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shkkmo
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2y ago
It would be nice to get the article link replaced by the instructable as the article is a poorly written summary that adds no information and gets stuff wrong such as falsely claiming that the RC submarine uses ballast tanks.
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2y ago
Right, he uses rudders to start the dive and then once submerged can use the aquarium thrusters to rise and sink without having to move forward or backwards. The article does indeed misstate how the aquarium pumps are used.
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2y ago
The easier reporting becomes, the more the average quality of reports decreases. So making reporting easier is good only if you already have atleast sufficient resources to process and follow up on the current report volume. My understandin
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2y ago
Starliner is stupider than Artemis and SLS?
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2y ago
The meaning "blind" being used here is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_experiment It has nothing to to with depriving a participant of their sense of sight (except incidentally.)
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2y ago
> violence really does imply some intent to harm another person, or people. That is one of the meanings/senses of the word, but not the only one. It is perfectly reasonable to say that driving ~200km/h is a violent speed withou
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2y ago
> Within an individual human context, violence usually requires intent. There is a sense of the word that implies intent, but that is only one of the senses and another sense that means "forceful or strong" is often used in des
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2y ago
> It seems intuitive to me that something that can simulate our universe could, for instance, quickly compute every possible chess game Some quick googling gives me an estimate of 10^123 possible chess games and only 10^82 atoms in the
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2y ago
> The lack of a scientific or mathematical proof doesn't make both options correct, it's either one way or the other. A plausible assumption is still an assumption. "Sentience" seems to be ubiquitous in the intelligen
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2y ago
"sentience" has nothing directly to do with knowledge or understanding. The word is often confused with "sapience" which does actually have that meaning. > True comprehension requires awareness. This is unknown. A lin
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2y ago
> Five to ten years out though I suspect we will no longer be having arguments over what it means to be human, intelligent. That seems highly unlikely. We may have more information about the nature of intelligence, but I highly doubt we
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2y ago
> If we live in a simulation, all evidence suggests that there's no information coming into the simulation from the outside. Which evidence suggests that? At best we have no evidence that proves extra-simulational information. I wou
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2y ago
> "Traffic violence" implies deliberate acts intended to cause harm Not really. The violence of traffic crashes increases as the speed increases.
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2y ago
Searches happen in finite time an space and, more importantly, systems performing those searches have practical finite limits on parameters that determine size of the space within which that search can take place (such as available memory).
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2y ago
I would argue that no actually searchable solution space is really infinite (if only because infinite turing machines can't exist). Finite solution spaces can get more than large enough to be intractable.
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2y ago
Technically a worker owned Co-op is different from a company with an ESOP as described in this article. The article it links to has more details: https://www.nceo.org/articles/employee-ownership-by-the-numb... There ar
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2y ago
The article you linked doesn't say anything to backup your claim. United was employee owned for a total of only 6 years. Employee ownership was institued over some employee objections and wasn't fully supported by management. The
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2y ago
This is an assumption and one that I believe is faulty. Humans' caring is often related to the degree of connection. Employees at a company are more closely connected to their customers than investors and are thus more likely to care m
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2y ago
People like doing meaningful work that benefits their customers. I think that employee owned businesses tens to treat their customers better than companies that are owned by private equity, pension funds or other investors who never touch t
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2y ago
Given the context an epigenetic factor is also plausible.
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2y ago
All you should have to do is just clone the repo locally and then create a blank GitHub repository, set it as the/a remote and push to it.
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2y ago
The EU hasn't made it hard to release models (yet). The EU has made it hard to train models on EU data. Meta has responded by blocking access to the models trained on non-EU data as a form of leverage/retribution. This is explaine
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2y ago
A negative income tax increases your total benefits as you earn more (up to a point), the system that was being described is one where total benefits are decreased as you earn more.
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2y ago
I do not believe this is correct. If your business is a "pass through" style of entity, you can indeed deduct losses from other income (up to a point and with various limitations.) Doing too much of this can definitely trigger an
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2y ago
But would removing the justification really mater given the entrenched power structure that has grown dependant on a certain way of veiwing other humans? The cannibalism is not the primary issue, but is a clear indicator that the inspectors
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2y ago
> The Solar Council is primarily interested in putting its own arrogance on display. Its Planetary Aid agent doesn't give a flying fuck about the slaves. That much is obvious. That isn't entirely clear. There is a lot of contex
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> Also the intent does not matter under law - not intending to break the law is not a defense if you break the law Intent frequently matters a great deal when applying laws. In the specific area of copyright law, it doesn't itself m
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2y ago
I would point out that "repetition" is not all equal. Education has a tendency to front load lots of repetition which creates boredom and disengagement. The spacing of repetition is often poorly done and rarely individualized. Par
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It an easily misunderstood idiom since the difference between the two meanings is just the definite vs indefinite article: 'the means' vs 'a means'.
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2y ago
Interestingly, I have the "opposite" problem. I have many maps that I wish were "one". I have 7+ mapping apps that I use regularly. Usually I am using several at once and having to swap back and forth to figure out the i
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