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To add a few more exotic cases that affect things. Keep in mind that by default new languages fail. To succeed, many things have to all go right at once, and this implies that ther…

As I said, H2 has violent exothermic reaction potential just the same.

... and it costs society more to process the destroyed waste, and it costs society more to then deal with the fallout of shelters not having enough clothes. Or not. Who knows. The …

Yes, and that sounds like a better plan, but evidently that requires more political capital than is available.

It's a somewhat blunt instrument used to internalize some externalities: Making a product and then destroying it is wasteful, and the market will fix all internalized costs of that…

Hear me out: There's a way the desert states can export and store their solar energy production cheaply, easily, at scale, without needing any rare earths (nothing that is hard to …

It's the local v. federal thing. The US has been suffering from this for a while, as has Germany. The EU, too, is suffering from this. The local politician's thinking is thusly: - …

Let's not conflate these two issues. For this specific case there is absolutely no confusion. A quote, from his own talk page, written by himself: > But as of fall 2025, I have ret…

You cannot bet 50/50 on that question. Hence, you aren't actually asked to evaluate whether the answer to the questions you posted is 'yes' or 'no'. You are instead asked 'is the a…

A good point and the java ecosystem makes similar mistakes. In general any: ``` if (x != null && !x.isEmpty()) doAThing(x); ``` is either: [A] Code directly on the boundary between…

One obvious alternative plan, presupposing that Full Body Scan is dirt cheap, is the following protocol: - At 25 years old or whatever you get a FBS. Pretty much no matter what, th…

In normal times, what you say is obviously true. But specifically at this moment in time what you've written is total hogwash. Currently the US is spending money as if it's, specif…

Your premise is incorrect; if apple truly wants to do the 'right thing for its users', it would allow choice. The fact that the current crop of likely alternate choices include qui…

In this context, a social construct. In terms much more popular a century ago, a 'nation': A people who have some similarities in how they approach, in this case, a combination of …

Switserland is a true confederation. It consists of 26 cantons and in most ways each canton is sovereign. As an example, swiss cantons are considerably more independent from the Sw…

It is the same premise, because the person you are responding to is not talking about the moral implications at all, only about the financial / hardware implications. Running AI in…

Not to mention that the actual controls in a car (from gearshift to button to change the brightness on the on-board display to 'open garage door' button of a built in radio wave th…

that's a bit of a hairy situation. You're doing it wrong. Or not really, but.. complicated. As per [RFC 5321]( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5321.html ): > the local-part MUST …

The vast, _vast_ majority of such infrastructure was turn down in the 60s to make way for the almighty automobile. The number of places in the north american continent that retain …

That boils down to the second point, doesn't it? Just - with tooling that checks you are doing the thing that the model requires you to do.

2 friends of mine did an entire presentation on their deep dive into crypto. They started a long time ago, and very smartly: Instead of trading it themselves, they wrote bots to pl…

I don't think these LLMs were explicitly designed based on the CEO's detailed input that boils down to 'reproduce these servile yes-men in LLM form please'. Which makes it more int…

There is utility in indicating how surprised / concerned you are at a certain process or event. We can flatten out all communication and boil everything down to an extremely neutra…

It wasn't an 'it' it was a 'some'. Some of these companies that are investing massively in data centers will fail. Right now essentially none have 'failed' in the sense of 'bankrup…

I read in multiple somewhat off-beat sources lacking good info (in the sense "They did not back up their writings and don't enjoy an impeccable track record of such high regard tha…