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by jpadkins 3y ago
I think cars already have a sense of touch with the road with traction control sensors. For everything else isn't touch too late, especially at high speeds? the point is to avoid the crash.
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by jpadkins 3y ago
I don't think stealth aircrafts normally have trackers or anything broadcasting a signal. Kind of defeats the purpose... I did read that stealth aircraft have transponders installed when operating in US airspace, so commercial radar c
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by jpadkins 3y ago
> Why does it have to be a grid? Because we have been doing it that way for almost 4,000 years! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet#History Humans have organized data into tables, that is, grids of columns and
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by jpadkins 3y ago
> Can you, or anyone else for that matter, explain to me why this is better than commercial interests not following us around at all? Because people prefer free, ad supported content on the internet. Once you accept that premise, then it
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by jpadkins 3y ago
Mike Tomlin (coach of the steelers) is a master motivator. I really like what he said to his rookie QB after a bad loss https://twitter.com/sdextrasmedia/status/1585807604277657600 "There's going to be
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by jpadkins 3y ago
Great comment, love the effort. Next reply can you try to be more genuine and less patronizing?
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by jpadkins 3y ago
no, but that is about when Larry and Sergey checked out (wasn't an overnight thing, took a few years).
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by jpadkins 3y ago
They use some tools from advanced tech, but already have their own blacksmiths and carpenters who make tools for their farmers. For the long run, they will have to develop some type of mining or smelting operation from scrap metal they fin
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by jpadkins 3y ago
[Some of] You are not going to Make It. I live near the Amish, they are going to make it. Yes life will be harder for them, but they are prepared for a breakdown in civilization. As others have pointed out, it may be more difficult for a si
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by jpadkins 3y ago
what is the relationship between 0.15% more energy the sun may output vs. how much energy is retained via CO2 greenhouse effect? https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/EnergyBalance/pag... Indicates that 5-6%
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by jpadkins 3y ago
your reply missed the part where you said what market Apple has a monopoly in. (I own zero Apple products, not really a fan of any mega corp)
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by jpadkins 3y ago
what are the root causes? how can the mayor address them?
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by jpadkins 3y ago
flopping interview != quack Everyone knows that interviews have high false negative rates (depending on your hiring criteria). You have to mentally guard yourself that interviews are not a complete judgement of you; they are at best a smal
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by jpadkins 3y ago
good luck finding unbiased papers or sources on this topic. best I've found is https://judithcurry.com/
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by jpadkins 3y ago
Yes, I've read that without easily accessible surface level coal, there is no industrial revolution. Maybe the advanced past civilizations were based in what is now called Africa or Indonesia, and the UK was some remote frozen place
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by jpadkins 3y ago
USA has the best intel / propaganda / psy-ops.
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by jpadkins 3y ago
we can't rule out time travel forward on Earth. There is geological evidence of civilization destroying events 12k years ago, possibly more. I've often thought about why it took 300-400k years to go from fire to agricultural-c
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by jpadkins 3y ago
I know your post is in jest, but I think you might not be aware of how suspicious right wing populists (especially bible reading right wing populists) are of Fed + Big Tech alliance. It will not take much to rally this group against these
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by jpadkins 3y ago
I think there is a 10% probability of a new, decentralized network forming in the next 5 years, replacing the internet / web as it becomes more authoritarian and centrally controlled. I speculate that it might start off as a mesh netwo
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by jpadkins 3y ago
Good point. Also Liberal != progressive. progressive policy in the last 20 years has in no way championed ideals of individual rights and free enterprise, and they have curtailed certain civil liberties (speech and self defense). The hall
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by jpadkins 3y ago
congress controls the budget, not the presidential administration. It is very common in US politics to have split branches (Republican president with Democrat control of the congress and vice versa) with only very brief periods where a sin
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by jpadkins 3y ago
That data set is heavily influenced by military spending (which is a large fraction of federal spending and has historically correlated with right leaning states). I don't think that data supports the argument 'require massive amo
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by jpadkins 3y ago
My favorite Sinead moment was her UFC 189 walkout song for Conor McGregor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKvBV-xVbmI still gives me goosebumps
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by jpadkins 3y ago
The federal government has taxed tobacco probably as far back as the founding of the country. https://www.cbo.gov/budget-options/58706#:~:text=The%20feder... . "The federal excise tax on cigarettes is just over $1
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by jpadkins 3y ago
> Did Chinese people suddenly become smart for some reason? Yes, they stopped following strict communism. They pivoted to authoritarian capitalism and got wealthier.
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by jpadkins 3y ago
thank you. I read that article and the linked NEA one. Lots of info on biased roots in history, not much information on the mechanisms that create the bias or unbiased standardized tests as an alternative. I would think there would be a
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by jpadkins 3y ago
I am someone, and I don't understand why they are. Do you have a primer handy on this subject?
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by jpadkins 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_warfare Also note that since 2012, it is now legal for US IC to use propaganda on US citizens https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mhastings/cong
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by jpadkins 3y ago
[1] I disagree. I think we can agree there needs to be a refinement on the definition of intelligence, but I think LLMs passed the 1950 definition of general machine intelligence.
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She. Professor Francesca Gino

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