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The GGP said, "LLMs have ended the need for white collar junior work". That claim is that LLMs are a "1:1 replacement at an individual level", and this is what the GP was respondin…

Sure, but that's margin trading. These bonds have nothing to do with the endowment.

Those are standard, unsecured bonds. They're not loans against anything in the endowment.

> It doesn't look like the other Teslas, which all look really nice, but are more expensive. No, they're not. The price of a Cybertruck is in line with the price for a Model S or M…

> The US hasn't declared a war since WWII since executive privilege allows the President to pursue war without Congress declaring war. That's not correct. Congress no longer passes…

It, indirectly, was, because it was the reason the country initially relied on decentralized citizen militias for defense in the first place. Many of the founders were worried that…

> Adhesion and cohesion always fuck up scenes that combine scale models and water. Splashes always look very wrong Like the terrible model work in In Harm's Way .

I remember that on a Thinkgeek (RIP) t-shirt.

Only within the table of 20 largest point drops. Neither even makes the table of 20 largest percentage drops (which is above).

> I have also noticed that e.g. Lockheed Martin (maker of the F35) is not doing very well on the stock market. There's no "e.g." here. It's only Lockmart, and it's because they rec…

Yes, AWACS has limited moving target indicator (MTI) capability. A full-featured maritime MTI radar would easily pick this up, provided the signal processing algorithms don't rejec…

> but I'm less sure about the search part of SAR The article never mentioned the search part of SAR, only the rescue part. The range is still something of an issue with that, thoug…

> Also I assume radar-proof is just because it's a ground effect vehicle that will never fly high enough to show up on radar it certainly doesn't look all angular like a stealth bo…

The defense in that game was pretty bad. Five of the nine Brewers runs scored due to errors, and it was five separate errors. The game yesterday went much better, defensively.

> What? They're giving away cars just to cut in line? That seems a pointlessly costly deal. Maybe I'm not understanding the scam correctly. You're not. As the article notes > Under…

You're right, and there were definitely situations where we could have done things better, but didn't, because the impetus wasn't there. It was really frustrating, and I wish I'd b…

So, this particular contractor was big into efficiency and cost savings, to the point that we were all required to do a project where we made something more efficient and documente…

I spent the first 9.5 years of my career at a large defense contractor. We never had free coffee.

> Theres at least two sporting good store is employee run and for some reason my brain can't remember the name (it insists its DEI) It's REI, and it's actually a consumer co-op own…

The product line was effectively cancelled by the oil crisis of 1973 and severe economic issues in the mid 70s. It had nothing to do with a crash (of an airplane; there was a marke…

> Czech Republic is now Czechia The Czech Republic is still the Czech Republic; it is also now known as Czechia. "Czech Republic" is the full official name of the country, like "Un…

> UPenn is a land-grant institution The University of Pennsylvania is one of the nine colonial colleges founded before the United States existed. It predates land grant institution…

> Those companies are breaking the law. If the position requires a security clearance, they are not breaking the law. Language like this is standard on defense contractor postings …