is really alarming. Diagnosis, which is extremely inconsistent and forms disease categories with
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Plants already have a method for nutrient exchange, with a symbiotic network called the mycorrhizal mutualistic association, formed by soil fungae. It is beautiful, fascinating, and deeply organic. Life on this planet is very ancient and it
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by astazangasta 7y ago
In 1759 Elizabeth was dead for 150 years.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
The nature of the Generator is that it is seeded with random inputs and trains so it is able to fool the adversarial classifier. I.e. it never sees the "true" data.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
How about EMP cannons?
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by astazangasta 7y ago
My point, ill-made, is this is anecdotal data and therefore useless in evaluating anything.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Whereas, i presume, in your previous non-Tesla cars you were regularly getting into pileups?
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by astazangasta 7y ago
What country is that?
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by astazangasta 7y ago
If people aren't familiar with it much of this myth making came from the story of 38 witnesses doing nothing while Kitty Genovese was attacked three separate times in a Queens apartment building. From the (much later) NYT correction of
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by astazangasta 7y ago
I haven't ever done this, not even with my wife's phone, so I'd consider this an obscure case. As for the yubikey croaking, easy: carry a backup.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
How often are you using a new device you need to enter your password in that you can't plug a Yubikey into?
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by astazangasta 7y ago
You are right, my initial assumptions are wrong - China isn't buying bonds from the US Treasury (as I would), they are buying them from a forex bond market, where we might consider the supply of dollars to be like any other commodity.
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by astazangasta 7y ago
This was my first thought, but I'm not sure this is true. Buying debt from the US government increases the numbers of dollars in circulation (since bonds are redeemed in dollars) and shores up its price. Selling this debt to someone el
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by astazangasta 7y ago
>But there's no possibility of abolishing the function of intelligence analysis and clandestine service, nor should you want there to be: net-net, the CIA might in fact prevent more armed conflicts than it contributes to, and in any
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by astazangasta 7y ago
1) If you aren't important enough that the CIA would be interested in you, why not? Make it so. 2) There are plenty of innocuous people that fall under this category. Anti-war protestors, e.g., have been regular targets for this kind o
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by astazangasta 7y ago
I'll never understand the British tolerance of ubiquitous surveillance. The CCTV regime is appalling and makes me never want to visit. The Internet censorship by government is absurd, patronizing and infantilizing. (Yes, I'm famil
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by astazangasta 7y ago
Torture is illegal under international law, and it is unconstitutional. It cannot be the official policy of the government, which is why they tried so hard to pretend they weren't doing it.

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