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by mapt 11mo ago
Basically, letting them run away and then setting up a raid at their house the next morning is safer for everyone. If you can follow them from altitude well enough to do that, you reduce risk dramatically relative to either interception or
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by mapt 11mo ago
There's a lot more aluminum than steel on car exteriors these days.
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by mapt 11mo ago
The first thing you do, if you think you're coming into a business partnership where you and your partner are on the same page, mutually committed to communal success, is have a lawyer write up a bunch of provisions binding you to the
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by mapt 11mo ago
There are only eleventy trillion dollars shifting around based on the results, so nobody has any reason to lie.
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by mapt 11mo ago
Polarized light reflecting off a textured surface scrambles into nonpolarized light. There are modest costs (signage & road markings shouldn't be perfectly smooth, retroreflectors work a little differently, and you lose a certain p
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by mapt 11mo ago
I have an alternate theory: If you end up owing a foreign entity vast war debts, war debts that destroy your economy by demanding that every economic transaction in the sovereign currency be heavily taxed and ship its value abroad? You can
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by mapt 11mo ago
Just because this is YC, I thought I should pitch in - A high-trust society that solved coordination problems through legislation, could solve this with a win-win technofix solution where everybody's headlights are as bright as the sun
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by mapt 11mo ago
Looking further - From a previous post on the subject https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42449068 > They measure at a certain point. Jason Cammisa points it out pretty clearly in an episode of Carmudgeon, with the mone
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by mapt 11mo ago
Do we enforce it? At all? It isn't just retrofits that are a problem, it's brand new cars. It's not just about not wanting to be uncomfortably blinded by lasers shooting into your eyes at night. (Lasers well under 3000 lumen
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by mapt 11mo ago
A million times this. The point of a hypothetical suggestion is to direct a specific course of action. I am simultaneously amazed at how complex the 'hypothetical' construct is, and also how many people aren't able to reason
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by mapt 11mo ago
What is the order of magnitude of the largest document store that you can practically work from SQLite on a single thousand-dollar server run by some text-heavy business process? For text search, roughly how big of a corpus can we practica
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by mapt 11mo ago
The US sacrificed that a long time ago, when it first introduced supercarriers in the 50's. Too tall for the bridges, too wide for anything but the Third Locks era, and then only with some minor alterations. Now that we do have the Th
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by mapt 11mo ago
I feel like we got locked into the aerodynamic & airframe structural limitations of a particular CVN format with the USS Enterprise and are doing some wacky things, like not navalizing the F-22 or the C-130 or the B-21, because we can&#
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by mapt 11mo ago
If most of the losses in your military are training disasters based on the current strategic outlook of maintaining highly effective deterrence, then you go for safety. If most of the losses in your military are (hypothetically) getting sl
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by mapt 11mo ago
I find critiques of palm oil accurate, but it begs the question - what is your preferred source of saturated dietary fat? You can do all sorts of things with vegetable oils from seeds/legumes, but you need saturated triglycerides for
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by mapt 11mo ago
People were using analogies to the notorious industrial outbreak of "popcorn lung", because lipid pneumonia was so rare in other contexts. What happened with vaping was that THC-containing liquids were an illegal cottage industr
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by mapt 11mo ago
If you buy dutch chocolate for baking you are told that this is actually significantly less flavorful, but a darker color, and useful for eg dark baked goods, when you're mostly trying to create a certain color shade without adding a t
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by mapt 11mo ago
I feel like a ~$10M/yr foundation to fund hundreds of the "Some Guy In Nebraska" people ( https://xkcd.com/2347/ ) on a modest stipend would be easily worthwhile for any one of the tech giants, even unders
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by mapt 11mo ago
The is rarely some kind of inherent cultural or socioeconomic failing on the part of the producers, it's more often a failure of institutional will and a failure of scale. Take any product that you actually produce well in Scotland for
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by mapt 11mo ago
I'm responding to the assertion that Gemini is legit. Being useful and being so indispensable that people are willing to spend 10-20% of their income on it (directly or indirectly) are entirely different things, and stock market valuat
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by mapt 11mo ago
I would accept "Can be depolymerized, and absorbed by the biosphere or water table or bonded to alkaline rock, when suspended in normal soil in a temperate climate in less than 100 years" as a victory here. Lactic acid is in milk&
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by mapt 11mo ago
Trump will chicken out and pay them off.
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by mapt 11mo ago
AI investment represents 10-20% of the value of the stock market. Does Gemini's existence directly dictate 10-20% of your consumer spending? (In a world of extreme wealth inequality) Now how about Paul Allen's consumer spending?
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by mapt 11mo ago
We passed "too big to fail" a long time ago. NVDA alone is worth $4.4T, up 1100% in five years. The entire 2008 crash only lost $8T in stock market capitalization.
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by mapt 11mo ago
It's probably easier to tell them "I lost access to that email, I need to set up a new account". People do this all the time. On some level, my employer uses emails as the primary key for customer accounts, the baseline iden
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by mapt 11mo ago
It was infuriating to me when normal_email+site_name@gmail.com stopped working for registration on some sites. Fucked up my Costco registration, a variety of other things. This sort of quasi-pseudonymity is required for basic security/
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by mapt 11mo ago
There are a bunch of things leading up to Oct 7. Among them: Being a decade deep into a tightened border blockade that leaves little hope of a long-term future for Gaza. Netanyahu's coalition getting more and more aggressive with thei
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by mapt 11mo ago
Maybe one side of the Sudan conflict needs to buy off all our politicians, so that I can pay my taxes and know what fraction of a Sudanese life I just ended.
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by mapt 11mo ago
In East Germany, the Stasi had 90,000 full-time staff deciphering reports from maybe 400,000 regular informants and around 1/6th of the population as occasional informants. They used this to run a totalitarian surveillance state which
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by mapt 11mo ago
No, but everybody here is some random guy, being tempted to mirror trades by the superhero investor they saw in that movie. And that movie depicts Burry trying to outlast the market in this sort of situation, resorting to quasi-fraudulent

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