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by enkid 3y ago
What I've seen is to plan to replace 25% of client systems every year. With a little variance, this seems about right.
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by enkid 3y ago
In comparison to what came immediately before and after, it was pretty good.
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by enkid 3y ago
One of Grant's failings was trusting too easily. He was broke because he was taken in by a con artist, then developed throat cancer before he could get his feet back under him, and spent his dying months writing out the manuscript by
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by enkid 4y ago
You're assuming the charging station isn't compromised to start with. A charging station with one of these tools would look basically the same as a normal charging station. One with a bomb or chemical weapon would look different
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by enkid 4y ago
Why would they be considered secure? TSA isn't looking for hacking tools, they're looking for weapons.
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by enkid 4y ago
Even if the Earth was, the environments where life evolved very much are not. Vulcan and chemical processes are going to add and take away energy and matter from the molecular system that evolved into life.
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by enkid 4y ago
Think about it like this: The bank can sell the loan to someone else because it produces positive cash flow, but the bank can't sell someone's deposit because if that person comes for their money, they expect the bank to pay them
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by enkid 4y ago
Most cars can drive a little over the speed limit just fine, and a cheap minivan has as much space as most expensive three row SUVs. Maybe getting an upgrade with a TV counts as "optimizing?" But you can get portable screens that
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by enkid 4y ago
What does proven in combat even mean? Win a war against China?
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by enkid 4y ago
What's an example of a good "dictator"? I can think of are individuals who willingly gave up power or set up a democratic system after they left, i.e., George Washington, Ataturk, etc. I can't think of a single histori
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by enkid 4y ago
There would have to be an underlying mechanism that determines which laws out compete the others. The "environment" upon which the rest must adapt. Ultimately, you'd still have "laws," itd just be a layer up, as f
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by enkid 4y ago
Why do you think that ham radio is that way? Is it that a large number of the hobbyists are trying to be outside the system?
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by enkid 4y ago
I was saying believing self driving cars is a safety issue is only controversial if you also don't believe human driven cars are a safety issue. Basically I'm saying you should believe both are a safety issue.
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by enkid 4y ago
Only if you don't think human driven cars are a safety issue.
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by enkid 4y ago
Or how phones developed separate channels for data and signalling after people started using the voice channel to send signals for free phone calls.
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by enkid 4y ago
What's the use case for such validation?
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by enkid 4y ago
Kazakhstan's economy is dominated by the oil and gas industry. If anything, it competes with Russia economically. As it develops alternative transportation networks, economic independence from Russia will benefit it, not harm it.
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by enkid 4y ago
All military actions are for a political purpose. Sometimes that's long term and sometimes it's short term. Trying to "get a win" to boost morale is quite common. Think Sherman taking Atlanta in time for Lincoln'
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by enkid 4y ago
Trying to lob a few ballistic missiles at a couple of AA sites is not an effective route to suppressing any country's air defense system. Instead you want a systematic role back, which is the opposite of what we've seen Russia do
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by enkid 4y ago
Who's banning? None of the lists the author talks about actually bans any language. They advise.
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by enkid 4y ago
You can't call it a forbidden word list if no words are actually forbidden. This is a purposeful choice by the author to make these harmful word lists as bigger deals than they actually are.
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by enkid 4y ago
2001 is prior to the concept of the singularity being well articulated, but the HAL artificial intelligence clearly fed ideas for what an advanced AI could do for future fiction.
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by enkid 4y ago
I was agreeing with you.
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by enkid 4y ago
Wouldn't that be Chinese capital investing in the US?
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by enkid 4y ago
Then I don't think the assumption is built into real estate prices.
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by enkid 4y ago
Asking why do or not do something is an important part of critical thinking.
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by enkid 4y ago
How is this unexpected? AI agents that interact via language and are able to write code which improves itself is classic singularity. It basically describes HAL from 2001.
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by enkid 4y ago
Saying it's only based on luck is clearly wrong. Saying no luck is involved is clearly wrong.
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by enkid 4y ago
By untested medicine do you mean a COVID vaccine, which is probably the most studied medicine in the history of medicine?
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by enkid 4y ago
Who are the we here? As a civilization, we could willingly take precautions with an understanding that it's worth while to try them even if we're not 100% sure they would work (i.e. wearing masks). We could prep emergency plans

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