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If "complete and total global nuclear exchange" means "we shoot off all the nukes we've got", then how bad that is depends on how many nukes there are - not whether we shoot all of…

It just...has made it. Plenty of power users just use it as their primary OS. I think official figures under-estimate it because many people daily-driving will spoof user agents of…

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I'd say it's tough to say. On the one hand, one of the major nuclear powers is embroiled in a war in Europe. Which is extremely bad news and clearly makes the probability of nuclea…

Yes, this is the thing. In the scientific enterprise, the writing is mostly wasted time. Why would you write it up if machines can do it competently? Sure, some people are artists …

Neat info. I would guess that Toyota produces twice as many vehicles per employee at least in part because the regulatory and social environment where Toyota operates is better. Th…

NERVA / RD-0410 are basically like chemical rockets but better (maybe 800s specific impulse, vs. 300 for a chemical rocket). In contrast, Orion was 6,000s to maybe 100,000 theoreti…

It could be monologue or dialogue, but it should be less full of verbal "syntactic sugar" than NotebookLM podcasts. More to the point, more detail-oriented, can pronounce math. Can…

1) you aren't able to listen to something safely while driving on the highway? 2) the cars pretty much drive themselves on the highway these days

I'd like to have audio overviews of scientific papers, so I can "read" them while I drive. NotebookLM/Gemini Notebook sorta does this, but the two-person podcast format is kind of …

Surely it's only open weights ?

That's a pretty unfair read in my opinion. Whatever the Mullvad guy supports (it is...a bit difficult for me to understand), it isn't the KKK. It isn't even close to the KKK. Not c…

It isn't. China's murder rate is about 0.5 murders per 100,000 people per year, while South Africa's is 44 per 100,000 people per year (assuming both countries report honest statis…

>half the calls could be handled by folks without guns. Let me point out that you must know which half before the fact for this to be of any use. Sometimes you might be 95% sure no…

Populations across the world are not comparable in a variety of ways, including in a "best-case" base criminality rate. So you can't compare per-capital rates of imprisonment and g…

She should at least put it on https://www.biorxiv.org/ !

When you realize that Google Maps is a business directory that also happens to do mapping, things make sense.

Yabbut...we sort of need to make it up as we go along. This is unprecedented! Thinking machines! That said, there is stupid "making it up" and smart "making it up". But it does nee…

I'll remind you about 1972: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/ “People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the Unit…

I get that this is in the news (or at least the nerd news), but really...do y'all canvass the companies you buy things from, figure out on net who the people who work for them supp…

Mullvad does an excellent job, and I support them.

Better yet, design and popularize an AR grip that is the state of California

You're on HN. You likely have lots of extra money. Donate to FIRE: https://www.fire.org/donate Donate to the EFF: https://supporters.eff.org/donate Any others?

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Mass shootings kill almost no one. They're a red herring. Even with a really stupid, inclusive "3 or more people injured" criterion. If you use that criterion for defining what a m…