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I don’t fully understand why drone operators follow these laws. Or any “no-fly” rules in general. Around an airport, it seems like common sense to not fly. Can’t someone just…buy/build a drone and fly is surreptitiously?

Are you saying the Ukraine conflict is less bad than this Venezuela conflict?

But how often would your preferred candidate change compared to which / how much news you consumed? Most people I know are fairly set in their political opinions and already only consume news that confirms their biases

My kiddo is celebrating their second set of holidays this year. I have many friends who espouse some variant of “I don’t want to have kids because I don’t want to pass on my ‘messed up’ genes/the world doesn’t need more people/some other sad excuse”. It makes me wonder what their lives will look like then they’re 40-80 years old.

Why do people in your circle not like AI? I have similar a experience about friends and family not liking AI, but usually it’s due to water and energy reasons, not because of an issue with the model reasoning

Except Hacker News :)

What is the benefit of this over, for example, an iPhone hotspot?

Why not just point the door to the north if the goal was to keep the sun out?

How would cameras solve the punishment issue? Aren’t most schools still “zero tolerance” for physical violence?

A notable exception is the 1957 movie 12 Angry Men with Henry Fonda. One of my favorites.

Why is the solution to avoiding conscription being able to hide rather than making the conscription not happen in the first place?

The feedback response post is true, but specifically about Jews is not true. He hated Jews long before he rose anywhere near power

Unfortunately, the roadway infrastructure on Mars hasn’t been updated in decades, so there are lots of rocks and potholes/craters and other obstacles that need to be avoided. You know how those jeeps go out to Moab, Utah and do the 4x4 trails? It’s like that but there’s only one vehicle and no human and 1 hour communication round-trip and if something goes wrong the tow truck is millions of miles and billions of dollars away

I, for one, am looking forward to that

How can a scraper get a mobile IP address?

Wasn’t there a post today saying GPU, memory, and storage price all skyrocketed due to AI pressures?

Cmon dude

Is defaulting on student loans possible? I thought, at least in USA, the only way to get out of student loans is: pay it off, work for a qualified nonprofit for awhile, or die

I work for a company that owns (iirc) a large portion the medallions issued by NYC. We rent the vehicle and medallion out to people to drive/work

I think that’s the question, is 13.8 billion years a lot of time, of not a lot of time?

If they’re turning the laptop in due to end-of-employment, what’s IT gonna do?

Being willing (even ready) to walk away from marriage completely defeats the point of about half of the intangible benefits of marriage.

“European countries this can even reduce the usually robust protections you have as an employee.”

Also don’t forget you can delay paying for COBRA for up to 59 days after loss of employment and still be able to retroactively pay and be covered. It’s a gamble that you get to go back on if you cards break the wrong way

Wait a second $23/kWh? I pay ~ $0.15/kWh for power at my residence the majority of the year. Is this a proof of concept number? What am I not understanding such that the power this produces is 4 orders of magnitude more expensive than what’s in place currently?

The majority of the West has implicitly or explicitly ceded their national defense and warfighting capabilities to the USA. The comparison between USA and “other countries” isn’t really valid, as the situations are vastly different

If you plan on mounting to your roof beware of expired fire ratings. I ran into this problem recently

I don’t understand why people go this direction when propane-powered appliances are so much more appropriate. Much cheaper, readily available fuel, a few minutes to “reload” vs multiple hours to recharge the battery.

Similarly, I think there’s a niche market for a propane-powered espresso machine.

We can’t pretend the endless GMO soybean and corn fields are much better in some rural settings

I’m in Denver area and bought panels, rails, and inverter from CED Greentech. They were okay. Apparently they’re having trouble sourcing materials, and have massive demand due to the expiring tax credits. So if you’re thinking of going this route, buy the materials and have them delivered, even before waiting for utility/county permission.

I talked to a local engineer for drafting plans. I didn’t know what I was doing so had to go through 4-5 revisions, which the engineer got frustrated by I think.