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by toss1 11mo ago
Interesting that "...additional vehicle upgrades include a reusable fairing..." I wonder how they'll be implementing that since SpaceX gave up on recapturing fairings (seemingly too soon, but only from the POV of someone with
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by toss1 11mo ago
>>in others an eviction can happen within a few weeks with minimal trouble The words "can" and "minimal" are doing a lot of work there. An angry tenant who knows they are getting evicted can do an incredible amount
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by toss1 11mo ago
YES And also note, beyond only composing the prompts as poetry, hand-crafting the poems is found to have significantly higher success rates >> Poetic framing achieved an average jailbreak success rate of 62% for hand-crafted poems and
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by toss1 11mo ago
The thing that got me most about Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan's warning about "irrational exuberance" of the markets was that the warning was in 1996, and it seemed to me and many others already obvious by then, and tha
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Astrophotographer snaps photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface(livescience.com)
7 points by toss1 11mo ago|1 comments
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Anthropic 'disrupted' 'the first case of a large-scale AI cyberattack(fortune.com)
1 points by toss1 11mo ago|1 comments
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by toss1 11mo ago
Seems like we should run the experiment Worst case, everyone ends up with the means to be housed, fed, and have healthcare
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by toss1 11mo ago
This is one of the best arguments for Universal Basic Income there is. If your basic needs are met, you don't need to worry that your startup failing will land you hungry in the streets. Startup life is living mostly at work and withou
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by toss1 1y ago
>>rural concerns just get steamrolled by the urban concerns But effectively giving dirt a vote clearly isn't the solution. When voting maps are made weighted by strict land area they look one way, but weighted by population, they
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by toss1 1y ago
Same here. But we are evidently in the minority. Fortunately, it seems OpenAI at least somewhat gets that and makes ChatGPT so it's answering and conversational style can be adjusted or tuned to our liking. I've found giving expli
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by toss1 1y ago
No, it is not only a problem for "'well above the legal limit' speeding drivers"; it is a problem for you, and the solution requires more thought than the "just follow the rules" that you put into your post. Th
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by toss1 1y ago
Can confirm, having started multiple LLCs and S-Corps. You get the corporate entity first, and this is required to get the bank account. So, if the bank account was required to get the corporate entity formed, none would ever be formed, a
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by toss1 1y ago
Yes, it is very much projection. It is also (and it surprises me that this ancient observation is so little cited), a highly visible example of "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely". Watching at these people accumul
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by toss1 1y ago
Um, please do not suggest people ask that. If you are having to ask an LLM how to do it, I strongly suggest NOT starting with shorting. Ask about Put options, which is what Burry is doing here — not even Burry is shorting for this situation
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by toss1 1y ago
Exactly this, which is why I'd expect automakers to use the short axles and CV (constant-velocity) joints which are already well-developed technologies for 4-wheel independent suspensions I see no reason the small motors can't be
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Perplexity Just Got Caught Breaking Copyright(futurism.com)
2 points by toss1 1y ago|0 comments
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by toss1 1y ago
>>(risk vs affordability) OK, so in your scenario, who will take the risk? There is a very significant risk of one or more workers falling off the roof and getting killed or injured so badly they can never work again. Do you plan to t
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by toss1 1y ago
Very cool! I can see this quite useful for educational demonstrations of physics situations and mechanical systems (complex gearing, etc.). Also maybe for product simulations/demonstrations in the design phase — take output from CAD fi
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by toss1 1y ago
That is definitely an "It Depends" It depends a lot on who they are shooting If they are shooting irrelevant and innocent civilians (with the goal of introducing broader fear in the population to somehow change their minds), then
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by toss1 1y ago
Entirely likely, and my first thought. It would be an ideal and cheap way for Russia to probe responses and results with complete plausible deniability. Jsut testing for another route to destabilize targets. It wouldn't be a bit surpri
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by toss1 1y ago
Hydraulic disc brakes are not overkill with a bike of that mass [0] and power. Disc brakes are very common mountain bikes or any type where there is a lot of braking as caliper/rim brakes can overheat and pop the tires, so this unit s
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by toss1 1y ago
>> random and shocking is much more concerning For sure, urprising, notable, and scary. But it seems especially for random causes that we can not control, why should we worry about those? In contrast, death causes which are semi-fully
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by toss1 1y ago
Nice offtopic whataboutism tic you have there... The point was that it is and was completely unnecessary for the particular omlette of making new self-landing spacecraft to break the particular eggs of spending all that time and money on po
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by toss1 1y ago
Yes, you need to break some eggs to make an omelette, but you do not need to spend more than a quarter-Billion dollars to help elect an administration working to end democracy in order to build a new spacecraft. In fact the spacecraft deve
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by toss1 1y ago
THIS, Exactly! >>"Escaping regulations" is some libertarian fever dream The same for "Free Markets". People scream about "Free Markets" and use that standard as a cudgel to complain about any regulation t
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by toss1 1y ago
Explanation of reason and reasoning paths is a product of manipulating language. Most ideas, even in the reasoning fields, are generated in non-linguistic processes. Of course, some problems are solved by step-by-step linguistic (or math) A
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by toss1 1y ago
>>Lifting prohibitions on nuclear power and nuclear research The first thing coming up when I search that phrase is literally everyone but the current administration doing so: 1) World Bank, 2) Denmark, 3) Illinois Gov Pritzger (Dem),
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by toss1 1y ago
Right, from a 24-day old account making only right wing political comments, a comment that addresses exactly zero of the points made by the initial post. And regarding ignoring fascism/authoritarianism, you need only look at the differ
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by toss1 1y ago
Right. Just like all the autocratic Project 2025 plans, defunding healthcare to give tax breaks to billionaires, sending US military to police US cities, and all the other current actions were " tinfoil hat conspiracy thinking". T
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by toss1 1y ago
Yes, we can safely assume that, since I was largely ignoring the press piece and directly using only the quotes from the Army Report. Below are some of the direct quotes from the Army Report quoted in the article. >> “fundamental secu

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