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This doesn't account for the substantial difference between military deception and political (self-)deception. The Midway water shortage deception was a way to gain a tactical, fol…

That's because you haven't thought it through. "We only want info on the bad people" might not alarm you personally until any government entity changes the definition of bad and no…

Digital property is property.

Auto GCAS (Ground Collision Avoidance System) exists (pre-AI), although it is nowhere near as sophisticated as what you described. Similar type of idea though. If the pilot passes …

I know nothing about this topic but your comment piqued my curiosity. What would a $500 AMD GPU do better than DGX?

Also to reduce capital murder...

I've literally had my vehicle alarm and tell me to keep both hands on the steering wheel when I had both hands on for a long time. My biggest concern is where do false alarms take …

Not being mandatory and not having an effect are different claims.

> will still be able to intercept drones cheaply But likely not at the scale required to make a real dent. This is the problem with the "this new weapon will win the Russia-Ukraine…

IANAL, what are the practical implications of this? I assume the outcome is police would first need probable cause to suspect a specific person of a crime, and then get a warrant f…

This is the problem in the discussion. Many on HN don't remember what it was like to buy a house in 2010, so they assume it hasn't gotten (far) worse. It has.

This wildly assumes that "I voted for $candidate" means "I like $candidate." Every presidential election cycle we get served up two turds, one with a (D) and the other with an (R) …

> Starting price reportedly around $2,000. I'll guess it won't be a Vision Pro level disaster, but most people will skip this device unless the price drops substantially.

What if we took Japan’s flag, imagined it printed on paper, but made the dot blue?

> MongoDB still leads on single-record writes, while SurrealDB is ~1.3× faster on reads I greatly appreciate when a vendor is willing to run the test and publish unfavorable inform…

“cum” (rhymes with “broom”, rather than “dumb”) is Latin for “with”.

These days Conjure is the best way to write a lisp language in Neovim, in my opinion. It supports Clojure, Common Lisp, Fennel, etc. Not my project but I’m very thankful for those …

For what purpose? Murder? Arson? It's amazing how often people say things like "no one is above the law" whenever it's convenient, then totally flip the script when it's not.

For ancient Greek, two great books are: Greek: an Intensive Course by Hansen and Quinn. Basics of Biblical Greek by William Mounce Both are standard texts with solutions easily ava…

Get a decent Greek grammar book and go through the first couple chapters, even if you don’t plan to complete the book. After completing the exercises you’ll be amazed by how quickl…

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> people must prove their value via an extraordinary work ethic Ironically, this is the literal opposite of Christianity. Christianity in a nutshell is "Jesus saves people because …

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> And how does it make any logical sense to send 100+ spec ops guys in two big planes to rescue one (1) guy in a remote mountainous location? I’m a former Air Force officer, and ca…