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by beambot 3y ago
I had no idea! But I do know that water sheds in California frequently transit through heavily populated areas and/or feed into key reservoirs. To be clear: this is a generic comment about regulation in proportion to number of lives im
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by beambot 3y ago
Those regulations seem well-founded: California has a population density of 258.21 per mi² compared to 5.9 per mi² in Wyoming. And that doesn't even start to account for agricultural production for human consumption (versus livestock)
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by beambot 3y ago
To play devil's advocate: Wouldn't that just result in healthcare systems being run by people too incompetent to realize the liability they're signing up for? That seems more likely (apriori) than healthcare systems magically
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by beambot 3y ago
Watches & phones don't have the optical & audio "visibility" of the Humane AI Pin -- which, incidentally, looks an awful lot like the Axon body-worn cameras for police.
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by beambot 3y ago
Varies heavily depending on background labor market. In 2021: $1M+ per solid engineer. These days it's closer to $0 as they're not aggressively hiring and plenty of talent floating around.
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by beambot 3y ago
My parents used punch cards and DIP switches to control their first computers. They think modern computers are basically magic by comparison...
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by beambot 3y ago
I'm highly suspect. For Spanish, I've always heard piñas rather than ananás...
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by beambot 3y ago
I vastly prefer the tablet -- so I guess it's the arrogant preference of two stupid futurists.
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by beambot 3y ago
Atop a chinese-made Unitree dog? Huh. Did the DoD learn nothing from ceding drone supremacy to DJI?
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by beambot 3y ago
I know of two companies with >$1B exits that were running on fumes when they turned it around. One had 3 days of runway remaining; one had 16 hours to get a wire in to make payroll. Today these companies employ thousands. FedEx famous
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by beambot 3y ago
What sort of savings would you get with basic compression algorithms...?
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by beambot 3y ago
Operation Northwoods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
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by beambot 3y ago
Exams designed to have a 60% median score with subsequent curve adjustment are (a) wildly common in elite colleges, and (b) certainly classify as hazing in my book.
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by beambot 3y ago
Curious. I always assumed the primary purpose of an exam was to demonstrate proficiency, not mastery -- especially for undergraduate coursework. If you want mastery, you look at other work product: Projects, research, letters of recommend
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by beambot 3y ago
Why would you want "interesting problems that require you to think further" to be on exams?! That should be the entire point of lectures, office-hours, group problem solving, etc...
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by beambot 3y ago
DARPA thinks modern solutions are important: https://www.darpa.mil/program/underminer
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by beambot 3y ago
I understand the cynicism. Academic reporting is a hard & thankless gig. The non-cynical version: Half of a researcher's job is disseminating results -- to other researchers & the populace at large. I'd much rather have
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by beambot 3y ago
Does the Chinese military sponsor education for US Citizens on military-adjacent projects in China? Why (not)?
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by beambot 3y ago
Ironic comment given the implied nationalities of the coauthors (Xuxin Cheng, Kexin Shi, Ananye Agarwal, and Deepak Pathak) and the chosen robot form factor (Unitree)
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by beambot 3y ago
I'm highly skeptical that this hasn't already been done, considering that acousto-optic lenses are a known thing -- it's just a question of which material you're using (air, crystal, liquid, etc): https://en.w
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by beambot 3y ago
"Price matching" is standard practice in virtually every major retailer...
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by beambot 3y ago
If you're into this type of technology, then you should take a look at the old NSA ANT catalog for further inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT_catalog
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by beambot 3y ago
It seems counterintuitive that one of the largest bull cycles in modern history would result in flat or negative returns. Is this due to the 529's limited investment vehicles...? At that point, wouldn't you be better off putting
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by beambot 3y ago
Lego makes 32 billion plastic bricks per year. No way can they spin their efforts as "environmentally friendly" -- no matter how much greenwashing. (Note: I love Lego products. We have giant bins of previously-loved bricks.)
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by beambot 3y ago
How many nascent search engines do you reckon exist? Can my personal search engine be listed as an option?
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by beambot 3y ago
TLDR: It's the high seas -- some cross-section of maritime law & piracy. Presumably, this means that SpaceX can & should actively defend themselves too?
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by beambot 3y ago
That's an unnecessarily dismissive take. Let's assume for a moment that you're a non-technical 55-70yo manager or owner of a business -- perhaps someone like your mom, dad, uncle, or grandparents. What they're really ask
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Boss of Failed Crypto Exchange Gets 11,196-Year Sentence(wsj.com)
10 points by beambot 3y ago|4 comments
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by beambot 3y ago
I'm not sure you need a utilitarian justification at all. For example: My 4 year old daughter makes playdoh & modeling clay into spheres for fun. She also makes cubes and snakes.
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by beambot 3y ago
Wouldn't a Starlink satellite qualify as an IOT edge device? How do you propose a user-servicable physical switch on a device in LEO? Not all devices have easy or cost-effective physical access -- that's why IOT is particularly ef

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