> Everything about nuclear energy is expensive.
Only if the cost of oil wars are presumed to be zero and light water reactors are the only data point.
Solar probably still has the advantage for electrical usage in suitable climates.
Also, the Globalists seem to be destroying the hydrocarbon system across the planet right now. Some day the CoVID depopulation plan failed. A billion might die in Africa from lack of fuel and fertilizer in the coming years.
When I was at Dartmouth we had a very strict Honor Code. Students were required to report cheating too, or face complicity charges.
Cheating like this would lead to expulsion except in rare circumstances. Not saying if Daddy buying a building would qualify.
Those kids are taking up seats of kids who want an education but didn't get in. The filter is thirsty.
At a minimum the cheaters devalue the market demand for an institution's degree. If these kids get a diploma we shouldn't hire from that school.
It's worth noting that Princeton just abolished its Honor Code due to rampant cheating of this type. After 130 years. This isn't the Second Industrial Revolution, it's much worse.
Also, that professor is a legend for pointing out the Emperor's lack of clothing.
> You're there for an education. Cheating on it is only leaving you uneducated.
Unfortunately, no.
Now that High Schools are handing diplomas to "graduates" who in some schools have a sub-ten percent literacy rate, the Bachelor's Degree is the new minimum certification for employment.
With this AI nonsense expect it to be a Master's Degree soon.
This is a huge part of the reason College is so expensive - demand has spiked considerably because of the failed primary education system.
The NEA is a major cause of the student debt crisis. That'll bake your noodle if the old fashioned view of them caring about the kids is a goal (their lead attorney generously told the truth on that a decade ago).
Do we really have to reinvent the wheel every damn time?! It used to be that you just got Voight-Kampff tested, and the administrator of the test would sign your PGP key. WTF was wrong with that?!
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Google's feature don't discourage people from using Reddit. Reddit's shitty UI keep me from using it. I WAS an OldReddit viewer but they did away with that option as well. News site like USA Today are such an ad laden crap fests that it is no wonder people use any option to NOT have to view it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending Gurgle, they suck and we all know it, but they are a convenient scapegoat. I get 2 papers at my house, the local Yuma Sun which is like a High School paper, and the SF Chronicle. Reporting is not what it used to be, both are opinionated crap most of the time. The best stuff for facts is always AP.
One of their partners wants a comprehensive biometrics database, perhaps.
Flock, perhaps.
A certain foreign military, perhaps.
They could make this all local in their app with cryptographic attestation but for 'some reason' they want the data on their servers for 30 days.
Ten percent of the population will be highly skeptical.
A high trust society is quite valuable but it trains people to not look out for parasites.
I mostly do heavy multi-disciplinary engineering problems (these I also use for checking an AI, as they're typically not good at these sorts of problems), complex coding, OS analysis, stuff like that. However, sometimes I do throw the occasional odd-ball - I've used ChatGPT to propose a workable quantum mechanics that will cope with Doctor Who canon, for example, and to produce an outline for a story in which symphonic metal appears in 1964 that is compliant with current sociological and psychological models of behaviour.
Claude Opus 4.6 was coping surprisingly well with just about everything I threw at it (but ran out of credits fast), but Opus 5 is churning out incoherent babblings to the point I'm worried I may have accidentally summoned Cthulhu.
But Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek got hopelessly confused on just about everything past a very low level of complexity. They can handle large problems, yes - Gemini has a huge context window - but complex interactions baffle them.
ChatGPT is able to identify issues correctly, but can only outline solutions, it's just not good at depth. 5.6 is a lot better, but still not good at deep answers. ChatGPT is also prone to agreeing for the sake of it, which makes me nervous about trustworthiness.
Thank heaven
> SpaceX always intended to discard this Super Heavy booster in the ocean.
How long will it be before a Chinese science vessel recovers the craft?
Speaking of which, can anybody day where the sections of the K-129 they recovered in 1974 is housed? The tower bell was returned to the Russians as a gesture of good will so they have it somewhere.
It would be an interesting museum piece. They say government can't keep any secrets but darned if I can find where this Indiana Jones warehouse is located.
That is fair enough. I've been trying out Kimi on the free model, and have subscriptions to Claude and ChatGPT. If Kimi is actually as good or better than ChatGPT, at the pro level, then it might be worth my while moving over as ChatGPT has become very disk-hungry of late and I'm pushing right to the very limits on what it can reliably process.
And ultimately, why is the burden on people to complain? Unless somebody explicitly says "I consent" to these fucking things, then the assumption that no consent was given. This should be especially true in any country that gives its citizens a reasonable expectation of privacy, and it may partially extend even when they are out in public.
I've seen his stuff going back to PC Magazine or Byte or one of those in the mid-80's.
Most of the columns I read made me think "well, that's obviously wrong, and why is he being such a dick about it?"
I guess some people like that style. Never my cup of tea.
Once I realized I was almost always right when I thought "well that's obviously wrong" I learned to just skip his columns. In my teens I thought it was wise to give everybody a fair shake repeatedly, but then I learned about opportunity cost.
To be fair, he somehow got paid for decades despite his track record, so he must have been quite skilled at the hustle.
"Don't speak ill of the dead" and all, but he seemed to enjoy people being acerbic, so here we are.
Oh, it's not just that, they claim 100 miles from any border now.
Since I'm in New Hampshire and there's no part of the state further than 100 miles from a border, I've had to inform my friends that we've been kicked out of the United States.
Our ratification of the Constitution by the Legislature is what makes New Hampshire part of the United States. If the Constitution doesn't apply, well then the ratification has been nullified by DC. Unfortunate, but not our choosing.
This would apply to any of the Thirteen Colonies that joined and are in this situation (Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware) but likely not so for the States that were never independent. There's a real territorial integrity conundrum for the rest of the Thirteen Colonies. Only a tiny sliver of Vermont, Maryland, and Massachusetts have Constitutional Law under DC's theory. Texas was independent and is in this half-in, half-out situation as well.
Of course the Constitution is what authorizes the Federal Government so if it doesn't exist then they have no legal authority. It's *almost like* they're an outlaw gang at this point with no basis in law. Might be better for everybody if they followed the law.
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