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by tivert 2y ago
> Should be something like Gigeroids. Xenomorph sounds way cooler. That's what's important in a movie/toy franchise.
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by tivert 2y ago
> Putting it another way: We're losing wars whether we make our silicon toys here or in Taiwan or if Taiwan gets China'd. I want my tax dollars put to better use than Intel. I think you should move to China, instead of moving a
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> The market already figured out that it doesn't want leading edge manufacturing in the US. Exactly. The market figured out there's a lot of short-term profit to be made for shareholders in selling off the nation's indus
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> Not a great argument considering Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen (read: Houthis) So how long did the Afghani and Iraqi governments stand up to the US military? Weeks? Maybe a month? They got steamrolled by modern military technology. &gt
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> Go ahead and play the war games, but stories I've heard indicate that the Chinese military is at least as corrupt as Russia's. Maybe so, but Russia is still winning in Ukraine. > Taiwan produces the world's most advan
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> Half of the US military is obsessively focused on this scenario. The Ukraine war showed what an invasion of a neighboring country gains you and that one didn't involve US airforce, navy, and marines directly intervening. Taiwan is
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by tivert 2y ago
> Why is chip making a critical defense industry? Go fight a war with 1960s technology against a modern adversary and find out. I'd suggest you do some of your own research to get up to speed, because your question is akin to "
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by tivert 2y ago
>> Except for reasons like national security and domestic jobs rather than skin color or sexual preference > What domestic jobs? These boondoggles never generate the jobs promised, and even if they did, the per-head cost of the han
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> They aren't great most of the times but going out of your way to discuss the use of the image in a post (here in HN for example) is high-level pedantry. They're garbage. > The (go to) alternative for the authors would be a
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by tivert 2y ago
>> being bombarded with tons of AI-written books, pornography, music, video, audio, images > I don't come across any of these unless I am very actively looking for them. AI generated "hero" images are pretty common o
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> I find it hard to believe humans were building houses, painting pictures, making rope, and sailing for tens of thousands of years without inventing writing. I think we just haven’t found any of it that survived. What's so hard to
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by tivert 2y ago
> Schwartz said. "Without a means to translate the writing, we can only speculate." If you can't translate it, how do they know it's alphabetic?
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by tivert 2y ago
This is your daily reminder that Wikipedia does not deserve its reputation. I've seen how the sausage is made, and rat meat is a surprisingly frequent ingredient. And it's not just Israel-Palestine, but all kinds of stuff. A key w
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by tivert 2y ago
> In work environments it often takes the form of red tagging ( https://www.learnleansigma.com/guides/5s-red-tagging/ ) That sounds like a terrible idea... but now I understand where the insanity of our last wiki
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by tivert 2y ago
> It really feels like the DOJ has it out for Google here. Apple's behavior is far more monopolistic, and Microsoft is no saint either. As others have mentioned, the government can do more than one thing at a time. Here is a list:
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by tivert 2y ago
> We're not talking about building a basement for the entire roadway We are talking about a basement for the entire roadway if "[m]aintenance crews can just drive through in cars and do their jobs, without stopping traffic a
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by tivert 2y ago
> The solution to this problem is utility tunnels. A tunnel network under road surface just for plumbing and cabling. Maintenance crews can just drive through in cars and do their jobs, without stopping traffic and digging out pipes. Man
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> Libertarianism is really just a flavor of neoliberalism where deregulation is taken to the extreme yet somehow it's believed that free markets can still exist. But start probing the details: what do you do if you pay someone to bu
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by tivert 2y ago
That's also a symptom "engineer's disease," where some engineer confuses their expertise in one area (e.g. programming) for expertise in all areas, and proceeds to swagger around like an idiot who thinks his every du
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by tivert 2y ago
> It's difficult to get someone to understand something when their paycheck depends on them not understanding it. It's not just that. It's also plain stupidity and the delusion to think you can live in a fantasy land of yo
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by tivert 2y ago
> An LLC representing the DAO has leaned heavily into web3’s notion of “decentralization,” in an effort to get Lido and its associates off the hook. Dolphin CL, LLC, which represents Lido, has made the claim that the organization is just
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by tivert 2y ago
> Maybe this is a good strategy for dealing with people who aren’t going to judge you for delivering slowly, or for managers who don’t know what the fuck is going on. For managers who do, they will see right through this. I think a manag
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by tivert 2y ago
(2020) https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2020/reactions-bar...
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> What would it look like if a tool like this was taken to its logical conclusion: an agent that could write unit tests for any existing code and get it to 100% code coverage. Not only that, it would have tests for every combinatorial co
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by tivert 2y ago
> Especially from our community, I’m disappointed to see this amount of blind trust and willful ignorance and lack of real engineering discipline in treating LLMs as anywhere near trustworthy. I'm not disappointed anymore, because I
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> What has happened I think, is that there has been a great polarization of science as government and groups have used and twisted it to fit a political agenda. Exactly. "In this house we believe ... science is real." is about
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> How do you know that people in Buthan were actually happy? Honestly, that's kind of irrelevant to my comment. My points were to 1) decry a kind of obnoxious schadenfreude and 2) posit that our society is likely to lead to unhapp
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by tivert 2y ago
I can't edit my comment now, but I think it's totally uncalled for that the GP comment is now grayed-out from down-votes. There was nothing wrong with the question!
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No. I'm not Catholic and I wasn't raised as one either.
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It's sad, but I'm sure there's a certain kind of person who's gloating over this. As in "Haha, those assholes wanted happiness, but my awesome capitalism wins everytime!1!! Join us at the bottom, suckers!!1!"

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