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by thunderbird120 7y ago
That's a bit like saying that Japan is uninhabitable because it experience devastating >9.0 earthquakes and accompanying tsunamis perhaps 1-2 times per millennia as seen most recently in 2011. Disasters happen but people rebuild, th
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
Real median personal income increased 14% between its low point after the recession in 2012 and 2018[1]. There are plenty of resources for consumer spending, at least in the U.S. [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ME
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
NASA requirements + lack of full reusability. It's a lot easier to vet safety through large numbers of tests if you can launch much more often and at a much lower cost which is what they want from Starship.
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
Oil prices have always been all over the place[1]. A 50% bump isn't great but it's not really much to be worried about. [1] https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha...
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
Intel ties its architectures to its foundry nodes since it both designs the chips and produces them, unlike AMD. This means that they can get some extra performance but it also means that if there problems with the new node, like the ones t
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
See my reply to the other person making that kind of claim https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20796007 . To expand upon that, manned aircraft aren't going away anytime soon because electronic warfare is a thing and un
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
Supermanuverable <10m autonomous aircraft that have destroyed modern fighters already exist. They're called missiles. Modern fighter aircraft are expensive because they are relatively large and crammed with tones of expensive avioni
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
It's really not. To put it mildly, the report that that article draws from has been subject to some criticism over the years. To put it less mildly, if you link it in any community that follows military aviation closely they will proba
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
No it does not. The F35's radar absorbent material is much more baked into the actual airframe rather than being essentially a delicate coating.
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
STOBAR[1] carriers like the Kuznetsov are vastly less capable than CATOBAR[2] carriers, they're the budget option. Using a ramp rather than a catapult means that the types of aircraft you can operate are more limited and the weapons an
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
It's certainly a work in progress but it seems that they have been testing at least marginally functional versions of the missile complete with nuclear powered propulsion[1]. [1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone&#x2
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
No. The Millennium Challenge is typically cited as an example of a badly botched exercise rather than a real world defeat scenario. It had: Navy ships constrained to small areas to prevent disruption to commercial craft which would never be
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
This is generally incorrect in several different ways. ICBMs are not invulnerable after their boost phase and ballistic missile defense continues to improve rapidly. The U.S. operates a small number of mid-course interceptors as part of the
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
It's essentially a targeted EMP[1]. Other similar systems using targeted microwaves to fry electronics have been developed[2] but this one seems to be relatively low tech in comparison due to much looser constraints on size. [1] https:
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
STDP based SNNs don't take much secret sauce to function reasonably well for basic tasks[1]. Some people have even started to apply reward modulated STDP to the problem which is nice to see since it's a more complete version of ST
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
Swarm would probably cross that line even without any of the blockchain stuff. It's more akin to Freenet than Bittorrent and would probably function better as a decentralized backend for most people. Expecting an average person to run
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
The learning mechanism[1] is actually relatively well understood (at least as far as neuroscience goes) but it isn't used for ANNs because Spiking Neural Networks(SNNs) don't map well onto conventional computing hardware whereas t
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
They don't use gradient decent though. The learning mechanism used by biological neural networks has almost nothing in common with the one used by most artificial neural networks.
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
Probably not too much like reddit at all. So long as reddit exists its particular niche in the ecology of the internet is filled and websites which serve a very similar purpose can't really hope to gain significant numbers of users. At
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
I believe that that graph is adjusted for Urban CPI so so increased costs would be taken into account. It's also a bit difficult to see the change in median household income due to the scale so here's the federal reserve's ve
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
That study was using assumptions based on a 1987 study which predicted that the fusion chain would result in 1 high energy and 2 low energy alpha particles. More recent results suggest that this is incorrect[1], with the reaction actually g
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by thunderbird120 7y ago
1) This is an absurd complaint 2) It's not even totally accurate. Aneutronic fusion can create electricity directly from charged particles without going through the heat generation step[1]. It's an active area of research with the
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by thunderbird120 8y ago
F-35s are specifically designed to act as flying sensor and communications nodes. This means that information passed from an F-35 can be used to target missiles fired from another aircraft or even a ship. Small, cheap drones lack a lot of c
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by thunderbird120 8y ago
The advantage a stealth fighter such as the F-22 or F-35 has against non-stealthy fighters such as the J-10 and JF-17 really is difficult to overstate with k/d ratios in exercises being roughly 15:1[1]. Being extremely difficult to det
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by thunderbird120 8y ago
It's actually been getting lots of good press for quite a while now if you follow defense news, mostly due to very good performance in wargames exercises and serious problems being resolved. That said, it's somewhat bizarre seeing
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by thunderbird120 8y ago
The cost per unit has actually come down below modern variants of older generation fighters. Boeing has been trying to get the air force to buy some new F-15Xs over the next few years, this has been controversial to say the least because th
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by thunderbird120 8y ago
The firefox implementation is currently lacking the ASM code optimizations and actually runs worse than the default libaom implementation.
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by thunderbird120 8y ago
4chan.org is the 212th most popular website in the U.S. at time of writing. This implies that it is able to attract plenty of different kinds of people and that the trolls aren't driving the rest away. If you go on most boards it'
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by thunderbird120 8y ago
The idea behind sharding is to essentially parallelize the blockchain by splitting the one big chain into many smaller chains which can communicate with each other asynchronously. This is a really difficult problem for countless reasons but