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by the_af 7mo ago
How on earth could they skip streaming the final 10 seconds countdown? That's beyond incompetence.
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by the_af 7mo ago
Agreed. There was high quality alternative streaming from other sources, how come NASA couldn't get their shit together? The spectacle is important for public support! I still don't understand why they didn't show the final 1
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by the_af 7mo ago
Forget about the snacks, I wonder about the toilet in 10 days in such cramped living conditions.
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by the_af 7mo ago
Mario Idraulico and Luigi Fratello overseeing this project? I hope the karts don't run into any stray kooparticles.
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by the_af 7mo ago
The most likely explanation for the Loch Ness Monster, of course, is that it's entirely made up and didn't require an actual sighting or a real physical phenomenon, ever, to trigger people's imaginations.
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by the_af 7mo ago
You don't like Hemingway, I take it?
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by the_af 7mo ago
I don't think it gets the scale right, and I don't think it's low cost or even sensible for a civilization to do. I think it's mostly a scifi book's plot device, at best a non-serious thought experiment.
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by the_af 7mo ago
My daughter likes most games as long as I'm willing to play with her. She dislikes excessive gore/violence (but has a good threshold anyway... she can watch me play Left 4 Dead 2 even though she finds it scary). She likes relaxing
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by the_af 7mo ago
Isn't this more or less what I just said? Except I added in this and other comments why it's not a very convincing explanation for Fermi's paradox either. In other words, > answer: because they're all dead, or in hid
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by the_af 7mo ago
It's silly at multiple levels. As an explanation of Fermi's Paradox it fails to explain why, if all these dead civilizations are detectable enough to get destroyed, we haven't detected any. Even if they are now extinct, their
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by the_af 7mo ago
> Depends on the context. We certainly knew nobody else had nukes. You wouldn't be able to know this over the vast distances of the universe. People are arguing two contradictory things: these are unfathomable alien civilizations
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by the_af 7mo ago
The laws of physics apply to the civilization of alien fish too, it's not a human specific timescale. They have nothing to fight over with us, no reason to spend effort developing weapons to reach us, if they do have weapons they'
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by the_af 7mo ago
Surely that logic applies if you're at war with the other side? If you start attacking carriers of random superpowers, you only invite further destruction...
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by the_af 7mo ago
It's still very impractical though. Sniping everywhere that intelligent life might exist is very low probability, low stakes, and for what reason? You don't have any reason to kill anyone you're unlikely to ever meet. And wit
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by the_af 7mo ago
Even if leaving the solar system, or whatever system a sentient race exists, were possible, going to war with another sentience in their home turf (which, remember, must first overcome the near impossible hurdles of getting there to begin
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by the_af 7mo ago
> That's why I never understood sci Fi nerds obsession with outer space I'm sure you do understand it. I mean, sure, the other things you mention are also interesting, but mankind has been awed by a starry night's sky si
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by the_af 7mo ago
Where did you see this claim about AI-based AI detection?
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by the_af 7mo ago
How often do people get jobs via LinkedIn? I have never. Their "social media" aspect sucks. LinkedIn is 99% bullshit posts about people hyping up they have "learned lessons" or sucking up to whoever just hired them. Kafk
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by the_af 7mo ago
> I don't quite understand why other people seem to crave that It's one thing to say you have found an effective method to counter LLMs' "positivity bias", but do you really not understand human psychology here
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by the_af 7mo ago
Most people overshare on reddit and it's completely unrelated to the seriousness of the situation. It's also a meme that people will ask the dumbest, most trivial interpersonal conflict questions on Reddit that would be easily sol
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by the_af 7mo ago
Nice catch. Look at this at the end: > jc is open source. If you have improvements, have your Claude open a PR against mine. I don’t accept human-authored code. So it seems not only does the author reject human-authored PRs, they also
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by the_af 7mo ago
> Once again there is no regime in which military coup by those in the middle is impossible. Just very unlikely in this case. TFA explains its case and why yours is very unlikely; while you're just repeating your opinion based on
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by the_af 7mo ago
TFA argues that the Iranian regime works "bottom up", and there's no "select few" group of leaders that can be removed or changed that would topple the regime or make it change course. TFA argues that the US fundame
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by the_af 7mo ago
> the author seems to be subtly implying that America is a "stupid fascist nation" He does nothing of the sort. I can clarify for you: the mention of fascist countries being bad at war is a link to another article by the auth
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by the_af 7mo ago
> This kind of amateur analysis is not worth being front page of HN. The author is a military historian and professor with a PhD, so not an amateur. If you think this isn't high grade, or that it is mistaken, please explain how an
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by the_af 7mo ago
> Give away the enriched uranium, become secular. TFA explains why this is impossible for Iran.
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by the_af 7mo ago
Yes, and a lot right. If you think it's wrong in this particular case, please elaborate.
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by the_af 7mo ago
> The Millennium Challenge 2002 is discredited because it had motorcycle couriers that moved at light speed handling all communications and 10' speed boats launching 19' missiles. This is not what Wikipedia's summary des
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by the_af 7mo ago
Your explanation also makes sense. Why then do casinos prefer sharp edges? Casinos strive to remove skill as much as possible.
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by the_af 7mo ago
I found this fascinating, if true: > The reason casino dice have such sharp edges is to get the to stop rolling faster with fewer tumbling. The more a die tumbles the more likely it will present any issues with it. If I understand it c

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