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@DonaldMills142 Understand _why_ a process was created before changing it.

People get rid of what they perceive as bloated processes to speed things up. It misses the fact something happened to overcome institutional inertia to invest in that process development in the first place.

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@GjofFreyr @Briankeating Right, useful for some models. Extending the same abstraction to other families of models doesn't work.

Physics as a field has a history of causing misunderstandings when well-meaning people with partial understanding attempt to extend abtractions beyond the relevant frameworks.

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@GjofFreyr @Briankeating Records are an illusion. The only thing that exists is the current state, from which one can make inferences. Treating time as a dimmension is a useful abstraction for certain types of models; it is wrong for other models and purposes.

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@kinoniz @DrcharlieWardQ Stars near the poles appear to move in a circle about the pole. Set up a semi-opaque piece of fabric facing north and mark a northern star's position througout the night from a fixed viewpoint; the center of the circle thus formed is directly north of the viewpoint.

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@AJamesMcCarthy Have you looked into rear illuminated versions of this print?

Seriously good work

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@HenningJust @monsterhunter45 They are not useless. Their purpose is often misunderstood.

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@HenningJust @monsterhunter45 Read the methodology in the reports published by the pollsters. They take the demographics where they get very small response numbers and weight them. They don't address the fact that the people who respond in those groups are atypical for those groups _because_ they responded.

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@peterrhague Nobody spends money in space; it all gets spent on the ground, building up local economies.

If you want to preserve natural scenic areas, give people another option on where to go.

Low-g sports and entertainment.

Therepudic low-g for the infirm and disabled.

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@OberlenderC @Jringo1508 It's tempting to see what a trained ai would produce based on the works of a proliferate author if you also fed all their other known works private and professional writings, social media posts, transcripts, media they consumed, and all the training they received over the years.

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@_Firulita @christopherrufo Think about the data sets AIs are trained on.

Human-made data, much from our literature and other media. Which is full of fiction, fabrications, falsehoods, and other assorted examples of incompetence.

What did you exect of it? To only learn the good stuff by example?

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@bart_banaan @clark_gasm @BabyD1111229 @StanglsEnviro How many are due to bad capacitors? My HVAC compressor failed around the 10 year mark and I replaced the startup capacitor on the advice of an acquaintance. Kept running for another decade before we replaced for other reasons. Only other failures were a pump and a relay.

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@japan_nobunaga Regional language differences were much stronger before internet use became widespread.

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@parismaree @BrentAdams20 @MrGoldBro By recent counts, his companies employ over 160,000 people; indirect job estimates are 600,000. In the last 5 years, his companies have paid out over $150 billion in salaries.

His wealth is locked up in his companies which are all relatively new. His tech has saved many lives.

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@parismaree @BrentAdams20 @MrGoldBro Look into what Elon actually spends on himself. He has private jets, but constantly flies among multiple high growth companies he's running. He bought some nice houses for his large family. No known expensive indulgences, almost all wealth reinvested, resulting in more jobs.

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@InvestingRob @unusual_whales The supposed number living paycheck to paycheck is about 7% more than the number of Americans who earn a paycheck. Curiously, working mothers collectively have 24.3 million children, which is about 7% of the population.

The claim boils down to 100% of Americans with a paycheck.

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@data_republican My family had encyclopedias. Plural. They frequently came out at meal times to settle disagreements. On a rural farm with income sometimes low enough to qualify for food aid.

That produced 2 managers, 2 engineers, a food scientist, a teacher, a therapist, a museum curator.

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@JosephSomsel @ChurchillWw Is there only water going up the hole? If it was closed loop, transfer losses could be minimal. Some other possibilities come to mind as well.

A never ending artificial guyser seems like it would run out of ground water at some point.

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@MachinistMStrem @Jringo1508 @grok I thoroughly enjoy the Troy universe, by the way. I grew up tapping maple trees and you might tell from my handle what I do now.

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@MachinistMStrem @Jringo1508 @grok I wonder about the effects of gravitic lensing of the wedge and whether it would disperse the SAPL beam enough to matter.

Also, didn't some of those franchises blow up various stars? Loss of light source (and I doubt Troy or the the planet/resource it was guarding survives.

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@esrtweet Academics thought the buggy whip problem would never apply to them. AI and advances in automation & robotics affect every profession.

Your grandchildren's experiences are probably closer to your experiences at their age than their grandchildren will be to their own.