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> which have a payload and sometimes a fiber optic cable The optic cable is for the human pilot. An AI piloted drone doesn't need it.
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> The time is up to the manufacturer, isn't it? The time depends on how quickly an event unfolds in traffic. You can't guarantee 10s notice for an event that is imminent in 2s and the system might not be able to handle or can&#
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> they were speaking from the perspective of developed countries But that's just creatively selecting the data that supports the point. You can do that with everything else. We solved a lot of things "in the lab" or "
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TB killed 1.25 million in 2023 and the WHO considers it the world’s leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, outpaced only temporarily by COVID.
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> and have conquered yellow fever, consumption, diabetes, knee failure, glaucoma, smoking related lung cancer, prostate cancer, hookworm, environmental lead poisoning, environmental arsenic poisoning, black lung, breast cancer, and syphi
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There are always ways. But I asked what is that external provider actually receiving. Or to put it differently, what is it allowed to receive. If the law forces down people's throats an intermediary between them and a porn site, th
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> This check must be carried out by an external service, not the porn site itself > the porn site receives only a yes-or-no confirmation that the user is of legal age What does the external service receive?
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> Over-positivity is a problem you sometimes run across in tech. It's a problem everywhere humans work. I've met team-leads and managers who suffered from toxic positivity everywhere. Either just in the way they conveyed messag
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Depending on the country the motor cutoff is 32km/h, which means that speed is more accessible to your average rider than on a classic bike. And the elephant in the room is how compliant many e-bikes really are. Some even advertised ho
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Maybe GP was thinking of Primal.
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> Not only is working too much bad, but competence and intelligence itself is bad. That could be also because of the employer's rising expectations. The baseline expectation goes up as soon as one person overdelivers. The "maki
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> half+ of them are voluntarily switching to new jobs Are they more complex task jobs? I rejected OP's theory because no evidence was put forward that drivers will just move to "higher complexity tasks". Are they? Are we c
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> I'm not sure You started with a number you don't understand as the answer to a question I certainly did understand when asking. You went from "increased skills jobs are so much better for people" to "maybe they
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At the risk of repeating myself, this is the idealistic take and even that only until you give it the slightest bit of though. Standing by this take after the realistic questions were asked also makes it an ignorant take. 3 million truckers
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> Moving humans from lower to higher complexity tasks generally correlates to increased productivity, higher efficiency, or "getting more with less." Generally, this leads to a wealthier society and other positive things. This
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> we want people to do higher complexity tasks than operate motor vehicles Does it look like the market is sitting today on a pool of hundreds of thousands of higher complexity jobs that just go unfilled because people choose to "ju
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> the process an LLM uses to generate code based on an input is definitely not entirely deterministic Technically correct is the least useful kind of correct when it's wrong in practice. And in practice the process AI coding tools u
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I don't know what you mean with "the code it creates is deterministic" but the process an LLM uses to generate code based on an input is definitely not entirely deterministic. To put it simply, the chances that an LLM will ou
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You misconstrue the analogy. The robot isn’t equivalent to the code in this analogy. It’s the thing that generates the code. The robot operates deterministically, it has a fixed input and a fixed output. This is what makes it reliable. Your
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I think the whole thread is to show the Celsius scale in particular but temperature degrees have different impacts in different places in general, but especially in the range supporting human life. One degree can mean nothing or be the diff
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5) Real wages went down, in general. The productivity pay gap has increased significantly. Take a formerly stable country which is a good indicator of the progression. [0] Getting terminated at old age is already a huge problem made worse b
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I bet you’re casually discounting the fact that you spend most of that time with 40+C temps in an air conditioned space. At 42 degrees your body can’t cool down and this causes a lot of deaths or even the “casual” fainting described in the
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Realistically productivity increased by leaps and bounds over the past few decades. If leaders can’t figure out how to take advantage of that instead of taking advantage of the people then they have no business leading a country. The soluti
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For a lot of students out there now the reality of the "opportunity cost" is skewed. They will invest enormous amounts of time and effort in being the best in uni even if this alone may not bring them a guaranteed leg up over the
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Dacia Spring is fully a Renault model (Kwid/City K-ZE) based on a Renault-Nissan platform (the CMF-A) and just manufactured in China. MG, Volvo/Polestar/Lynk & Co, or Lotus are brands owned by Chinese automotive groups SA
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> just looks like a massive pile of wiring, magnets and generic electronics You just described a tokamak fusion reactor. So at the end of the day you either know exactly what you're looking at and are in awe of the entire achievemen
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Probably the biggest challenge is that there is way more rail traffic today and it's more tightly coupled in logistics chains and people's day to day lives. Disruptions are more expensive and harder to tolerate. And that's on
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Correct in principle but not all that insightful because it's something almost universally true. "Fentanyl! Ads! Widespread surveillance! Can be good or bad". You have to look at the reality. Crypto has been used overwhelming
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> But you can read the books right in the library and learn from them. You can read some of the books. Natural limitations prevent you from reading any substantial number. And the scale makes all the difference in any conversation. All
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The strangeness was that 2 iPhones from the same generation would exhibit such different performance behaviors, and in parallel the irony that a desktop browser (engine irrelevant) on a device with cutting edge performance can't do wha

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