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by nradov 1mo ago
Having spare batteries was so great with the old Samsung smartphones. I usually kept a spare on the charger and swapped it as I headed out the door. It took like 10 seconds, just pop the back cover off.
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by nradov 1mo ago
Are there battery chemistries available which would allow for significantly longer life without sacrificing cost, power capacity, size, or safety? Generally the best way to prolong battery life is for the consumer to never fully charge or d
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by nradov 1mo ago
You will actually find European HN users who will unironically say that we should have never started using fossil fuel engines at all.
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by nradov 1mo ago
Experience, culture, and domain knowledge are still somewhat of a moat. That foreign youth is unlikely to be able to write a good prompt for building, let's say, the software in an FDA-regulated medical device or custom Fortune 500 ERP
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by nradov 1mo ago
No previous technological arms race has ever concluded with a single winner.
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by nradov 1mo ago
It was an inevitability. Unfortunately Oppenheimer was a fool when it came to politics. In game theory terms, the perceived benefits of "defecting" were too large. The military mostly only developed more powerful nukes because ear
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by nradov 1mo ago
It's practically impossible to retrofit CarPlay into most newer vehicles where the infotainment system is tightly integrated with the rest of the vehicle.
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by nradov 1mo ago
We are all LLM shareholders on this blessed day.
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by nradov 2mo ago
Why would I want a slow morning? That sounds miserable, like the opposite of luxury.
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by nradov 2mo ago
US capital markets are the largest and most liquid in the world. It's not even close. There are of course a zillion other borrowers worldwide but they're all much smaller and suffer from a variety of other structural problems. If
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by nradov 2mo ago
Most of the minor lacerations which require stitches to heal cleanly can be handled perfectly well in urgent care. There's usually no need for ER level care.
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by nradov 2mo ago
None that can absorb such enormous capital flows.
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by nradov 2mo ago
China's government is "very stable" until it's not. As a society, China has a long history but the central government has essentially collapsed or experienced violent revolution in 1976, 1969, 1949, 1927, 1911, 1850, 179
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by nradov 2mo ago
There is no alternative.
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by nradov 2mo ago
As long as water conditions allow for a safe landing. In much of the world that severely limits when you can operate due to storms or ice. In practice routine use of ground effect vehicles will be mostly limited to lakes and inland seas wit
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by nradov 2mo ago
Who gets to define the market? Does the "market" consist of only advertising technology platforms, or everything involved in online advertising, or all advertising through every possible channel worldwide?
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by nradov 2mo ago
From a public policy perspective it doesn't matter if some pieces are unviable and fail to survive. Across the entire economy, this creative destruction allows for quickly reallocating resources to more productive uses. Most of the com
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by nradov 2mo ago
They don't want any of their competitors to be able to leap ahead. Good luck getting the Chinese to agree.
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by nradov 2mo ago
Why?
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by nradov 2mo ago
It's not unrealistic. Several Chinese companies seem to be close behind. People thought they would never catch up to the US car industry and now look what happened.
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by nradov 2mo ago
Code readability ceases to be a concern once you eliminate human programmers.
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by nradov 2mo ago
Oh please, quit exaggerating. No one died. Don't waste our time with silly sci-fi scenarios.
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by nradov 2mo ago
Is there any reason why OpenAI should care? If they don't want your business then someone in your country can build a competing model.
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by nradov 2mo ago
We don't need it, but it's too late now to drop it. Going back the the Joint Strike Fighter program circa 1993, the primary requirement for the V/STOL "B" model came from the USMC. They had an institutional fear ste
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by nradov 2mo ago
There is no conceivable way for "everyone" to serve even if they wanted to. The modern professional military couldn't possibly absorb a mass of new conscripts. We don't have the budget or resources to train, equip, trans
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by nradov 2mo ago
That depends on what you mean by "concept to aircraft". Boeing and Lockheed Martin built flying JSF prototypes pretty quickly after receiving the initial program requirements. But it took a lot longer to reach operational status.
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by nradov 2mo ago
Concerns over the DoD failing audits are silly and uninformed. The reality is that they only started publishing full financial reports in FY2018 and are legally required to pass an audit in FY2028. The department is full of complex legacy s
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by nradov 2mo ago
Bad how?
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by nradov 2mo ago
Why do we need safety?
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by nradov 2mo ago
Security costs are also an obstacle. Any nuclear reactor requires 24×7 armed security and that's largely a fixed cost regardless of power output. You need almost as many guards for a small reactor as a large one.

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