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That is not what "military action" means.

They paid lots of secretaries lots of money and had a whole department called "the mailroom".

No one wants to go back to that.

This is how buzzword bingo has always worked. The eternal curse of the computer industry (especially software).

An "offer" that included an explicit threat of military force if it wasn't accepted.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/04/world/greenland-annexatio...

First it was "we're only against illegal immigration, we want people to do it the right way".

Now it's "we need to limit the volume" and "don't want to get rid of the truly exceptional immigration".

Forgive me if I am skeptical, especially in a world where ICE is rounding up classic "exceptional" immigrants like biology researchers, or South Korean experts setting up a factory.

I think generally, games should move to using the GPU less for graphics and more for computation. Not just AI computation - those fancy GPUs are a big resource that simulation games could be taking advantage of and just... aren't.

(Yes, this is a Paradox callout. Give me less fancy particle effects in Vic3 and use the GPU for computing pop updates faster!)

(Probably the biggest barrier to this is the lack of a convenient C++/C#-level cross-manufacturer compute API. Vulkan is a bit too low-level for game devs to work with, OpenCL kind of sucks, and CUDA is NVIDIA-only.)

"Those types of cognition have been found to map to real-world employment of the same."

...in humans. That correlation has not been established for LLMs.

The point is that the correlation between doing well on these tasks and doing well on other (directly useful) tasks is well established for humans, but not well established for LLMs.

If the employees' job is taking IQ tests, then this is a great measure for employers. Otherwise, it doesn't measure anything useful.

The "rise of power of the church" was not the cause of and did not exacerbate the collapse of Roman state power in the Early Medieval period. It was in fact in the Early Medieval that the Church was most instrumental in propagating and preserving knowledge.

Since you seem allergic to sources, here's a pretty good layman-aimed overview of actual up-to-date historical view of the arrival of the "Dark Ages" (i.e. the Early Medieval).

https://acoup.blog/2022/01/14/collections-rome-decline-and-f...

https://acoup.blog/2022/01/28/collections-rome-decline-and-f...

https://acoup.blog/2022/02/11/collections-rome-decline-and-f...

(From the narrative you put forward, I suspect your likely citation would be Gibbon. Who's... um... a bit out of date.)

That is not how the "dark ages" came to be, and that is not how the Church functioned.

The Church didn't think witchcraft worked and saw belief in its existence as heresy! Institutionally-backed witch hunts were mostly an Early Modern phenomenon, not Medieval!

The way to reduce the risk is to diversify. Taiwan with a China risk and the US with a "US risk" is much safer than either alone.

Mechahitler was likely the trigger.

Flush door handles are completely orthogonal to whether a car is an EV; that just happened to be Tesla's design language.

It's considered a really small orbital rocket. This demo vehicle is preparation for a suborbital vehicle, those can be much smaller.

Sometimes the efficient market happens to you (and that's good)

No. As an extension of the rule about not taking his name in vain, and rules about preserving written instances of the name, observant Jews try not to refer to him explicitly. There's a bit of a dysphemism treadmill involved, but oh well.

"Everyone agrees - this is non-partisan" is itself a piece of rhetoric designed to create that reality in a situation where it's in doubt. If everyone actually agreed you wouldn't need to emphasize it.

G-d is not your parents, and set and worded His rules with omniscience that your parents do not have.

Judaism in most variants doesn't have hell.

Don't try to parse this religion as "Christianity with different rules", it'll only mislead you.

There's an important distinction between "thing that happens even if you don't intend it" and "thing that happens because you intentionally caused it" (and the even more subtle distinction between "beneficial side effect of thing you intended" and "neutral/negative side effect of thing you intended").

ie intentionality matters.

He's not "fooled" - this is within the rules he set.

Things have improved a lot. These days GNU Radio (via OsmoSDR) supports all the big hobbyist-price-point SDR vendors, and most of them go from ~50MHz to ~6GHz.

Then just don't use percentages, and rely on people realizing that a 7 degree difference is big!

The slope of the Fahrenheit scale matches that of the Rankine scale.

I would still say that the in the Rankine scale percentage increases make sense, and Fahrenheit changes to not.

The thing that matters isn't the slope, but the zero point; "X% farther from absolute zero" is a useful measurement, "X% farther from an arbitrary zero point" is not. Especially when negative or zero temperatures are involved.

It makes just as much intuitive sense in Fahrenheit as it does in centigrade.

"The average temperatures on the Victoria line have risen by almost seven degrees since 2013 – nearly a *30%* increase.

Conversely, the increase in the average annual temperatures across all Underground lines from 2013 to 2024 was merely *seven percent*, placing Victoria’s temperature rise vastly above that."

Using percentages to talk about changes in non-Kelvin temperatures is crazy.

An analogy I've heard is that it's like using a forklift at the gym. The point is not to get an object from point A to point B, it's to develop skills.

The descent mechanism would be built for the much denser Venusian atmosphere. On Earth, it may not slow the thing down enough.

If you're treating a "this person is who they say they are" checkmark as a status symbol, that's a you problem.