JDulin

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by JDulin 4y ago
One problem with these hypersonic endeavors and DOD development in general is there are too few tests (And done too slowly) to iterate. The developers do not get lots of opportunities to learn from real-data, like at SpaceX. Instead, ther
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by JDulin 6y ago
It's not for "no reason" - Public education's primary purpose in the United States, other than indoctrination, is daycare for the workforce. So school must start early enough parents can get children to school before hea
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by JDulin 6y ago
Yes, but as he correctly points out, none of those things were done by the local govts.
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by JDulin 6y ago
OpenAI's need for these types of "closed" deals is driven by the fact their technology is fundamentally dependent on data & compute infrastructure that only a few organizations in the world can afford. It doesn't ma
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by JDulin 6y ago
> "low-income, ethnic minority neighbourhoods have historically been over-policed so the data shows them as crime hotspots, leading to the deployment of more police to those areas." This is wrong. They've been under-polic
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by JDulin 6y ago
Ok. Replace the CCP and China in my comment with the other countries you mentioned. You get the exact same mechanism of degradation of your universities, you're just still trying to feel better about it by pointing out that your cha
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by JDulin 6y ago
He thought giving them a fake face would gum up their search quality and ability to resolve him. I'm saying it would basically be a null-photo to Clearview.
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by JDulin 6y ago
Just for the record, the journalist who broke the story on Clearview noted that Clearview AI has specifically demonstrated it isn't fooled by thispersondoesnotexist.com: https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/121
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by JDulin 6y ago
These problems are not due to an "administration". The rot of American institutions is deep. The competence and coherence of the entire American civil service and civil life has fallen precipitously in the last 20 years, and, in
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by JDulin 7y ago
More to the point, detecting a stealth aircraft is very different from shooting at a stealth aircraft. This radar would likely not have the location accuracy of where exactly the B-2 was to accurately engage it with a missile. Your accur
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by JDulin 7y ago
Here ya go: 1. a) "Steve Kerr's silence shows NBA-China relationship is league's third rail" - [ https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/steve-kerrs-silen... ] b) [https://twitte
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Bill Clinton and American Financiers Armed China(mattstoller.substack.com)
93 points by JDulin 7y ago|27 comments
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by JDulin 7y ago
> a core problem in the United States' institutions - Defense industry dysfunction. You missed a word. But to answer your specific suggestion for No. 1: No, I don't think Super PACs are near the Top 10 issues facing the Unite
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by JDulin 7y ago
Honestly, it's just a subtle misunderstanding due to how Anduril's product path blurs the lines between the products they sell now, and the structure of their company & goals long-term. Long-term, Anduril wants to be a defense
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by JDulin 7y ago
Awesome! Anduril is one of the few startups today I believe is solving a core problem in the United States' institutions - Defense industry dysfunction. It costs American taxpayers billions of dollars on weapons that under-perform at
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by JDulin 7y ago
All journalism to the sufficiently informed looks like pathos. All journalism to the sufficiently uninformed looks like logos.
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by JDulin 7y ago
These court-cases have two worthy objectives: Correcting this behavior in pharmaceutical co.s in the future and compensating the states & people harmed in the past. Incentivizing restraint and honest advertising is only possible by puni
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by JDulin 7y ago
Ah! Some good answers in the rest of this thread noting that this gun vaporizes its sabot - That's probably the biggest source of smoke
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by JDulin 7y ago
A combination of three things: 1) The flash is air in contact with the super-hot rail ionizing instantaneously from the heat, and becoming plasma. 2) Friction (From the projectile against both the rail itself, and air) producing vast amount
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by JDulin 7y ago
This is an important point, and I couldn't agree more. This idea overwhelms me when I read the newest filings and indictments of pharmaceutical companies in the opioid crisis. A corporation, fundamentally, cannot "learn lessons&q
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Kunit: Introducing KUnit, the Linux kernel unit testing framework(mail-archive.com)
4 points by JDulin 8y ago|0 comments
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by JDulin 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51qqzFE0rsw
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by JDulin 9y ago
For a brilliant rant on the horrible, useless design of the Space Shuttle, it's hard to beat Idle Words: http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
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by JDulin 12y ago
As a coder of "various ability and background", I found that Hoon source code was a relaxing joy to read and write after a few weeks of dedicated study. It is, believe it not, designed with readability as a first-class priority.
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by JDulin 12y ago
Oh, Urbit! Where to begin?... First of all, this is staggeringly brilliant. You should pay attention to it in the coming months. I am not sure if it's destined to be the future, but I sure as hell hope it is. I had the privilege of
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by JDulin 13y ago
There's a (vitriolic) write up on "The Last Psychiatrist" blog which generalizes this to the idea of the "The Long Con" by discussing the Dove Beauty campaign [0]. It's a more thorough write-up, in part becaus
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by JDulin 13y ago
The climate change versus shareholder value debate aside, I would be angry that this representative was obviously trying to hijack the shareholding meeting discussion to make a political point or have me (Tim Cook) say something polarizing.
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A Case Against the GO TO Statement (Dijkstra, 1968)(cs.utexas.edu)
1 points by JDulin 13y ago|0 comments
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by JDulin 13y ago
Inequality not being fundamentally unjust does not imply it isn't a huge problem for society. First of all, it makes it easy for the wealthy to lock the poor (and the rich) into their locations on the income graphs. The systems the we
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by JDulin 13y ago
As always, there's an old and insightful pg essay on these economics: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html The trivial conclusion is that starting your own company is how to be accurately rewarded for your work. But

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