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by woeirua 4y ago
Pushing snow is hard work. Harder than towing a large payload, so it makes sense to me that electric garbage trucks that might last a full day of garbage collection will fail to last as long while pushing around tons of snow. Just a simple
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by woeirua 4y ago
We already know that advertisers aren’t willing to pay that much for “subliminal” advertising. People have been trying to do product placement in movies and shows forever and it’s never really taken off.
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by woeirua 4y ago
This article gets it. ChatGPT heralds the end of free user comments, forums and social media. Because when everything and everyone online is fake, why even log on to Insta or FB or Twitter? The internet will still be useful, but Web 2.0 wil
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by woeirua 4y ago
The design of NIF was never intended to be viable for commercial power generation.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Why even have any press conferences then until we have a working commercial reactor? Come on, this is just ridiculous.
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by woeirua 4y ago
This comment sums up HN beautifully: "Here's an article from a subject matter expert on this topic, but I'm going to go ahead and ignore everything that was said because it doesn't fit my narrative."
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by woeirua 4y ago
No. Just because the sun exists, does not mean that it is necessarily physically possible to emulate controlled nuclear fusion without an _immense_ gravity well. Ignition in this context is a validation of our understanding of the physics.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Twitter's creditors must be just foaming at the mouth right now. Their investment is just cratering in value.
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by woeirua 4y ago
The world is full of compelling tech demos that fail to make much of a splash.
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by woeirua 4y ago
The only question now is how long before the banks fire him and try to right the ship.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Neuralink doesn't work.
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by woeirua 4y ago
LMAO, no. What would prevent someone from just looking up the answers using ChatGPT on another machine?
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by woeirua 4y ago
We've seen this before when CGI first came out, then with the proliferation of Photoshop and other cheap editors. Now fake garbage is everywhere on the internet. Did that make human life substantially different? Nope. Everyone just ign
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by woeirua 4y ago
Yeah, but people were also saying this about self-driving cars, and guess what that long tail is super long, and its also far fatter than we expected. 10 years ago people were saying AI was coming for taxi drivers, and as far as I can tell
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by woeirua 4y ago
We're just going to move to on-site interviews only. ChatGPT can't enter the equation then.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Very cool, but the music still has a very "rough", almost abrasive tinge to it. My hunch, is that it has to do with the phase estimates being off. Who's going to be first to take this approach and use it to generate human sp
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by woeirua 4y ago
The SEC has no teeth until they go after Elon. When are they going to take him to task for making materially false statements regarding Telsa's FSD ambitions?
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by woeirua 4y ago
It's a big deal because no fusion experiment to date has achieved ignition. It's a validation of our modeling and engineering capability and it means that we probably can build a commercial reactor down the road. Let me put it thi
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by woeirua 4y ago
This is good for Crypto. Seriously. Because SBF is probably going to help the US make their case against Binance and that will flush out all the bad actors. Many coins will go to zero. The entire ecosystem will wither and die, but if Crypto
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by woeirua 4y ago
Except the war in Ukraine has also shown that this is false.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Globalization and free trade are dead because most of the promised benefits for the west failed to materialize. Yes, we got significantly cheaper goods, but one of the major promises was that free trade would liberalize the world. Instead,
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by woeirua 4y ago
PFAS and PFOA are going to be huge in the next few decades. Additionally, lots of pharmaceutical compounds are going to end up highly regulated in waste effluent.
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by woeirua 4y ago
It's all part of the cult of personality. "We're all a family." Remind me, when was the last time your father just cut out half of the family?
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by woeirua 4y ago
Yep, you can't rush good science. Neuralink will just be another company on the trash heap of failed ideas at the rate they're going right now.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Sorry, but no one is going to get an incredibly invasive and risky neural implant to solve carpal tunnel syndrome.
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by woeirua 4y ago
How long before they also file for bankruptcy?
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by woeirua 4y ago
The new age meat substitutes are just too expensive. In my grocery store they cost 40% more than an equivalent amount of beef. Also, I kind of prefer a good veggie burger over an impossible burger. Let veggies be veggies and meat be meat.
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by woeirua 4y ago
The anti-natalist movement is a good example of this.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Can we lump chatbots in with this too? Chatbots have totally failed to live up to their hype. It seems like we spent billions of dollars chasing chatbots and voice assistants only to realize that you need strong AI to have something truly
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by woeirua 4y ago
Or you could just be like Garth Brooks and keep adding shows until they no longer sell out. Boom, problem solved.

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