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by jjk166 1y ago
Porn is a substitute for seeing strangers naked. It's not a substitute for relationships, or even for sexual release. Masturbating is no cheaper or easier now than it ever was; people have been pursuing romantic and sexual relationship
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by jjk166 1y ago
I would describe reverting to the current status quo as successfully handling edge cases.
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by jjk166 1y ago
I would imagine exactly the same solutions to code injection would work to prevent "prompt injection"
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by jjk166 1y ago
Why have an automated phone system if someone can get a human operator by pressing 0? Because the automated system works for typical interactions, and reduces the labor load of the human to only handling edge cases.
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by jjk166 1y ago
There are ~65 Trillion tons of uranium in Earth's crust. This dissolves into sea water to maintain an equilibrium concentration. It takes 18.6 tons of natural uranium to produce 1 TWh of electricity with light water reactors. The world
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by jjk166 1y ago
No, the fresh water always produces less energy than it took to desalinate the fresh water to begin with. If the freshwater is recoverable, that will always be energetically better. But if you can't recover the fresh water for some rea
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by jjk166 1y ago
> Partial reusability won't get the cost down to the ~$100/kg range. I don't see why $100/kg is a particularly important threshold. > Falcon 9 can get 15 tons to LEO for $45 million, and that's already the low
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by jjk166 1y ago
Higher energy transfers can widen the launch windows, but their frequency remains unchanged. The frequency is due to the synodic period of Earth and Mars. It doesn't matter how fast you can get to a point in Mars' orbit if Mars do
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by jjk166 1y ago
Actually in this case it is an Eagle-like launcher meant to rendevous with a craft in orbit. I'm not sure why you are arguing this when you're completely unfamiliar with the premise being discussed.
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The money could have gone into those economies while also securing a productive accomplishment (or more productive accomplishments depending on your opinion of SLS). Factories could have been retooled and workers could have been retrained t
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by jjk166 1y ago
> What, exactly, is that guy doing for those five years? Waiting to be rescued. We're not talking about sending one guy to mars for funsies, we're talking about one person left after an emergency. In the book he gets off mars b
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by jjk166 1y ago
You couldn't start launching things in 30 days, you need to wait for a launch window, which happens every ~2 years. The transit times are on top of that.
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Unless they took extra risks to hedge against the string of failures continuing. "Yes we blew up three times in a row, but this time we meant to do that, so it's a success" sounds an awful lot better than "We did everyth
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by jjk166 1y ago
SpaceX started with the business plan of low cost, mass producible single use launchers. Falcon 9 was not designed with any level of reusability in mind. There was a major redesign to add landing hardware, but the whole reason for Starship
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by jjk166 1y ago
> Either they can never get the heat shield to be reliable, or they can't get cost down below Falcon 9 (meaning, refurbishment costs are too high). There are a lot of other potential technological problems (dozens of engines, stainl
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by jjk166 1y ago
Backed up, slow, and avoided by those familiar with the area?
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by jjk166 1y ago
The problem is if you have overbuilt infrastructure, it doesn't just magically go away. You either need to pay to get rid of it, pay to maintain it, or deal with the consequences of letting it decay. Further, with an aging population,
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by jjk166 1y ago
If everyone around you is starving, it doesn't satisfy your own hunger. Your quality of life depends on absolute production output.
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by jjk166 1y ago
Even if global population continued to increase forever, that doesn't mean a particular nation would be able to get those immigrants to come fix their demographic woes. It doesn't matter how easy Moldova makes it for people to imm
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by jjk166 1y ago
They aren't a replacement for chemical batteries, more a complement. They're good for battery topping. Basically even when a device is completely off, its battery is still slowly losing power. This loss can be quite small, but if
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by jjk166 1y ago
You know you can just go to the bank and get rolls of quarters.
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by jjk166 1y ago
You had to get your kid out of the car and bring them to the place where you picked the cart up at the beginning. Typically the cart return is closer still.
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by jjk166 1y ago
Biological entities have some regeneration techniques, but that doesn't guarantee a mechanism exists for arbitrary damage to be repaired. For example I can heal a broken bone, but I can't heal a broken tooth.
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by jjk166 1y ago
And it's not like "hey in 6 months we're going to be implementing this change, so get ready in case it affects your workflow" it's sprung on you with no warning and no options, and often isn't even clearly comm
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by jjk166 1y ago
> Isn’t tracking AI usage too difficult? > Tracking was a challenge for human developers too, yet companies managed it when capitalization mattered. --- > Historically, that has been difficult because the cost of developer tools co
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by jjk166 1y ago
> Like we administered x mg of sulfer to the patient and they saw y outcome while patients not receiving sufler saw z outcome. When we stopped administering sulfer all patients saw z outcome seems to be isolating sulfer as causing y. The
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It's enough to get them over the hump if they're $1000/mo away from having something. Unfortunately a lot of people are further behind than that. Being poor is very expensive.
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> if this was a simultaneous saturation across everything that a company could do with their current resources. That's exactly what I am describing. It's not that a particular style of vehicle is no longer in demand due to a sh
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They show R&D is effective and R&D spending is up, and conclude obsolescence must be the reason this is not reflected in productivity pretty much by process of elimination. However there is an alternative - that for reasons unrelate
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> It was falling at a stable pace for 20 years in nominal terms. It was not. Look at the chart: https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-... Between 1984 and 1996, 131 of the 156 months were withi

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