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Most of the LinkedIn AI generated posts are accompanied by an AI generated picture or diagram intended to grab your attention as you scroll. Those images have a certain obvious "look" to them so when I see them I routinely block t
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The contractors who are best at doing high quality work are often not the best at written communication. People who enjoy reading and writing don't tend to go into that line of work in the first place. And they're probably jugglin
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Nah, you just haven't been paying attention to recent events. Russia doesn't have any forces capable of closing the Black Sea. Belarus is sitting on the fence and while they provide Russia with some logistical support they're
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Neat how? Tidal power never made economic sense. There are only a limited number of places with enough tidal flow to even potentially make it viable. Any moving parts in the marine environment require frequent expensive maintenance due to g
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Public housing failed not because of insufficient funding or support but because a small fraction of residents were sociopaths and criminals. The authorities refused to take decisive action to quickly evict the troublemakers and so they wre
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I live in the SF Bay Area and the local shopping centers closest to me have zero EV chargers. California is supposedly going to mandate that all new vehicles be electric in 2035 but that's obviously a ridiculous fantasy; the deadline w
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You'll have to ask Putin that question. But the usual intelligence analysis of that decision is based on several factors. 1. Putin thinks the disintegration of the USSR in 1991 was a historic disaster and wants to reassemble much of it
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Russia has no ability to carpet bomb anyone anymore. They have only a handful of operational strategic bombers left and little or no capability to manufacture new ones. Much of the USSR's old heavy aircraft supply chain was in Ukraine.
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You're missing the point. Russia simply lacks the conventional missile production capacity necessary to flatten Kyiv. They used up most of their missile reserves early in the war and are now firing them off about as fast as they can bu
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What is the false positive rate on the checkers?
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Foreign military budget numbers are largely fake and can't be attempted to be believed. China's government spending isn't publicly released and can't be independently verified. A lot of what the US considers to be milita
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That's why only an idiot would give a single manager or administrator the keys to full rights. Security best practice is to divide fragments of the keys across multiple individuals so that no single individual can approve a potentially
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Prompt injection isn't fatal. It's not even a real problem, or rather it just exposes problems in the underlying security architecture. Prompt injection is more like social engineering attacks on humans. The solution is the same:
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US hotels generally want a real credit card specifically to minimize fraud and damage risk. They usually won't accept random apps like PayPal or Cash app. At least with a physical credit card if the guest trashes the room then the hote
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It's a systematic, competent purge the political rivals program.
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Which criminal law did Meta or its employees allegedly violate? Please to give a specific citation. I'm not endorsing their actions but criminal charges can't be based on vibes.
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This case isn't an SEC enforcement action.
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Buy a jogging stroller. You'll have to accept some loss of sleep though, that's just the way it goes.
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That's a reasonable start for some people but it lacks the resistance training necessary to prevent sarcopenia later in life. Some people get that as part of their job but most of us need to do at least some weight training. Carrying g
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Once you make it a habit like brushing your teeth the distractions cease to be an obstacle.
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Sounds good, I hope they do. But as a practical matter Egypt is in a difficult spot because they import wheat from both Ukraine and Russia. And Egypt has no real leverage with Putin.
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That's not how any of this works. Exercise causes some oxidative stress but this isn't a problem in practice. There is only a tiny fraction of committed athletes who over train to the point where it becomes detrimental; most peopl
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It's no stranger than how fake news organizations like CNN started using random tweets as legitimate sources.
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But will those other countries protect you from an alien attack for free?
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Something like a quarter of all US healthcare spending is "low value care" which isn't justified by evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. It isn't healing people and often harms them. We have a huge problem with w
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The article makes a good point about food imports to Egypt. I think a lot of people don't realize that Egypt has been an innocent victim of Russia's invasion of Ukraine which disrupted wheat exports. Recent strikes by Ukraine on R
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That's true for now, although their rate of population growth appears to have peaked several years ago and like most other countries the birth rate has since declined sharply. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demograp
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Most socialists and communists have an ideological blind spot in that they don't understand how to create any wealth in the first place. Based on their policy proposals they implicitly seem to believe that the means of production just
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Most houses do depreciate, or they require frequent expenses just to maintain their value which amounts to the same thing. There are occasionally exceptions to this rule in times of rapid construction price inflation but that's rare. I
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If you try hard enough you can always find a plausible sounding excuse why failure is inevitable. And yet on Saturday at the neighborhood Independence Day party I met a guy who immigrated from Ukraine about 25 years ago with no money, no co

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