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by avidiax 6mo ago
You can get doored on either side of the car, and when you are forced to pass, you have to enter the traffic lane, which pressures you to maintain speed. Whereas in the bike lane, you can slow down a bit anticipating that a door may open. W
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by avidiax 6mo ago
I think it was perhaps useful, at least in knowing which things are Chesterton's Fence. I doubt that AI can figure that out, since it's not always possible for humans to figure that out either. But with AI, simple codebase underst
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by avidiax 6mo ago
This would be an interesting use of civil forfeiture.
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by avidiax 6mo ago
In parts of Europe, it's a crime in and of itself to fail to identify the driver of a vehicle. Under that system, if the vehicle is registered to you, you can be charged criminally for its conduct, and even if you prove you weren'
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by avidiax 6mo ago
I don't think you even need to attack anybody to do this. Just have an AI media package ready for the top-N CEOs, and wait for any incident involving their name and "injured", "hospital", "attacked", etc.
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by avidiax 6mo ago
Airplane and jet engine manufacturing are literally defense industries. Corporations operate at the discretion of the local government. Corporate charters could be revoked or threatened to be revoked to preserve national interests. I'm
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by avidiax 6mo ago
According to the book, Apple had a special team to prevent divorces among the engineers sent to Asia. That's how long they were over there training. An argument can be made that Apple nearly singlehandedly advanced China's consume
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by avidiax 6mo ago
This is probably the wrong denominator. There are more than a billion white-collar workers. Making them all just 10% more effective would possibly be worth more than $650B/year (~$650/worker).
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by avidiax 6mo ago
How do you arbitrage closed weight models? Who would buy from a middle man at increased price? Who is offering Priceline but for tokens?
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by avidiax 6mo ago
Die size increases cost exponentially, by decreasing chips per wafer and decreasing yield. I expect that this kind of burned-in model is also very difficult to verify (how do you know if some of the weights are off), and not amenable to par
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by avidiax 6mo ago
My understanding is that this is normalized to the "best human" for the tasks. An AI only doing a task correctly 50% of the time may in-fact be better than your N% chance of hiring a highly capable human for that task, and especia
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by avidiax 6mo ago
You are correct that the merchants have that choice. Amazon's behavior is still anti-competitive. They are the big boys. The drive lots of volume, and have high fees. This policy makes it impractical for most vendors to support Amazon&
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by avidiax 6mo ago
It's often constructive to consider the edges and corners of the space of possible positions, to understand the weaknesses of the various arguments. For this case, imagine that you're an accelerationist, and you want the AI to tak
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by avidiax 6mo ago
> above that boiling point you distilled out all methanol (with a mix of ethanol) That's not what studies have shown. Methanol boils off in all phases of distillation, and remains in high concentration at least halfway through. htt
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by avidiax 6mo ago
Edit: According to AI, I've got this a bit backwards. The ruling hits the taxing power, not the commerce clause. It's nonetheless interesting, since the machine gun ban may be affected. The court says that you can't use a tax
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by avidiax 6mo ago
I suspect that the vapor of the mash is always a mix of the components, and even above the boiling point of methanol, it still produces a mixed vapor. At room temperature, all of the components produce some vapor and will evaporate. This c
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by avidiax 6mo ago
My understanding of it is that it's especially apparent when you are within 1 prop width of the ground. For a quadcopter, it's most apparent just off the ground, since the props are small compared to the entire craft. You don&#x27
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by avidiax 6mo ago
Publishers really need to get on board with a fair pay as you go scheme. Something where I pay a fair price for an article or subscription, without the new customer rates, and without the "call us" retention annoyances. Something
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by avidiax 6mo ago
I assume you are going to start introducing all the 2nd and 3rd order effects? One big one is ground effect, and another is vortex ring state/settling with power and the related translational lift, and the props themselves have p-facto
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by avidiax 6mo ago
They should also signal your counterparty's security posture. Basically, give you a heads up that the other side has settings that make the system less secure.
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by avidiax 6mo ago
What's the usual production method for the final model? Do you need cardstock and a cricut machine? Or a laser cutter? How do you align artwork on the object?
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by avidiax 6mo ago
How involved is the license? I've flown racing quads and RC planes, so I think I have the hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness skills. Is this something that would be saturated in the Bay Area? Does the SAR team provide the dron
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by avidiax 6mo ago
JD being less popular that Trump is an advantage that the Democratic party can easily squander. He is pretty popular with the base, and only needs to look more palatable than whomever the opposition puts forward to the swing voters. The fac
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by avidiax 6mo ago
Israel, I would think, would claim that Iran getting the bomb would be existential to them, so I don't think it's reasonable to think that Israel would agree to allowing enrichment. I'm a little surprised that recognizing Isr
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by avidiax 6mo ago
Barring something catastrophic happening, I would bet that nothing will unseat Trump until January 20, 2027, at 12:00 PM (noon). At that point, when J.D. Vance is inaugurated, he would be allowed to run and serve for 2 additional full terms
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by avidiax 6mo ago
That would break credit card readers, barcode scanners, and special purpose keyboards (like video workstations). I suppose you could rely on a binary code, where the user is instructed to press any two keys to repeat the code, or if there i
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by avidiax 6mo ago
Well, what does it mean to be "grounded". There isn't something special about the voltage potential of Earth. If a Faraday cage blocks interstellar signals only if one part of it is stuck in a ball of mud and rock... well, I
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by avidiax 6mo ago
> Put the spares in a strategic repository and sell them at “cost” to whoever wants them. That means that eventually the factory goes idle, when all the demand is serviced by the spares.
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by avidiax 6mo ago
I want the court result for free and instantaneously. Barring that, faster and cheaper is better. Simply limiting discovery, counterbalanced by loosened rules of evidence, followed by allowing specialist arbiters and avoiding the multi-year
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by avidiax 6mo ago
Arbitration does help with the problem of overwhelmed and expensive courts. What is needed is fair arbitration. The outcome should approximate the outcome of the full court proceeding. Make the arbitration rulings appealable in court on t

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