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by xtorol 4mo ago
Due to a typo in the paperwork sent to HR by the hiring manager, they are only paying 64,189 pence. The director was last heard chastising HR, saying "It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel."
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by xtorol 3y ago
Any mechanism that can store enough energy to get a car from point A to point B is going to store a nontrivial amount of energy and be subject to some eyebrow-raising failure modes. This applies to gasoline, diesel fuel, batteries, and all
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by xtorol 3y ago
While that is certainly plausible, I don't think it is inevitable. There have certainly been other points in the history of AI where it looked like exponential growth was about to render everything moot, and then the entire field hit a
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by xtorol 4y ago
A guy who was at that very moment working at considerable personal risk to save the lives of 13 people.
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by xtorol 4y ago
NYC does have a number of dedicated salt-spreader/plow trucks [1]. As for why they use garbage trucks to plow, I speculate that it's an issue of scale. Buying a special purpose plow truck to replace every garbage truck that curren
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by xtorol 5y ago
Why wouldn't they?
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by xtorol 5y ago
"I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood, something that could never, ever possibly destroy us: Mr. Stay-Puft."
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by xtorol 5y ago
Agree that universities don't (and shouldn't) act with a single purpose or intent, but they need to have institutional controls in place that prevent really bad ideas from negatively affecting the surrounding community. Those seem
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by xtorol 7y ago
Can you elaborate on "we use zero-carbon electricity"? How far abstracted from electrical generation are you? What guarantees do you have that your electricity is provided by low/zero-carbon sources?