inglor_cz

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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
Plausible, but then you'd expect to find the same effect in other people who passed similarly demanding tests once. For example in people who studied something geometry-heavy. Also, The Knowledge Test is, IIRC, passed only once and the
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
1. They are hardly in the bottom quintile, where the income effect is large enough that it could actually shave 7 years off their life. I'd expect nightly work, irregular sleep patterns, too much fast food and maybe a higher frequency
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
> The EU intentionally admitted many poorer countries, to promote freedom, security and stability in Europe in the long term. Without EU membership, they would be under pressure from Russia and others. This is a bit of a non-sequitur, at
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
The Soviet Union had a pretty impressive constitution too. The usual problem was respecting it. You need an independent constitutional court with actual teeth for any constitution to work.
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Connect the AI to a fully automated lab and it may be able to generate and harvest those necessary data. It may also produce Supercovid in the process, so... We don't have to worry about new math as much as we do about new biology. Alt
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
On a purely Machiavellistic level, coups with an inside element helping along (and that is what Venezuela was: Delcy Rodriguez going full Judas on Maduro) are a distinct phenomenon with a different profile of risks and rewards. As you say,
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
The point is that before the era of modern weapons, many wars were a net positive for the winners. Much of our genome is inherited from successful conquerors, many of whom are long forgotten. Starting wars has only been unequivocally negati
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
This works in smaller countries as well, though. I would expect that our local tycoons know half of the Parliament and most of the ministers. And given that there is fewer very rich people here, they may individually have bigger impact on t
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Isn't this partly a question of sheer size of countries like the US and India? In Slovenia or Denmark, there may be two degrees of separation fewer between the regular voter and, say, an ordinary MP, because the parliaments and governm
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
We moved into a new house in November 2022 and bought all lights anew. LEDs all around, some 25 devices taken all together. 44 months later, all of them are still working.
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
I was mistaken, Merlins can indeed throttle down. Thanks for correction. What they cannot is achieve thrust-to-weight ratio of <= 1 when the first stage is empty, so controlled descent is basically impossible and suicide burn is the only
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Falcon 9 engines (Merlins) cannot throttle down, they either run on max power or they don't. Which means that any attempts to land are incredibly risky. You have to reignite them at the precise moment to slow down the rocket to zero at
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Symbian OS was a microkernel. For each functionality, you would run a "server" with determined privileges, your apps would connect as clients and make use of the functionality that the server was providing them with - i.e. audio,
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Well, not even the Nazis managed to permanently conquer Europe, but the destruction they still wrought on the continent was enormous. Even a victorious war is destructive. I'd like to do without, but I am just a random hobbit in this r
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
It is ye olde reconnaisance by the tip of the bayonet. How long can you prod before someone says "ouch!" For the case of a hot war, knowing the detection and destruction capabilities of your future enemy is valuable.
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Well, the Nazi party was banned permanently by the Allied powers on Oct 10, 1945, so technically every member still alive became an ex-Nazi at that point. Including the leaders later hanged in Nuremberg, and, of course, Wernher von Braun. O
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
After reading this https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/breakdown-in-pakistan and this https://lydialaurenson.substack.com/p/the-time-i-joined-peac... I do wonder whether much of USAID and similar pro
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
By the time that the booster returns to the landing zone, the Flight Termination System (FTS) is AFAIK no longer active and cannot be reactivated. Which makes sense because it is a bunch of high explosives, now nearing some valuable equipme
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
If I generalize a bit: sometimes conditions change enough for the system as a whole to become unviable, but the entitled part of the population still tries their utmost to keep those entitlements. Usually, it was a tiny elite, but nowadays,
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
You can't play an entire orchestra's sheet music on a single guitar either, but your playing ability still matters a lot. I would say that as of July 2026, with the right scaffolding, you can get reasonably good output out of a LL
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
I made the decision to always talk to AI in English, in order to reduce the otherwise inevitable seep-in of AI terminology into my actual speaking and writing patterns. Czech and English are far apart enough that formulations like "loa
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
I see "blast radii" all the time in context of refactorizations. Like, what happens if we swap library A for library B.
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
IIRC there are serious attempts at "vaccination plasters", which would solve the cold storage problems of classical vaccines. Some really bad infections survive in reservoirs far from the closest hospital with reliable electricity
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
"Why would anyone make a drug if the current prevalent treatment was as good as a functional cure?" I am not sure whether you ask for economic why, or an overall why. The overall why seems easier to explain: a. The new drug ma
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
The Russian propaganda is more along the lines of "Ukraine is an illegitimate state led by Nazis and drug junkies, they steal children's organs and sell them to the West, cook up dangerous viruses in their labs and prepared to att
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
If every parochial peasant could recognize Russian official propaganda, why are so many people on board with whatever the propaganda says? I mean, it took longer than the Great Patriotic War before Putin's popularity started visibly fa
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Yes, Trump is quite an outlier in his non-standard behavior, I agree on that. That said, Americans still enjoy very robust protections of freedom of speech and association, about the strongest in the world, and your SCOTUS does not seem to
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
I remember peak wokeness quite well and it was pretty obvious that it was driven by the Twitter activist mob and not the Biden administration, which was quite visibly behind the times and followed the trends. Already during the Biden admini
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
Do you seriously believe that if you ask Grok or ChatGPT their opinion about tariffs or the Iran war, they will simply regurgitate Trump's talking points because they were programmed so on the threat of shutdown? People with no persona
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by inglor_cz 3mo ago
While true, you neglect the fact that US corporations have some autonomy from the government. I doubt that any of the current American AI corporations get regular dossiers of desirable responses to sensitive political topics from Washington

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