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by wat10000 3mo ago
The “chopstick” catcher arrangement seems awfully fragile. Would the ground equipment have survived this if it had been a real catch?
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by wat10000 3mo ago
They don't, because competition erases those differences. It's a very competitive market. If people were willing to pay a little extra for a few more inches of seat pitch in economy, you'd have an airline that offered a few m
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by wat10000 3mo ago
It definitely depends on the channel, and not just text vs not-text. We have a lot more context. A forged text from a loved one could definitely work to scam someone. The same thing in an HN comment is unlikely to be effective. An LLM doesn
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by wat10000 3mo ago
The thing is, this is far from universal. People don't buy a substantially worse smartphone or car to save $5. But they'll accept a substantially worse product to save $5 on airline tickets.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Then be grateful that travel is cheap enough that you can go, even if it's uncomfortable.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
But also remember that airline customers also opt for the more cramped and cheaper variants.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
I never understood why the airplane size matters so much to an individual passenger. What's the difference to me, as a standard economy passenger, between flying internationally in an A321 or a 787? I have the same tiny seat either way
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by wat10000 3mo ago
It's worth remembering that the airline market is very competitive and this happens because it matches consumer preferences. Yes, nobody wants to be crammed into a tiny seat. But given the choice between a large seat or a tiny seat tha
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by wat10000 3mo ago
It's a copy/paste of the arguments against open source software from decades ago. The argument goes: innovation requires profit motive, and profit motive requires IP rights. Of course, this was soundly disproven in software and I
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by wat10000 3mo ago
A partially empty stage wastes mass on propellant tanks sized for the full load. The mathematical ideal would be an infinite number of infinitesimally small stages.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
It's true, but the situation is much worse with LLMs. It's extremely unlikely that you could read anything in an HN comment that would get you to transfer all your money to a stranger. It's a lot easier to trick an LLM.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Americans have been propagandized like crazy and don't really understand what can actually be done. "Single-payer" is treated as a synonym for "universal health care." "Private" is seen as mutually exclusi
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by wat10000 3mo ago
You're receiving untrusted input by reading this. You also have access to your bank accounts. This manages not to be a complete failure of security despite that. Do the same thing with an LLM and you're screwed.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
At least when I plug a monitor into my Mac, it doesn't install anything. And somehow it still works despite this.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Plenty of people at the time thought slavery was evil. Franklin was even one of them, calling it "cancer." He said this while still owning slaves, which is rather peculiar, but people are complicated.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Or they ran the numbers and saw that they'll make more money with ads than without. I doubt they care about anything but the bottom line.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
If the person you're impersonating shows up to vote too, then that will be noticed and there will be questions. If they don't, there are still opportunities to notice issues after the fact. Get a list of who voted, call a random s
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by wat10000 3mo ago
To paraphrase a popular saying: if one of your countrymen believes a bunch of bullshit, they have a problem. If tens of millions of our countrymen believe a bunch of bullshit, we all have a problem.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
I don't think it's high at all. Elections are required for almost any legitimate government these days. Russia has elections. China has elections. North Korea has elections. The question is not whether there will be elections, b
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Are you seriously suggesting that Trump would have won California if not for cheating?
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Despite what people say, absence of evidence is evidence of absence, if you've gone looking for the evidence and it's something that you should find if the claim is true. There's a bunch of evidence we'd expect to see
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by wat10000 3mo ago
The problem is that everyone doesn't know this to be false. A substantial portion of the population "knows" it to be true.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
The government never needs a warrant merely to ask for info, and a private entity doesn't need a warrant to voluntarily hand over info that they have. If we had decent privacy protections then a private entity couldn't decide to j
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by wat10000 3mo ago
You’re missing the word “directly.” More people can afford to buy a toilet than ever before. The same may not be true of affording a plumber to install it.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Externalities must be accounted for. Once that’s done, cheap should correlate well with being less ecologically harmful.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
The opposite is actually true in reality. More people can afford X than ever before, for nearly any X that doesn’t involve directly paying for someone else’s labor.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
It also depends on what you consider to be “criminal.” I’d wager most shoplifters are dumb. Most supervisors who engage in wage theft aren’t dumb. But that’s not the kind of person who comes to mind when we think “criminal.”
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Except it was. They didn’t spend over $1 million/vehicle on stock Tahoes, but that’s what they cost when fully customized for this force.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Who’s “we”? If you can put the things in space, then you can put them anywhere in the world. They don’t need to go in American suburbs. I bet Mongolia would be happy to host you in exchange for the cost of a few rocket launches. Or put them
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by wat10000 3mo ago
If they did significantly better than random chance, they should be able to use that to become filthy rich in fairly short order, and you’d only be hearing their advice because they publish it as a hobby in between yachting. I don’t think t

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