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by labster 2y ago
While I agree with the Pax Americana as a concept, you can’t attribute all of the peace to it. MAD has stopped some as well. Also, industrialization has made wars of conquest unprofitable in general, since the aggressor tends to destroy the
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by labster 2y ago
America’s doctrine is to be ready for WW3 so that we don’t accidentally have to fight WW3. If everyone knows that we can fight them even while at war elsewhere, it discourages any great power wars from starting.
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by labster 2y ago
Why would they retest and recertify so they can sell half the product they used to sell? What company is crazy enough to lose that much money?
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by labster 2y ago
This reminds me so much of the “no vehicles in the park” test.[1] We allow wheelchairs as a special case for people with mobility issues, not because we want bike lanes inside airports. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by labster 2y ago
In the incident that coined “drinking the koolaid”, the bosses did drink it.
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by labster 2y ago
Researchers and academics did pretty well on weather models, which are much more important to safety than aviation software, because you can’t just disable severe weather for a few days.
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by labster 2y ago
If you think a little IP theft makes an entire country evil, I’d hate to know what you think of China. Note: OP edited his comment
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by labster 2y ago
Huh, I read the whole article and interacted with all the inline examples on my iPhone SE/2.
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by labster 2y ago
"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."
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by labster 2y ago
This was my club in university: https://daviswiki.org/Students_for_an_Orwellian_Society I think that 20 years later it is much harder make effective satire, so I rarely do it now. More extreme positions are taken pretty reg
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by labster 2y ago
But if teachers could use AI to grade exams and automate the boring work, then they could take a second job and be able to afford housing. Sounds like an easy win for AI.
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by labster 2y ago
If you teach a man a fish, he will eat for one lifetime. If you give a man a radioactive fish, he will eat for many half-lives.
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by labster 2y ago
As a climatologist, I can tell you that we switched to “climate change” because it’s more precise. “Global” in global warming is not the “universal” sense of global, because not everywhere on Earth warms equally, and some places may even co
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by labster 2y ago
Can corporate persons run for President? Boeing is certainly old enough.
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by labster 2y ago
It’s hard for convicted felons to get a job.
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by labster 2y ago
I’m sure we can come up with national security reasons to hire convicted felons with their own lobbyists and captured administrators.
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by labster 2y ago
Not sure what you mean by almost biblical, it’s all the way there. There are the originalists, who believe in interpreting the Constitution as originally spoken by the prophets, er, founding fathers. Basically sharia constitutional law. The
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by labster 2y ago
There was an astronomical year zero, it’s mainly historians who don’t want the year zero to happen.
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by labster 2y ago
It’s open, as in “open your pocketbook”.
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by labster 2y ago
This product sounds perfect for my use case.
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by labster 2y ago
Lots of nonprofits work with multiple corporations, and OpenAI is a nonpfff— Sorry, I can’t say that without corpsing.
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by labster 2y ago
And they wonder why so many people are sleeping on the streets these days. It’s just better UX.
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by labster 2y ago
It’s not always demand. Lots of people don’t want smart TVs, but that’s too bad. The smart TVs are subsidized to manufacture because the software can put more advertising on, which makes it a supply-side issue.
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by labster 2y ago
Pimpin’ ain’t easy. You need lots of lobbyists and a continual presence on The Hill.
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by labster 2y ago
In English, speakers are forced to make the same light/dark distinction between pink/red and orange/brown as well. I don’t think most native speakers of English think of orange as the same as light brown.
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by labster 2y ago
Yeah, copyright is a government enforced monopoly. Basically the definition of socialist government intervention in the free market. IA can produce copies for much cheaper, but the government doesn’t allow them to compete, because they want
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by labster 2y ago
One year later, the USAF fared an even worse against a runaway drone. It took two days to put out all of the fires caused by the rockets that missed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Palmdale
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by labster 2y ago
I’m not sure if you’ve seen housing prices lately but most of the middle class are technically millionaires now, just of the “land rich, cash poor” variety.
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by labster 2y ago
Given the topic, I assumed the quote was probably false the first time I read it. It pays to be a little paranoid about everything, and hold most of one’s beliefs only shallowly.
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by labster 2y ago
So that’s why the book publishers are trying to take over the IA.

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