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by trhway 3mo ago
Especially apocalyptic given that they had never knew such things possible. Later it became routine. https://youtu.be/YtCTzbh4mNQ?t=62 (narrator saying - "the mushroom cloud reached 65km altitude" ) Our high scho
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by trhway 3mo ago
>It's easy to forget how different the Middle East looked before the conquest of Islam starting in 600 AD. it naturally looked differently due to different climate. For example there was booming agriculture in Carthage back then - m
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by trhway 3mo ago
kind of reminded USSR history of 100 years ago - a mostly agrarian country destroyed by war and revolution doing jump into industrialization with electrification being the driving core of it (the other major factor was GULAG - electrificati
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by trhway 4mo ago
If you expose your private database's raw SQL access to public web, i bet people will find a way. The same way here, i see the main issue isn't prompt injection, it is publicly accessible agent having access to private repos. What
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by trhway 4mo ago
You really don’t know what you’re talking about, don’t you? You’re from a Western country, right? >White collar criminals often get caught later in their "careers" precisely because they do it for years and years and years with
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by trhway 4mo ago
>What Cold War propaganda did to Western brains is tragic. Some weird fantasies you have. I grew up in USSR. So very well familiar with inner workings of such regimes.
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by trhway 4mo ago
>And he did this as a public servant for over 30 years. and it was discovered just now? May it be that he played exactly by the rules, the real rules, of the regime - corruption being among the foundational rules of it - and thus it was
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by trhway 4mo ago
As Stalin demonstrated even when you're totally loyal, you're still frequently made victim of the terror. The point of totalitarian regime is that nobody should feel safe, nobody should have an agency. In particular the people sho
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by trhway 4mo ago
Once/if we lose understanding of the tech it will become magic/haunted artifacts.
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by trhway 4mo ago
alternatively, the things can go very opposite to what you're saying as robots/AI will make many jobs more productive requiring less people thus driving the economy even more profitable than the last 20 years. The society wouldn&#
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by trhway 4mo ago
If you knew Russian you could enjoy the hysterics their propaganda were stoking in 2022-23 about alleged "combat mosquitos" the Ukrainians had developed. According to the propaganda the mosquitos were specifically able to target R
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by trhway 4mo ago
>going so far as to lecture me about how 20k isn’t enough to raise a kid. i expressed my opinion. You may have different one. Expressing an opinion different than yours isn't "lecturing". >I’m also not going to let 1.2m
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by trhway 4mo ago
you've got the wrong peak. 7439m: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jengish_Chokusu 3000m is nothing. Mount Shasta is 4200m and we, just regular guys, walked up to its summit without any experience, etc. in 2 days. Pe
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by trhway 4mo ago
>I’d check that math - that’s 67k/yr, not 20k/yr. 1.2mill/18 years. It is meaningless calculating cost by simple division when the endeavor takes 2 decades. Money today are different from money 20 years ago. S&P500 is
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by trhway 4mo ago
With today tech - cameras, drones - the tragedy would unfold like a reality TV. Several months ago a woman broke her leg and stuck as a result at 6800m on Pobeda Peak in Russia and died in several days while the whole country was watching
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by trhway 4mo ago
Actually raising a child costs more than $1.2M - just $20K/year invested in S&P500 over the last 20 years would have grown to more than $1.2M. Or those $20K/year could be spend on the child. And $20K/year is pretty low.
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by trhway 4mo ago
Is paying for healthcare and rent and basic food still "consume things"?
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by trhway 4mo ago
retire? Retiring only on Social Security is pretty tough, and $1.2M would provide like $4K/month income which on top of Social Security may allow for modest lifestyle in some low COL area. Wrt. the original post i'd agree with GP
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by trhway 4mo ago
Russia has just finally declared achieving full "import substitution" for Superjet-100, a regional jet so badly needed in Russia and the first Russian plane to be produced in decades. With domestically sourced parts the plane is n
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by trhway 4mo ago
>But they also start and stop way more than a gasoline-only car with stop-start. they do it very differently. My Prius never does that coughing sound that the start-stop engines frequently do. The powerful electric motor in Prius spins t
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by trhway 4mo ago
I don’t think Toyota engine does traction from low rpm. Electric motor does it, and moments later already well spinning engine gets the load. Hearing regular start-stop on intersection gives me sorry feeling for the engine.
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by trhway 4mo ago
>I like how balanced their energy mix is. It is very obvious that China is optimizing for capacity and availability. There isn't really a push for clean energy sources for political, or climate, reasons. They are deployed when it ma
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by trhway 4mo ago
you can't put an ADU, yet, you can put in 200MW generating capacity.
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by trhway 4mo ago
you're just incorrect. You probably missed 2 points : - battery storage - and in the article "However, AI labs and some hyperscalers have relaxed those requirements as there is now a lower uptime tolerance applied to both inferenc
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by trhway 4mo ago
Alternatively the crisis can be used to accelerate right development - quickly build up solar farms and transmission lines. Both of these can be done quickly if there were a political will. Yet, that will is missing. So, we're talking
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by trhway 4mo ago
>And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat (foggaras) is intriguing. modern implementation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River "According to the project's website, it is
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by trhway 4mo ago
especially national security - the society should be aware what trade-offs are made for the security of that society, ie. what the real costs and whether the society wants to bear those costs and considers it reasonable. If you meant specif
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by trhway 4mo ago
the main point to me here is that such decisions should be fully public including all the input info and all the reasoning that is behind the decision, similar to a court case. Instead we have that guessing game.
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by trhway 4mo ago
Bad quality of water clogging the pipes integrated onto the PCBs (thus requiring to replace the PCBs) was said to be what were killing those few USSR Elbrus supercomputer installations.
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by trhway 4mo ago
> a country that has never invented anything … managed to fly a few low-tech drones into US military assets And de-facto won the war as a result. That is reality. That is the power of that weaponry, and that is the falling behind. And th

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