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by deeviant 5y ago
That fact that people look at Fukushima and say, "see this is why nuclear power is safe!" absolutely blows my mind. The outcome we had for Fukushima was not the only one possible. It could have been better, much better, and it cou
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by deeviant 5y ago
> FANG is the best way to get peace of mind You make working for a large corporation sound like a religions experience. I've worked in start ups my entire career, never once in 13 years did I worry about job security or financial is
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by deeviant 5y ago
The camera on the plane was there to film the crash, for his video, so it's pretty straightforward why he would not remove it before bailing out. As far as the controls, it just depends on what was done. At some point he started filmin
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by deeviant 5y ago
It's obvious why he returned to the plane: to collect the cameras and put the settings back that he used to stall out the plane.
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by deeviant 5y ago
> Yust a question: would it have been a good idea for a Turkish person, say, a year ago, to invest in stable coins to prevent suffering from Lira depreciation? > PS: This is a sincere question… No. PS: This is a sincere answer.
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by deeviant 5y ago
When was the this golden age of US federal government efficiency?
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by deeviant 5y ago
> Because 5-10 angstrom resolution isn't terribly hard to do either with traditional biochemistry, or with homology modeling, with very few exceptions here. The problem I have is that the confidence level there isn't good enoug
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by deeviant 5y ago
> and the difference between 60% and 90% is a lot less critical than the difference between 90% and 100%. Hard disagree. It's common knowledge, and was even mentioned in this fluff article, 90% accuracy is within the experimental er
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by deeviant 5y ago
If you want productive discussions that you need to enter them in a good faith. Building an argument based on personal anecdotes and applying it to national policy not good faith. Science literally exists to limit subjective bias and to sep
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by deeviant 5y ago
> Why don't people like their Smart TVs? The reason why people don't like smart TV's is in literally every other comment on this post: we don't like ads and other data collection activities TV manufacturers are pushin
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by deeviant 5y ago
The price of lithium doesn't dictate the price of batteries, though. Look at the price of lithium carbonate over the past decade: https://www.statista.com/statistics/606350/battery-grade-lit... vs https:&#x2
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by deeviant 5y ago
Philosophy has never even been accidentally right about anything regarding artificial intelligence, which is impressive since it seems like every philosopher and his dog felt the need to opine on AI since the inception of the idea.
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Likely, it was their coworker who saw the changes, then reported the incident to the manager, rather than some sort of manager picking through every commit type process.
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by deeviant 5y ago
They author didn't focus on the rewriting without checking with their coworker part of the lesson, and I'm not sure why you are. It felt like they added it because it was part of the truth and mentioning is honest, but the bulk of
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by deeviant 5y ago
Yes, I do realize that philosophy claims dominion of all human thought, but that is fantasy. For thousands of years, humans armed with philosophy made a snail's progress in the natural understanding of our world. Then science came abou
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by deeviant 5y ago
Philosopher's should be legally barred from talking about AI. You would think after 80 years or so of talking about AI, at least one philosopher would have accidentally gotten something right about AI, but sadly that has yet to happen.
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by deeviant 5y ago
So, your answer to somebody that found it difficult to get help from the c++ community is to first admit your are a misanthrope then direct the other guy to: go read some books and learn it for yourself! Kind of proving the other persons po
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by deeviant 5y ago
> Yes, but they'd have an even better time with a Mac Not if they wanted to game or interact with the windows app ecosystem.
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by deeviant 5y ago
No, by virtue of Betteridge's law of headlines. Also by virtue that nuclear plants are too expensive, take far too long to plan, authorize and build, only make sense in stable developed countries where the dirtiest and fastest growing
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by deeviant 5y ago
An actual news worthy event would be something like, "The Army's $XXB project two months ahead of schedule, and 5 billion under budget".
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by deeviant 5y ago
Short sellers have an enormous incentive for the company they short to fail and they will do anything (legal or sometimes otherwise) in order to negatively affect stock price. It turns out when a company has multiple entities with significa
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by deeviant 5y ago
More over, they have a bit of a raid 0 problem. There more studies you include, the greater the chance you'll get a bad one. If you look at where these meta-analyses often fail, you'll often see just a few "Bad" studies
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by deeviant 5y ago
Right, so let me gets this straight. They use a low-carb, aka meat heavy diet to lose weight hoping to improve global green house emissions. Not sure this one is thought out through. An alternative approach would perhaps be to advocate a pl
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by deeviant 5y ago
I was definitely talking about these cases and they are very common.
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by deeviant 5y ago
The far more common scenario (At least at the companies I have worked at) is that an external applicant is desired but because US laws require a posting, one is made, even though that posting is there only to comply with the law and the com
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by deeviant 5y ago
> Basically, isn’t the premise that if *privacy* was rampant... God could you imagine such a world, one which privacy was rampant, I can't but I wish I could. Sorry couldn't help chuckle at your typo.
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by deeviant 5y ago
Rail is already highly autonomous with external monitoring systems integrated with vehicle control systems, but I'll just go on as if the distinction between what it is now and what are calling "autonomous" is significant. Wh
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With the world's cheapest website to match...
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> What does that alternate universe look like? Have all the billions of subsidies flow into renewables, battery and electric car tech, instead of oil? Today it's slowly catching up, but we'd be decades ahead if we started decad
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by deeviant 5y ago
My Spidey-Sense is telling me that the person in the article may not be telling the whole truth.

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