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by krisoft 1y ago
The most “sane” explanation is that revealing his identity would compromise ongoing operations. Something like someone who did know him as his secret identity would see his face, hear his association with MI5 and go “Wow Dude! Turns out ‘Ni
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I just imagine being a techie working for the cartel. In case you do not receive the ping, would you want to tell this to your violence prone boss: “Hey boss! Sooo. According to my calculations the significant investment you made in my idea
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by krisoft 1y ago
What do you describe sounds like herding behaviour, yes. When I say it is not a good description for "this" I mean the behavioural difference between Arthur and Lenny. Maybe you read it as if I don't believe in herding in gen
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Gets a face full of water and it stings its nose. Looses footing as it gets deep and doesn't like it. Hears the distant waves roaring and doesn't like it. Sees its human breath differently and move differently and doesn't lik
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> It is not polite to assume that you, after a brief amount of thinking with no background knowledge, have overturned centuries of empirical and scientific knowledge of canine heredity. I do not claim any such thing. Simply that the diff
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> in which they learn about concepts like danger, persuasion, and language itself. Dogs definitely know about the concept of "danger". Roaring fire, a raised stick, or loud noises. These are all things which doesn't cause
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> it's nonsense to dismiss like this I'm not dismissing herding behaviour. It is a thing. But genetics is simply not a good explanation for the story here. Here we have two dogs of the same breed (Arthur and Lenny). One lets th
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by krisoft 1y ago
Idk if the "herding behaviour" is a useful way to think of this. Imagine that we didn't speak the same language, you went for a swim in the ocean and I would go after you and dragged you back to shore while shouting (in my ow
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> IIUC the actual device that does the kaboom remained with its original design and applying voltage will be able to trigger it That is not my understanding. My understanding is that the proper implosion requires very precise timing of s
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> can't just tell the contractor to do a new box They can. But if the delivered box meets the ordered specifications they will ask for extra compensation to redo it. That plus cost of shipping back and forth. That plus any possible
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Given that they are not contradicting, but supporting each other i would suggest to believe both. The blogpost says they counted the pile and it is more than a million dollar. The redit post says that a tour guide says it is more than a mil
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> and those are far easier to game than physical measurements like wind speed or whatever. I’m not so sure about that. I bet that we could tamper with an anemometer somewhere out in a field. Easiest is to put brushless motor with a prope
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> Here is an idea to make the automotive industry slightly better, just an incremental improvement. DBC files are used to specify CAN interfaces, they allow big endian and little endian messages within THE SAME MESSAGE, which is madness.
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> Science doesn’t ban things with questionable data from poorly designed studies when other studies say the opposite. Science doesn’t ban anything. That is simply put not the role of science. Science can inform decision making, but it is
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I hear your pain about the legislation. It sounds like it sucks. > The kind of stuff he buys, no way to get that without a commercial entity, and good luck getting that in place without at least a bachelor's degree in chemistry. Nil
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> The alternative was to do nothing , let them continue the obvious nuclear weapon nation program. Or the alternative being the JCPOA. Which was an agreement to limit the Iranian nuclear program in return for sanctions relief and other p
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That's the program you are talking about, not the deterrent. You are mixing up "working on opening a bakery" with "having bread". They are related, but not the same.
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> This is a defeatist attitude. It is not a defeatist attitude. It is a winning attitude. You told people how you operate and you simply stick to it. The thing you change about yourself is that you stop caring about the supposed “social
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> They can’t credibly dismantle their nuclear deterrent Mainly because they don’t have one and never had one. Hard to dismantle something you don’t have. Even harder to do so credibly. They had programs to obtain a nuclear deterrent. The
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> It opens a synchronous channel, setting social expectations for somewhat realtime responses. But do you see how that is your choice? You can just type "hello", or a longer form of the same, and then go back to work. You can t
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by krisoft 1y ago
Huslage said “I ALREADY paid for the weather balloons and they are no longer being launched.” Past tense. You could say that you have already paid for something where the cost is largely up-front. Like for example you could say it for the a
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Weather balloons are a recurring cost. It is not like you launch a weather balloon once and it provides data forever. You need to launch new balloons once the ones previously launched land. (This is typically a very short amount of time. Da
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This airplane was not at high altitude. It crashed right after taking off. It only ever climbed to a few hundred feet in the air.
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> Except that jkaptur is the one making up false statements, and then providing "citations" that contradict him. I believe I have covered that case in my comment. Let me quote the relevant part here for you: “What they wrote is
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> Other than the fact the parent comment to this subthread is posting a literal factual innacuracy regarding the history of ads on google Sounds like it should be very easy to counter their argument then. For my education could you tell
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> what is this instinct? "The rules were you guys weren't going to fact check." The instinct is about pointing out factual inaccuracies. What they wrote is either correct, or not. If it is not, and someone knows better the
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If I were in a situation like that I would reach out for advice to some religious authority the person in question trusts. There are widely accepted fairly common sense exceptions for saving lives. [1] That could maybe apply to an automatic
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That explains what they have done in the past, not what they plan to do in the future.
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> some people stepped up to the Oracle and asked how to conquer Persia. Others probably asked where they left their sandals. And if the place would be any good at the second kind of queries you would call it Lost&Found and not the Or
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This sounds very wise but doesn’t seem to describe any of my use cases. Maybe some use cases are divination but it is a stretch to call all of them that. Just looking at my recent AI prompts: I was looking for the name of the small fibers w

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