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by golemotron 3y ago
Concentrating on the process of developing airplanes from concept to production quickly rather than just concentrating on just one airplane. When you have the former, the latter becomes easier.
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by golemotron 3y ago
Pleasing everyone in engineering can be disastrous. We'll see how it goes.
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by golemotron 3y ago
17 years is just shameful. Sure the aircraft looks nice but the SR-71 had first flight in 1964 and went into service in 1966.
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by golemotron 3y ago
Thanks.
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by golemotron 3y ago
Silly question: If I read this correctly, your chances of death go down after ~80 years of age. Why is this? Is it because most things that will get you would have earlier or just that the population size is so low at that extreme?
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by golemotron 3y ago
Because regulating "AI" has the potential to encompass all software development. Many programs act as decision support. From the outside there's little difference between an application that uses conventional programming, ML,
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by golemotron 3y ago
Occam's Razor does a lot of heavy lifting.
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by golemotron 3y ago
It's called mirroring. People often do it unconsciously when the connect with others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirroring
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by golemotron 3y ago
It's a good thing science isn't politicized. If it was this retraction would be suspect too.
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by golemotron 3y ago
Is there a travel site that allows you to filter out 737Maxes?
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by golemotron 3y ago
Look up the history of democracy in 20th Century Europe.
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by golemotron 3y ago
The power of that community is absolute.
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by golemotron 3y ago
> The answer to so many of the problems posed by neoliberal capitalism - and the opportunity for a vastly better world - lies in placing a hard limit on the wealth that any one person can accumulate. Because nobody deserves to be a milli
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by golemotron 3y ago
Nice but Teamlab put Disney behind a while ago. They have no answer yet.
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by golemotron 3y ago
TIL David Lynch films with scripts.
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by golemotron 3y ago
Not resentment, ressentiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment
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by golemotron 3y ago
It's scapegoating driven by ressentiment.
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by golemotron 3y ago
I wish more people saw this dynamic. The imminent death of anything because "bad people" never quite happens. It's like "this time we got Trump" narrative: wishful thinking as prediction. It's actually a great
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by golemotron 3y ago
> Eight legs per elephant is the standard, so ten elephants would have.. That's what it gets for training on DALL-E's limb renderings.
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by golemotron 3y ago
Hall monitors are using math now. Oh no!
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by golemotron 3y ago
> Look at the Miami skyline at 7-9pm, when people should be getting home. Half the condos with no lights on. > We have a wealth inequality problem, symptoms include housing shortages. Nope. The problem having a investment growth pictu
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by golemotron 3y ago
Historically they have always been at risk of losing their position. Often that means death or other severe personal cost. Leadership among primates is very risky.
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by golemotron 3y ago
We're lucky that we can look at other primates and mammals and see the same patterns.
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by golemotron 3y ago
Yes. That would've served Europe better too. Now they are in the embarrassing position of trying to regulate companies that aren't under their jurisdiction.
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by golemotron 3y ago
That makes the original point. They are bought by US companies because the US has facilitated tech and capital growth. In another world, the EU would've done better on that and bought US companies.
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by golemotron 3y ago
> I really wish we could do this in the US. The US is about 4000 miles wider. That makes it hard.
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by golemotron 3y ago
I like that performance even more than the story. Tom Noonan is a great actor. The other actor is wonderful in this too.
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by golemotron 3y ago
Aligning non-profit and for profit within the same business is an open challenge too.
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by golemotron 3y ago
Profit? It's a 501(c).
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by golemotron 3y ago
If the FCC is staffed with discrimination experts we have a serious problem.

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