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by trhway 6mo ago
Autonomous suicide drone swarms are easily countered by autonomous interceptor swarms. >Marching humanoid terminator robots ground bots, not necessarily marching, do have their value. They can have bulletproof armor, while still be relat
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by trhway 6mo ago
I think we owe our civilization to cats - without them we would have never been able to stop being hunters-gatherers and settle into agricultural society as having food stores would have been impossible due to rats. And Black Death, owing t
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by trhway 6mo ago
You're overlooking the fact that Europe started 2 World Wars and keeping Europe at peace was a major NATO goal.
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by trhway 6mo ago
>Is someone ready to nuke them No. The nukes prevent the aggression even by a conventionally armed aggressor. Nukes ins't to win a war, it is to prevent one. Lets say Germany has successfully repelled Russian tank-and-soldiers invas
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by trhway 6mo ago
>to protect themselves from America. not necessarily from America. The goal #1 of the US dominated NATO for example was to prevent Germany from getting nuclear weapons in exchange for protection by US. Now with US de-facto withdrawing, G
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by trhway 6mo ago
Lets say an American scientist in a strategic area was offered a boatload of money (or some other piece of mice) from China or similar. Legally probably he can move, though export control probably applies to the brain content too. How sure
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by trhway 6mo ago
>It's too far for drones. the current generation of drones - using cheap ICE engines from mopeds and small bikes - gets up to 2000km range.
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by trhway 6mo ago
>This represents a change over a mere ten year period. For our, city dwellers, perception changes over 10 years may be unnoticeable, while over longer periods - that is how about 4 decades look in my hometown in Russia (one though need t
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by trhway 6mo ago
>But we expect better from the writers of the past, especially those of the eighteenth century They did “better” - as just 100 years before they would have just killed each other with some version of a kabob stick.
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by trhway 6mo ago
The difference here is between incremental improvements using incremental funding and glacier-speed if any of regulatory framework evolution vs. crisis situation changing calculus and providing option for large funding for the previously pe
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by trhway 6mo ago
The oil crisis of 70-ies brought in the fuel efficiency standards. This time i guess we also wouldn't let good crisis go waste.
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by trhway 6mo ago
They would also need to protect all this stuff spread globally and into the space. No government will be able to do that - like we've already seen with the datacenters being hit in the Gulf states. Company like AMZN will have all the c
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by trhway 6mo ago
in space 1m2 of thin metal will radiate those 785 watt. No fan, no heatpump, nothing. Only the launch cost. Which given the projected Starship launch cost will be cheaper than installation on Earth.
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by trhway 6mo ago
>Cooling will be a big issue a 1m2 at 70C radiates 785 Watt. Seems thet cooling will be more simple than on Earth.
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by trhway 7mo ago
a party balloon - say a cubic foot - is about 2g of hydrogen. Involves 16g of oxygen. So we're talking 18g of very fast burning, borderline detonating mass. Releases 240 KJ of energy. To compare the hand grenade - 60g TNT https:/
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by trhway 7mo ago
i already wrote that drones (or more precisely - cheap semi- and fully autonomous high-precision weapons) are a new strategic parity weapon https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203848 - it has been playing that role in Uk
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by trhway 7mo ago
look at the history of technology, and before that to the biological history - how long it took from single cells to multi-cells vs. for example how long it took from lizard brain to human brain - the things are naturally going exponential
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by trhway 7mo ago
>you're opening incentives for people to do so how about short-selling of stocks, isn't it the same thing? I'd even argue that sinking one ship affects say 10 people of the crew who most probable will survive in the warm G
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by trhway 7mo ago
you can ask your parents why they didn't want to live in a country where one had to volunteer when the government would call the one to volunteer.
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by trhway 7mo ago
It was a government call. I grew up in USSR and know very well how those government "calls to volunteer" work in totalitarian regimes. Especially in a wartime country where even in peacetime they would kill people even just for be
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by trhway 7mo ago
These civilians did this without government coercion. Big difference.
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by trhway 7mo ago
Look at recordings from other totalitarian regimes - enthusiastic people doing government bidding. The key is deliberate act of human shield creation, not the specific way to do it.
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by trhway 7mo ago
It said it was call of the government. Bloody authocratic government. A call you can’t refuse.
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by trhway 7mo ago
Today on several news media were a story that people of Iran were called by the government and formed human shields at the bridges and power plants that Trump threatened to bomb if no deal reached by the deadline. https://www.ms.
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by trhway 7mo ago
Whether sauna is hot or not depends on whether you enjoy the cold water plunge afterwards :) The typical preset on dry saunas in Bay Area is ~165 F (73 C). Which is cold. Waste of time and money :). Usually, by closing or pouring cold water
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by trhway 7mo ago
>... emotion-related representations that shape its behavior. These specific patterns of artificial “neurons” which activate in situations—and promote behaviors—that the model has learned to associate with the concept of a particular emo
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by trhway 7mo ago
no, the million or two is small battlefield drones, mostly quadcopters carrying an RPG warhead or similarly sized payload. The long range drones - and they carry only relatively small, like 20-50kg payloads - are well under 100 thousands.
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by trhway 7mo ago
it may be anybody. Even somebody at YC wanting to create a background to drop Delve if suppose Delve were shady and they discovered it (i really don't know anything here and am simply speculating, heard about Delve today first time, ju
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by trhway 7mo ago
you miss that i was talking about 650km/h "drones" (because, yes, it was already 3rd year of war, and 200km/h drone like Shahed became much easier target - this is why Russia has started to also use the 600km/h modi
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by trhway 7mo ago
that is the point - to make you scared to fly your drone, anywhere, anytime. That is among the main differences between democratic society and the rest - a citizen of democratic society knows the extent of his rights, and where he would be

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