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by lolc 1y ago
Consider that drones may fail more because failure is an acceptable outcome for drones.
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by lolc 1y ago
Wow and Stings are reusable! I thought they would be single use. Being able to recharge them changes logistics a lot. You can have very mobile teams for defense in depth to decimate swarm attacks.
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by lolc 1y ago
Betting on progress has worked for Musk so far. Will we, in ten years, say that of course somebody just had to implement autonomous robots properly? Like reusable rockets or electric cars now? The only exposure I have to autonomous robots i
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by lolc 1y ago
> faithful to the actual historical event What event? I understand you saying that a flood actually happened, and that Noah's story is based on that. Well that may be, but with a quibble: that flood is prehistorical. We have no rec
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by lolc 1y ago
Apparently there's a 400 MW flywheel near Oxford! It's listed as battery which is close enough I guess.
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by lolc 1y ago
The original title is 6 chars too long for HN.
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by lolc 1y ago
If we want a separate female category in sports we have to draw the line somewhere. This test seems to be quite a good line, even having allowances for women that cross it. I don't think people should be challenging these rules on huma
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by lolc 1y ago
Wow they think it's ok to create bots that impersonate people! I know I shouldn't be surprised but this is disgusting.
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by lolc 1y ago
Of course it is impossible for us to know the true cost, but idle instances should not be accounted for at full price: 1. Idle instances don't turn electricity to heat so that reduces their operating cost. 2. Idle instances can be borr
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by lolc 1y ago
If you care about how I experience Tolkien's work, maybe you care what other people do with it.
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by lolc 1y ago
We live in a world where surveillance tech is named after Tolkien fantasies. Fight them, not my words.
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by lolc 1y ago
I liked reading Rand much as I liked reading Tolkien. Now if I try to read either, the fantasy just doesn't work anymore. Oh and even back then Atlas Shrugged was too damn preachy.
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by lolc 1y ago
Why cut off your thinking there? I can think of many reasons why he would like tariffs. Two off the bat: - Allows claiming various benefits like onshoring production, or reduced taxes. This is for the voters. - Allows threatening other coun
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by lolc 1y ago
Oh I have no idea about the brain state of Beato. Just my brain read it that way automatically.
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by lolc 1y ago
> "You know, YouTube is constantly working on new tools and experimenting with stuff," Beato says. "They're a best-in-class company, I've got nothing but good things to say. YouTube changed my life." My desp
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by lolc 1y ago
> Oracle being a terrible company is in no way a decent argument that Java should not be used. Weird, to me that is a strong argument. Choose your stewards.
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by lolc 1y ago
Yes those quotes do not reflect well on the article. You still missed the part where leeches are used to help with tissue transplants. Regarding your jab at the end: In my view it's fraud to sell healing crystals if you don‘t think the
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by lolc 1y ago
You're being very unfair to the article paraphrasing it this way. If you'd read it with a bit more of an open mind, you'd have understood why leeches work for some treatments.
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by lolc 1y ago
With letting the infection persist there might also be an added effect of having trained the immune system. If this is a case where it takes long to build antibodies. This may result in a longer period without an infection due to the improv
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by lolc 1y ago
Yes why not? I often hear the other side when somebody is on the phone.
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by lolc 1y ago
Note that in this study the radar targeted the whole phone, not the membrane.
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by lolc 1y ago
It's interesting that measuring speech vibration is possible, but on the whole I don't see this as viable attack. One would need to get real close to a target, the cited 60% accuracy is at 50 cm distance. At 300 cm they report 2%
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by lolc 1y ago
To say that nicotine is a waste of time ignores that it is used by many people to regulate emotions. Of course no doctor would have prescribed cigarettes. Now with less cancerous options, I can see it happening. The article simply ignores
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by lolc 1y ago
Pay people to wait at intersections. What could go wrong?
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by lolc 1y ago
Shhh don't tell the bots!
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by lolc 1y ago
Great capture and it's funny to read the "possible applications" section when you know humans just love watching slow motion exploding things.
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by lolc 1y ago
Thanks for the interesting link. Where can I read more about the dismantling of feeder lines ? All I can find is that narrow gauge was closing down or being replaced and their steel used in the war. Can't see a concerted effort though.
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by lolc 1y ago
Where did you get this number? All I can find is much higher, showing more than half of the coins have not been moved over a year. https://en.macromicro.me/charts/32355/bitcoin-supply-last-ac... https:/&#x2F
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by lolc 1y ago
Funny thing is, we don't know how many keys are lost. They say it's deflationary, and I say it's deflating to zero through key attrition. And people pay for burning electricity meanwhile. Weird game.
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by lolc 1y ago
Looks like they don't have lane-accurate maps and are still following their vision-only doctrine.

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