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by quadragenarian 15d ago
Ha - I still remember when I worked on the IBEX-Lo Sensor, we had to hand carry it to Switzerland. One lucky member of our team got to fly first class with it because it wouldn't fit in a coach seat!
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by quadragenarian 2mo ago
Keep in mind though that by entering into a 20% down mortgage you are effectively levered up 5x against your local real estate market. So it’s not like you’re totally reducing your risk. Luckily for homeowners, home prices only go up since
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by quadragenarian 9mo ago
The irony I see here is that she is relatively young. By making these declarations, she and others in this administration are making an implicit bet that there won't be another sensible e.g. law-abiding administration in the future tha
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by quadragenarian 9mo ago
These are the very people who would help him rewrite history that yes he indeed did earn the Nobel Peace Prize as it is obviously and prominently displayed in his office, the words and records of the Nobel committee be damned.
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by quadragenarian 9mo ago
I love how you put that! Suspicious is too gentle of a word.
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
What about if the administration lays off staff during the shutdown instead of furloughing them? I would think that would not require any compensation.
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
This already does happen for nighthawk coverage for example where a non-US radiologist will provide a wet read and then a US rad will sign off. The US rad will always bear the liability however.
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
You do realize that in order to interpret imaging for a US based patient, any physician needs to have a US medical license?
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
Radiologists are often the ones who are the "brains" of medical diagnosis. The primary care or ER physician gets the patient scanned, and the radiologist scrolls through hundreds if not thousands of images, building a mental model
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
Interesting - living near a large city, all of the radiologists I know work for hospitals, spending more of their day in the hospital reading room versus home, including performing procedures, even as diagnostic radiologists. I think it ma
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
So the night before, was he at the wrong venue as well?
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
Separate from the phone and screen time discussion, you are at an important juncture of your life, a transition to parenthood that could change everything. I say "could" because I fundamentally believe that half of people who have
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
Having had a stint in my youthful life where I studied Technocracy a great deal, I still see some powerful concepts that I can't let go of. The emphasis on standardization and elimination of the price system, even if nothing more than
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
Not to be overly pedantic but there are more than 3. It's just 3 that are commonly used in asset management (S&P, Moody's, Fitch). Others include Morningstar DBRS (Dominion Bond Rating Services - rates primary Canadian debt is
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
It's very difficult if not impossible to design a system that allows for a madman to be in charge, because to do so, the system would have to severely curtail the executive's powers which would render him or her useless. The tacit
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
The value of life isn't your work. Work can be turned off any moment, due to tyrant or recession. Work is fleeting. The value of life is your personal relationships, your family, your own character and ability to deal with difficulty.
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
Another example of the idea that "treating people like objects" is evil and in fact, is the cause of most evil in the world.
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
If foreign investors like China dump our debt, prices will go down and yields will go up. As long as we increase our debt ceiling and don’t do anything intentionally crazy like try to renegotiate existing debt (which would be a technical de
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
New debt would be cheaper. Most US treasuries are fixed rate debt. There may be some FRNs (floating rate notes) floating around (pardon the pun) but not many. Tbills are discount instruments but also wouldn’t be affected until they mature a
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
Could you provide more information on what you mean by "repudiated the debt"? Does this mean reneging on US Treasury bonds? Because that's nuclear. That causes fixed income markets to implode and brings upon GFC 2.0.
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
As someone who's worked at Lincoln Labs, I do wonder if the poster here has considered this. Although, it is worth noting that LL requires citizenship for many/most of its divisions.
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
As mentioned in the article you linked, the president has a veto over any law to restrict his own tariff powers; the only way to override his or her veto is to pass the law with 2/3rds majority in BOTH chambers, the House and Senate. T
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by quadragenarian 1y ago
I may be wrong but shipping via a third country doesn't work - I believe that Section 301 allows the US to re-assign the correct country of origin. Sure, some product may come in via this trick, but anything at scale would be found out
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by quadragenarian 2y ago
I thought I had heard that there were some details on CIA operatives, such as names that were mentioned in the chat as well. Is it possible there is more that Goldberg is still sitting on?
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by quadragenarian 2y ago
[citation needed] Assuming this is true, how did they determine what a "top" government official is? So if you're the SecDef you should use it but not the deputy SecDef? How would this guidance not pertain to all government o
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by quadragenarian 2y ago
I worked for an FFRDC on a DARPA project a bit more than a decade ago having to do with communication jammers. It was terribly managed. There were two projects going on at my organization that were basically the same thing but with two diff
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by quadragenarian 2y ago
That makes sense to me, and good point about Adobe/Dell. So then any AI would not create art spontaneously right? It would always require a user to prompt it in some way. So wouldn't it be correct to say that all AI art is actuall
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by quadragenarian 2y ago
Are you a caring person? Do you find yourself good with children or animals? Empathy and being able to take care of another life is one of the most important characteristics if not the most important in a relationship. If the answer is no,
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by quadragenarian 2y ago
Wait just so i understand it, if a single human creates an AI model and trains it, and then prompts it to create an image, is that considered "human intervention" and does that make that human the author of that image? What if its
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by quadragenarian 2y ago
Well one of the reasons we can be so spendthrift in this country is our financing rates staying so low despite massive amounts of debt. This is due to confidence by global investors and asset managers in the US's economy and ability to

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