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U of Mich's standard seems to be 69 class days - a touch under 14 weeks: https://ro.umich.edu/sites/default/files/calendar/pdfs/Cal_2... …

I'd categorize it as "sounds reasonable, so long as you never actually reason about it ": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden... https:&…

Point, however... Assume you're the Secret Service's Grand Poobah of Presidential Protection. And actually trying to do your job. How , exactly, might you tell a gaggle of reporters that …

> ...reporters who thought they were traveling on the same plane as the president and were unaware of the risk to their lives. Unaware that Iran might be eager to kill the leader of the Great Sat…

When's the next election for county commissioners, where are candidates running against them likely to come from, and is there any local vibe on the issue? Running yourself would be a whole lot…

> All those considerations are predicated on having the printing press first. Not true. Consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria Scribes are just lower…

Anyone working on an MBA? At some point, Rocket Lab should be a case study in how to succeed - both in a brutally difficult industry, and against an established competitor (SpaceX) which you obvious…

Subtitle is much more informative: A genetic study shows how smell capabilities were maintained in a hunter-gatherer population [in which having a better sense of smell is very valuable] Kinda interes…

And at least as important are the surrounding economic, social, and archival systems for printed information. How much of the populace was literate? Was there licensing (for copyists or printers), c…

I'd say there's a whole lotta simplistic optimism, if not techno-utopianism, in the Drake Equation.

When submitting old news to HN, please append " (year)" to your title, like this: Hunger stones, wrecks and bones: Europe's drought brings past to surface (2022)

From your "They have a" phrasing, one might assume that the RC Church had an authoritative, official, or sanctioned AI. Vs. from a bit of searching - nope. The Vatican has explicitly said t…

Unfortunately, "external regulators" are both human, and subject to the self-serving whims of the power-hungry politicians. Plus, nowadays, a "justice" system which might well deci…

Sounds like anyone who needs actual, delivered, at-scale power (in the real world) should immediately adopt an "Anything But Nukes" policy. Vs. those with both the unquenchable zeal and bott…

Nuclear's top 3 problems: 1. Any equipment or substance that is both nuclear and potentially dangerous has some sort of magical mutant super-power to stimulate superhumanly idiotic behavior in a …

Because combining "Amazon", "top source" "climate", and "pollution" should make this headline a top source of the clicks that Ars needs to pay its own bills?…

I'd assume the regular readership of Detroit Catholic skews fairly heavily Catholic, and "Catholic expert" is an important (to them) signal as to how seriously they should take the ex…

Right now, the title I see (on the article) is "Russia bars anti-war party from parliamentary election". Maybe SCMP is A/B testing AI clickbait in their titles? Russia being Russia, th…

Corporations are made out of humans. They're about as eager to cut their own profits as human workers are to reduce their own wages.

> ...turning his brain off...This should be a wake-up call... Yeah, but no . People substituting "AI" for actually thinking IS a huge problem with human nature. But trying to convince …

While I get that lots of people love the anti-AI "moral" of this story - it's 25 acres of sesame seedlings. Less than 4% of one piddly square mile. This isn't even a sliver of …

> do you think Fermat had an error Yes, with million-to-one odds. Though I'd say "error or equivalent shortcoming, for the general case". > that perhaps is more straightforward t…

Best wishes for your wife's and your continued health.

(Related, 9 points and 1 comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154122 ) Reading the abstract, I'd say they're putting far too much emphasis on nuclear explosions. …

I assume you've heard of New Mexico's DoJ winning a not-quite-$1B court case against Meta. Maybe Meta's lawyers will win on appeal, maybe they won't. "Think of the children!&…

One wonders just how badly contaminated the building and local groundwater might be.

Okay - but for most types of agriculture, the minimum viable farm size is rather larger than it was a century or so ago. Might we ask how large your sheep farm is, by current commercial (vs. hobby) st…

> Senior ECB officials called the episode a break from decades of coordination. One person close to the discussions called the moment unprecedented. Makes me wonder if any of those European Central…

The subtitle calls out one of the most-wretched and most-repeated truisms in modern medicine: > For decades, the condition was thought to be psychological, and women were shamed for their illness. …

I mostly noticed your "might have an unplesant climate impact by increasing the eccentricity of our orbit", and thought that'd be the least of Earth's worries. Black hole gravity i…