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by tim333 2mo ago
One anecdote. I had a friend who went from healthy to almost unable to walk through a post viral 'chronic fatigue' type thing. She couldn't really work but chronic fatigue wasn't a recognised condition for benefits so ha
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Good thing DOGE cut the screwworm program. Don't want to waste money. https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/22636-bird-flu-screwworm...
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Both countries ahead of the US in GDP per capita PPP and life expectancy. Maybe it's a smart move? Imagine how rich the US would be if it'd spent all the war money on health care and education, plus the odd shelter, after WW2.
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I think there's a lot to be said for Switzerland's policy of strong defense and not attacking other countries. It's kind of stable and anti-fragile. It's easy to think you should be able to attack the bad guys like armin
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Yeah he wrote a lot about that.
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In pre scientific times people mostly thought it was driven by spirits. God told things to exist, the devil made bad things happen, the rain god made rain and so on. It was a bit of a surprise when experimental investigation found mathemati
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It's that it's surprising physical behavior fits with mathematical equations so well. My guess is it's because the universe is maths in some sense.
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by tim333 2mo ago
I use Chrome. uBlock Origin Lite works fine, basically as well as the old uBlock as far as I can tell. As to why, I kind of like it - the built in Google Lens tool is cool and I don't think is in the other browsers?
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>During flight it can maneuver at different altitudes and trajectories and can pull up to 20 to 30 G to evade anti-ballistic missiles. https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/9K720_Iskander >Russia’s Iskander-M
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It depends a bit how you calculate your numbers. Ukraine vs Russia, Russia wins. Democratic world that doesn't want dictators invading it vs Russia, democracy wins.
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I'm not totally convinced it's all over for Fedorov. Zelensky may not be keen but the people, parliament and funders have a say too.
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You don't have to go to MAD, just retaliate on a similar level. Ukraine should have ballistics that can hit Moscow soon. There's also hitting the launchers and missile factories though I'm not sure Ukr has the ability to do s
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Software upgrades too - just make them fly a somewhat random path.
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Ukraine deal with the "50k Shahed drone is on course to hit your command center" stuff by having a lot of cheaper interceptors to take them out - some drones, some cheaper SAMs, some aircraft. It was a bit of a mistake of the US n
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The problem with all these AI hardware gizmos if you think couldn't it have been an app? And phone apps often work better because the hardware is more expensive and powerful.
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Any reasons? I mean we are proof that it happens. We seem to make gradual progress in investigating like this article and recently there was stuff on how RNA could self replicate https://youtu.be/EhPgu0I8yaY
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Life may have arisen loads of times but life as we know it out competed the other forms. It's still a bit unknown how rare or common abiogenesis is. It'd be interesting to check out Mars more to see if there's any underground
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>In one recent survey, 74% of executives said they had more confidence in AI’s advice than in that of colleagues or friends... The article assumes it's a problem with the executives but maybe AI is more accurate in the cases they ar
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The issue is more it goes directly against the US constituion: >All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. If he
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It's a bit worrying how easy it would be for a bad actor to make a new anti human virus. I guess it's good that we can churn out MRNA vaccines pretty quickly these days if needed.
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Googling the 5 known antibiotics comes back >There are actually dozens of individual medicines and more than ten major classes of antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections—not just five
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They had a landing there the other day >SpaceX Achieves Its First Moon Landing by Accidentally Crashing Into It at 5,400 Miles Per Hour, Causing Huge Explosion and 60-Foot Crater https://futurism.com/space/spacex-cra
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Historically AWS and the like have done rather well with data centers and they are printing money just now.
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I quite like it too. Convenience I guess.
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It may be why he's moved role. He can focus on that, someone else can work on getting Gemini above Claude on the LLM Arena leaderboards.
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Not sure it's being less humble so much as the story being interesting for the public - chess wizz and game developer out to solve intelligence, makes AlphaGo tha beats humans at go, AlphaFold that gets the nobel prize. With Jeff Dean
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Emperor surely? Ruler over all the Americas after the Canada Greenland wars.
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Maybe they'll replace Hassabis with someone more focussed on beating OAI and Anthropic at chatbots? He always seemed a bit more into science, protein folding, new drugs and the like.
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Humans of course generally have human level intelligence and Teslas don't yet which means with similar inputs they'll probably do worse. Also I'm not sure Tesla's cameras provide as good an input as sitting in the drivin
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From my experience of potentially serious injury crashes, they are mostly from going too fast and crashing into something. The ones where I've stopped and some other bad driver has gone into me are mostly too slow to cause injury.

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