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by giantg2 4mo ago
Cost-effective might not be the best description. If the B2 is able to target SAMs with very low losses, then it could still be cost-effective compared to significant losses of other airframes and crews.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
If there was enough demand for high speed rail, couldn't a company form a profitable business model to provide that service? Many people don't take trains because the service is abysmal in the US. People who visit Europe tend to u
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by giantg2 4mo ago
Can you give me some examples of gas being subsidized? "This is standard economics theory, you tax any form of an environmental damage (e.g. carbon) at the rate of what it costs to clean it up." Again, that's a choice for whi
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by giantg2 4mo ago
"For instance, consumers want fast and high speed rail and light rail in cities, yet the federal government is still subsidizing hundreds of billions of dollars to car centric projects rather than allowing municipalities and state gove
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by giantg2 4mo ago
They have renewable only energy plans. So the choices do exist. Not to mention that the choice to go without something is a valid choice. If one believes strongly enough about something, then they will sacrifice for it.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
People want the products. Industry wouldn't exist, or not at this scale, without that. The easiest way to see this is air travel. The vast majority of it is unnecessary - business trips that could be a zoom call, vacations, shipping, e
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by giantg2 4mo ago
"On an individual state-level: no." This might actually be a yes if you believe in the potential impact of automation and AI.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
"and we still can't seem to convince some people this is real." There will always be outliers who don't believe something. But even for the people who do believe climate change is real, there is a huge variance of how we
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by giantg2 4mo ago
"The first season there isn't European wine/cheese/olives because of climate change is the first season European farmers probably literally declare war on their governments," Unlikely. The government will be the onl
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by giantg2 4mo ago
Provides possible clues to the origin and use.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
I didn't realize the VC market was that strong there. A lot of the stuff I read on here had previously pointed to it being a tough startup market.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
This is the first I've heard that called a coup. Was there and actual overthrow attempt?
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by giantg2 4mo ago
A lot of the Indian tech industry is really just the tech industry from other countries being outsourced to there.
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by giantg2 4mo ago
This isn't just AI misidentification. This is also an eye witness picking him out of a lineup. This is really AI extending the reach of the already sketchy eye witness practice.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
So it would be illegal to lend a phone to anyone, even just for one call?
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by giantg2 5mo ago
Maybe a way around this is for intermediary companies to own the phone that happens to have service and then lease the phone.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
"the biomedical world needs to go through the same boom that tech went through in the last 20 years." Not going to happen with all the regulation. Plus, I think half of us techies got into it for games and boobs (bypass parental c
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by giantg2 5mo ago
Power use might be high depending on configuration, but speed shouldn't be that slow using capacitors. Sufficiently strong pneumatics tend to require quite a bit of power too.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
I would love to see this with nitinol wire muscles.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
The most important question is not answered by the article - was it done intentionally or accidentally. That makes all the difference.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
To be fair, many of the newer cars make it more difficult/permanent because they barely built in and not connected via a bridge/wire.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
It will be model and year specific. Mine happened to have a second board connected by a bridge.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
I yanked the bridge between the rest of the car and the cellular board.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
I accidentally had a pocket knife in my backpack after a camping trip when I was a kid 20 years or so ago. Being a good/naive kid, I told the teacher. Luckily the teacher was cool and said just leave it alone and we never had this conv
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by giantg2 5mo ago
Almost feels like they should just build a dongle of sensors that can plug into existing Linux systems, such as a Steam Deck, laptop, or desktop. It's almost as if people are walking around with screens and batteries in there pockets a
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by giantg2 5mo ago
If you're in manufacturing and have a union in the US, there's a good chance your job just gets shipped overseas unless it's some sort of protected job that can't legally be done overseas (some defense stuff).
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by giantg2 5mo ago
I think there's other phenomena that people might be interested in such as E-skip and tropospheric ducting. Although you cant really rely on those.
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by giantg2 5mo ago
We're still vulnerable to low tech warfare. We keep developing expensive systems that can't be manufactured quickly. One of the main reasons for success in WW2 was the fact that we could produce decent weapons in great volume. Jap
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by giantg2 5mo ago
This seems to show the same gradation but with less magnitude. Was there some other point you were making?
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by giantg2 5mo ago
The easy thing to do is set a limit for how much and how long you can borrow against, tax the loans as income, or outlaw loans against investment instruments entirely.

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