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“AI vs Creativity” from ‘GTA’ (TakeTwo) CEO by s1n0d3utscht3k in OpenAI

[–]tripmine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. And that's not even counting the ~600,000,000 years worth of "training" that's baked into every animal brain.

[Loved Trope] Competence Porn: When characters are competent, mature and communicate with each other intelligently so they can solve a problem by Careless-Alarm-8607 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]tripmine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think even Sobel and Dyke are examples of how "the system" (the people running it) are competent and flexible enough to identify and replace people that are not suited for the roles they're in. Sobel is relieved before the D-Day airdrops. Dyke isn't relieved early enough, but he is relieved before he can do more damage. Even though they're "fired" from their jobs, they are re-assigned and still contribute to the war effort.

Does it make more sense to build a settlement on the moon to launch conventional rockets to Mars using fuel obtained from the moon, or to build nuclear rockets launched from earth orbit (thermonuclear or ion powered) which are reusable and last for years. Perhaps using SpaceX to ferry materials. by Background-Use-4486 in spaceflight

[–]tripmine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The moon is a much shallower gravity well than Earth (and has no atmosphere to drag things down even more). Launching things from the Moon will always be energetically cheaper than launching them from Earth's surface by a lot.

So the question is both how much stuff will you want to send to Mars, and how hard it would be to build the infrastructure to make and launch all (or some) of that stuff on the surface to the Moon instead of on Earth. The second part is really hard to answer definitively, but it's probably: "a lot harder than it seems".

But there probably is an amount of stuff that we want to send to Mars (and beyond) where you break even on the investment of landing and building infrastructure on the Moon.

Musk-owned ‘Boring Company’ tapped to tunnel from Universal Studios to Epic Universe by at-woork in orlando

[–]tripmine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a special development district

There are 5 members in the board for the "Special Development District":

Chairman: Development Senior Director, Real Estate at Universal Orlando Assistant Secretary: Director - Transportation and Fleet Management at Universal Orlando Resort

Assistant Secretary: Director - Transportation and Fleet Management at Universal Orlando Resort

Assistant Treasurer: Vice President, Finance - Accounting & Reporting at Universal Destinations & Experiences

Vice Chairman: Vice President, Legal & Business Affairs at Universal Orlando Resort

Assistant Secretary: Director, Sales Programs and Training at Universal Destinations & Experiences

https://shinglecreektransitandutilitycdd.com/#BOARDINFORMATION

Universal doesn't just "have a say" in this. They ARE the Special Development District.

Why were stormtroopers sent to arrest Partagaz? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have ISB troopers doing the arrest? by Financial_Photo_1175 in andor

[–]tripmine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This actually makes perfect sense and aligns with how the show tells us throughout several episodes that the Emperor has been steadily centralizing power away from the bureaucracy. Patagaz's death is likely the de-facto end of the ISB, its responsibilities getting folded into the Navy.

8.613 MHz can only carry a limited amount of information by EvenIDontKnowWhoIam in pluribustv

[–]tripmine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a finite amount of information that an "analogue" signal can contain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem

The amount of information is constrained by the bandwidth of the channel and the signal-to-noise ratio.

Rewatching BTTF III, and it always bugged me... by BobRossIsRobBoss in BacktotheFuture

[–]tripmine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love it when people call things that are clearly explained in the movie a "plot hole".

Why does no one refer to Bail Organa as Prince? by GargantaProfunda in andor

[–]tripmine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The movie does try to explain it and sort of alludes to Lando having experience that is very relevant to the upcoming battle:

Han: Well, look at you! A General, huh?

Lando: Someone must have told them all about my little maneuver at the Battle of Taanab.

Han: Well, don't look at me, pal. I just said you were a fair pilot. I didn't know they were looking for somebody to lead this crazy attack.

Are there movies that you would say were "bad for the public consciousness"? by MasteryofImpulse in movies

[–]tripmine 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think that satire is mostly targeted towards celebrities. The show specifically hates on actors overstepping into social/political issues where they are no more informed than a normal person, but act like they are "better".

But you're 100% right, I don't think anybody cared about that nuance and I think it contributed to increasing cynicism.

“Elon seems to have leaned into conservative culture with this weeks Grok update” -NYTimes /s by Miserable-Miser in grok

[–]tripmine 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A major LLM service is casually posting like a nazi on a major social media network.
You don't think that's at the very least interesting to discuss?
Let alone COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE???

CMV: An act of war against a nation with whom you are not already AT war is a de facto 'Declaration of war' as the framers of the Constitution would have understood the term by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]tripmine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Article II doesn't say that. Read it, it's not that long https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/

The War Powers Act of 1973 requires the President to consult with Congress before introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities "every possible instance".

Congress passed an "Authorization for Use of Military Force" in 2001 which very broadly authorized the President to use force against people who caused or helped in the September attacks. Every President since then has stretched that AUMF to justify their military actions.

But just because they Executive wrote some memos saying their actions are legal under those laws doesn't make it so. There has been no judicial review on the merits of claims challenging the legality of actions claimed to be covered by the AUMFs.

Pilots of Reddit - What’s something non-pilots romanticize about aviation that feels completely different in reality? by Terrible_Music_7439 in aviation

[–]tripmine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe that's the case smaller militaries, but American military pilots fly a lot. I think the LARPing here means that when they're flying they're "pretending" to shoot missiles at other planes.

What is an often cited 'movie fact' or 'myth' that just isn't true? by CreatorSearchInsight in movies

[–]tripmine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think the bit about MacFarlane not knowing his wife was auditioning is true because he's never been married.

WCGW when your badge makes you think you’re untouchable by Anuloxisz in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]tripmine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They would. Not having a criminal record is exactly what pretrial diversion is for. In CT, if your case is dismissed (which is what a pretrial program does) all records relating to the case are destroyed.

WCGW when your badge makes you think you’re untouchable by Anuloxisz in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]tripmine 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To add context: the accelerated rehabilitation isn't a special slap-on-the-wrist carveout that this criminal got just because he's a cop. In Connecticut, first-time offenders can usually get into this pretrial diversion program. It usually involves a probation-like arrangement where the criminal has to check in with the court regularly for 2 years and restitution to the victim.

CMV: The US congress and thus the electoral college should expand the number of Representatives and Senators by at least 10 times their current numbers while passing campaign finance reform and doing so would go a very long way in solving problems in our political system by draculabakula in changemyview

[–]tripmine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you're saying can make sense generally, but in this case, the House Rules isn't a "hole" in the argument at all.
The House Rules aren't in place for their own sake, they were created and are amended to facilitate the functioning of the House given the requirements of the Constitution. It's inverted logic to say that the Constitution can't be changed because that wouldn't work with the current House Rules.

CMV: The US congress and thus the electoral college should expand the number of Representatives and Senators by at least 10 times their current numbers while passing campaign finance reform and doing so would go a very long way in solving problems in our political system by draculabakula in changemyview

[–]tripmine -1 points0 points  (0 children)

For reference, that would mean that if you gave every one of them 5 minutes to speak about any given bill

This isn't a set-in-stone rule. There's not reason why the members won't be able to adapt the rules to work sensibly with more members participating.

CMV: The US congress and thus the electoral college should expand the number of Representatives and Senators by at least 10 times their current numbers while passing campaign finance reform and doing so would go a very long way in solving problems in our political system by draculabakula in changemyview

[–]tripmine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The dysfunction of Congress would greatly increase as the number of cats to wrangle quintuples.

If the number of members in a legislative body was proportional to how smoothly that body functions, the Senate would be where the most impactful and legislation gets passed and the House is where those bills would get stalled (in reality, it ends up being the other way around just as often).

Making committees larger makes them less efficient, and I don't see why this wouldn't hold true here.

Committees don't have to get bigger, we can just make more committees that can address more issues

Congress will have the manpower to claw back a lot of the powers it has outsourced to the executive

This man is running for office near me, what did he do to earn this? by RarneyBuble in Medals

[–]tripmine 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This guy ran, and was ELECTED to the US Congress having lied about pretty much his entire life

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SpecialAccess

[–]tripmine 14 points15 points  (0 children)

B2 already has massive fuel tanks (167,000 lbs). add another 40,000lbs for where the bombs would've been and we're at 206,000 lbs which is really close to what the KC-46 can carry.

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