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by ivell 2mo ago
It is just risk assessment and mitigation. Some risks are acceptable for some people and they do not need the mitigation. But for others it is not acceptable and they would find solutions.
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by ivell 2mo ago
There was an article on Rudi Mandl who pestered Einstein into working on gravitational lensing. This happened because Rudi was persistent and Einstein was kind enough. In future, citizen scientists have a chance to work on their ideas using
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by ivell 2mo ago
People make art to also get recognized for that art. Otherwise they would keep that art secret at home. Without copyright, anyone can copy the art and call it their own. What is then the incentive for the creator to share the art, if there
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by ivell 2mo ago
Because there are no consequences of Trump's actions, he would continue to commit offenses. Neither Biden's administration, nor the judge presiding over Trump's crimes did what should have been done. The checks and balances f
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by ivell 2mo ago
I don't see why AI would deskill what you love to do. People still do embroidery even though mass manufacturing exists. If you love something you would continue doing it irrespective of automation.
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by ivell 2mo ago
On the way it seems. https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-crystal-... https://raksha-anirveda.com/indigenous-aerospace-leap-drdo-p...
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by ivell 2mo ago
> Being forced to work on top of that is the slavery. Why is it not part of the punishment? I think it is dependent upon interpretation. Otherwise arresting and locking up can be interpreted as kidnapping and so on. I do agree that they
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by ivell 2mo ago
Progress is a very human centric view. But if you consider earth as a whole system, we have over optimized the system for our benefit while the other parts of the system hugely suffered (other species, environment etc.). We need to ensure
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Bacteria turn dissolved uranium into stable compound in 130 days(phys.org)
4 points by ivell 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ivell 2mo ago
It could be just that almost all ancient civilizations were near water bodies that could flood. Any big flood would seem apocalyptic for the population size of the time.
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Swift's blockchain ledger ready for use(swift.com)
1 points by ivell 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ivell 2mo ago
I suspect even that was unexpected bonus by them. They just stumbled upon a way to manipulate the market. I have hard time to see any action by them as being thoughtful.
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by ivell 2mo ago
> If they had been smart, they would have been learning from Ukraine This administration seems to have neither the required skills nor an interest to learn from mistakes. Even if they were filled with smart people, they would still fail
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by ivell 2mo ago
I think they meant Caucasian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race
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by ivell 2mo ago
Drones can be used for both offense and defense. For example the usage of drones in Ukraine can be classified as defense.
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by ivell 2mo ago
This is why I don't trust self driving cars. It is hard to say when it will make a wrong decision and we are too slow to react as we are not actively engaged in driving.
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by ivell 3mo ago
> That shared infrastructure monopolized by a central government authority is exactly what the US would need to have fast internet everywhere. In case of India, the government lines had higher costs and lower service standards than the p
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by ivell 3mo ago
It was a referendum. Anyone can trigger a referendum if they have 100k signatures. This was not the government position.
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by ivell 3mo ago
Seems they have figured out the single crystal blade tech https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-crystal-...
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by ivell 3mo ago
This is a strange article. I did not find anything that is a blocker for China. China is a relative new comer to jet engines and this technology is tightly guarded by incumbents and needs time to mature. If China can master nuclear, space,
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by ivell 3mo ago
I used to look forward to MacOS upgrades. Nowadays I dread it. Spotlight used to be great for quick look up of files, now it is pretty much useless for me. I am back to using finder and manually looking up files. I hope things would improve
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by ivell 3mo ago
I guess we need to kick start SETI@Home like compute donations for training models.
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by ivell 3mo ago
Still the result could be that the software performance much better on their hardware than others. Priorities, competition, etc.
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by ivell 3mo ago
I think the UI look and feel was very ugly for many users and that caused its demise. The cross platform skin was ugly. The native skins were in the uncanny valley. The framework was reasonably good for its time. By the time good looking U
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by ivell 3mo ago
Why do we have to insist that messages must be made with lots of effort even if it is hard to understand for the reader? As long as what needs to be communicated is done respectfully, I don't see a value for it to be done manually, es
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by ivell 3mo ago
Looking at the figures, I think it is justified.
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by ivell 3mo ago
Same here. That's when I switched my kids' machines to Linux. That was just 2 months back. And was Windows 11 bug free, no. Was it easier to use, no. Absolutely irritating OS.
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by ivell 3mo ago
It is about immigration, not population control.
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by ivell 3mo ago
Everyone wanted disruption and we get disrupted, but not in the way anyone expected.
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by ivell 3mo ago
There are kids with autism and ADHD that you may have not considered.

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