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by nradov 6mo ago
Paying a ransom should always be illegal with federal criminal charges for the employees who authorize the payment. If businesses are destroyed or people die as a consequence then those are acceptable casualties.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Or like how San Francisco got rid of all the homeless people when Xi Jinping came to visit in 2023. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/san-francisco-mocked-china-mo...
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by nradov 6mo ago
There have been several startups focused on helping consumers find clothes that fit properly due to lack of consistent sizing between brands (or dress size "inflation" for women). Some of these used optical or laser scanners, or a
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by nradov 6mo ago
If it's stupid and it works then it's not stupid. Sometimes executives have to use blunt instruments to turn around the culture of a hidebound large organization. When Jeff Bezos sent his 2002 API mandate it might have seemed stup
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by nradov 6mo ago
US Navy boat crews have suffered frequent injuries from the constant hammering. https://news.usni.org/2026/04/15/navy-must-do-more-to-protec...
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by nradov 6mo ago
What an ignorant comment, totally disconnected from reality. It literally was a binary choice: without using land mines and cluster munitions the Ukrainian defenders would have been overrun by superior Russian numbers.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Is it fair to Dutch citizens that they're going to be left behind in what is effectively the next industrial revolution? The Netherlands does pretty well in other economic sectors including fossil fuels and agriculture but those aren&#
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by nradov 6mo ago
Because we have offshored most of our heavy industry. For national security reasons we now have to re-industrialize. Plus a lot of the infrastructure for transportation and heating is gradually shifting off of fossil fuels. So electricity u
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by nradov 6mo ago
So then the Ukrainians should just roll over and stop trying to resist? Losing your country is a far more serious consequence then dealing with some UXO later.
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by nradov 6mo ago
So then we agree that it's morally positive for European investors to put money into companies developing advanced land mines. As for descendants, well the people killed by Russian attacks won't have any more descendants. So that
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by nradov 6mo ago
Land mines and cluster munitions have been essential for Ukraine to defend itself against the Russian invasion. Several other European countries including Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland have recently withdrawn from the Anti
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by nradov 6mo ago
Intellectual arrogance seems to be a common failing of developers. You're not as smart as you think you are, nor are other people as stupid.
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by nradov 6mo ago
So you consider it unethical for people to be able to defend themselves?
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by nradov 6mo ago
Besides the ACM code of ethics, the IEEE and IFIP also publish their own codes. There's quite a bit of commonality. https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8 https://www.ifip.org&#x
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by nradov 6mo ago
NetHack 5.0.0 was just released and it runs pretty well even on older GPUs.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Sure, but a lot of those elderly people have some significant degree of dementia. That make it difficult to go out on your own terms.
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by nradov 6mo ago
You're spreading a common misconception. No one really "owns" a home in China. What they're usually purchasing is a 70-year lease on the land. The hope is that the lease can be renewed on favorable terms but there's
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by nradov 6mo ago
Single-room occupancy (SRO) housing was effectively outlawed by tenant protection laws. The only way that housing with shared facilities can possibly work is when the landlord enforces strict rules and immediately evicts tenants who misbeha
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by nradov 6mo ago
Drug tourists migrate to San Francisco because they can get free money to buy drugs.
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by nradov 6mo ago
It's a negative sum game when you account for the house rake.
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by nradov 6mo ago
The data appears to be wrong. I buy a lot of stuff and services, but very little of it is even advertised. As Jeff Bezos says, "when the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right." https://lexfrid
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by nradov 6mo ago
There was no real route towards negotiations. The two sides remained quite far apart on issues they considered non-negotiable, and neither side is desperate enough yet to make major concessions. The US strikes on Iran were paused temporaril
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by nradov 6mo ago
It's so weird that people are getting worked up about a fake project. Regardless of government activities, there is no industry financing to actually build anything. Kevin O'Leary’s Biggest Scam Yet: https://youtu.be&#x
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by nradov 6mo ago
Much ado about nothing. This is a fake project. There is no financing. Kevin O'Leary’s Biggest Scam Yet: https://youtu.be/RWoV0EXxa7c
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Wall Street Millennial: OpenAI Lobbying for Gov Bailout(youtube.com)
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by nradov 6mo ago
It's the old General Motors product philosophy of "A Car for Every Purse and Purpose". That market segmentation and badge engineering approach worked great for decades and allowed them to earn huge profits. But eventually cus
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by nradov 6mo ago
You're still not making any sense. If you drew some sort of implication about mixed orchards then you really need to work on basic reading comprehension.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Grape vines have a longer productive lifespan than most fruit trees so I don't know what point you're trying to make. Lots of wine grape vines are being torn out in California. Competition is intense, we're well past "pe
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by nradov 6mo ago
You're not making any sense. I never claimed that a bunch of farmers have mixed orchards. Some farmers have too many peach trees right now because Del Monte got their forecasts wrong so now those farmers will chop down the peach trees
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by nradov 6mo ago
Yes, I actually have farming experience. Farmers aren't naive about this stuff. They forecast future trends as best they can and will replace trees (or other crops) when it seems profitable. Newly planted fruit trees will generally sta

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