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by jjk166 6mo ago
The gold would be moved by cash-in-transit trucks which have relatively modest payload capacities of 5000-9000lbs today, a bit less in the 60s. 3 tons per truck is probably on the high end.
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by jjk166 7mo ago
If it's too expensive and time consuming to determine whether a crime has occurred with the appropriate tools, we shouldn't be prosecuting it. If you're not willing to go to the taxpayers and say we need $80k for a handheld d
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by jjk166 7mo ago
You can waive your right not to be a slave, but no one can gain the right to legally own slaves. The 13th amendment doesn't guarantee the rights of people to live free, it bans the practice of slavery. If you find someone living in sla
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by jjk166 7mo ago
I'm talking about things being shot down. Hitting ground targets is even less of a technical flex.
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I strongly suspect if one were to dig a little deeper there would probably be some common factors between loosening financial regulations, community economic problems, credit issues of people in those communities, and impetus to gamble.
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by jjk166 7mo ago
122 A-10s have been lost outside of combat over the years. 8 have been lost in combat. Lots of flights, maintenance resources stretched thin, old aircraft - this is when you'd expect to see crashes.
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by jjk166 7mo ago
You can't compare time, you need to compare sorties. There were only 5900 F15 sorties during the gulf war. It's not clear how many of the 8000 combat sorties sorties flown so far in the Iran war are with F15s, but it's almost
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by jjk166 7mo ago
It's turtles all the way down. If we had a way to perfectly prevent people from doing undesirable things, we wouldn't need courthouses to begin with. The system doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be good enough that
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by jjk166 7mo ago
> it taught people to be better engineers. It generally does not. And if it does, they can still do those tasks as exercises.
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by jjk166 7mo ago
> and those tasks were never just tasks. They were the mechanism that built judgment, intuition, and the ability to supervise the systems we now delegate to AI. Bullshit. The busywork wasn't being done by low level engineers to trai
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by jjk166 7mo ago
Did the FAA or some other agency release a statement saying they were relaxing safety standards because they deemed the increase in risk economically acceptable? Do you recall checking a box when booking your last flight acknowledging you w
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by jjk166 7mo ago
There's a big difference between having older soldiers fighting a defensive war on home soil vs sending them overseas. In the first scenario, you desperately need a lot of warm bodies, most of what these people would be otherwise doing
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by jjk166 7mo ago
Calling it a perfect storm is too generous. This is deliberately tearing down the floodgates that protect you from the extremely normal and predictable storms.
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by jjk166 7mo ago
https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/58231
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by jjk166 7mo ago
Category A and B incursions increased by 2.8σ. Further, it was 7 years of increases in a row. Either factor on its own would indicate a process out of statistical control.
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by jjk166 7mo ago
> but there is a distinct lack of qualified individuals to back that up Which means either the compensation is insufficient to attract and retain the necessary number of qualified individuals, or the FAA lacks the resources to train an a
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by jjk166 7mo ago
But still, even if you need humans when things go wrong, automating away all the work for when things go right is a massive load off those people. There will always be failures, the goal is fewer failures, and especially eliminating known f
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by jjk166 7mo ago
Inadequate funding seems like the common factor across the vast majority of jobs with these failure modes.
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by jjk166 7mo ago
But the boys still get better scores for being attractive. And the unattractive students don't do worse. The simplest explanation is often the right one.
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by jjk166 7mo ago
With all do respect, it is you who is jumping to conclusions because this is only 3 weeks old. > First, it's been exposed that the US cannot defend Israel despite spending $1 trillion a year on "defense", billions if not t
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by jjk166 7mo ago
And attractive girls social skills go away when classes move online but other students' don't?
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by jjk166 7mo ago
The Iran war hasn't even been the dumbest geopolitical move in the past year. The US torpedoed its system of alliances which it has spent decades building and maintaining. It through the global economy and its own into turmoil repeated
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by jjk166 7mo ago
Using renewables means you're burning up less of your plastic feedstocks.
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by jjk166 7mo ago
We're not really adding much more fossil fuel capacity. 88% of new capacity under construction in the US is renewable. Of the fossil fuel capacity that is being added, it's overwhelmingly coal-to-gas conversions and peaker plants
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by jjk166 7mo ago
The people pushing for "child protection" went to the island. It's not even about control, it's about shifting liability away from platforms so they can further gut moderation, reducing their expenses and getting away wi
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by jjk166 7mo ago
One would think on a military ship they could just jam civilian cell phone frequencies and not have to worry about individual behavior.
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$300k for a top executive position isn't especially high for anywhere in the US. That's around what the administrative director of a hospital would be making, which seems like a much smaller scope than leading ArXiv. For compariso
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That sounds more like an issue of certain fields having crappy standards because the people in those fields benefit from crappy standards than an issue with the site they happen to host papers on.
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There are those who would argue doing anything is better than doing nothing while you try to figure out what to do. I'm in a position where I know what my passions are and am sufficiently constrained by resources that I can't affo
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"Hey this guy fooled a lot of people last time and the people who got in and out early made a killing. This time I'm going to get in early." "He's got the hustle to do what it takes to succeed and is unencumbered by

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