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Then you're too young and fail to remember many things. Phones are very new, the decline in birthrate in the rich western economies is not.

It is effectively the same city in three states, but most of it is in Iowa. Of course there are separate entities because it's in different states but if it weren't they would have…

It's really not. Nor is it phones. Real estate is too expensive and rent is too high and people don't want to raise a family in a tiny apartment where both people have to work long…

Oaks ARE a food forest for birds and bugs and small mammals and such. They create food chains. Oaks are particularly good at this. I think the best path is helping nature along to …

Requirements ARE written in a precise, formal language. These days most people don't actually have any contact at all with real requirements though as practiced by professionals. T…

I do. Software as a list of requirements and that's it. The local LLM appliance everybody has taking in a document specifying hardware, interfaces, and requirements and spitting ou…

In that they'll have to act like a competitive employer?

Dude, calm down. The offense is exclusively in your own head.

Yes if firefighters sit watching a fire burn whining about it, they are indeed to blame for not putting out the fire. I'm tired of people in power whining about being victims.

Yes. Their whole job is defending the republic and in the easiest to win election they succumbed to the ego of a bumbling old man and failed to lead on anything at all. Those fools…

Go plant an oak tree. Not in theory, not a big plan for a monumental effort, just plant an oak tree. They survive for many lives of men and are a cornerstone for feeding the entire…

This is the endgame of encouraging everyone to vote. The theory was representatives would be motivated to address the interests of everyone as a whole. The reality is politicians a…

There is a sort of island of complexity in the parameter space of physics where we exist in a thin film on the surface of a rock orbiting at such a distance of a star of a particul…

And you must ask yourself, is the ability to sell your company to another company a benefit or should there be considerably stronger hurdles for this kind of thing?

Zoom out and ask yourself which injustices the popular voice care about and which they don't. There is a hard to miss tendency for the things which get the most noise to be the mos…

GPS + a topo map yelling at you for being too close to the ground is extremely simple, a very basic feature. Dead reckoning (keeping track of position over time without an external…

The "victim" doesn't have the final choice but their position is heavily influential and prosecutors don't decide if a crime was committed, that only happens at the end of the judi…

>WHY has no one been charged??? I doubt huggingface wants charges filed.

>I'm wondering what they could have done differently here. It appears there were too many sources of confusion. GPS jamming, moonless night, busy ATC, not planning on VFR before ta…

Your GPS enabled flight computer will indeed yell at you VERY LOUDLY if you're about to hit a mountain. It will not allow you to get particularly close to terrain without noticing.…

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For 20 years my job has been automating my job away. I remain unafraid of my future necessity, and as always, excited for the work I get to do because of the work I no longer have …

Russia could still trigger a mass extinction and end civilization as we know it. The thing which has changed is the nuclear threat is almost just, losing interest? Yes any one of a…

Once proper defenses for cheap and slow suicide drones is created (fast small unmanned interceptors with bullets instead of missiles) this temporary drone threat phase of war will …

The bulk of moderation work is things which are easy and obvious. The correct way to moderate is automation with certainty falling back to humans with discretion. The new frontier …