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The Feel-Good Story of the World Cup Is Too Good to Be True(theatlantic.com)
3 points by mmooss 4mo ago|1 comments
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Interesting. Maybe you could charge your electric vehicles on local supplies and/or carry emergency generators for charging that burn whatever input that is available, including wind, solar, and maybe even cranks, or that can be made,
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It's important not to overreact: Early concepts of aircraft in warfare, between WWI and WWII, often said aircraft would make battle lines irrelevant. They assumed nothing could stop aircraft. It didn't work out that way. Now peopl
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How much would electrification reduce the fuel logistics burden? Electricity can be moved anywhere in the world instantly, if you can dig a trench and lay cables. The problem, of course, is density, some combination of (energy OR power) per
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I agree, and there's clearly a Sinophile side here: I wish people would engage in a substantive discussion instead of attacking others, this time as 'uncurious'. As I've pointed out, anything but engage on substance.
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by mmooss 4mo ago
> The federal government costs about $19 billion per day to operate based on an annual budget of roughly $7 trillion. $7 trillion is not operating expenses. Much goes into assets that are retained decades or more. The Interstate Highway
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> When I read we spent $1B, I think about how I'm responsible for $3 of that. It doesn't matter considering the ~$117,550 of the national debt I'm responsible for. It palls compared to the $3,000 a year in interest towards
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> one time having to do 6 weeks of testing around a one-line code change because a "helpful" dev fixed a small bug that had no practical impact Roll back the change? Also, fix the approval process - no way that should have been
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Makes sense. I wonder if there's anything in the technology that would benefit people scanning books or those scanning random things with their phones. Maybe better for low contrast or degraded print? (Obviously those applications don&
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> when asked what citations would satisfy you replies "it's not my job to define what citations I will and won't admit". That exchange never happened - maybe you're thinking of someone else? > I'll wager
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They're not commonsense - most disagree with what I know - and just saying they are is just stuff. Saying it will continue to happen isn't evidence. Just saying things doesn't mean anything. > It's a comment section N
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Cool. What's an industrial OCR model?
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> If you can't be bothered to verify claims then don't cast doubt. It's the opposite: If you post claims then others will absolutely cast doubt and it's up to you to verify them. No way other people should do it for y
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I think we agree except one point: IMHO the security of their default install is worth trumpeting: disabling by default is not a technical wonder, but it's good security that others don't do.
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> they deliberately disable every service by default and don't install any software beyond core. Do you prefer that or everything (or most/many services) being enabled by default? It's a good practice and, for me, very pra
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FWIW, The Ants by Holldobler & Wilson is a famous book, afaik the leading book in its field.
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I was wondering about the same thing. From the OP: "... the team examined six colonies, each comprising 110 ants .... Using a fully automated tracking system, the researchers were able to precisely monitor the movements and hundreds of
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"lazy Americans" > easily verifiable claims. I disagree that they are verifiable, not being factual statements. But if you think so, then verify them. I'm not going around HN verifying the claims in everyone else's co
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So you have no evidence.
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I think of it more as their attention to quality in their code: Given the 'quality' of most code, especially under commercial pressure, it's no surprise that much more effective tools will find many more vulnerabilities. Did
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As I said, I have yet to see evidence. That's a bunch of words, but if we didn't know before LLMs and before the Internet, we know now: words are cheap and valueless without other properties. What distinguishes those words from pr
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I think your comment is valuable and insightful, but > China is demanding more. I have yet to see evidence of that beyond propaganda. Naming someone who reportedly gets a harsh sentence is not evidence.
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You're omitting so much, such as torture and ethnic cleansing and massive levels of abuse. Any genocidal concentration camp could be called 'an internment camp'. Anyone reading this, just look up coverage in credible sources.
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> it's not because China has a huge disloyalty problem. Why not? Dictators often purge anyone who is a threat, often because they form a possibly competitive power structure (regardless of their intent), and often because of paranoi
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What problems does this solve? There are many models of climate change; what marginal benefit does this one provide? Also, is it being used? The abstract seems to focus on the technique, Model Predictive Control technique, but what dis&#x2F
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No security is perfect; there is always a way to bypass it. But security can be highly valuable.
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I don't have much interest in Wikipedia, and even then an encyclopedia article doesn't explain what you mean and doesn't apply it to this situation. Humans don't communicate by exchanging links to reference material.
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All Dems have to do is abandon their principles and priorities, and conservatives will like them. I don't think that will work. > open borders You tip yourself off as someone consuming political propaganda. Nobody of any prominence
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That is legal accountability. I am talking about political accountability: When Trump or the GOP do something awful, the Democrats are unable to score points on it. In the reverse situation, the GOP is very good at it. When the GOP screws u
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Ironically, it's not just the ineffectuallity of the DOJ (intentional, in that case), it's the ineffectuality of the political competition, the Democratic Party, to hold the GOP accountable. The Dems inability to cash in on these

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