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Comment Re:Why not a ban? (Score 1) 60

It's interesting that none of the Constitutional crises Trump has perpetrated have resulted in the use of emergency powers

I'm not sure which ones you mean, but certainly some of them have. Bypassing the Posse Comitatus Act using the Insurrection Act, for example, and each of the times the national guard was federalized. The most famous one, January 6, specifically involved strategically not deploying emergency powers when they were meant to be used though.

Comment Re:Why?! (Score 1) 56

Tomahawks have had visual terrain following for forty years. They even had strobe lights so they could see the ground at night. They had a whole bunch of clever software and a bunch of mainframe preprocessing to make up for the lack of processing power, and have improved their capabilities over the years as computers got better.

Now you can pop in a $200 mass produced board that's orders of magnitude better, feed it some aerial photos over USB C and say sic 'em. Of course both the Russians and Ukrainians are doing it.

Comment Re:Why not a ban? (Score 3, Informative) 60

If these drones are a security risk

They're not, any more than Canada is a drug den or Europe is a mecca for slave labour. The US president is not allowed to levy taxes; that's a power given to the US congress by the US constitution. However, in the case of an emergency the executive can give itself more power. Emergencies like national security risks.

Most countries have that kind of emergency mechanism. They're usually used very rarely and for limited durations in times of war or terrorist attacks, stuff like that. The US has had 90 emergencies since 1976, of which 51 are currently active. Actually, probably a few more than that... it's hard to keep up.

Here's the list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:business model (Score 1) 66

Software. Software companies often get P/E ratios of around 30 because they spend lots of money developing a product but after that they usually have very high profit margins and their incremental cost is pretty close to zero. That's why everyone, from Tesla to Uber, wants to be a "software company."

They're not though, and neither is Anthropic. They're a service provider whose ongoing costs are very high and there's no real reason to think they're going to be coming down much in the near future. Their incremental costs are also very high, having to pay for all the processing time. They're more like Tesla who has to actually build cars not just provide a download link. Except even Tesla doesn't have to spend billions every quarter to come out with a new product to keep up with their neck and neck competitors.

Comment Re:Masking the issue (Score 1) 251

You got letter grades in high school? So you could get something like 1 in 10 answers wrong and still get a perfect grade? Lol, what a joke.

Pass/fail, letter grades, four point scales, even percentages, all of these do the same thing. They group actual scores into categories. You can choose those categories based on what you think the uncertainty in the evaluation scheme is, or meaningful performance bands, or just chopping an unknown distribution into arbitrary equal-sized chunks ("any statistician would tell you").

Comment Re: the solution to "the mental health crisis" (Score 1) 251

Your grade in whatever-101 is unlikely to be a very important number unless maybe you're going to be teaching those courses. Neither grad school nor an employer is going to care much about your relative performance on answering questions about Newton's laws, balancing redox equations or single variable calculus. Any important problem there would be reflected in future grades.

Realistically all your precise undergrad grades are pretty irrelevant to both grad school and employers. They just use them as a convenient filter.

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