georgeg23

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by georgeg23 3y ago
Yes
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Consider the opposite, if every person produced oil at the rate of a Norwegian, then global oil production would be 50x higher than today. In that world we'd be lighting barrels of oil on fire for fun.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
The fact is, Norway drills and exports more oil per capita than Saudi Arabia.[1] Their wealth and ability to buy electric cars at home is largely dependent on that massive oil income. They don't refine oil locally and would have to buy
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Those aren't mutually exclusive.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Elon supposedly got full U.S. citizenship after he made connections with the CIA (Michael D. Griffin) although the details aren't really known.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
I think it's an exaggeration to say you'd be losing money after taxes.. it's still at least 3x, but point taken.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
1.045^100 = 81x. That sounds more impressive, as inflation over the last hundred years is only 17x. If you withdraw at 40 years you only get 30 years worth (lose ten years of interest according to their terms).
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by georgeg23 3y ago
The study on aloe seems compelling. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3537128/
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by georgeg23 3y ago
It's a characteristic of a technique, it doesn't need to have a purpose. Not all things have a purpose.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Is there a good reference on tracking satellites from their thermal signature? Couldn't find anything.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
The black paint also makes for stealthier capability in SpaceX's military satellites https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_capabilities
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Interesting theory!
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by georgeg23 3y ago
The problem with hegemonic "stability" is it can be derailed by one guy who likes to fire people on television.
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We Are One Planet(youtube.com)
1 points by georgeg23 3y ago|0 comments
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by georgeg23 3y ago
There were congressional hearings, so it's hard to call it clickbait.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
I agree with UCS, and even the threat of an SDI can lead to an arms race.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
That theory ignores the Cold War, which hinged on M.A.D.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
One of the less spoken but potentially significant reasons for Russia's invasion is that Putin felt the nuclear tables were about to turn with M.A.D. when the U.S. restarted Strategic Defense Initiative development. https:/&#x2F
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by georgeg23 3y ago
My hunch is the token “ davidjl” is repetitively used in the data that determines the tokenization scheme but is nearly (or completely) absent from the actual pre-train data. -Riley Goodside
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by georgeg23 3y ago
If they don't want people visiting their website maybe they shouldn't put it on the internet.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Hacker News has every right to include noreferrer in its links. The destination site was playing games based on the HN origin, so dang just fixed the bug.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
An adversary would just shoot them down before launching ICBMs. Anti-satellite weapons are relatively cheap as they don't need to sustain orbit. Alternatively they can be hit early and Kessler syndrome can take down the whole constell
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Gwynne Shotwell said SpaceX would have no problem putting weapons in space, https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23733/spacex-exec-says...
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by georgeg23 3y ago
To nit, they are typically made of metalized BoPET, not actual Mylar.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
You mean billions of old people, dying together!
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by georgeg23 3y ago
>> precipitous rise in Alzheimer's rates in developed countries Besides the older human demographics, it's certainly possible the virus strains are evolving to be more aggressive and cause problem more often. From a virus pe
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by georgeg23 3y ago
At the end he says directed energy lasers in space are the answer. But considering the ceramic thermal shielding these hypersonic maneuverable vehicles need and have, it would seem the reentry plasma is far hotter than anything a laser can
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by georgeg23 3y ago
But none of its behaviour is even close to by design. The emergence of reasoning is completely unexpected for a word prediction model.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
A nice quote from researcher Sébastien Bubeck of MSR, “Maybe we’re seeing such a huge jump because we have reached a diversity of data, which is large enough that the only underlying principle to all of it is that intelligent beings produce
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How AI knows things no one told it(scientificamerican.com)
74 points by georgeg23 3y ago|135 comments

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