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So a software engineer could diagnose an illness with ai, even if they happen to be right that doesn't really prove much about how bad of an idea it could be in a long tail scenari…

A Thielian sea steading homeless encampment for intellectuals in international waters named Titanic II.

the models don't retain their full training data set

do you think neutral ai moderation and time limits on discussion would have the desired effect?

who funded his lawsuit as a part of a lawfare campaign again?

You build small scale modular systems at the sources of maximum power consumption to reduce transmission losses and grid requirements.

If risk and disposal is factored into coal, gas, solar power, what would be cheaper? Nuclear has recyclable fuel processes and fail safe systems available.

The startup costs, process knowledge requirements, and logistic issues with inputs are clearly higher for large scale chemical manufacturing than mechanical. The Roi is currently l…

There was some model named FGC2000 which was used with short unrifled 9mm tubes, meaning the range was low and could only be used as parent described. Saw this on a YouTube video b…

obviously the photos and media is covered by copyright, but rendering your own probably is not.

How would you know how many vehicles there are when it separates late? Some Iranian munitions have 80 vehicles. Maybe they don't have the fastest hypersonics or large payloads in t…

I mean even a cursory analysis will show that it's physically impossible for it to work against multiple vehicles/decoys. They also make the "stealth" f35, their contracts for this…

Lockheed martin PAC3 manufacturer is down 11% this month.

Iran copied oreshnik system, added decoys and other stuff, patriot is not effective against hypersonic, multiple vehicle missiles or decoys (which would require 1 patriot per vehic…

Pretty sure the big losers are US missile intercept systems manufactures since they've basically been outed as useless so I'm not sure who would want to buy them now. And Israel, o…

this is just gypsum in case anyone was wondering

Clover fixes nitrogen and roots help stabilize the voids in the soil. They sell seed mixes called "ground cover mix" that includes other plants and will help keep the soil from rec…

You might need something like rebar to stick in the back of the mouth and pull back when that doesn't work

When it's wet, but not saturated - like 1-2 days after a rain - you can decompact the soil with a strong metal broadfork and leave the soil in large block aggregates. This keeps th…

Would you say the scarcity is what starts the corruption? Like you can't get a plumber so you have to use your personal network or there aren't enough tickets so you have to obtain…

They never solved any cases, only provided a warm lead once a day. If they solved many, they would be proud and say N cases solved. In this case N must be an embarrassingly small n…

wouldn't it be DoW, like DoD?

municipally owned fiber isnt that rare or complicated

A phrase like I'm more trained in science is an appeal to authority, which is pretty suspicious, as is not trusting your own observations. How do you trust the data you collect? fe…