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by bell-cot 2mo ago
I get that blaming AI for everything is trendy. But it was the human executives at the car companies who decided to discontinue their most-affordable models, not AI's.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Deepest sympathies, and I'm no oncologist - but I think that'd be like trying to patch the hull of the Titanic after her stern has lifted out of the water. So many cascading failures are in motion by then that saving him really
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Point. The "good enough" scenario I guessed at has a semi-honest treasure hunter finding a 100kg-ish fragment somewhere in those 10,000 sq. mi., then selling it to someone making rings. Lab work (isotope ratios, grain structure,
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibeon_(meteorite) is 26 tons, plus 100+ fragments in a strewn field of 10,000+ sq. miles. It proves nothing - but from just 100kg, you could put 1/2 carat bits of meteorite in 1,
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Unfortunately, you're asking for every gov't to be reliably competent. With no petty bureaucrats trying to advance their careers by getting their notices prioritized. And no politicians bowing to (say) the demands of a lightni
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Yes, and I really don't care if they've got a direct quote from a scientist. Far too likely that word was coaxed out of the scientist by a reporter or PR hack. Or he thought he needed to use that word to get enough attention to
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
1st reaction: An honest answer? She has no future in politics. 2nd reaction: Why does it matter? Congress has been AWOL from its duties in this area for decades, and one Senator can't change that.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> Cosmic ray radiation is unpredictable, high-energy, and is ... IIR, the big problem is that the cosmic ray background radiation is far too predictable - there is a concerning amount of it 24x7x365. So your baseline choices are grittin
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
A spacecraft with a 4m diameter spherical living space and 4m of water shielding around it will weigh about 1,000 tons. The propellant tanks needed to move it around the solar system will be similarly titanic. How many orders of magnitude
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Rome-Persia is an interesting and arguably worst -case quagmire. For a mere worse case, a few decades ago is more than enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
True. Vote your wallet as you will. Beyond that - discretion is the better part of valor, the low-level employees you can easily complain to are very unlikely to have any say in the policy, and Chuck is free to ask you to drive 40-mile pi
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Plus, you might want to go back a year pre-conception, at least on the father's side. Sperm cell production is a fairly long process, definitely emphasizing quantity over quality, and thus easy for all sorts of environmental factors t
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> Excluding people from services because you can't be bothered to ... Yes. But like most forms of discrimination, it's probably 100% legal. Same as Chuck's Pizza Parlor refusing to deliver outside an X mile radius, and
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
If you don't see the article's link to the research - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2610287123 (yes, paywalled): "Sugar rationing" is far too simplistic a description of the historical
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
tl;dr; > The answer seems to be a very high total fertility rate. We found that the typical Amish woman has 6.1 children on average, which is much higher than the national average of 1.5 children. When considering only married Amish wome
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Tradeoff: Failing to accept a limited number of rarer domain. Vs. all the errors caused by idiots who can't spell mgail.com, or gmail.cmo, or gmali.com, gmail.kom, or whatever the heck that thing is.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Not to imply real knowledge of lightkeeping - but that sounds far less precarious, dispossessing, onerous, and dangerous than being one of the Puesteros.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
It ain't just the insurance crap that drives up medical overhead costs in the US. Our health care system is treated as a money farm by plenty of other industries and interests. All of which are willing to fight tooth and nail to pre
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> Is this speculation ... ? More of a generic engineering quip - if a gadget can't meet a spec, then either it wasn't designed to that spec, or it degraded after it passed QC. I'm vaguely aware of the endurance running hyp
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Hand-waving numerous details, but - That $37 isn't the price in the hospital's gift shop. It's n=1 pricing, hand delivered to your bedside by a nurse with a whole hierarchy of higher-level medical & admin staff behind he
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
19 points and 10 comments yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320803
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> You like using ... ? NO, and I avoid both of 'em as much as I can. (Note clarifying edit to my initial comment above.)
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
I see no upsides to a Google/Microsoft duopoly in email. Except for those already-far-too-powerful corporations. EDIT: "I see no upsides to X" means "X is NOT good". (Responses suggest that this was not clear.)
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Not if you're security conscious enough to default-block js.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
I'm not in this space, on either the athlete or the biomedical side - but it sounds like a "more is better" running mindset and mythos is colliding with the biological realities of human bodies which either (1) Were not caref
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
At some point, folks who object to epic incompetence in government need to focus on where the buck stops: > The University of California is governed by a twenty-six member Board of Regents, eighteen of whom are appointed by the Governor
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
From the PoV of our enemies and rivals, perhaps. But in the bigger picture? We're still futzing around at amateur hours. The quagmire of the Roman-Persian Wars lasted almost seven hundred years - https://en.wikipedia.org
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Is your phrase "stops bombing countries just because it can" shorthand for something like "America is a too-often-immoral-or-incompetent global superpower"? A quick peek at post-WWII military history - 150-ish countries
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> actually tips the balance closer to "Taiwan, with US help and proper preparation, can deny China control of the strait of Taiwan" Sadly not true. So long as the US is unwilling to launch a large-scale invasion and occupation
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Your phrasing implies that someone with real authority tried to think it out, and had realistic plans. Vs. I see an angry, frustrated C-in-C, who has maybe a 1-move look ahead, playing out his emotions. Hopefully he is too weak to flip t

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