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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
On a wing and a prayer. Still hoping for a wunderwaffen to come along and fix everything. Why can’t we retain our relative advantages in technology we’ve already lost. Like a politician claiming they’re going to start to focus on growth, wh
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
Formal thank you notes seem to have been going out of fashion, I actually like that tradition, thank you for keeping it going.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
It’s economics of scale, no one really has the money to bootstrap to get to scale now that China is already in the market at scale, not even wealthy western countries, so in effect requiring indigenous production is just a way to put the br
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
Cost, especially if bootstrapping as your more expensive electricity is used to make your still more expensive panels. If you are going to onshore production it would be far cheaper to bootstrap on Chinese panels.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
I guess someone right after the Great War / the war to end all wars could be forgiven for thinking people wouldn’t be trying that again anytime soon. What I would consider different this time is that I think the US is in the looting st
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
I waited for AI to get better before adopting Nix as it seemed to be rather arcane, a bit like Arch Linux, and I was worried I wouldn’t have the time for it. In preparation I shifted my development environments entirely to docker scripts wh
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
I wasn’t even thinking about the US but consider this administration an interlude. I’m hearing other countries they’re putting the breaks on Chinese solar in an effort to build indigenous production capacity which is incredibly stupid. At l
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
On the up side, perhaps this disaster will make it clear that WWIII won’t be a cakewalk and we can avoid an even more disastrous war with China.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
My hope is that it’s bureaucratic inertia. There really is little excuse. Especially with super high voltage power lines becoming more affordable.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
That makes more sense, I second their sentiment, modern compilers will do this. I guess the trick is knowing to use numbers that have these options.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
Some of us have insider connections
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
It was written in assembly so goes through an assembler instead of a compiler.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
I’m an unusually good programmer, I’ve worked in over 25 different programming languages and have been doing it since I was 6. I’ve spent most of my career as an applied researcher in research orgs where my full time job is study. Finding n
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
Very much a thing and one of the many reasons I'm becoming more of a recluse, shared public spaces are becoming rather unpleasant. Mostly in the US and LatAm, a fair amount in the UK, not so much in Germany.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
“Better to be feared than loved” - Niccolo Machiavelli
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
Yeah but it wasn’t though. I found your answer unconvincing. I suppose “we don’t know” is an answer but that is nothing like “we have all the information we need”
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
> If they freeze the vesicles that deliver transmitters and make them analyzable, you've got all the information you need. In terms of a modern ANN, it's the connections (axons) and the weights (transmitters/receptors in t
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
While the connections are important I think the individual cell behavior is also very important and that is driven by DNA. Brain cells last a lifetime and can modify their own DNA so each one ends up being unique. I do wonder how much of be
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
> There are a 16,000 new lives being born every hour. They're all starting with a fairly blank slate. Are you genuinely saying that they'll all be left behind because they didn't learn your technology in utero? > No. Th
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
That’s not always true, and increasingly less so, particularly the Australians and the crime of child sex tourism. I am sure it’ll be expanded to hate crimes and disturbing the peace laws as well and from there used as a political cudgel t
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
Humans, like all animals, have not stopped evolving. A random caveman from 200K years ago would have very different genetics to that of a typical HN reader and even more so of the best of the HN readers. Around 3,200 years ago there was a n
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
“gall” has the more negative connotations.
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
It’s not about combatting the state and more of supplanting the state. Where the state has abandoned the streets to crime a local neighborhood watch can pick up the slack. People can then pay their neighborhood watch and vote to cut their l
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
I did not find that movie to be realistic at all but I can see why other people do. I think it it’s far more likely to be a CIA faction led ‘attempted coup’ similar to the 2016 on in Turkey. I think Turkeys coup was likely run by their secr
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
It’s practically impossible for an indigenous insurgency to be effective without state backing, so the real question is who would be willing provide such support and under what circumstances. Similar to how France supported US independence
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Sounds emblematic of a degraded bureaucracy to me, lots of wasted potential.
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I was hoping to hear the case made as to why Israel was not the primary reason but instead you seem to have chosen to elide it altogether. It seems to be a conspicuous omission especially when both the US and Israeli admin have repeatedly m
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
I felt giving a primary reason would add clarity, which is why I asked. So is “prevent another nuclear breakout from happening” the primary reason? I do note that a similar reason was given for North Korea which did end up rather peacefully
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
So is it your stated position that the reason the US has decided to go to war with Iran is because of Saudi Arabia and the UAE?
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by cjbgkagh 7mo ago
So long as not subscribing is worse than subscribing countries will still do it. Even if it not in the interest of the country the decision makers can and do still get kickbacks / speaking engagements. It’s interesting to read of the i

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