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by jryle70 2y ago
How do you know it won't be maintainable? based on your current knowledge?
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by jryle70 2y ago
We do have self car driving by now. No drivers. Easy to find in SF and many other cities. It's not yet available everywhere, but as the Amara's Law describes, "we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short r
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by jryle70 2y ago
And you may get hit by an airplane falling from the sky. Yet people don't stay home because of that. It's a risk assessment. The risk of getting ban from digital payment is not zero, but low enough that the convenience wins out. I
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by jryle70 2y ago
> Other countries like the Netherlands went through the same car-centric design phase and realized it was too expensive and bad for the country so they reverted. Where did you get the idea that they reverted? Car ownership in Netherlands
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by jryle70 2y ago
ASML make laser sources in San Diego, without them there would be no EUV machines. So it isn't just patents. ASML as we know today wouldn't exist without US R&D and manufacturing. https://www.asml.com/en/c
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by jryle70 2y ago
> most of the planet can't afford a plane ticket, nevermind the supersonic bit. Where did you get that idea from? airlines transported 4.4 billions of passengers in 2023 and 5 billions in 2024 [0]. No matter how you slide those figu
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by jryle70 2y ago
It's possible that some informed consumers choose longer battery life over replaceable parts. Your choice is not always the right choice.
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> None of what you list would affect my personal day to day. You've made up your mind so I'm not going to convince you. I'm only trying to debunk that for the sake of other readers. More precise, more timely weather foreca
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by jryle70 2y ago
> People buy products to satisfy their needs People buy products for the novelty all the time. Sometimes they are disappointed with what they got, sometimes they discover new things. Take this very feature being discussed. How many peopl
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by jryle70 2y ago
Correction: 99% of all startups are not providing real customer value. They would all die. The other 1% however, bring real customer value and go on to become a success. AI startups included. > do not deserve to get funding on merit What
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by jryle70 2y ago
Amusing as in being incorrect? Because the article is pretty clear about the context of those numbers. This is not the first time it happened to Long March 6 which only flew for the first time in 2022. China is aware the 2nd stage is explos
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by jryle70 2y ago
He said "this stuff happens _every day_ to all manufacturers". That's unquestionably true - [0], since this was an operational issue handled by the airlines. You then rebuffed his post with your rant about manufacturing issue
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by jryle70 2y ago
So what did you learn from going through that list? do you still think "all these little problems indicative of a bigger problem at Boeing"?
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by jryle70 2y ago
No, this study alone doesn't suggest that. Rather, it suggests that a lot of people have indicernable voice
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by jryle70 2y ago
That's FDA's role, to be the gatekeeper to make sure trials and experiments meet acceptable safety standards. Worth noting that FDA has allowed Neuralink to have the 2nd patient in the coming month.
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by jryle70 2y ago
From the patient himself: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-16/neuralink...
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by jryle70 2y ago
> is not an accurate summary of the environmental impact of rocket launches. So what is the accurate summary of the environmental impact of rocket launches? 10 times more than B747? 100 times? How would it look compared to aviation? >
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by jryle70 3y ago
The media also reported these: https://www.abc.org/News-Media/News-Releases/abc-2024-constr... https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/11/06/worker-short... https:&#x2F
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by jryle70 3y ago
At the time that Cisco was top of the world, there were plenty of other high profile tech companies -- Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Sun, HP, DEC. On the networking side there were 3Com, Nortel etc. They all rose the tide of the dotcom bubble, yet
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by jryle70 3y ago
Huh? Spain and Portugal were also huge empires yet they never became industrial powers. Germany had very few colonies, yet achieved rapid industrialization in the 19th century.
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by jryle70 3y ago
Ukraine suffer from daily Russia's drone attack. How about a low cost network that detects, disables or shots down those drones before they can get to their targets? That also, and truly is, a defense system. Do you have any problems w
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by jryle70 3y ago
Because the 4th time could be real even if the first 3 calls were hoax? I suppose there can be protocol to filter out hoax calls, but imagine if a 911 call came but nobody took it seriously because of the swatting history of that place. Eve
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by jryle70 3y ago
Suppose I'm using services provided by JohnFen's employer. What does it do better than Microsoft that I can trust it with my data? What should Microsoft do to be a trusted partner?
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by jryle70 3y ago
> An additional critique is that surely one of the many true-believers in old-school Internet ideals of freedom and openneess could lead for 1/10th the compensation That doesn't translate. A believer in freedom and openness sho
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by jryle70 3y ago
> Transistors used to cost a billion times more than they do now However you would still need billions of dollars if you want state of the art chips today, say 3nm. Similarly, LLM may at some point not require a billion dollars, you may
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by jryle70 3y ago
That's a very narrow minded view. China is number one counterpoint. Without free trade, and very favorable terms that Western countries offered, China wouldn't become the superpower it is today. The tension between US and China to
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by jryle70 3y ago
Why that certainly didn't help, the main reason has been misconception and religious belief: According to a study conducted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, respondents misconceived the vaccine to be capable of causing harm to the imm
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by jryle70 3y ago
Watch the SpaceX's coverage. They went out of their way to emphasize that there'd be very high chance that the mission may end at any moment, and hot staging'd be one of the main events, if not the main event, they'd be
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by jryle70 3y ago
Of course there’s success in failure. If you need 10 things to work right, and you can't verify all 10 things at once (because they need to happen in sequence), but you make it step by step, then it's a success. If you can verify
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by jryle70 3y ago
10% increase in payload https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/64713/how-is-hot-s...

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