firebaze

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by firebaze 5y ago
We're dealing with a potential WW3 scenario, but our benign censors decided to flag this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30481744 Wtf went wrong with all of this.
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by firebaze 5y ago
Worth reading: https://www.vox.com/2015/6/29/8845913/russia-war (2015) See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30480390
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by firebaze 5y ago
> Buzhinsky, when I met him in Moscow, had a warning for me. Those in the West who worried about the possibility of a major war breaking out in the Baltics were missing the real threat: Ukraine. The US, he feared, does not appreciate how
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by firebaze 5y ago
I'm impressed by this deeply. Those people don't just protest, they risk their financial future, maybe even their lives. This should get more traction.
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by firebaze 5y ago
Russian military generally played wars with an assumed unit cost of approximately zero. They still appear to do so, despite the declining birth rate (there's a reason russian roulette is called as it is)
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by firebaze 5y ago
This is wrong on so many levels, it's almost right again.
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by firebaze 5y ago
This is only true for a large subset of people, I'd bet 80:20 on :)
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Putin Interview After Talk with Macron(twitter.com)
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Why would money exist if robots and automation produce all goods?(worldbuilding.stackexchange.com)
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Atlas-1(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Chinese Room(en.wikipedia.org)
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Largest Virtual Universe Free for Anyone to Explore(cfca.nao.ac.jp)
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Therac-25(en.wikipedia.org)
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Object unlike anything astronomers have seen before(icrar.org)
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The Universe is not symmetric(bigthink.com)
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by firebaze 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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Russian Roulette(en.wikipedia.org)
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by firebaze 5y ago
Isn't Lenovo the problem? CPU vendors have to implement a secure enclave somehow to fulfill requirements from the content industry for quite some time now. But there never was a nefarious actor like Lenovo in this case to my knowledge.
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Australia commits to $3.5B tank purchase from the US(smh.com.au)
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by firebaze 5y ago
The most advanced AI staff, their algorithms beating even go champions, still being worse in search than ever before. Beaten by bing.com, yandex.com and others, at least in my humble opinion. Something must be wrong, but I don't know w
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by firebaze 5y ago
This has been true for a long time. I think it is still safe to assume googlers are not stupid, so there must be a reason for that. My guesses, in order of decreasing confidence: (by far) 1) globally seen, the results given are best for the
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Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by firebaze 5y ago|0 comments
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by firebaze 5y ago
Germany is acting kind of funny. Coal: bad (granted!). Gas: bad (even worse when from russia) (kind of granted). Nuclear: very very bad! (?). Solar: good, nimby. Wind: good, nimby. Electric cars: cool, must have. Additional energy requireme
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A Tale of Three Safeties(joeduffyblog.com)
1 points by firebaze 5y ago|1 comments
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by firebaze 5y ago
If there are depressing threads on HN, this is the "best" of them to me.
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Nutanix – NX-1365-G5-18023, 3 Node(s) List Price: $103,374.00(gov.cstor.com)
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by firebaze 5y ago
We're talking of different bands. Like visible light vs. infrared or x-ray.
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by firebaze 5y ago
With this policy, you'll keep the 20% capable staff. Anyone else (except a few both too afraid to leave and too comfy with their current pay) will leave. That'll leave you with a few 10x staff, too lazy to leave, but capable, and
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by firebaze 5y ago
Nick could just ignore the bullying from Tony. If he'd like, he could smirk when Tony launches a personal attack, pointing out - if asked - how insecure he is, and that he wishes him recovery. Perception dominates everything.
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by firebaze 5y ago
357 comments, 21h ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29504755

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