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If 2 people work their whole life to prevent the death of 1 other person... The 1 could have saved 2.
Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:06AM (#50245038)
Trust me, telling people the vote will look weird ahead of time does not quiet the vote consipuracistst. Heck I'd say it gives ammo. They call it predictive programming. The lie is revealed and normalized.
So each missile costs ~2 human lifetimes to produce? But has the potential to save hundreds if used precisely
Re:I do not know how to teach kids this low on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:52PM (#50111947)
There are some schools far far worse than others. The area and demographics make a huge difference
Re:I do not know how to teach kids this low on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:51PM (#50111939)
I always wonder what the commonality is across these poor performers. Is it all kids? Kids from home without fathers? Kids from particular areas? Seems like as a society we continue to slip but cannot identify solid commonalities... It's amongst the most important issue in modern society and article after article just cannot find any solution or underlying reasons. Society doesn't just devolve for no reason. What could it be?
Males back then didn't fail to reproduce from the same social situations as today. They were not neets hiding in basements. Failure to reproduce basically means killed, exiled, or having your groups women taken (by force)
Re:City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2 on Saturday October 03, 2026 @02:38PM (#49946620)
And how are those mods on baseline performance? Are the mods appropriate for general audience mid range rigs? The tech industry has the capability of pure ray tracing. Game engines don't use it because the audience willing to shell 10k for PC to run it is exceedingly small. They have to target mid range specs to have an audience big enough to make money.

The solution is mods by modders for modders.

Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @04:00PM (#49821664)
And you have data for this brain drain? Or you are just echoing bluesky opinions as fact?
Re:The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled on Monday September 21, 2026 @08:43PM (#49795417)
Problem is most will never agree on what it is that's changed causing the degradation and those causing it don't want us noticing...
It comes down to how a roll is calculated. See in the US 1 material roll is not the same as 1 computed roll. In the Toilet Paper isle you see products listing their 8 roles are equillivent to 36 rolls from the other guy. So when you use 1/16 of your roll, you are really using 1/2 a roll
That's my suspicion. I used Grammerly in 2021 and those are the type of substitutions I could see
Agree. It's just the builtin android and chrome uses blowing up the numbers. By these metrics android assistant and siri had reached these levels in 2015. Gemini has no brand recognition outside of the tech worker sphere
Re:Islamist terrorist attack in Berlin Pride event on Sunday July 26, 2026 @11:31AM (#49059152)
Now do per capita and see that their rate of terror is 10x what it should be. (And that's before readjusting for the undercategorized events being purposefully NOT counted for cultural sympethies)
Re:Islamist terrorist attack in Berlin Pride event on Sunday July 26, 2026 @11:29AM (#49059115)
Lack of incentive? How about their religion commands it? And that's why it is specifically categorized as Islamic terror rather than generic terror.
Re:Islamist terrorist attack in Berlin Pride event on Sunday July 26, 2026 @11:27AM (#49059099)
You do better and stop deflecting direct attributable harm as something to hide and cover up to prevent indirect harm.
Re:GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @03:02PM (#49011784)
Always good to make it 0.001%
Re:The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway on Thursday July 16, 2026 @11:25AM (#48935848)
If cars did not exist, I would be healthier, able to walk and run many times further due to constant cardio exercise.

I would still travel much less distance.

And just like cars, LLMs will reshape the world to the point that our brains could not even get us to the supermarket because soon it will be 5 miles away and require a car ( or at least a local LLM bike )

Re:Oh Good, Screwworms Are Back on Thursday June 11, 2026 @01:19PM (#48493308)
It is
Re:MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students on Thursday May 14, 2026 @11:56AM (#48137261)
YouTube and Patreon have done wonders for rebooting the modern research gentleman field.

I follow a dozen YouTubers doing extremely niche, cutting edge, science.

It is progressing beyond 'backyard science'.

I agree in principle that reuse is the best imaginable outcome... but You underestimate the labor and cost of machines. I bet it costs $200 to pluck a single tree let alone ship it somewhere else usable.
Re:Area 51 just had 17 earthquakes in a single day on Friday May 01, 2026 @08:03PM (#47981927)
It's probably blasting related to prepping for the eventual revival of an underground test platform.

I don't know all the logistics, but they probably don't detonate them directly under the base, and subterranean drilling might be less evident from satellite than top side wells.

Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:48PM (#47796995)
2 weeks ago the rolling session usage plummeted to borderline unusable. I'd say I get a weekly output equivalent to 2 session windows before change.
Careful. Or they will try to regulate ghost printers.
Re:Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @12:50PM (#46902369)
This is huge. It only came out 8 minutes ago but I was already able to bootstrap a 12k per month revenue SaaS startup!
Very low risk. Ld50 is incredibly high. Side effects minimal. Adverse reactions very rare
It's funny how know your meme has to sanitize the 4chan out of memes.

The 'how society would look without x' has been a racist trope on 4chan since way before the cited examples.

Obviously a static sign is not aware of your current state, so it's message can only be interpreted as relevant to your likely state... i.e. the posted speed limit.
Re:Magnetic Remote Control of Biology on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @05:13PM (#46712346)
don't tell me the magnetic bracelets have a measurable impact on ANY physiology
Re:Indifference is a power on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:08AM (#46602886)
This is true and no one thinks about it until they reach 50-70

Either everyone you know dies 1 by 1, or you do.

Cmon man, it's a comment not a research paper. Off by one isn't worth a follow up snark

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