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Comment Re:MAGA? (Score 1) 45

Trump is transactional. All he cares about is money and ego.

* glances over at the combined fiscal and narcissistic worth of the Pelosis, Clintons, and OBidens * Maybe if it were only slightly less blatantly fucking obvious..

Out of the list of the ten richest politicians in America, 3 are Democrats and 7 are Republicans. So looks like Republicans have the edge. https://247wallst.com/politics...

Biden and Obama would need to be about an order of magnitude richer to make the list.

Comment Re: Too late. (Score 1) 45

China is falling apart from within. Demographics bomb,

That's happening across the world. It just hit China and Japan a few years earlier than it's hitting us.

serious civil unrest, currency manipulation, a host of problems.

Here too.

Be careful of quitting the field when your enemy is losing.

Unless you're losing faster.

Comment Re:And this helps how? (Score 1) 134

That really depends on exactly what definition you are using. I suppose you could argue that yogurt could be made at home in a normal kitchen, but cheddar cheese couldn't. And I've never actually seen anyone make sauerkraut, though people certainly used to do so.

I.e., the first published definition of "ultraprocessed" specified "things that couldn't be made in a normal kitchen". I'll agree that it's a very sloppy definition, but I haven't heard a better one.

Comment Re:My honda does that now (Score 3, Informative) 88

I guess that's sarcasm and AI humor, but remember that the average is across all vehicles for a manufacturer. Most trucks still get around 20 to 24. To offset that there will need to be lighter cars that get near 50, and not just a handful - trucks are top heavy sellers for some manufacturers not named Honda.

Nope.

Trucks, including the light trucks sold to consumers, are a separate category in DAFE. You don't average trucks in with cars.

Comment Re:Shuld the sue Waymo? (Score 1) 156

Ah, you don't know how current gen AI works. I assumed you do from your previous posting, but this post demonstrates extreme ignorance.

Current gen AI is not algorithmic like MCAS. Not even a little bit. Your false assumptions appear to come from complete and utter lack of understanding of underlying technology.

The point was not about them being the same technology. The point was about them both being technologies that do a better job than a human in general, but may do a catastrophically worse job than a human in specific situations.

Also, you don't seem to understand that current gen AI is algorithmic. The "self-learning neural networks" are algorithms that will produce the same output from the same inputs. Either you have not actually studied computer science, or you did not understand some of it.

Comment Re:Shuld the sue Waymo? (Score 1) 156

Talk about going into bad faith with "if you use quotation marks, it must be a specific quote from someone".

While there are circumstances where you can use them without actually quoting something, there are certainly situations where the expectation is that you are actually quoting something. For example when you are claiming some specific regulation or ethical rule and then you put something in quotes appearing to be a quote of the rule or, for another example, the sentence I have copied above where you appear to be quoting me, but just made the sentence up. In any case, whether or not it's a quote, it's still generally expected that you'll give a citation.

Sorry, but you're basically babbling like an idiot and you're still entirely missing the point for some weird tangent that has nothing to do with what I was saying.

Comment Re:It's a Bold Strategy (Score 1) 63

I'm curious if you'd be comfortable if the people who manage your investment portfolio or retirement accounts were to act that way. Everyone always complains about the other guy being greedy, but seems to overlook their own behavior or that kind of behavior when it's beneficial to them. No one would be happy if their bank forsook their fiduciary duties and lent money irresponsibly and lost their depositors money because they didn't want be seen as money chasers.

It's your money though. Use it how you will. Just don't complain if it doesn't work out the way you wished it would have. The only sort of charity that ought to exist is personal charity. Even that is not immune to scammers and those who would try to take advantage of others, but it limits the damage that can be done.

Comment Re:it's how aerospace engineering works (Score 1) 68

Lose a rocket, gain a mountain of data. Work on the next rocket. Repeat

but when Musk does the exact same thing - he's an idiot and has no idea, according the lying legacy media......

Not sure who you're listening to, but I don't hear a lot of people saying that. The technique of trying something, discovering what goes wrong, fixing it, and trying again seems to be working as a development strategy for SpaceX.

People do, however, make a lot of fun of Elon's wildly optimistic predictions of how soon products will reach market (and how soon he will be flying people to Mars. I think we can safely say that he will not launch people to Mars by 2024.)

Comment Re:Anomalies are a learning experience (Score 1) 68

It's ability to hover, and fixing itself to the deck allows for a much expanded launch envelope.

How so? I don't see how hovering makes any difference at all... it's just a waste of fuel, increasing gravity loss. It's nicer from a controllability standpoint, but SpaceX has clearly perfected the hoverslam maneuver and once you have that down it makes more sense than to waste fuel hovering and translating. Bolting itself into the deck helps with rough seas, I suppose, but it seems unlikely you'd want to try landing in very rough conditions anyway.

Spacex doesn't seem to care for doing this all that often any more.

Nah. They do it when it makes sense. They don't do it for Starlink launches because it's cheaper to launch a slightly lighter load and shorten turnaround time, to avoid waiting for the droneship to ferry the rocket back to land. Plus their launch cadence is so high that they'd need a big fleet of droneships. So they reserve those for paying customers who need the greater capacity. I don't think anything about New Glenn's capabilities changes those calculations.

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