William Sears

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@Turbinetraveler Steffen requires that parties traveling together split up for boarding. This is especially problematic with children.

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@ThomasDownes8 @pickover I misinterpreted it as a sequence of 1s or 0s. Non repeating would still be irrational.

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@tonywestonuk In the US, a substantial amount of money was existed before we adopted a fiat currency. So this is more about flows than origin.

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@RamonTinio @aviationarchive @CcibChris No. The jet engines were fueled with aviation gasoline.

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@SawyerMerritt Elon’s assets are stock, not cash piles. Meanwhile, Elon's companies are creating value for society.
Gates and MacKenzie Scott demonstrate: massive good intentions don’t ensure good outcomes. Effective large-scale philanthropy is difficult. Forbes misses that point.

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@davepl1968 Sodium vapor lamps are desirable for astronomers because the light is concentrated in two close wavelengths making it relatively easy to filter.

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@MarkChangizi Framing is everything, as your post demonstrates.

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@peterrhague If you believe that everyone understands game theory and will confidently pick the Nash optimum, then you (and everyone else) picks red. Otherwise, if you are confident that most people don't feel that way, you pick blue to save everyone. Difficult choice really.

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@waitbutwhy This isn’t classic prisoner’s dilemma. Everyone should press red here—that way everyone survives and takes no risk.

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@JonBbC_TechGeek AI4 hardware should have a longer useful lifetime if it's sufficient for unsupervised driving. My experience suggests it is likely, with most of my interventions coming from map quality and lack of training to avoid car damage from following trucks on highways.

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@wholemars I do it once a year. It's pretty seamless for me except for moving my 2FA credentials. There is a security vs. convenience tradeoff here.

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@RichardHanania AI is a force multiplier. It’s a critic and fact-checker that sharpens your logic. A tool for developing and transmitting ideas—not to replace thinking, but to refine it. It should be used to think and communicate mire clearly.

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@TB1Kinobe I'd love to hear a deeper understanding about what you regret now? The environment this creates? The aesthetics? Something about the homes themselves? So many possibilities.

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@airmainengineer I would never question a pilot's decision to go around, but from this vantage point it looked like the traffic conflict wouldn't prevent a safe landing. Could have been a a crosswind issue as well. The separation certainly didn't look right to me.

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@MormonNational @BrainyMarsupial @SteveStuWill Nall data shows weather is implicated in roughly 25% of all fatal accidents. But loss of control fatal accidents are more common.

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@BrainyMarsupial @SteveStuWill Hate to admit it, but you are correct. Average fatality rate might put it around a third of motorcycle risk, and much higher than cars. In favor of small planes: A pilot has more control over these risks than a motorcycle rider, and serious injury risk is lower.

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@preston_holland Why, say compared to a PC-12 or small jet?

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@arundsharma @lemire Rust's type abstractions are considerably more powerful and flexible than the ones provided by conventional object-oriented languages."

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@arundsharma @lemire This one is better. As you noted, Rust can reasonably be viewed as descending from C++. One of C++'s most important contributions—object lifetimes—is featured prominently in Rust.