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by notahacker 2mo ago
If we're really doing these comparisons, the think tanks that wrote policy pieces for the cigarette companies talking about the evils of regulating tobacco were also particularly passionate about tax cuts for the wealthy benefiting eve
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> All else being equal, you want to produce more with less labor and other inputs. And firms are already incentivised to increase productivity, including by offshoring jobs or replacing staff by robots, because that's their profit m
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> re: the greeting, I think introverts around the world do not necessarily appreciate being randomly greeted by strangers, they just get used to it if the culture is like that the flip side is that extroverts around the world don't
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by notahacker 2mo ago
tbf they generally don't even try with moderation. A few years back they made a multimillion pound settlement with a UK consumer finance guru who was sick his face being used to fake endorsements of scam products promoted mainly via
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by notahacker 2mo ago
CONCACAF and UEFA together is 96 out of 211 votes. They've since being joined by the Asian Football Confederation for a large majority against. And no reason to suspect the bung Infantino offers for voting in his direction is anywhere
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by notahacker 2mo ago
Also for knowing how to structure a project and budget, how to assess what the specific funders are looking for from the questions they ask even if they haven't bid on that call before, how to frame core technical roadmap stuff in ways
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> The most beloved, most watched sport in the world making less than the American/Canadian hockey league is a commercial failure. Fortunately the English top division alone makes a similar amount to NHL (from a quarter of the matche
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by notahacker 2mo ago
Yeah, I can see them doubling that revenue by being even more extortionate with ticket prices and adding another 16 teams (as already planned to happen) to add more games. But the only way they 10x is to start running more FIFA competitions
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by notahacker 2mo ago
There were 40% more games than the last World Cup, which is a lot of extra broadcast rights and ticket revenues...
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It's already an entity that makes billions that's run as a business even though it's nominally one of the few parts of the sport that isn't for profit, and it's not like they really need private equity to help them
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Past tense. Were on his side. He also just lost a unanimous vote with CONCACAF, the body representing many of the smallest islands least likely to ever qualify for the World Cup or actually generate money from football (and a small number
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by notahacker 2mo ago
I don't know about "most", but there are a lot of people treating it as somewhere between "magic oracle" and "new friend" Not to mention people more worried about whether the AI is motivated to hurt us t
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And people think that the exciting bit of space is launch!
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> So, nobody will be recycling space debris that lives at GEO any time soon, unless someone figures out how to do it in situ. Actually have a funded project looking at this, albeit only parts of the chain and only to TRL4. The trick is b
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by notahacker 2mo ago
Cool. Is there an IAC paper in the works as well?
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It also must be seen in the context that the open weight models aren't commercially associated with a popular distribution site where people share the images, the people behind them aren't public figures seen as encouraging the us
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by notahacker 2mo ago
Is there a paper somewhere describing the intended robotic operations and robotic toolkit it's equipped with (beyond the MEPs, though they're pretty interesting too)? (context: some of my colleagues and consortium partners are wor
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by notahacker 2mo ago
The multi-purpose robotic manipulation makes this a bit more advanced and experimental than the dedicated MEV attachment, as useful and performant as the MEV has been. China also demonstrated robotic grappling and towing in GEO in 2021. A f
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by notahacker 2mo ago
Yep. I'd say the way forward for testing is the freighter, which doesn't have evacuation issues, doesn't unload at passenger airbridges and (if packed properly) doesn't have the same sensitivity to rolling motions. But f
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It would definitely be cheaper to shell out $5 for your own :D
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Sure, but periodically refilling a propellant tank for a few large SBSP structure on-orbit involves less complexity than replacing racks of inference chips distributed across constellations of satellites as proposed by current filings. Whic
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by notahacker 2mo ago
Never. As the post you apparently quoted without reading said , we're talking about a rectenna composed of pylons and wires structured as a mesh that doesn't interrupt farming and can theoretically be offshore, not panels here Sp
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Non-exclusive use of farmland or wasteland (or even - at least until maintenance complexity is considered - offshore) isn't a major barrier; we have many many miles of wires and pylons crossing farmland for regular terrestrial grids al
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by notahacker 2mo ago
The unit economic tradeoffs aren't quite that straightforward (beamed power is lossy enough to require more panels[1], but solar cells and satellite structures have longer useful lives than inference chips so over longer time periods y
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I suspect a lot of the value from the job comes from the engineers being people who drew up dreaming of rockets and playing Kerbal Space Program (as in many other countries where working for space companies is relatively speaking even less
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> 2) The OpenAI sandbox is such a horrible hack that the AI managed to escape using standard and well documented script kiddie methods. Whilst it would be nice to see actual evidence of this because brute forcing relatively sophisticated
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Squatters, boundary disputes and rent defaults happen all the time. Plus having most of your net worth locked up in something no sane person would consider buying off you because you can't prove you own it is ... suboptimal
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It's a theoretical optimum location for measuring whether temperature at a weather station is likely to be representative of average temperature across the surrounding area, with requirements for flatness of land, vegetation of the app
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And if a few dozen weather stations records temperatures a couple of degrees higher than any of them recorded in their previous decades of operation, only an idiot would conclude that the day was actually warmer than previous days, when it
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by notahacker 3mo ago
I didn't create the claim " almost all the records are being set at weather stations that can't measure change in the climate due to urban corruption or being sited at runways", the OP did. When we've had June reco

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