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by jjk166 1y ago
A political stunt for America to upstage the USSR, not to stroke the ego of a particular American.
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And the overwhelming majority of societies with initiation rights and rituals are not world-controlling cabals. Turns out people just like having rituals (and afterparties).
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by jjk166 1y ago
> Seems logical to assume that could be because there aren't many people left who know how all the systems connect. It's only logical presupposing a lot of other conditions, each of which is worthy of healthy skepticism. And ev
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It's 6.6% https://www.emarketer.com/content/amazon-will-surpass-40-of-...
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> Because trucking is too easy to get into, companies can't simply raise their rates because other companies will undercut them. How are they going to undercut them without drivers available to actually do the work? This narrative i
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by jjk166 1y ago
> Compare the size of a jet engine to a power plant of a similar size. Size shrinks dramatically when you can blow the heat out of your ass in propellant product. Powerplants also blow the heat out. What do you think smokestacks are? Jet
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by jjk166 1y ago
When was the last time your phone stopped working due mechanical PCB damage? Typically the limiting factor on your phone is the screen breaking, your battery life getting too short, wear and tear on components like buttons or the charging p
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by jjk166 1y ago
Fusion rockets can not get away with lower efficiency. Either you are using the fusion reaction as a direct propulsion source, in which case it needs to beat chemical rockets at producing thrust, or you are using it as a power source for el
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by jjk166 1y ago
If "the mission" is survive, then yeah probably. I doubt the colonists would hold any loyalty to Earth, but they'ed definitely set up a colony for their own sake. Also we do have plenty of institutions which have to some degr
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Conservation and environmentalism are two different things. Preventing a particular population of turtles from being disrupted is conservation, reducing smog in a city is environmentalism. Their goals may overlap, and many people who care a
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> He started a continuous combustion reaction, and Malibu was destroyed by the continuance of that combustion reaction. Whether at some point the orange light it was giving off dimmed a bit is not very interesting. So they can prove that
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But to what end? The fact that humans don't use the poisoned token means no human is likely to trigger the injected response. If you choose a token people actually use, it's going to show up in the training data, preventing you fr
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by jjk166 1y ago
> making e.g. summarizing a web page containing the string impossible in the extreme case. Okay but the whole point is that this random string doesn't really exist out in the wild, hence it not showing up in the non-poisoned trainin
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by jjk166 1y ago
It doesn't really seem that surprising that a company providing election systems would be run by a former election official - presumably they would be the ones recognizing untapped market needs and would have the contacts with potentia
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by jjk166 1y ago
> You couldn't consume gigabytes because that amount of ram didn't exist. No, they didn't consume gigabytes because they were written is such a way that they didn't need to. Run one of those programs on a modern compu
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by jjk166 1y ago
The cause and effect here are reversed. Ever increasing abstraction does not reduce quality, ever reduced emphasis on quality leads to greater abstraction. You only abstract away the nuances when you stop caring about them. When you have so
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by jjk166 1y ago
How is that not better? If you could do it without consuming gigabytes back in the day, and now you can't, something must have gotten worse. The cost of consuming gigabytes has gone down, but being able to tolerate a worse situation do
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> vividly recall something that happens on the order of once a year as "oh yeah that's common". I mean, think of how many times a typical person has sex in their life. Hopefully they and their partner aren't getting p
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by jjk166 1y ago
What definition are you using to say chimps don't have human level intelligence? By any useful definition, the intelligence of human ancestors very closely resembled that of chimps for about 4 million years after the human and chimp li
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by jjk166 1y ago
Australopithecus is essentially on the human branch, and likely was still several million years before the development of advanced intelligence. Our common ancestor with Australopithecus was not any more intelligent than a typical Australop
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> It doesn't work like tools developers use and it doesn't work like people developers work with. Furthermore, techniques of working with agents today may be completely outdated a year from now. Sounds like big money to be made
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> Reality is there are tax and regulatory advantages. The courts are setup in a way that is favorable to business. They read a very strict interpretation of contracts which is good in some scenarios. > Texas politics is a train wreck,
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/edhirs/2024/12/09/after-4-years...
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by jjk166 1y ago
Intelligence was evolved millions of years after the most recent common ancestor. Harnessing fire, clothing, etc. came later still. The lineage that would ultimately give rise to humans split from the chimp/bonobo lineage as the human
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by jjk166 1y ago
I'd be more than happy to talk with him if I had a chance; been a fan of his channel for years. I presume however that a youtuber of his caliber has little interest in hearing from yet another random person on the internet. It's o
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Why would you hire, and then knowingly continue to employ, morons? Your employees are not chosen at random, you can evaluate their skills and select the ones optimal for your organization, as demonstrated both by their prior experience and
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by jjk166 1y ago
If you can't trust your people, why are they your people? The consultants are going to get the story from your people anyways (even if they do their own data collection, your people are going to tell them where to look), so it's n
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by jjk166 1y ago
The injection mold machine is typically less expensive than the tool you put in the machine. The largest one I have is a $150k (new) machine, it runs a $200k mold which makes 2 million parts per year for a $14 million per year production li
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> You need tool and die companies to build parts for your manufacturing machines, but almost none are left. There are only a few plastic injection manufacturing companies left, and they are either fully booked or on the path to shutting
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By the Obama administration's counting, they killed 64 to 117 civillians in airstrikes. Independent estimates, which do not use the "any military age male" definition, put the number at 380 to 801. These higher, independent e

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