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NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

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Re: NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

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Post by dekhn »

TrapLord_Rhodo wrote: post #256
hengheng wrote: post #224

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So if it crashes, then it's Tesla's fault and they pay? Or do you pay?

If it crashes, it's my fault. At every point i'm supervising. Except in self summon, and if it side swipes the car on the way out, it's obviously still my fault. That's just never happened to me. Where in my sentence did i say I wasn't fully in control of the situation? I just say i very, very rarely even have to disengage in situations. On the very rare occassion that i do disengage, it's not really that the car is…

Wait, which car are you saying gets taken over by a human? Waymo?

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Post by lnwlebjel »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #57

Hmm the budget is supposed to be approved by congress is it not? Trump can certainly tell people what he thinks the funding should be, but until a budget is voted through it is not final? Or does this agency fall under the White House direct financing of some sort?

The restructuring and firings are already happening. The infrastructure is being destroyed.

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Post by donnachangstein »

umbcorp wrote: post #559
donnachangstein wrote: post #545

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I'm one of those garage hackers, I have a quote from PCBWay, $286 for 20 boards including assembly service. I also got quotes from companies in U.S. - $2700 from a popular company in bay area - $2000 from another new pcb company. With tarrifs, my PCBWay order is around $789. I'm new to PCB Design, I cannot afford to do $2700 mistakes, with PCBWay hardware is more accessible.

Why are you building 20 boards if you are new to PCB design and can't afford mistakes? That's tremendously risky.

Even pros build a couple proto boards for the first run, and sometimes hand assemble them if able, not.... 20?

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Post by dekhn »

TrapLord_Rhodo wrote: post #520
hengheng wrote: post #267

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> For all intents and purposes, it's self driving. Except that you're responsible for its faults and errors, because you are the one driving. "Self driving" means I can be drunk, or I can put a kid in it, or an elderly person. That's what that word means: the car drives itself.

Why don't you add anywhere to that list? If the car drives itself, why is it geofenced into only places google has HD mapped down to the centimeter. My car can drive itself to Tahoe, can a waymo?

Waymo's strategy is to be extremely cautious and slowly improve the system and increase its scope over time with the goal of establishing self-driving cars as a long-term viable solution. They know they need to increase the trust of many people. Therefore, they geofence to locations where they have an understanding with the local politicians and government, near support facilities, and high quality data.

Tesla chose a different strategy. It's hard to collect enough data to know exactly how safe it is.

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Post by myko »

Henchman21 wrote: post #553
donnachangstein wrote: post #545

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These tariffs are designed to destroy the American economy and primacy on the world stage .

Pretty much this. Anyone who has paid attention to trump's work knows the goal is to destroy the USA

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Post by dragonwriter »

coliveira wrote: post #557
standardUser wrote: post #450

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"Russian asset" implies that the Russian government has compromising information on Donald Trump, or otherwise has leverage over him, which enables them to exert some level of control over his actions. People often point to the fact that, though Trump loudly and frequently criticizes our closest military and economic allies, he seems completely incapable of saying a single negative thing about Russia or Putin. As wel…

The fact that someone agrees with Russia's position doesn't immediately prove that he's an asset owned by them. All you said could be explained if he thinks that peace with Russia would be much better for the US than NATO expansionism, since it would reduce the tremendous cost of maintaining a war machine, put less money on the pockets of the war industry, and increase the opportunities for someone like him who wants…

> The fact that someone agrees with Russia's position doesn't immediately prove that he's an asset owned by them

“Asset” in the officer/agent/asset trio of terms for relations to foreign intel/influence operations does not denote ownership, and refers to people who provide access and information or other support without necessarily having the kind of formal control relationship and commitment that makes an agent. (One analogy I've seen used is with romantic relationships, where an agent is like a committed partner and a asset is in a friend-with-benefits relationship.)

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Post by [deleted] »

timschmidt wrote: post #76
dingnuts wrote: post #33

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when in fact scientific research is in the interest of Defense, especially NOAA. I'm sure the Air Force will appreciate degraded forecast capability. doesn't even make sense within the normal Republican playbook

NOAA is a civilian agency. Military has https://www.metoc.navy.mil/

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Post by kelnos »

naasking wrote: post #415
Smeevy wrote: post #257

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I think the problem here is that there isn't just one way in which Donald Trump is unduly influenced by Russia in ways that are difficult to explain. I can understand being skeptical, but there's several independent actions Trump has taken that are all inexplicably sympathetic to Russian interests. Just some quick examples: * Recommending American de-nuclearization while stating that Russia is no longer a threat to A…

> several independent actions Trump has taken that are all inexplicably sympathetic to Russian interests Is it really inexplicable though? Or is it more plausible that you simply don't understand the motives, and probably haven't really tried?

Well, we can't understand the motives, because Trump won't tell us, and even if he did, it's not like we shouldn't be skeptical of whatever he might say.

I do think another plausible explanation is that Trump has dictator envy and idolizes Putin, and so he tries to emulate him and do things that would make him happy.

But it's not clear how far something like that would go. I think it's reasonable to suspect that Putin has something that he can use as leverage over Trump, but that's of course near-impossible to prove at this point.

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