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961.
by pas 2y ago
There's no need to skip it, there's probably a big backlog from previous shortlists :) But yeah, they could have passed. That would have been cool. Also, there's a ton of extremely amazing shit in astronomy, or even photolith
962.
by pas 2y ago
I like renting cars, I hate to take them for some godforsaken garage to fix some issue with it. Sure, there's a premium, and so on, but similarly I hate looking for an overnight parking space, if I can simply hand it over to someone wh
963.
by pas 2y ago
we don't know if it's EU, likely it's one member state.
964.
by pas 2y ago
it seems PEBKAC all the way down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41784705
965.
by pas 2y ago
unfortunately it seems NRC commissioners have a very unreasonable view on what's reasonable, because in effect they neutered the whole nuclear power industry.
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by pas 2y ago
The opportunity cost of lost sales due to unwanted associations is a drop in the bucked compared to the cost of having humans in the loop. And when the most of the market moves to a low-cost regime eventually almost everyone has to because
967.
by pas 2y ago
How is it any good for eBay? They lost someone who made a lot of money for them. These crazy human hostile implementations of various regulations are a net loss for big businesses. eBay is doing what nowadays all big fucking corps do, shit
968.
by pas 2y ago
without air superiority both sides have extreme artillery dependence
969.
by pas 2y ago
the Navy already has a problem with command and control (training, corruption, scandals, collisions, accountability - from delivering ships on time to the starlink wifi situation) adding more things to control will cause more problems ....
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by pas 2y ago
cookie is for each site, but that's enough... sure, maybe no retargeting ads, but those were creepy anyways (and likely not more effective)
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by pas 2y ago
it's more than enough. especially that the competition is also only using the same tech
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by pas 2y ago
cost and effectiveness. selling ad space was always a lot of work. algorithms do it cheaper and in general better. next step is just to run a GoogleAds lib/proxy...
973.
by pas 2y ago
One, Zero, NextJS and so on all solve real problems on the level similar to what SCTP/QUIC does. That's my point. The seemingly endless churn has very good reasons. But of course the cost of the churn is still real too.
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by pas 2y ago
IARC usually says that something has carcinogenic potential, which is almost completely useless information for something that we already ingest in absurd quantities without a cancer epidemic.
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by pas 2y ago
the travel makes people on average bodily better. usually a lot of walking involved, which has a lot of health benefits, especially for folks who come from the US
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by pas 2y ago
> You don't see the same bs in other areas of computer science. It's not like databases haven't been reinvented every time there's a new fancy startup. MySQL the OG "but web scale" DB (even with InnoDB becau
977.
by pas 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais,_Maine is farther from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Maine than Calais (France) from Paris (France)
978.
by pas 2y ago
No no you are mixing up VCs with PE, same but different!
979.
by pas 2y ago
We don't have to, but it's easier, more clear cut, less politicized, etc.
980.
by pas 2y ago
Yeah, I had the same mental image. Ship limping to the habor, then flag dance or something, then sad ship noises . :)
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by pas 2y ago
The naive explanation is that it helps inventors, because speculative investors (the trolls!) buy up patents. One analogy is pharma research. Rights for a promising candidate molecule are purchased by "big pharma" and they will do
982.
by pas 2y ago
slide 22 states that the cost is 1 CHF/TB/month (on 10+2 erasure coded disks), though it would be interesting to do a breakdown of costs (development, hardware, maintenance, datacenter, servicing, management, etc..)
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by pas 2y ago
I think it got rejected from there too. Based on this it only applied for permit there: https://www.maritimeoptima.com/maritime-news/troubled-ship-h... Then the PM announced that "no". https://www.
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by pas 2y ago
no, Denmark did not allow it access to the Baltics
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by pas 2y ago
The fact that computing went through yet another phase transition with mobile is pretty much undisputed. Battery tech, energy efficient chips, screens, radios, solid-state storage, etc. Of course it's not the same as a desktop/not
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by pas 2y ago
> if Pakistan was doing half as well as Hungary, it would be an awesome place. Of course, my point is exactly that, there's always scapegoats, and even though 1-2 percents over long term matters a lot, and people instinctively know
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by pas 2y ago
he wouldn't be the first (won't be the last) celebrated hard science guy to have very bad takes on human biology (and consciousness). at least they have some kind of falsifiable model: https://physicsworld.com/a&#x
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by pas 2y ago
it mostly depends on one's definition of an algorithm. our brain is mostly scatter-gather with fuzzy pattern matching that loops back on itself. which is a nice loop, inputs feeding in, found patterns producing outputs and then it echo
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by pas 2y ago
Why? Llama is not generated by some guy in a shed. And even if it were, if said guy has such amount of compute, then it's time to use some of it to describe the model's safety profile. If it makes sense for Meta to release models,
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by pas 2y ago
> Most financial software uses known worst case scenarios while doing retirement planning, such as a 30% drop in equities. ... yes, and of course in retrospect of 2008, COVID, land war in Europe, "totally not a war in the Middle Eas

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