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I was offered this a lot and usually declined because it means that someone is looking for someone who will, unlike a contractor, take ownership and keep themselves on top of what'…

Exactly because everyone can do it. There is no money to be made building software anymore. Even traction or network effects don't work - it will be copied on first signs of succes…

No, a kind of electric FPV drone.

I have basically vibe-coded a guidance system for air defence interceptors in 6 weeks. It works. Took getting my hands dirty with soldering and some mechanical work to test, but Cu…

I agree. There is no point in hiring anyone into a technical-only role anymore. It's very valuable (and probably always will be) to be something-and-technical: a specialist in the …

Well, being harmful is the whole thing about tech. Economic and technological development happens through harming people, this is how society grows. Finding new and new ways of har…

If law enforcement still does a good job, what are the downsides? I can't see crime climbing really high, after all, population ageing, and crime was on the decline for decades.

They always have been. As an outsourcer, i observed, for decades, organisations with lots of American tech workers who did almost nothing except nodding on meetings, most being utt…

That's still McMurdo, not the South Pole. It's not that exceptional.

This is striking. So much for the "socialist" society in China as opposed to "capitalist" in Netherlands.

So the point of study was to find out "whether becoming skinny provides comparable benefit when everyone already knows that it's possible vs becoming skinny at the time when it was…

Well it's their problem if everyone wants to live in the capital. Perhaps it's another manifestation of people being deeply irrational.

But indeed Moscow is one of the cheapest cities to buy housing in Europe... On par with poorer East European capitals and second-tier Central European cities.

With housing their being so cheap, what the hell is the problem anyway? It's impossible to have expensive real estate in a country that's dying out fast.

It seems like the sooner the economy will really wean itself from dependence on consumption of the poor (lower 90%), the better.

In the era when Upwork provided lots of opportunities to cheap outsources and was heavily gated - anyone without highly sought after skills had a hard time getting their account ap…

Well, this is certainly the case. Many migrants said that they were encouraged and directed by Moroccan police that informed people in advance, removed border controls and on the c…

...and the food part, it's been this way for almost a hundred years now - with agricultural productivity skyrocketing in between. But 100 years ago, chronic food overproduction ban…

Oh well several arcminutes is excellent. Yes this is best case.

building a WCS model (pixel XY ray vectors) of a camera is a solved science. Of course you can never expect it to be rectangular.

That's basics of meteor observation. As long as camera didn't move, you can plot the track against the stars and time is known. Then with two tracks from different locations, orbit…

This is absolutely trivial as long as any fixed ground objects are visible in a camera and does not at all require some sub-pixel precision.

20 years back, i've build a tennis prediction system that beat bookies hands down while placing bets on around 30% of all games - and actually made a modest profit (simulated, i ne…

Either this, or will instead become a China-like full-on fascist. Because capitalism stops working if there are no guarantees of private property (no point to own stock if company …

The catch here is that homeownership rate is the highest in history now except 2000s speculative subprime bubble when a lot of purely investment properties were bought at 103% mort…