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Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score 1) 197

"What is the point of having a job, when you can not live from the wage?"

Sometimes it's to buy textbooks, or make extra money on the side, or to earn money during the summer so you can spend it during the rest of the year.

It's myopic to assume that all jobs are supposed to be full-time careers.

Comment Re:0.5 mm resolution (Score 1) 25

Also, they claim it is safe due to lack of radiation. But ultrasonic can fuck shit up too. I mean ultrasonic is currently used to break up kidney stones, shear and fragment DNA (for NGS prep).

Good points, but to be fair, ultrasonic is currently used to break up kidney stones because it is safe to use it to do so.

Comment If only we had a way to fix this (Score 2, Interesting) 154

If only we had technology that would allow us to breed crops that could eradicate micronutrient deficiency and prevent its resultant illnesses and deaths.

Oh, wait, we do, but neo-Luddies who want everyone to live in a state of impoverishment and suffering don't want us to use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 20

retains access to the AI startup's technology until 2032, including models that achieve AGI

Exactly how do they envision an autocomplete gaining sentience?

It hasn't been "autocomplete" in a long time. Sure, there's a training step based on a corpus of Human language, and the autoregressive process outputs a single token at a time, but reinforcement learning trains specific behaviors beyond merely completing a sentence.

Besides, the best way to write something indistinguishable from what a Human might write is to, well, "think" like a Human.

Comment Re:who (Score 0) 110

If that's what an independent agency is, then independent agencies are blatantly unconstitutional. "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America" is literally the first sentence in Article II. If it is serving an executive function, then the executive branch "calls the shots."

Comment Will we finally learn our lesson? (Score 1) 32

Are we, as a sapient species facing an uncertain prospect of continuence in a world full of rapidly-advancing bullshit going to learn from this catastrophic and absurdly predictable failure of information security, personal and professional ethics, civilian government, market economics, basic common sense, and consumer psychology?

Eight-Ball-Based-On-Cursory-Reading-Of-Literally-Any-Slice-of-Human-History says "no".

What do you say, and why is it also "no"?

Comment Re: I'm rooting for it!! (Score 1) 166

Orion stays in orbit until it returns to Earth. It has no capability whatsoever to land anything or anyone on the moon. It transports the crew from Earth to NRHO and back. The HLS takes them to the moon, along with all the supplies and equipment needed to perform their mission there.

16 refuelings is based on pessimistic estimates of tanker payload. The real number is likely to be lower. The intention is to reuse the tankers, but if they can't, fewer tankers will be required, because they will not need to carry heat shielding, flaps, or return propellant. And if they do use expendable tankers, they could build 17 Starships for a small fraction of the cost of a SLS/Orion launch.

And the astronauts won't even launch until the fully-fueled lander is in lunar orbit waiting for them. It can loiter there for at least 90 days, a capability that will likely come in useful considering SLS's demonstrated issues with getting off the ground on time. When they finally got it off the ground the last time, it took sending a "red team" out to the partially-fueled SLS to deal with propellant loading issues.

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