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by robocat 4d ago
Yeah, and adverts only work on other people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_effect Fortunately I'm from Wobegon and I'm above average: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobeg
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by robocat 5d ago
You don't know what contracts he has signed. VCs typically include clauses to be able to sack CEO and retain board control under specific circumstances. I've seen this happen in a small company I was at, to a CEO that didn't
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by robocat 6d ago
Yep - meant to be on parent comment sorry.
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by robocat 6d ago
Fast electrons through air mostly have elastic scattering making their long distance path a 3D random walk with exponential dropoff which dominates the inverse square geometric dropoff. Sr90 beta decays emitting an electron becoming daught
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by robocat 6d ago
Unavailable outside US/Canada. See "Is Passport available outside of the U.S.?" section of: https://help.pbs.org/support/solutions/articles/12000096220-... PBS is not a producer, but rather
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by robocat 6d ago
That's such an unquantifiable accusation. Plus it is an unfair standard since so many scientists in the past have been caught unethically using the work of others without attribution (and so many more have been accused). In history we
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by robocat 6d ago
Dr. Buckmaster sounds unsanitary. Recklessly prompting OpenAI without a care to the safety of their knowledge. And after that trying to cast aspersions at OpenAI? Hopefully we get some better facts, because OpenAI are disliked enough that a
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by robocat 7d ago
Regular people optimise for silly numbers too. Threadcount, Watts, cubic inches: different products use different misleading measures.
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by robocat 8d ago
Assuming only one rotor cracks, then the radiation is from one rotor IBIS and the detector electronics could detect radiation levels that ripple synchronously with the rotor speed. The Strontium-90 is a beta radiation emitter. The exter
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by robocat 8d ago
There's a good comment: MH-53E maintainer here. The system is IBIS (Inflight Blade Inspection System) and the little pods are BIM (blade inspection monitors). The box is pretty obvious sitting just behind the main rotor on the deck
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by robocat 9d ago
How could you measure that the cat was inside the room?
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by robocat 10d ago
Worse is better. A humanoid robot doing burger flipping is a commodity. You can estimate the return per hour. A specialised robot is a design and maintenance headache. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475993
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by robocat 10d ago
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460032
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by robocat 10d ago
How many people in most government positions are using Excel? SaaS and mobile has taken over many apps. We sell SaaS to business and govt clients where most end users are either on a browser or a mobile app. There is a Windows application (
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by robocat 10d ago
https://www.sciencealert.com/mathematics-reveals-why-human-c... cannibalism actually makes some sort of sense [...if] you're not consuming people who were themselves cannibals You can't just feed the poor to the p
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by robocat 13d ago
Founders that take a pay cut from a high paying job should demand preferential shares to the value they are giving up. If they were in job where they were saving $50k a year, then after becoming a founder they should be getting $50k worth o
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by robocat 13d ago
Founders get common stock - class A voting. VCs get preferential shares, not common. Preferential shares have economic rights to protect the investors, but more importantly they usually have extra control rights like veto abilities, board
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by robocat 14d ago
Just another wave of influence: books, radio, TV, internet, now AI. Down here in the colony of New Zealand, the influence of the colony of North America is very noticeable. Music is the most directly attributable, but different media affect
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by robocat 16d ago
> Dying from a specific action is quite the evolutionary motivator Only if it is before you breed, or you kill your own kids.
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by robocat 16d ago
Wait till you're 65. It's more than disbelief, people start to actively moronify you. I'm not that age yet, but I've see it happening to purple my parent's age
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by robocat 17d ago
Terrible domain, but okay article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/trust-games/202111/t... Or search HN for "cynical genius"
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by robocat 17d ago
When your application to defer the tax is granted, payment is deferred for three years. Once the three years have passed, you'll receive an invoice stating the amount that you owe, including interest. That just makes the proble
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by robocat 19d ago
> uninhabitable Inhabitable: there are people living there off their own gardens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samosely However Undesirable to you or I. If refugees were allowed to live there, I wonder how many peo
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by robocat 19d ago
> supply ~100% of the power 2% of the time Or you design the majority of loads so they can be turned off for 2% of the time. Load shedding is a better solution than running peakers for [heated] towel rails.
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by robocat 19d ago
The brits briefly reanimated a court after 2 centuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Court_of_Chivalry#Jurisdi...
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by robocat 19d ago
Machine rolled and cut: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j1-2gdkOe3A&t=1m16s No way is a person doing it for mass production.
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by robocat 20d ago
You are repeating a common misconception revolving about the individual organism. Selection pressure rewards successful genetic reproduction . What actually happens at the scale of the organism is mostly irrelevant except how it affects re
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by robocat 20d ago
Years ago I bought a Dell XPS and an electric kettle, even though they both had a number one complaint on reviews (XPS: coil whine, kettle: plastic lid crazing). Both products are still available and it seems they both have the same complai
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by robocat 20d ago
The biggest issue with greenies is that their goals tend to be overly idealistic. They don't compromise - even when a compromise would strictly improve the world. Well, most voters hate to make compromises but the greenies seem to do i
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by robocat 20d ago
Do you like science? I propose you buy enough ingredients from the supermarket and make a big batch. The scientific test is: how far do you get, before your door is kicked in? If that fails, then science #2: have fun lighting it!! You almos

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