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Thank you, that’s correct.

All of this is predicated on the reality that 70%+ of Americans don't want to be in this war, none of our allies want any part of it either, and the person who started it is a cowa…

Geology over large time-scales is profoundly unforgiving.

When I consider how highly to value conjecture, I can think about the Mitch McConnell saga and recognize that conjecture is just another word for WAG.

There are loads of issues with it as hard sci-fi, but the bigger issue is that it's meant as a political allegory far more than it's meant to be hard sci-fi. Where I think it shine…

https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/04/20/us-navy-ships-food/ https://www.ibtimes.com/us-navy-releases-photos-that-refute-... The bit about it being taken earlier came from an episode…

I believe you're misunderstanding what I meant, we're talking about a specialized lab with a hell of a lot of privacy (read: zero oversight), lots of time and money, and the freedo…

The last time dire news about the state of morale and food on board a US Navy ship was paraded around it turned out to be pure fiction. That famous pic of the gray "insole" and pil…

They will absolutely not create anything of note with that setup, engineering viruses de novo requires a properly stocked lab with quite a few more zeros at the end of your propose…

Well... that's a sobering thought.

I agree and the obvious solution is: Nothing should exist at that scale. In fact, "Able to effectively moderate your product," strikes me as an excellent standard to hold them to, …

HN threads are goofy for anyone with domain expertise in the domain being discussed, except for web development.

He’s arguably one of the more hated public figures outside of politics, it would be much easier to list his die-hard fans.

If OpenAI is willing to encourage people to commit literal crimes on their behalf as clumsily as we've seen evidence of, why would they hesitate to try and shift opinion on a site …

That sounds like industry lobbying got the better of them, we have similar fights going on here around calling things plant "milk" or "butter" and the rest. What a shame, I can't i…

Nothing and no one forces you to cheat, it's a choice; an admittedly common choice, but then so are a lot of immoral acts like lying and stealing. I'm not saying that online tests …

Specificity and rules in German bureaucracy? A real shock, let me tell you.

You might want to check again, the people who run this forum certainly do, and no aspect of any existing US or EU law does either. Remember your personal interpretations and feelin…

If you knew those were the conditions when you joined? Yes.

Do you not see the difference between a person volunteering to broadcast a post, vs a bird party scraping the web to index it for searching?

Quite a few of the usual suspects are involved in Crypto, NFT’s, “Metaverse”, and now AI. You’d think people would figure it out, but there’s the old Upton Sinclair quote I guess.