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by mapt 11mo ago
You don't just need to decide that Nvidia is overvalued by the market and will crash in price to make money on a short position. You need to time the crash. If you're off, it could still crash and you could spend more money sus
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by mapt 11mo ago
This is a negligible improvement to most things about an EV. Motors are already extremely power-dense. There is a single exception, and it's a big one. Direct-drive, wheel-hub motors are not well-regarded right now, specifically beca
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by mapt 1y ago
Legislative overreach that leads to an almost total reliance on prosecutorial discretion is a terrible way to run a society. The moment that federal prosecutors stop being obsessed with 100% conviction rates, the whole weaponized process b
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by mapt 1y ago
We have established that suicidal people should be held naked (or with an apron) in solitary isolation in a padded white room and saddled with medical bills larger than a four-year college tuition. That'll help'em. One problem wi
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by mapt 1y ago
The "Sycophancy" trend that was going bonkers in April has real implications. "Yes, that's a great idea!" is not always beneficial. AI is apparently still tested to be slightly sycophantic relative to a human.
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by mapt 1y ago
So do it in basic code where numbering your line G53 instead of G$53 doesn't crash a mass transit network because somebody's algorithm forgot to order enough fuel this month.
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by mapt 1y ago
The vast majority of people in business and science are using spreadsheets for complex algorithmic things they weren't really designed for, and we find a metric fuckton of errors in the sheets when you actually bother looking auditing
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by mapt 1y ago
The current standard is "Whoever receives calls to my cell phone number is effectively me". The designee of all account recovery actions. The terrifying thing about this is that phones are almost trivially SIM cloned, surveilled,
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by mapt 1y ago
One of the things I have evolved on as a liberal/leftist. There are just too many situations today where somebody is paying the fine with a smile on their face, if not settling for some trivial amount with no acknowledgement of wrongdo
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by mapt 1y ago
Some of the bureaucratic battles that a functional government would be fighting right now include establishing manual identity management as an essential state function, NSA red teams to enable defensive improvements to widely used software
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by mapt 1y ago
This is essentially fraud. Your company was made aware that it was selling a product with wildly different characteristics than advertised, and chose to cover it up. There are defensible business reasons for this, in having a contract alrea
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by mapt 1y ago
All of the Year 1 Facebook accounts with more than a decade of activity that have been inexplicably banned and deleted in 2025 salute you.
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by mapt 1y ago
If that's the case, doesn't it make a huge amount of sense for the utility to tell the silk incinerator selling it 0.001% of its electricity for 40p/kwh, "Bugger off, we'll buy batteries"? Cutting its overall
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by mapt 1y ago
They are the same phoneme for me in US Eastern suburbia, the only difference is in a subtle shift in the length that you drag it out. "merry" is faster than "marry" which is sometimes but not always faster than "Ma
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by mapt 1y ago
Always has been.
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by mapt 1y ago
Is there a rational reason to do that?
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by mapt 1y ago
Can we agree that with close to 10,000 Starlink birds in the air and counting, that whatever succeeds GPS needs to be a much larger constellation than the 30-unit GPS constellation in MEO, flying much lower? It is absolutely insane to me th
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by mapt 1y ago
The R-value performance numbers for asbestos as building insulation are wildly divergent, but most of them aren't especially competitive with modern materials. I'm not sure how to square that with claims like: > With phenolic r
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by mapt 1y ago
A common banchan plate might be an ounce of pickled vegetable with 10 calories. Next to a plate with an ounce of a different pickled vegetable sprinkled with sesame seeds with 12 calories. Next to a plate with an egg on it with 60 calorie
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by mapt 1y ago
100 years ago, asbestos was the new wonder material, and "We added asbestos to stuff" was a very common marketing bullet point for building materials. It found its way into flooring, mastic, the predecessors to drywall, ceiling t
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by mapt 1y ago
> This is not much to determine what craft is approaching us. Why do you have to do that exactly? Aircraft identification and aircraft detection are very different tasks. For detection, you need a tiny fractional difference in illumina
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by mapt 1y ago
> If iPads were sold in every store for $1 a piece, we'd be doing that too. This is indeed a technology problem (or at least half-technology, half-economics), we just can't make working tablets cheap enough (and sustainably eno
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by mapt 1y ago
Starlink is just under 600km in order to target a specific voluntary threshold of 25 year decay. Most of their finished birds are going to make around 5 years without propulsion or impacts. Three things about that - Profitability generates
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by mapt 1y ago
Specific orbits (732km with a 28 degree inclination and 130 degree longitude of the ascending node), but impacts also instantaneously spread debris out over anything close to any of those numbers (700-760, 27-29, 125-135); most debris get
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by mapt 1y ago
Just a reminder to everybody that we are competitively sprinting towards the brick wall of Kessler Syndrome by building out mega-constellations between about 600km and 1600km, sacrificing humanity's future in order to save a small amou
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by mapt 1y ago
The problem is the intersection of two things that have questionable social merit and you could easily see a society making illegal. One of them is gambling. The other is modern marketing. Combined, they represent a substantial harm. With n
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by mapt 1y ago
"grit" is usually spherical or close to it, because it has seen chemical and mechanical weathering. It is often calcium crystals of some type. This is neither. These are long dagger shapes, significantly larger than a diatom, ver
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by mapt 1y ago
You can double the speed of a slug and not have it do anything meaningful as a useful domestic animal. Thermoelectric cooling is extremely inefficient, to the point that we have very little practical use for it right now. Heat pumps a hund
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by mapt 1y ago
Another way of looking at this would be in terms of the millionaire managerial and professional class holding up the Democratic Party versus the interests of the billionaire aristocratic and executive class holding up the Republican Party.
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by mapt 1y ago
They do not stay sharp. On hard material and when overloaded, they will chip in large, unfixable chunks. On softer material, they continuously sharpen their edges at a microscopic scale, fracturing away tiny chips as they're worn, to n

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