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no no no, you are misreading causality here. The error of 5 seconds a month is between the One True Clock (the one with the pendulum) and all those silly cessium and gps dohickies.…

I thought the drones had geofencing, so it should be possible to geofence the entire US and block them that way?

you mean like the time they invaded and took Washington DC? Canada being the only country to successfully invade the US or did I mix up my pronoun references again?

I'm curious what you consider "training", and how this would be different than a vocation-specific university degree? Which typically also includes supervised real-world teaching e…

Hey, I hear you. And I'm sad. Because I'd like to say that the right way is to: build infrastructure that promotes safe driving, and train drivers to show respect for other people …

1) Tax dollars don't fund the government. The government funds the government. That's what "Fiat currency" means. 2) How do you feel about the money going to ICE?

Odd that the debate here is all around what is in "the news", vs what is in the other tv shows people are watching. The amount of violence in the stories we watch is astounding; I …

> I don’t think it’s any more true or insightful in the modern era hmm, based on what evidence? Or, if you prefer, based on what appeal to authority? Did you actually quote that au…

maybe they are concerned by the widespread adoption of the attitude you are taking-- make a very strong accusation, then when it was pointed out that the accusation might be off ba…

> “We’ve created something so dangerous that we couldn’t possibly live with the moral burden of knowing that the wrong people (which are never us, of course) might get their hands …

> What I also noticed it did better: it doesn't reduce me to data engineering anymore. It understands that I aspire to learn everything and anything I can get my hands on. It's my …

the redcoats didn't wear colorful coats and form nice big lines because they were stupid. They beat Napolean using similar tactics. And they didn't lose to the US because of these …

um. My uncle died of polio, and I was a medical researcher (phd) for a while. Polio can cause paralysis just fine on its own, it doesn't need DDT or paraquat to help it. And you ar…

> comparing artificial to real neural networks I had a sad day in college when I thought I'd build my own ANN using C++. First thing I did was create a "Neuron" class, to mimic the…

Congrats on your good fortune, and agree with your diagnosis. Does it work the other way? If the company isn't growing, do you close it? When/how do you decide this? What if the gr…

I'll accept your measurement as accurate. However, unless we have a measure on how helpful self-help books actually are, we still don't know if they help or not.

yes, change the social structure in the country so that this glaring social need is provided for.

We have fruit trees in our backyard. The year of the COVID lockdown they had so much fruit the branches broke from the weight. Most fruit I've seen in 20 years in the house, by a l…

as a former virologist, I love the thought that LLMs are the virus of reasoning :)

> Not really understanding the negativity here. In the last year or so HN seems to have attracted a lot of people (plus some bots) who seem to have been socialized on Reddit. I don…

check your numbers with a purchase date of 1971.

> Buying a home is fairly straightforward and has almost no state verification of any piece of it, at least in the US. you mean the purchase deed isn't registered anyplace? or you …

also, this is what chat-style interfaces encourage. Anything where the "enter" key sends the message instead of creating a paragraph block is just hell. I'm prompting Gemini, and I…

The funny thing is the CDC says the same thing as your parents did Whipworm, hookworm, and Ascaris are the three types of soil-transmitted helminths (parasitic worms)... Soil-trans…

obviously not a native French speaker