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Sounds like anyone who needs actual, delivered, at-scale power (in the real world) should immediately adopt an "Anything But Nukes" policy. Vs. those with both the unquenchable zea…

Nuclear's top 3 problems: 1. Any equipment or substance that is both nuclear and potentially dangerous has some sort of magical mutant super-power to stimulate superhumanly idiotic…

Because combining "Amazon", "top source" "climate", and "pollution" should make this headline a top source of the clicks that Ars needs to pay its own bills?

I'd assume the regular readership of Detroit Catholic skews fairly heavily Catholic, and "Catholic expert" is an important (to them) signal as to how seriously they should take the…

Right now, the title I see (on the article) is "Russia bars anti-war party from parliamentary election". Maybe SCMP is A/B testing AI clickbait in their titles? Russia being Russia…

Corporations are made out of humans. They're about as eager to cut their own profits as human workers are to reduce their own wages.

> ...turning his brain off...This should be a wake-up call... Yeah, but no . People substituting "AI" for actually thinking IS a huge problem with human nature. But trying to convi…

While I get that lots of people love the anti-AI "moral" of this story - it's 25 acres of sesame seedlings. Less than 4% of one piddly square mile. This isn't even a sliver of a ro…

> do you think Fermat had an error Yes, with million-to-one odds. Though I'd say "error or equivalent shortcoming, for the general case". > that perhaps is more straightforward tha…

Best wishes for your wife's and your continued health.

(Related, 9 points and 1 comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154122 ) Reading the abstract, I'd say they're putting far too much emphasis on nuclear explosions. Yes, be…

I assume you've heard of New Mexico's DoJ winning a not-quite-$1B court case against Meta. Maybe Meta's lawyers will win on appeal, maybe they won't. "Think of the children!" pushe…

One wonders just how badly contaminated the building and local groundwater might be.

Okay - but for most types of agriculture, the minimum viable farm size is rather larger than it was a century or so ago. Might we ask how large your sheep farm is, by current comme…

> Senior ECB officials called the episode a break from decades of coordination. One person close to the discussions called the moment unprecedented. Makes me wonder if any of those…

The subtitle calls out one of the most-wretched and most-repeated truisms in modern medicine: > For decades, the condition was thought to be psychological, and women were shamed fo…

I mostly noticed your "might have an unplesant climate impact by increasing the eccentricity of our orbit", and thought that'd be the least of Earth's worries. Black hole gravity i…

Not an astrophysicist, but I'm thinking 5 AU could quickly fry the Earth - because it takes very little in the way of solar comets, asteroids, and dust to build a temporary accreti…

As a generality, right-wing politics favors unification, to gain and retain power. Ideology is whatever stuff you say to that end. Vs. left-wing politics favors endless ideological…

You know you're old when...you feel an instant disbelief that anyone with $18B to lend could actually believe mere 10% interest was sufficient compensation for the risk of default …

In between IC's and vacuum tubes, isn't there discrete transistor logic?

Does anyone know if this a major issue in progressive/feminist circles, vs. the the Guardian just puffing up a bit of (relative) trivia for the clicks? (Either way, it was interest…

Critical bits of the article: This is an extremely rare cause of fatalities (in the US), and the fatal flight was very high risk with out the GPS blocking. > It's worth taking a cl…

> I'd personally label the factions within the military that view aerial bombing as an effective strategy as "conservative"... If "aerial bombing as an effective strategy" still me…

I'd bet people are saying it - you're just too isolated from low-experience/low-competence DB users to notice it. Vs. the much newer LLM's...