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by dsq 3y ago
Other than the clickbaitish title, hard to see the relevance to this site.
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by dsq 3y ago
Quite right, the US doesn't have as deep or broad a pool of engineerig talent. Sure, for a flagship program you still get people, but they'll be taken off something else. I think the lazy days will soon end, though, in a series of
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by dsq 3y ago
I dont know if the term signal is appropriate here, as I understand it. A signal implies communication, transferring information. Is the sound of thunder a 'signal'? EDIT: I read up a little and it seems a signal does not imply c
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by dsq 3y ago
I'm a Tolkien purist, read all the works. I even had a beef with the Peter Jackson movies though I think he came from a place of love and the movies themselves were a pkeasure. I wanted to hate Rings, and in fact partially do for its s
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by dsq 3y ago
Yes, of course, the intent was businesses that do not sell software , or perhaps non SV. Thanks.
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by dsq 3y ago
Well, you cant raise a human without 'copyrighted' (or at least already existing) material in the form of parental norms, ethical codes, schoolbooks, pre existing humans like parents, grandparents, etc. We dont spring like Athena
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by dsq 3y ago
Excellent time for brick--and-mortars to hire skilled people.
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by dsq 3y ago
Families have been de emphasized in this BNW. The future is a professional birthing and mothering cadre that brings 10-20 babies per womb over an avergae lifetime, to politically approved donors of ova and sperm. The children will then be r
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by dsq 3y ago
Just from my rusty memory, the roads were after the Crazy Years and before the Prophet. So yes, before the theocracy. EDIT: I found a link to the chart. http://templetongate.net/graphics/literature/fhchartlarge.gi
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by dsq 3y ago
I do this for blog posts, articles, emails, etc. If i suspect in any way they are AI created I close it immediately. The only reader AI deserves is another AI for the marketing side.
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by dsq 3y ago
I rhink it probably matters at what stage one is. In my twenties I indulges in behaviors which have been shown to have off several years off life and laughed at the old fogies. Now I'm the old fogie and worry about every little symptom
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by dsq 3y ago
If there are food shortages coming down the pike, as many keep predicting[1], perhaps this isn't such a loss for India and the world. Traditional manufacturing is already dominated by China and additive manufacturing is still too expen
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by dsq 3y ago
This sounds like the Great Filter is getting pushed further back, making human level cognition elsewhere in the universe potentially even more rare.
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by dsq 3y ago
Its not just electricity. Looking as an investor, I would not today choose the UK for starting a busines or buying real estate. The level of social unrest, street violence, infrastructure outages, and more are very off putting. It's a
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by dsq 3y ago
Might there be a point of instability beyond which the Sun becomes eaten from within faster and faster? Would there be a way to detect that and to predict how much time was left? Good premise for an Armageddon scenario movie. Thr hero would
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by dsq 3y ago
This reminds me of the scene in Conan the Barbarian (with Ahnold) where he is taken a slave as a child and has to push a treadwheel till he is grown, the implication being that the slave labor was the reason for his heroic physique.
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by dsq 3y ago
Logic is not sanity, of course, and the situation is not binary.
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by dsq 3y ago
Well, they are both extreme views, and so end up on the same place, much like extreme left and right philosophies. The sane answer, of course, is that the situation is not binary. Sanity is a quuckly depleting resource.
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by dsq 3y ago
It seems the logic is that if people think all is lost, they won't try to stop it. This seemd to me a rational decision. If all is indeed lost (a binary yesno) then why should people take on hardship, give up dignity and live in pover
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by dsq 3y ago
It seems to me the federal govt can't make up its mind about Musk. On the one hand the Administration detests him on a personal and political level, while on the other (including and perhaps mainly DoD) he is professionally and technic
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by dsq 3y ago
It looks to me like the UK hasn't figured out what it's going to be when it grows up and finally realizes it doesn't have an empire any more. Is it a global near hegemon woth the worlds greatest navy and global setter of tren
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by dsq 3y ago
As a non physicist, I'd like to see some titles. I feel that the sixties were a watershed decade and am interested in examples.
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by dsq 3y ago
I would very much like to see the plan you were given. I also struggle with extra weight, and have used IF to some success.
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by dsq 3y ago
Im not sure what the definition of soft is, and whether the definition has changed over the past three or four decades. Id think less emphasis of tech or what-if science, and more personal inner exploration. It used to be an emphasis on soc
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by dsq 3y ago
This is setting up machines to be in competition with people/farm animals for food, which is in scarce supply around the world.
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by dsq 3y ago
Laser defense against swarms of cheap missiles and drones, reserving expensive kinetic interceptors for the larger, more expensive incomers. Today's leaders in this are the US, Israel, and maybe one or two large East Asian powers.
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by dsq 3y ago
Some comments mention making the attacking missile laser proof by covering it with mirrors,adding stealth, etc.. The thing is, these measures all greatly increase the cost of the missile, making it worthy of a kinetic interceptor.
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by dsq 3y ago
>"A large fifth-millennium BC cemetery in the subarctic north of the Baltic Sea?" Somewhat misleading title, the burial sites are on land in Lapland, not in the Baltic Sea.
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by dsq 3y ago
That's what I thought must be necessary, thank you.
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by dsq 3y ago
I ask as a complete non expert in the field, please be patient: Wouldn't this require either downloading and maintaining a large database of ephemeri or connecting online to some server, say at NASA? Or is everything calculated from f

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