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by olympus 9y ago
The military acquisition process (of which technology development is part of) is nothing like software development (even software acquisition projects barely resemble the way SV approaches software). It is frustrating to be a part of becau
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by olympus 9y ago
You shouldn't infer that because China has mounted one railgun to a ship that they have some magic breakthrough. There are kids that have made railguns in their garage, but that doesn't mean that they are appropriate for naval wa
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by olympus 9y ago
I think (but don't know since I haven't worked on any of the projects) is that replacing rails every few shots cuts their shot rate down to an unacceptable level. Additionally, remember that these guns are designed for coastal bo
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by olympus 9y ago
Just like lasers for the USAF, railguns for the USN are a great idea in principle but doomed to wander around as zombie programs until we have enough technological breakthroughs to make them viable for real world use.
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by olympus 9y ago
Most people underestimate the inefficiency of just about every government organization. Probably the only way to significantly improve the program's efficiency would be to turn it over to a for-profit company that had an incentive str
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by olympus 9y ago
Sure, but that was just a thought experiment to show that ~50% efficiency isn't some insanely low number. If you wanted you could ask for their records and dig in, and I bet most people would find each individual expense is reasonable
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by olympus 9y ago
tl;dr: Alasak oil royalty payments are more like UBI and less like CCT, so the incentive structure is a little different. The Alaska oil royalties are not quite conditional cash transfer (CCT), since the only condition is that you lived i
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by olympus 9y ago
I suspect that the benefits of conditional cash are very non-linear, such that the benefits aren't seen until the amount of monthly cash outweighs the immediate opportunity cost of meeting the conditions. If you're offering to pa
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by olympus 9y ago
While it sounds low, this is almost the same efficiency that a temporary work program for homeless people in Denver had (which initially caused me to look into the low sounding efficiency number). Think of it like this: if all of the rem
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by olympus 9y ago
There seems to be several people with a tech hardware background that doubt that Magic Leap can deliver on their promises. But somehow they have no problem raising money or getting publicity. Either they have something that is real and e
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by olympus 9y ago
Not necessarily. If there is a hardware vulnerability specified by the Chinese government, the NSA would not want you to use that phone. They'd rather keep China from having the easy option and then compromise your info another way (
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by olympus 9y ago
I'm sure people that don't get a job because of something they said in the past wouldn't like it. I don't really like the idea of not hiring someone based on behavior far in the past (recent public behavior on social me
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by olympus 9y ago
This is a pretty good idea. Something that scans tweets and other publicly accessible social media for a list of known words and then compiles it into a report for potential employers would go gangbusters in the HR/hiring areas. It o
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by olympus 9y ago
What a load of b.s. Since she engages with communities known for hateful actions she must also be a hateful person and agree with all their thoughts? If you have to dig all the way back to 2013 to find someone using the word "fag&quo
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by olympus 9y ago
Going all in on the Culture ship names. I'd be happy if he just made 100(ish) more just to name them after every ship that Iain M. Banks named. They don't need to catch rockets, they can just link up and make a floating utopia.
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by olympus 9y ago
There is literally millions, and probably billions of dollars of spending that the military, NSA, and other agencies have put towards AI. Just about every military system with a computer has an effort to get some sort of AI onboard to decr
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by olympus 9y ago
He claims the US government isn't investing in AI. That's false. They're investing in AI, they just aren't giving any money to Google. What would the government do with an AI tuned for advertising? This is likely jus
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by olympus 9y ago
I agree with many of his ideas and I agree with the label controversial. A lot of people like his ideas, and a lot of people hate them. That's pretty much the definition of controversial. They didn't use the headline to call hi
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by olympus 9y ago
I thought that the curation was fairly widely known, at least in the community of book lovers. But, in this case they weren't claiming it was excluded from the list because some editor removed it in the interest of "curating,&quo
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by olympus 9y ago
I suspect that you can save some weight if you have multiple satellites going to the same orbit, or if you have a chain of satellites that can be dropped off into similar orbits as the kick stage can be stopped and started several times. B
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by olympus 9y ago
Can you self-sign a certificate from the internal server and install it as trusted on the work computers? Or does Chrome only trust certificates that Google trusts?
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by olympus 9y ago
Even if they aren't picking rides that are the most profitable, the fact that a driver can serve an Uber customer and then a Lyft customer an hour later indicates that these drivers aren't traditional employees. Now you could clas
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by olympus 9y ago
I wouldn't wouldn't go so far as to say "dismissed," but they was definitely a period or two when they weren't as shiny. When I did my M.S. reasearch in 2010 SVMs were far more popular than neural networks. Deep le
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by olympus 9y ago
The hard part is surviving the 20 year drought of research funding in the meantime. Most researchers want to hang onto an idea and develop it until it changes the world but they need to keep their job, so they follow the funding and th
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by olympus 9y ago
No, I’m interpreting what TapJets said in their response. I’m sure the FAA has some solid evidence and they get to make and interpret the rules. But here’s what we have as public knowledge. FAA: You flew flights with unqualified pilots
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by olympus 9y ago
I have no backround in aviation law, just aviation. I’m a private pilot, my dad is a commercial pilot, and my cousin works for a charter jet company. I work with several pilots, and a few previous coworkers have retired from the USAF and
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by olympus 9y ago
You're right that there are commercial flights that fall under part 91 rules. However in this case I think TapJets response was trying to say that their pilot didn't require a commercial rating, which would answer the FAA's
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by olympus 9y ago
Sure, that's basically what they laid out in their response. It's up to the owner/operators of each individual jet to make sure that they are flying legally. TapJets can continue to match up passengers with jets. On a separ
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by olympus 9y ago
Not exactly, and the TapJets response doesn't fully lay out that they met all the requirements for Part 91 flying, but they mentioned non-paying passengers. You can fly under part 91 rules commercially but there are restrictions on how
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by olympus 9y ago
No, they claim they were operating under Part 91 (non-commercial) rules since they didn't take money for the flights. Part 91 rules are less strict, in particular they don't require a commercial license. I'm not sure which j

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