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by tw04 3y ago
> Boeing built the 737 MAXX because they couldn’t afford a clean sheet update of 70-year old technology despite the savings. Boeing ABSOLUTELY could afford a clean sheet replacement of the 737. They chose not to because it would have o
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by tw04 3y ago
“Out of respect for the family” would not past muster in a court of law. They’ll eventually be sued and lose on FOIA grounds if they don’t voluntarily release it. https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t30c004.php
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by tw04 3y ago
I’m far more concerned with the “not a missile” than the power stations. I don’t believe it was ever solved. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-missile-launch-seen-off...
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by tw04 3y ago
> One would also bet that some discarded “allies” from the Cold War operating from a cave in Afghanistan couldn’t pull off a surprise attack on American soil, killing thousands. And yet they did. One would have to have been pretty ignora
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by tw04 3y ago
>Shareholder profit. This is a tired trope. They have a clear interest in user privacy, as evidenced by their actions. You're either just trolling or being intentionally ignorant to the state of the market if you're claiming
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by tw04 3y ago
>In the meantime, Apple continues to work with ad tech vendors it trusts — or rather, those with stated policies it approves of — particularly when it comes to a cornerstone of the iPhone maker’s brand: user privacy. >However, a key q
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by tw04 3y ago
Apple’s business model isn’t selling your personal information. In fact they go out of their way to protect your personal info. Requiring an AppleID is significantly less concerning than requiring a Facebook account.
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by tw04 3y ago
So... OpenAI is SUPER concerned about AI's impact on/dangers to humanity. But is also looking to partner with a country known for human rights violations. They definitely aren't maniacally focused on profit...
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by tw04 3y ago
An ice storm taking down a utility pole will blow that out of the water for several years.
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by tw04 3y ago
You can and should challenge the map then. The FCC actually has a means to do that and does respond. Ideally get an email follow up stating speeds, frontier has a habit of refusing to create a paper trail. https://help.bdc.fcc.
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by tw04 3y ago
> In January 2004, Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years and six months in prison. In a retrial in May 2006, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Nope, definitely illegal in Germany t
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by tw04 3y ago
>I agree, but I am thinking about scenarios where businesses get sued for consumer safety. This happens, right? Someone is harmed and they assert it's because the manufacturer of the thing didn't take adequate care to prevent a
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by tw04 3y ago
>Warranties are just normal contracts. If both parties agree to modify a contract, they are pretty much always allowed to do so. In this case, Motorola is offering a second contract, which modifies an earlier agreement (the warranty) in
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by tw04 3y ago
That doesn't really make sense either though. If you buy a brand new Ford, and punch a hole in the brake lines on purpose, then sell the car - Ford isn't getting sued by the buyer when something horrible happens. They have 0 lia
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by tw04 3y ago
> It's kind of funny that that image looks an awful lot like the housing of a Mazda rotary engine. You at least have to give the poor guy credit :). Wankel engines can be found all sorts of places including planes! https:/&#x2
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by tw04 3y ago
No, they always allowed 100GB, now they'll allow unlimited if you contact support. Of course, this seems more likely to be a result of European regulation than them being good citizens. https://techcrunch.com/2024&#x2F
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by tw04 3y ago
Of course it does. Sweden and Finland being members of the EU had absolutely 0 bearing on the US getting involved in a war with Russia. Do you honestly think Russia would've tried to invade Ukraine if they were NATO members?
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by tw04 3y ago
No? Just because Sweden is a member of NATO doesn't meant they have to just let the US do whatever they want. IF Sweden so chooses to allow US troops to be stationed there, it will be for their own benefit.
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by tw04 3y ago
Historically, who was draining those aquifers? It seems that pumping large amounts of water out of the earth is a relatively new thing. On planet timescales anyway.
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by tw04 3y ago
So we sacrifice hundreds of thousands of species in the rainforest for… more humans living in the Sahara? That might be great for a population expansion of humans in Africa, but it sounds pretty horrible for the overall health of the plane
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by tw04 3y ago
It’s interesting, but I’m curious if they’re ever going to target higher end cameras from the likes of dahua. Those cameras are all Linux based and most have serial headers so it should be doable.
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by tw04 3y ago
>After the export ban, China demonstrating a process node advancement that shocked the world. So the GPU story doesn't support your position particularly well. I'm not sure why you're conflating process technology with GPU
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by tw04 3y ago
>This makes nuclear weapons a poor analogy for AI, because all you need to develop an LLM is a big pile of commodity GPUs, the publicly available training data, some decent software engineers, and time. Except the GPUs are on export cont
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by tw04 3y ago
Just like nuclear weapons? The whole “security through obscurity doesn’t work” is absolute nonsense. It absolutely works and there are countless real world examples. What doesn’t work is relying on that as your ONLY security.
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by tw04 3y ago
>Your towns aren't built for walkers and public transport and that sucks, but there's no need to project that to everywhere else! And I'd say you're grossly mischaracterizing the US. Every small town I've lived
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by tw04 3y ago
Has anyone physically inspected the sites. I wonder if they’ve started installing longer cables at the sites on the list
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by tw04 3y ago
I'm struggling to count the ways you're contradicting yourself. >As always with western countries the political class will simply fill the void with more and more immigrants rather than fixing the core issues like living costs
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by tw04 3y ago
>Average working hours were dropping for decades before Labor Unions became popular in the 1930s driven by the productivity gains referenced elsewhere in the thread. The trend continued unabated other than an increase during WWII even af
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by tw04 3y ago
Much like the anti-vax movement, the average American seems in complete denial of how things really were a hundred years ago. Prior to unions, work looked completely different - EVERYONE has benefitted from the change unions brought about.
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by tw04 3y ago
>Getting back a 69$ billion price tag that way seems optimistic, but maybe I'm just pessimistic about the cash to be gained by being entrenched in large corporations. VMware had $13B in revenue in 2023. I expect the average customer

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