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by oskarkk 3y ago
I find it very interesting even if the approach was yesterday, as the chances were seemingly quite high and asteroid was quite big. Also, Hacker News isn't exactly only news, just any interesting things, current or past.
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by oskarkk 3y ago
In the western world we already have many forms of wealth redistribution. Why wouldn't normal democratic government suffice for communism under right circumstances? You might as well say that the core problem of capitalist west is how
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by oskarkk 3y ago
And sadly since updating the marks, on 3 out of 5 street view photos of one of these places someone has parked there anyway: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7184242,-73.9928144,3a,75y,3...
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by oskarkk 3y ago
My favorite fact about timescales is that Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landings than to the building of pyramids.
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by oskarkk 3y ago
This got me curious, so I searched for some info and found this thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039213 Looks like it may not be used exactly in avionics (or maybe most critical parts of avionics), as it
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by oskarkk 3y ago
> Of course language relates to things, but I am thinking of language in the sense of a constantly growing corpus of text. It is a self replicator, but like a virus it uses the host organism, a human or a LLM to create more of itself. Id
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by oskarkk 3y ago
China attacking Taiwan is a very real possibility, and costs of completely losing access to Taiwanese chips would be much higher than these subsidies. Imo, this expensive insurance is necessary.
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by oskarkk 3y ago
They're still building them, it's not like you can build a fab in 2-3 years. The push to increase (global) chip production capacity is a long term strategy. And for many it's also national security strategy (moving production
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by oskarkk 4y ago
Also, they're treating industrial robots as an AI: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/24/ > A 22-year-old worker at a Volkswagen plant was "crushed to death" by a robotic arm. The worker was inside