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by trhway 4mo ago
As the latest affair shown, US is falling behind in drone tech. Now another key modern tech is going to be similarly outlawed. Note that in particular banning of 3d printing severely decreases chances for bringing back manufacturing - high
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by trhway 4mo ago
In US it is at-will employment. What would be the difference really between a trial period and just letting an employee go 2 months or 4 months of 7.83 months down the road. I mean, in at-will employment trial period sounds just like an art
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by trhway 4mo ago
I don't in general trust the tech, saying that as someone who programmed computer the first time in 1987 :) And having music in both ears, nice stereo, etc., definitely decreases situational awareness even if the outside sounds come
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by trhway 4mo ago
When Walkman came out: https://www.freethink.com/consumer-tech/sony-walkman-technop... "Some said it was a sign of a continued rise of Reagan- and Thatcher-style individualism. Cultural critic Allan Bloom deemed t
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by trhway 4mo ago
>I think it's pathetic that this has become the culture amongst large swathes of Americans - especially ones who consider themselves patriotic. This country was founded in rebellion and the assertion of our rights, and somehow the e
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by trhway 4mo ago
could you please state the date and time and the actors of an event you consider as the starting event of the war.
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by trhway 4mo ago
>- "This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History, by T. R. Fehrenbach" seems interesting. South Korea still seems very grateful to the USA and commemorates the USA (and the rest of allies) that helped them during the Korean
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by trhway 4mo ago
"The Arms of the Future: Technology and Close Combat in the Twenty-First Century" somehow i feel that the Pentagon leadership didn't read that book before starting the Iran affair.
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by trhway 4mo ago
"If when I go to the lavatory I don't pee, if you'll excuse the expression, into the bowl but on to the floor instead and if Zina and Darya Petrovna were to do the same thing, the lavatory would be ruined. Ruin, therefore, is
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by trhway 4mo ago
>Good friends don't ask you to pay the bill at the end of dinner. it goes both ways. Good friends aren't expected to be free-loaders.
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by trhway 4mo ago
human-made products, human-provided service will be a luxury, like artisan crafted beer and jackets, etc. with all the unique imperfections and variations what are missing on the mass produced products and services. For example human made s
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by trhway 4mo ago
Yes, it is like a new era - the startups have huge direct revenue on real products instead of "users" which yet to be monetized. And the network effect which ruled for the last 20 years seems to have relaxed its death grip just a
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by trhway 4mo ago
They're already testing that taco delivery in Ukraine https://time.com/article/2026/03/09/ai-robots-soldiers-war/
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by trhway 4mo ago
Adam Sandler's "Click" has a scene explaining it (though it is about hotel there, the "forget all the niceties and maximize the profit" principle is universal) https://youtu.be/BRl2ZM-YguE?t=61 It t
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by trhway 4mo ago
They should have taken money from Thrive Capital.
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by trhway 4mo ago
the coming IPOs will possibly create several billionaires. Standing on the top of a billion dollar pile would definitely change your perspective.
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by trhway 4mo ago
>This "vaguely nationalistic world view around tech" is a direct consequence of the US government weaponizing its leading tech firms reach into the EU for nationalistic purposes. And in response NL should weaponize ASML for exa
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by trhway 4mo ago
Our cats and dogs live on such a diet (until you learn what the supermarket cat/dogfood really is and take them off it). Vets have been saying about all those health problems resulting from that diet.
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by trhway 4mo ago
During WW2 Germany was making edible fats/margarine out of coal. Similarly, the atmospheric CO2 can be a source of carbon, especially say on Mars. (another thing back then in Germany - ramjet engine using coal in a metal basket as a fu
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by trhway 4mo ago
I'd not be surprised if SpaceX/Elon will start manufacturing those turbines. They do have necessary engineering and manufacturing chops.
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by trhway 4mo ago
"Grok is one of four AI models that support “mission-critical operations,” such as its recent strikes in Iran." That probably one of the reasons of such a glorious success there.
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by trhway 4mo ago
Their revenue is 3B, and 20x is pretty typical. We’re in the new era where startups boast about and bought based on revenue and not on just a number of users with unclear path to monetizing as it had been for the previous couple decades. We
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by trhway 4mo ago
For example the just mentioned Cursor. Looks amazing and not evil. Couple years there probably would have made unnecessary any other job after that.
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by trhway 4mo ago
do you respect throwing acid into the uncovered face of a woman in a Taliban country? I hope not. And that would mean that you also do have cut-off on what cultures and laws to respect and which to not.
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by trhway 4mo ago
check the ping time between your nodes, whatever they are, in the same datacenter. I bet it will be at least 10-20ms. 15 years ago it was 0.1-0.2 ms.
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by trhway 4mo ago
>You can only immigrate a finite number of people. The same like with any imports. Market responds to demand. China has 50M university students, US - 20M. That means that upon achieving US percentage (in probably 5-10 years) China can be
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by trhway 4mo ago
Immigration is the solution. Producing a child and getting it college educated costs, to the parents and society, $400K+ (a 22 years ordeal with a lot of risks like the child growing into a drug user, criminal, etc.) Bringing in a college g
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by trhway 4mo ago
in Spain they have siesta. We observed it in Valencia region - everything stops from 12-1pm until about 5-6pm. The life after that goes well into the night, shops stay open until 1-2am, etc. In USSR/Russia during especially hot summers
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by trhway 4mo ago
>The reason is pretty obvious. Anthropic tried to play hardball with the government that is one. Another is who is going into the first IPO. Troubles for Anthropic IPO would channel all those money into OpenAI's one. Check financial
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by trhway 4mo ago
>How is that going to help him? the first one to do IPO will win big. With the government pressing Anthropic, OpenAI IPO will vacuum up the funds that otherwise would have went into Anthropic IPO as OpenAI was falling behind. >and the

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