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We get a lot of titanium from China. That's because the largest natural Ti deposits are in Eurasia. That is due to geology, not politics, and now US companies who need it (read: high performance …

Are colleges reducing admissions standards to compensate for this? If anything, it sounds like admissions are vastly more competitive today than when I applied 20 years ago because students are more c…

Profit and a competitive market are powerful incentives that keep people from dying in the industry of human transport, that don't exist as much in hospitals. Also, if you think "threat of l…

If you look at fields like mechanical engineering, no, it hasn't, because there isn't much training data for that type of work available on the internet. (CAD isn't engineering.) It…

I'm well aware of all of that after multiple consultations with my surgeon.

I had type 2 SLAP tear (lemme guess, rock climbing?) confirmed by MRI with dye. It seemed to just... go asymptomatic after months of rest, gradual return to activity. Some guy on reddit said stem cell…

The Flyer was a canard design which would be considered a non-standard configuration today. And I respect the Wrights a lot, but the last book I read on them said that if they hadn't invented the…

Boeing's mil portfolio is sprawling and is way more than just the F-18: https://www.boeing.com/defense#products The MAX stuff paints a bad light over everything but Boeing is bas…

Those were just two random examples. You're neglecting all of the good things about Tesla. The global charger network and plug standard, the push for automation. You think Musk had no part in tho…

Shotwell is COO. Musk is CEO of SpaceX.

In general, we selectively credit the engineers when a musk company has a success, then blame musk when there's a failure. So when Teslas have quality issues, we don't blame the manufacturin…

Could this fail in some way and cause a resonance cascade?

Ask chatgpt to explain it to you like you're 18. It made it really easy to understand.

Seems like eating this whole bag could kill you? https://www.apricotpower.com/item/852-Turkish-Organic-Bitter... …

GPU all the things! GPU-accelerated Tableau would be incredible.

You can just say reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1j7qumk/uk_girl_sw... …

Jesus. It really is that hard. With all the bajillion in extra compute and simulation time from Apollo era, we can't do hard things anymore. We don't know how.

> although I'd passed the interview, my interview performance was too poor to be considered for hiring. In what world of hiring would passing an interview be considered a failing interview? If…

Kevin Rose is God!

Wonder if he's still working in AGI with Carmack.