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They could have said "only X were sold". Or X sold, where X is a very low" number".

Instead, they went with an abitrary low number and declared it to be arbitrary.

const ILLUSTRATIVE_LOW_SALES = 30

Seems fine to me.

I will bite. How do these multi-thousand-year furniture lobbyists continue to conspire to successfully frame our contemporary ideas toward their agenda?

Reminiscent of the movie The Congress, in which Robin Wright's character, a famous actor, is hustled by a movie studio into giving up her likeness for them to continue making films starring her, in perpetuity.

Thanks.

By coincidence, I visited an Akiya in Nagano yesterday. It's not free, but it's very cheap. I will probably buy it (+60% likelihood). If so, I will spend additional 200% asking price on repairs.

Technically, I am resident in Tokyo but own and live in a house in Nagano. It had been empty for 6 years, but not abandoned when I bought it 2 years ago. Here is what I know:

- There is no residence requirement to own property in Japan. You can be domiciled anywhere.

- Even for a government-sold Akiya, you will pay some reasonable fees to realtor and scrivener.

- You probably will not be able to get a loan if domiciled overseas.

- Legal is not particularly difficult (compared to other countries). I have only done it in person, and cannot imagine doing it remotely.

- There is no option to do legal in English. You will need a Japanese speaker. Or at least let them explain the documents at your level. They will do so sincerely.

- If your akiya includes farmland, you will need to demonstrate a plan to farm it. If the plan is not accepted by local govt, or you don't fulfill the plan, the sale may be voided.

- It is generally not a scammy environment. ymmv.

Anyone thinking to buy property in Iida, Nagano please look me up.

I agree with your conclusion, but for a different reason.

Having been vegetarian for a long time, I have completely lost the inclination to eat something like meat, even if it isn't meat. I would love to try Impossible, but cannot bring myself to.

All planes can easily fly into a hurricane.

Ingenuity? Pah!

Couldn't it MacGyver a fix for the damaged blade, using materials at hand?

Seriously though, great job you plucky little 'copter.

Steroids: putting the Super in Weston Super Mare.

I might have suggested meeting at the "farm" above the South side of the station. I think it's on the fourth or fifth floor. Of course, theres only one farm in the vicinity and it's small enough that you won't miss each other.

I believe you may discussing at cross-purposes.

Presumably like your parent, I believed this was a discussion about the probability that life has originated elsewhere in the galaxy / universe, independently of life on Earth.

He is sorting visitors into two distinct rooms.

It's now proven that demons never could have dwelt there.

You can be forgiven for not remembering this, since there's a cost to accumulating information.

That seems to be correct.

A partial mitigation of these issues could be high bandwidth / low latency networks just in take-off / landing corridors?

I don't claim to be knowledgeable. It's just a hypothetical question.

Surely, it depends on the nature of the emergency. As I understand it, in this Qantas example, the pilots did not need to fly the plane with real-time responses, just to make good decisions.

Let's not completely discount remote pilots, while recognising they are not a universal panacea.

Also, let's not completely discount remote pilots

I feel it's essentially similar to stories such as the Imperial Japanese soldier still fighting WWII into the 1970s on a remote Philippine island.

Once started down a path, never stop, never change course. 我慢して!

Since the Enlightenment, it has mainly been our use of language that underpinned humans' purported uniqueness. Prior to that, it was religion.

LLMs will be a challenge to the sense of entitlement which derives from this so-called uniqueness. I suspect another attempt to move those goal-posts is imminent.

>> I'm baffled that we don't spend more time trying to understand sentience on earth

I wonder whether there exists enough tagged big data to train an LLM on any non-human language. If not, chat apps like this parrot app could be a step in the right direction.

Assuming the technology has actual value, Kia/Hyundai would likely be more incentivised to license it to other vehicle-makers, than to keep an exclusive license for themselves.

Your parent wasn't suggesting you hadn't considered it, they were asking for more information about the designs. To what extent is / isn't common design mistake the probable cause?

Travelling at some fraction of light speed to cover the vast distances, 85 hours elapsed might equate to tens of thousands of hours in some relativistically static frame of reference.

Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) is used in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year

O'Callaghan et al. successfully retained the baby - MacKay's method - while discarding the bathwater - his 2008 data.

There is nothing in principle to prevent scale-up of floating wind, but there is an awful lot of scaling to do. Who really knows?

This report probably could use an update ten years hence, but they have done a good job with what is known and can reasonably be predicted.

Your ice is sublimating. Cold dry air absorbs vapour directly from the solid water. The more surface area is exposed to air (hollow cylinders) the more it'll sublimate.

It's not humans vs AI.

It's intrusive humans empowered by AI vs privacy-protecting humans empowered by AI.

I suspect this decision would have been almost a no-brainer for Mazda execs in Japan.

Japanese culture tends to white-list permitted activities.

The API was designed for a purpose other than what this developer used it for. Therefore his code is proscribed.

I see your point and mostly sympathise. It's relevant to the topic and provides a personal perspective.

>> ran by non-native English speakers

I feel this clause doesn't help promote your grievance. A big promise of the Web was that it was World-Wide. If a site in say Thailand could exceed say a USA site's quality, all the better. I get that your specific competitors didn't excel - except in ranking. But, in principle, good wishes to global competition.

I don't know much about the beech boys, but didn't the bassist from the Beatles, once admit to admiring the beech boys' sound?

What I loved is the dramatic irony.

Everyone who watches it already knows, note for note, the finished song being crafted. Only they don't. We get to watch the song's creators stumbling towards the light. We feel satisfaction as they approach the "true" sound.

As in a pantomime ("it's behind you!"), John says "attracts me like a cauliflower", and we all silently shout "like no other lover"

This might be worked around with a characteristic verbal affectation that makes their utterances initially long-winded. Once the LLM's lag is passed, the proper content may begin to flow. Thinking fast and slow.