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You might have cold-induced asthma?

We have arms control and embargoes to prevent Iran from gaining fissile material but we don't give a fuck when nations that have proven themselves capable of regulating their biomedical research safety pursue reckless gain of function research. Makes total sense.

Is there a way to like emit energy in a narrow beam from a bunch of different angles around a central target such that they only overlap in the center/target and the frequencies resonate in that location in such a way to reach a higher frequency past which there is a destructive effect but below which is safe and non-destructive?

/knows nothing about physics

Really confused to see your comment flagged.

The parent comment basically says "copyright is not a physical good or law, therefore we may disregard it".

As if the same couldn't be said for any verbal agreement, sexual consent, property rights, whatever.

They ought to be arguing why this _particular_ verbal agreement/social contract is not worth enforcing or practicing, rather than dismissing the entire category.

Website isn't loading, we are all probably driving up her views way beyond normal. Hope she doesn't have traffic-based pricing.

why series-type? (from a bit of research, seems these are also called EREV (extended-range electric vehicles, in the context of autos)

simpler engine since you can have an electric engine only and not have an ICE engine with more points of failure/maintenance?

gasoline has a shelf life of 3 to 6 months. and diesel 12 months in low temps.

might want a battery EV with ability to plug deployable solar module amd/or hydropower module and/or wood burning stove thermoelectric generator.

This is where a hybrid powertrain / PHEV is superior to EV. In an ideal system you want redundancies, especially redundancies that cover for each other's weaknesses.

Community colleges are great for knocking out general requirements that are pretty standard across most degrees for cheaper than a full blown university (and then transferring to a state university to do the major requirements) if your goal is just to have a lower cost in getting the fancy bachelor's degree diploma, but as far as quality of instruction I am not at all surprised.

https://www.reddit.com/r/careerguidance/comments/1373dim/com...

https://www.usnews.com/education/community-colleges/articles...

there is a subreddit /r/cscareeradvice which might be useful for you. obv. info sec is not the same as CS, but I ran a quick search for InfoSec in the subreddit and saw there are still posts about it.

I'm aware, and I think that climbing it should be banned.

The parent asked why they cared, I'm not making an argument I'm answering the question.

My answer is that it's distasteful to them and their belief system / worldview. I happen to share the same distaste, though not on any religious grounds.

Who cares about Navajo tastes? Presumably other people who agree with them and would support a ban on vanity projects on the moon or who find it distasteful, like myself.

The answer is you're going to a shit university (or at least a shit program at your university, maybe they are great at Journalism or something).

It's a matter of taste and an offense to nature. Would you like it if a cryopreserved embalmed 10 foot tall pile of human feces was permanently enshrined atop Everest or on a buoy at the mouth of the Amazon river? If you felt any revulsion or disgust at the idea, that's probably the way the felt at the idea of the relatively untouched 'nature' of the moon beginning to be used as a novelty landfill/dump for rich people to stow their trash (or important human remains).

What industry?

You need a Plastic Emissions Index for measuring which products are responsible for the broad environmental pollution upstream, with textiles, tires, packing, and other contributors ranked extremely poorly / highly.

And you need a Plastic Ingestion Index for ranking foods and consumables that are more directly ingested as well.

I for one welcome the coming libido wirehead mods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)

Sounds like you should be spending your Sundays on trying to make it so that some future Sundays aren't so bad.

See also: https://mynoise.net/

So much of the problem of extermination is due to SEO and misinformation, agree or disagree?

If a poorly educated, stressed mom working two jobs googles "cockroaches in kitchen", what percentage of online information she finds is naive, misguided, maliciously lies, etc?

also known in industry as Account Takover

And I'm sure somewhere else, there's a person in their 60s in the US who'd push a button that made all life on earth that uses sexual reproduction infertile and unable to continue past the current generation if it meant they got to live a rich western life for their remaining years.

I don't think the notion that humans are self-interested is particular surprising. It's more notable when we are not.

Because living in a world where every bad behavior is prevented through enforcement mechanisms and bureaucratic procedure sucks ass, compared to a world where people generally speaking follow a social contract. If you can't understand why then you might not be thinking about it hard enough. It introduces friction, especially on those who would already have behaved well.

"Investors want rent-paying tenants"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

We absolutely could live like the 1920s/50s but with a bit more high-tech and better healthcare sprinkled in. But our entire financial system (including having the ability to retire) is based on the fundamental assumption of economic growth (and population growth for that matter).

I think you could perhaps say that Japanese are extremely highly sensitive to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching_barriers in indusrial and administrative processes relative to other cultures.

If something causes friction or pain, but switching away / updating to a new system would incur a high cost or retraining time or break institutional knowledge, there seems to be an extreme bias to adapting to the pain rather than suffering the switching cost temporarily to improve the situation. There does seem to be a benefit though of extreme adaptation that occurs when a process remains unchanged for a very, very long time and actors in the system can develop extreme levels of experience.

Yep. And I wonder why we don't see more childhood cancer death images linked to the multinational chemical conglomerates and industrial corps that pollute our waterways and air continuously, it couldn't possibly have to do with corporate donors (sorry, advertising customers) to media or the incentive for media to only cover deaths that generate reader engagement and subscribers.

Kill 10,000 people 5-15 years earlier than their otherwise natural trajectory for death by dumping PCBs in the river (ignoring that additional cohorts will have an increased disease burden going forward for....decades? Centuries? Who knows if you can un-shit this bed), no one gives a shit apart from a symbolic fine of 1% of annual revenue 20 years later. Certainly no actual punishment for those involved.

Kill a couple thousand with a plane into a building and the world's most powerful country starts a war.

It means meatware was closer to the end of the process of inputting data into the system.

You can't stop people from polluting the web with ai-generated outputs (and therefore contaminating data sets you hope to be able to be able to assume are human-generated) until you create a humanweb (fuck the 'web3' attempts we've had so far, web3 ought to be human-verified vs non-human-verified web) that has real, effective human-verification on inputs built-in. The regular web will still be useful but for an increasing number of applications you'll need to go to the humanweb to get what you need where self-feeding hallucinations and sloppy modelpaste isn't everywhere.

If people are mad that Twitter gives a megaphone to everyone, including the ignorant masses, then they'll love the auto-spam that LLMs are going to create.

Anything that can be said will be said.

You want a Reddit with humans? Ha. On the regular non-human-verified discussion platforms of tomorrow, you'll be lucky if 4% of the comments you are replying to and arguing with even have a human on the other end, but the good news is the rebuttal comment you posted after having too much coffee will be ingested and used for training of the next version of the model you're arguing with. So your original content human-input may be parroted much more broadly than it would've been on the pre-LLM web.

If LLM spam really does flourish and spread misinfo and hallucinations everywhere and we don't develop good automated means to prevent it or to verify content, it may be necessary for a central authority/business to maintain hardware terminals at distributed, centralized locations for interacting with the humanweb that you can't install or control the software on and where a human or a camera is watching you physically type on the keyboard to make sure you aren't just automating the inputs physically with some software->machine->keyboard interface or connecting some virtual keyboard. Think a locked-down public library computer but you're watched while you interact with it, and they're deployed and administered across the planet by a trusted multinational for sensitive usages where you absolutely need to ensure the inputs are from humans.

You wanna get real fun and cyberpunk novel thought-experimenty, picture prison-like security, physical pat-downs or even a requirement that you use the terminal naked and are body-searched for devices. Maybe x-ray scanned for implanted hardware.

Of course the whole thing falls apart if the trusted authority that administers the hardware is compromised but at least you stop some of the non-state actors and script kiddies.

Less so than many other forms of steel previously used in automotive, no? If you want to compare to other materials like composites and plastics then sure, but those will have their own drawbacks as well. No material is perfect but for some cases where you do want an alloy body, stainless is going to have benefits over non-stainless steel.

Isn't it the case that social class is not just about how much money you have, it's about where you went to school, your social etiquette, way of speaking, mannerisms, the clothing you wear, etc?

Isn't social class specifically evolved to not simply be traversed by attaining more money, and that's the whole distinction between "new money" and "old money" and how they say "money can't buy class"?

That being said, I think perhaps the caste system is sort of neither about race nor class but some unique blend of those things and more. It seems to have its own characteristics and I'm not sure we can dumb it down.