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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> All those considerations are predicated on having the printing press first. Not true. Consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria Scribes are just lower efficiency, like wood-burning railroad
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Anyone working on an MBA? At some point, Rocket Lab should be a case study in how to succeed - both in a brutally difficult industry, and against an established competitor (SpaceX) which you obviously have no chance of matching. Related:
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Subtitle is much more informative: A genetic study shows how smell capabilities were maintained in a hunter-gatherer population [in which having a better sense of smell is very valuable] Kinda interesting - but IIR it's been known for
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
And at least as important are the surrounding economic, social, and archival systems for printed information. How much of the populace was literate? Was there licensing (for copyists or printers), copyright, public domain, or public libra
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
I'd say there's a whole lotta simplistic optimism, if not techno-utopianism, in the Drake Equation.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
When submitting old news to HN, please append " (year)" to your title, like this: Hunger stones, wrecks and bones: Europe's drought brings past to surface (2022)
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
From your "They have a" phrasing, one might assume that the RC Church had an authoritative, official, or sanctioned AI. Vs. from a bit of searching - nope. The Vatican has explicitly said that none of the various public "Cat
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Unfortunately, "external regulators" are both human, and subject to the self-serving whims of the power-hungry politicians. Plus, nowadays, a "justice" system which might well decide that Badguys Inc. has a First Amendme
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Sounds like anyone who needs actual, delivered, at-scale power (in the real world) should immediately adopt an "Anything But Nukes" policy. Vs. those with both the unquenchable zeal and bottomless resources to win a multi-decade c
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Nuclear's top 3 problems: 1. Any equipment or substance that is both nuclear and potentially dangerous has some sort of magical mutant super-power to stimulate superhumanly idiotic behavior in a non-trivial fraction of the people handl
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Because combining "Amazon", "top source" "climate", and "pollution" should make this headline a top source of the clicks that Ars needs to pay its own bills?
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
I'd assume the regular readership of Detroit Catholic skews fairly heavily Catholic, and "Catholic expert" is an important (to them) signal as to how seriously they should take the expert's words.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Right now, the title I see (on the article) is "Russia bars anti-war party from parliamentary election". Maybe SCMP is A/B testing AI clickbait in their titles? Russia being Russia, the liberals would be banned for mis-trimm
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Corporations are made out of humans. They're about as eager to cut their own profits as human workers are to reduce their own wages.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> ...turning his brain off...This should be a wake-up call... Yeah, but no . People substituting "AI" for actually thinking IS a huge problem with human nature. But trying to convince the average Tom's Hardware reader -
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
While I get that lots of people love the anti-AI "moral" of this story - it's 25 acres of sesame seedlings. Less than 4% of one piddly square mile. This isn't even a sliver of a rounding error on how many crops are l
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> do you think Fermat had an error Yes, with million-to-one odds. Though I'd say "error or equivalent shortcoming, for the general case". > that perhaps is more straightforward than Wiles's? I don't recall a
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Best wishes for your wife's and your continued health.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
(Related, 9 points and 1 comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154122 ) Reading the abstract, I'd say they're putting far too much emphasis on nuclear explosions. Yes, beachcombing in Hiroshima is far c
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
I assume you've heard of New Mexico's DoJ winning a not-quite-$1B court case against Meta. Maybe Meta's lawyers will win on appeal, maybe they won't. "Think of the children!" pushes a lot of emotional buttons.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
One wonders just how badly contaminated the building and local groundwater might be.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Okay - but for most types of agriculture, the minimum viable farm size is rather larger than it was a century or so ago. Might we ask how large your sheep farm is, by current commercial (vs. hobby) standards?
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> Senior ECB officials called the episode a break from decades of coordination. One person close to the discussions called the moment unprecedented. Makes me wonder if any of those European Central Bank officials could name the current U
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
The subtitle calls out one of the most-wretched and most-repeated truisms in modern medicine: > For decades, the condition was thought to be psychological, and women were shamed for their illness. Now a scientist has found a biological c
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
I mostly noticed your "might have an unplesant climate impact by increasing the eccentricity of our orbit", and thought that'd be the least of Earth's worries. Black hole gravity is ruthless about turning nearby mass int
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Not an astrophysicist, but I'm thinking 5 AU could quickly fry the Earth - because it takes very little in the way of solar comets, asteroids, and dust to build a temporary accretion disk around such a black hole. That disk might have
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
As a generality, right-wing politics favors unification, to gain and retain power. Ideology is whatever stuff you say to that end. Vs. left-wing politics favors endless ideological infighting. At times, some of the factions may talk big a
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
You know you're old when...you feel an instant disbelief that anyone with $18B to lend could actually believe mere 10% interest was sufficient compensation for the risk of default here.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
In between IC's and vacuum tubes, isn't there discrete transistor logic?
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Does anyone know if this a major issue in progressive/feminist circles, vs. the the Guardian just puffing up a bit of (relative) trivia for the clicks? (Either way, it was interesting that the article seemed to regard men as irrelevant

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