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Speaking of borders, China has border disputes with 17 countries

Within the last 100 years China has invaded Soviet Manchuria, Tibet, Korea, Vietnam (yes, China invaded Vietnam after USA left), and portions of India (Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pra…

Worldwide being more educated means higher cost of living. Nowhere in the world is there a country with high cost of living and high birthrates

Why can't we train our own citizens to become construction workers? If you claim that people "don't want to work" for those wages, then isn't immigration keeping our wages down? Wo…

I did some digging, reaction engines are jet engines that can transition into a rocket propelled mode. It could enable a single stage to orbit plane. Within the atmosphere the jet …

Russia fires conventional warheads into Kiev all the time. Thousands of civilians have been killed and injured. The city survives. Buildings in Kiev aren't made out of wood. Firebo…

Air power relies on fuel and maintenance and runways. It's not necessary to contest the skies if the adversary can destroy the "tail" that supplies the aircraft. Stationary bases c…

Moscow could only accomplish this with nukes, and only early in the war. By this point Ukraine has dug underground for most of its crucial war-sustaining industry. Ukraine, well th…

Identifying objects in pictures was considered an insurmountable task only a few years ago, like in the xckd comic https://xkcd.com/1425/

We're about to see our political campaigns flooded with fake videos, slander, fabrications, and misinformation. Used to be you could be relatively certain if something was a video …

As a bootstrapping founder who is between 'regular' jobs, AI coding looks like a recurring cost that eats into my ramen savings, promises 80% of the benefits but leaves the hardest…

That reminds me of another though I’ve had. Humans need food, water, shelter, and medical care to survive. Similar to your earlier point, robots will need raw materials, electricit…

Certainly plausible. Humans have goals and desires because we are a self-replicating species of animal subject to natural selection. The individuals that don't have goals and desir…

Perhaps the economy is a greater entity than even the human race. When robots are mining the raw materials for robots and creating more robots, maybe with a bit of human labor in t…

A generation of people left behind. The birthrates will continue falling.

If human labor becomes 'uneconomical', what will happen? Obviously a great deal of social upheaval. But human labor does not actually need to be as expensive as it is. How cheaply …

I don't think LLMs inherently do anything perfectly. They can make sure it compiles and passes tests and they can be trained to do an enormous array of tasks, but the code it gener…

The globalized economy has demonstrated that a single country and supply the majority of the world's manufacturing needs, at least for a while. Taiwan creates most of the worlds se…

Church is how most people learn to sing in a group setting

Next you'll be telling me there's punch card programmers still. For love of the punch card craft.

This product looks fantastic! I got one question that I can't find the answer to on the website. What sql variants does it support? Postgres? MariaDB?

Once the good-enough bridge deteriorates and we have to spend more money maintaining or replacing it Don't we end up just spending the same? Just now we're left with a crappy bridg…

And if your one bridge survived as long as, or longer than three bridges?

What would happen if we made bridges to last as long as possible, to withstand natural disasters and require minimal maintenance? What if we built things that are meant to last? Wo…

Ukraine is claiming 1,500 daily Russian casualties. That’s 45,000 per month. That’s an enormous human toll. I don’t think Russia can continue to sustain losses at these rates. Puti…