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People who get carjacked often enough to have an informed opinion about countermeasures don't exist in real life. Instead, refugees exist, and people trying to make first-principle…

What law? The US code? Does that matter anymore? Congress has made their ruling, now let them enforce it.

Will Mexico be paying for us to destroy this national park? If not, why not?

Why yes, I also believe this action was solely a result of one administrator's low intelligence, and not any kind of concerted campaign to take over my country through media channe…

You mean Google Wave? Or Google Metaverse?

This was joking about GP, if that was not clear. A society simply cannot function with the cartoon levels of crime seen in Batman or Grand Theft Auto; People leave for abroad. Plan…

> sign-balanced to a hundredth of a point with no constraint asking for it." This isn't their model, this is (probably?) ChatGPT doing a brag / promo deck authorial voice. It routi…

The rest of the world is chasing models of investment in procurement of goods and services that get stuck on neoliberal capitalist antipatterns where every action demands a short-t…

As one does. Why, six of the eleven times I've had my car stolen, it was a carjacking with myself or my family member in it.

Smart TVs replaced dumb TVs not out of consumer demand, but out of subsidy from commercial databrokers and streaming services. Despite adding $100 of hardware they were priced $100…

The Chinese models keep American financial markets at "To the Moon" levels rather than "Igniting Jupiter as a binary star" levels. This amount of capital pressure exerts its own gr…

Regulations are a bit different, not just on what counts as rest, but on physical format. The normal US front-engine is rare in Europe. The US extended sleeper generally doesn't ex…

So build them stops.

Skeptic here. Many of them probably are. Individual EMF concerns are often debunked. It is possible but unlikely that all of them are categorically complete nonsense. But let's put…

A year of plugging it in once or twice a day to recharge it, and it blew. Old rectangular USB-A was only rated for 1500 ideal insertions. USB-C is a big improvement at 10,000 ideal…

"Feel free to create your own university where you have the funding for petri dishes. In the meantime, I'm going to publish without them, because I feel like this tissue culture I'…

My phone's USB-C port is worn out, and so now it's a brick if I don't have a wireless charging dock around. Is it physically impossible to get bandwidth and power out of something …

Have you been following Gossip Goblin?

AMZN Q2 numbers are in, and it turns out they're going to Goldman Sachs the AI bubble.

We need a sufficiently advanced world model to ground-truth our large language models. EDIT: This was mostly satirical.

My impression is that friction is negligible once firmly in LEO. Orientation of a sub-component surface definitely matters, as does Earth's presence in half of the viewshed. But my…

The radiative equilibrium temperature is a function of (watts in - watts out), with a fourth power law shoved in there somewhere. A blackbody at radiative equilibrium absorbs whate…

I completely fail to recall that time we burned down Buckingham Palace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington We did flex quite a bit on lesser powers, though, even i…

The blackbody equilibrium temperature at 1AU from the sun is about 278K. All satellite materials are fine at 278K because that's within the expected range of storage and atmospheri…

> but I'd like to point out that this kind of study must be done in a way that doesn't discriminate any of the students. This is definitionally impossible. Testing whether the tool…