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Detection is not the issue, fires in populated (i.e. costly to burn) areas are dispatched very quickly. All the LA fires were on Watch Duty at 1-5 acres in size. The problem is fighting them at that…

The problem is not that the water bombers are retrofitted, the problem is that water is heavy, so you're up against the physics of flight. An aircraft loaded to its max weight with water (or wate…

In the longer video, there's clear sparks from the tail strike when the plane is in line with the northeast-most structure of the airport. Lining that up with the camera location shows almost ex…

The graphic in the article is pretty misleading. The video of the accident shows the plane touching down with about a third of the runway left, not two thirds. All discussion of the localizer obstruct…

Pretty easily, it turns out?

100% agree. If you’ve been here for any length of time you’ve seen it, and nothing is added by the repetition. Perhaps we should just string-sub to IAnepO or some such, so we can engage with the model…

> why? There are ok-ish third reasons (consistency, etc.) to keep muni governments out of environmental regulation, but this provision is undoubtably meant to frustrate exactly the kind of group it…

Your mistake is thinking this is a mistake. For the proponents of the state-level law, this is an expected and desirable outcome.

> The Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that although 83% of voters in Titusville approved a 2022 initiative establishing the right to clean water, the city in Brevard County couldn’t e…

Iceland is a founding member of NATO.

Train an ML model in the early PC era from horse race data stored on paper, train a CV model in the early GPU era on parking lot data from satellites, figure out MC options pricing in the early minico…

The judgement against Jones is $1.5B

You would just need to (configure this tool to) compile the resulting C with cosmocc, no?

> Reddit as a platform is worth RDDT market cap today is 29.1B.

This is exactly what happened with the “red wine is good for you” claim

At the time the claim is created (you're paid your salary, you have a liquidity event, ...) you can exchange it for some quantity of goods and services roughly proportional to (the market's …

Money is ultimately a 'claim check on society', in Buffet's words. Unspent, uninvested money is a deferred claim. Why should the value of a deferred claim go up, if you haven't i…

I didn't say you were generalizing, I said that some (esp. ex post, sympathetic) resistance to removal seems to come from generalizing the removal proponents' desire to remove _these_ dams t…

Ladders can be fine, but I think one has to accept that the cost:benefit of installing a good ladder at an old dam might favor just removing the dam. Hatcheries, OTOH, are a poor simulacrum of a real …

Growing up, I'd watch the run coming through the Ballard Locks. Phenomenal to see.

These are mountain dams, without meaningful irrigation or flood control applications, and dwindling hydroelectric utility. They impounded 3 reservoirs with a total surface area ~1/20th of Lake W…

None of the dams in question provided water for irrigation. The dams on the Klamath that are useful for irrigation were not targeted for removal.

It's not just cost of a retrofit. Like other structures, the utility of a dam depreciates over time. Unlike other structures, some of that is due to sediment accumulating behind the dam, not the…

> According to PacifiCorp, the Oregon-based company that owns the Klamath dams today, the structures are mainly monitored and controlled remotely—from Lewis River, Washington, more than 500 kilomet…

I don't think that's accurate. The remaining dams have ladders, but the lowermost dams had no (or inadequate) ladders, hence the total absence of salmon from the upper Klamath. > Althoug…

Sure, security expectations for a demo are ~0, but “everyone can see everyone else’s inputs” is surprising even by demo standards

FYI the 'StackVM' link that pops up appears to show all inbound messages. https://stackvm-ui.vercel.app/tasks/3710e8d2-fb66-4274-9f78-... …