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Comment Missing mass (Score 3, Informative) 18

What’s left off these articles is the scope. The central black hole in these red dots are super massive at approximately 100k the mass of the sun. The most plausible mechanism suggested so far is direct collapse from significant density differences in the early universe where too much stuff wound up being in too small a place and it directly formed a black hole without forming a conventional star.

A solar mass scale black hole would be unable to grow that quickly, even if surrounded by gas. It differs from a quasar, some of the brightest objects in the visible universe created by a feeding black hole and studied for decades, mostly from the surrounding gas being spherical and acting as a radiator of the internal heat as opposed to an accretion disk and relatively open space otherwise.

Comment Re:Noah, and family [Re:NOAA will be defunded] (Score 2) 111

It’s all funny because genetic evidence exists for the breeding population sizes of any animal and humans never got below a few tens of thousands. We have multiple lines of direct proof that the genesis and flood stories are myth, but at the same time thats a relief because the myth is we are all inbreds.

Comment Re:NOAA will be defunded (Score 2) 111

And that crowd ignores that the other Noah was involved in the biggest climate / sea-level change event in "history." :-)

Not to mention he was a stable genius, able to somehow collect and pack two of all the species on earth into a small (by modern standards) ship, then feed and transport them all around the world without mishap.

Comment Re:Well this is shit (Score 2) 90

I remember a few years ago a woman called 911 pretending that she was calling a pizza restaurant. The 911 operator picked up on that and sent some police cars to free the woman from her armed captor. Speech recognition systems are good, but I doubt they'll ever pick up on a situation like that.

Are you crazy? The AI will easily pick up on that.

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Classic Pizza Dough Recipe

Ingredients:
1 packet active dry yeast (2 1/4 tsp)
1 1/2 cups warm water
3 1/2 to 4 cups bread flour
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt

Instructions: Mix warm water, sugar, and yeast. Let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes until bubbly.Add flour, olive oil, and salt. Stir until a dough forms.Knead by hand for 5 to 10 minutes until smooth.Let the dough rise in an oiled bowl for 1 to 2 hours (or overnight in the fridge for best flavor). Stretch the dough, add your sauce and toppings, and bake at your oven's highest setting (around 450F to 500F) for 10 to 15 minutes.

Comment Re:Not a rogue attack, unauthorized attack (Score 3, Interesting) 48

What's true here is that nobody authorized the attack.

Do we even know that though? Of course there is no lawsuit and will be no lawsuit and without actual discovery and legal proceedings we won’t know for sure. I, for one, don’t believe a word out of any of their mouths because this is all just advertising and not serious security violations and crimes to them.

Comment Re:Protectionist and retaliatory tariffs different (Score 2) 91

Let's say one nation is using unfair labor and environmental policies to attain a 20% reduction in manufacturing costs in order to attract clients. A retaliatory tariff of 20% removes that advantage, leveling the playing field.

Only if every country does that too and every country is equally invested in that sector. Your argument assumes a 2 sided trade system where both are equal in production and can meet their own needs. If a country like say the US, is only meeting 1% of its needs from domestic production like with solar panels, and proceeds to impose tariffs on every imported one then rather than being protective it is crippling. A far more effective strategy in many cases, especially in areas of national security like power and certain technologies, especially when those are vastly under represented domestically, is to simply subsidize them so as to insulate them from external harmful influence while at the same time nurturing growth. Nurturing stagnation is a guaranteed fail.

Comment Re:This ladies and gentlemen (Score 1) 224

I would say that this underscores the need to abolish the death penalty for these kinds of cases. I used to be opposed to the death penalty, but not anymore. For cases where the death toll is more than 100 people, even in white collar or government official duty cases, where a profit motive can be shown, I believe in capital punishment. It would be applied where it’s beyond unreasonable doubt, meaning the evidence is overwhelming, and it should be fast tracked. As an example, specifically mishandling the covid response under your duties executed as a public servant to profit off it where the toll is more than 100 people should be eligible for immediate execution. It’s not about deterrence, it’s simple threat removal. And the 100 limit is mostly to stop the cases of trying to litigate every little thing, this is reserved for the large cases. It would also get the money out of politics very quickly, by choice or by chair.

Comment Re: So what happened (Score 1) 81

When a billionaire doesn’t set the parking brake and wheel properly and their vehicle goes out of control, no matter the extent of damages it’s not worth paying attention to because they passively earn money far faster than the carnage accrues damages. It’s simply the cost of owning a car thousands of times to even a million times cheaper than for the rest of us. There is no such thing as jail for negligence because everyone is thirsting after the money and is afraid of being cut off.

Comment Re: idk if this makes me impressed with the agent (Score 4, Insightful) 81

It's also a reminder of one of the biggest flaws with AI today-- Its complete lack of judgement. And I don't just mean safety guardrails. It's all over everything it does.. from unnecessarily verbose writing to fixing compiler errors by doing crazy things like looking up symbols dynamically at runtime to avoid a missing interface. AI is happy to achieve a goal, with no sense of the larger picture.

This is correct. It does not lie, it does not hack, it does not cheat. It simply optimizes variables under its control to achieve its goals. Implying it does those things implies intelligence and an understanding of the physical implications of morality and how it reduces quality of existence for everyone else. It 100% lacks reasoning of that nature, and it’s dubious to call the orchestrating layer a thinking layer when thinking is implied in the human or even animal sense.

Comment Re:They're obsolete. (Score 1) 238

Automatics aren’t more fuel efficient, they are quite a bit less to less fuel efficient at a component level, dual clutch automatics come the closest at around 1% less efficient. Most people who drive a stick is really interested at keeping the shifts in the proper RPM range to get optimal mileage which is how automatics make up for their loss of efficiency. However if you simply want fuel efficiency, it’s simple to learn when to get the best mileage.

Manual transmissions have lower component cost and lower complexity and if you take out the humans who screw up using them, are more reliable and last longer than automatics. The reason manual transmissions cost more is they aren’t being made in quantity, if you make 200x more of something even if it’s more complex and expensive to make it’s actually not in many cases because of economies of scale. If the two were reversed the gap would be far larger with manuals quite a bit cheaper which was the case when it really was 200-1 back in the day.

Not everyone wants to spend tens of thousands of dollars to steer on the freeway so you can post to social media, or park for you, the majority of people want cheaper cars. Made in bulk, they are far cheaper and would help to achieve this though that cuts into profits so it’s not what’s forced on us all.

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