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I think you underestimate the impact of a blockade on Iran's ports... Iran (and China) can maintain this posture for ballpark a month or so more before economic mayhem leads to another popular uprising. Time is in the US's hands up until the midterms and even then until January

I think you underestimate how little economic pressure matters when people are up against an invader who attacked amidst negotiations for bogus reasons, threatened total annihilation, and killed thousands, including a school full of children.

What happens when Chinese flagged ships dare us to shoot them?

Guessing the sheer volume of pull requests related to AI code jitter is leading to instability of this Microsoft product.

Sounds very questionable, like boiler room is trying to do a pump n dump. I would not believe these rumors until we hear reputable sources outside of forum speculation

Watching the hive mind of the industry go almost overnight from inVision to Figma shows there's just no mote in this segment... people can leave just as quickly as they came, have no loyalty, and are all about fashion and vibes.

Not sure you can compare Invision to Figma. Invision wasn't a design tool like Figma is.

Design systems live in Figma. Not going to be so easy to migrate and Enterprise customers are moving slowly.


Indeed I just figured out how to view them. Wow. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_O._Rabin&...


What a small world. But the entire extended family are professors. Too bad one became a politician.

Benzion?

> Benzion Netanyahu ... A scholar of Judaic history, he was also an activist in the Revisionist Zionism movement, who lobbied in the United States to support the creation of the Jewish state.


Benzion’s son (and Elisha’s nephew) Benjamin Netanyahu is the Israeli prime minister.

Then there are at least two.

Yeah.

Everything is intertwined at some level.

Interesting.


I think it cuts both ways because these types of people are the ones who can wield this technology as a Swiss army knife to do really interesting things and in fact if they can build on top of their own peers' collective toil then they can avoid doing that toil themselves and potentially do greater things.. at least that's the theory.

If some of them want to temporarily participate in the toil, nothing wrong with that, after all that's what doing a PhD is anyway. Same goes with homework and problem sets earlier in the science trajectory.

The greater fear that we won't need these types of experts b/c in the future machines will have all the intelligence or the ratio of humans with expertise to the overall population will somehow drift is certainly a societal level concern as we offload intelligence to the machines but the flip side of it is that will not be able to learn how to higher level of abstraction or more quickly than ever before enabling more of us to actually develop expertise, or at least a new type of expertise.

Not that Star Trek is meant to be real but when I think about the crew of the Starship Enterprise I imagine few of them actually know all of the ins and outs of how the warp drive work but they're able to travel around with star system


Star Trek's warp-capable space ship is a fictional analogy for nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers, which are designed by geniuses to be used and maintained at sea by people who are not geniuses and who do not understand all the ins and outs of how atomic energy works.

There are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of people today using computers without understanding how transistors work or which register they're writing to at any given moment. Many of these people also drive cars without understanding how gears can shift or how the radial motion of the main drive shaft gets transferred in the transverse direction to the drive axle. I suppose a few of them wear clothes without having ever sheared a sheep and without knowledge of the best way to felt wool.


When you’re out in the infinite empty of space many light years from any livable environment, you damn well better know how your warp drive works to be able to fix it, and that is what Star Trek portrayed.

You've ever seen a star trek episode? (The real ones, not the modern crap).

Even the guy pushing the button for the teleporter is some kind of technical genius.


Really cool to combine the visual exploration of the aggregate data with the query browser experience!

Thank you, have you tried it?

Sounds like he means the methods that they used to use to advertise to find customers online have broken

Yeah, I get that, but I'm asking why that matters in the aggregate. Presumably there are still the same number of lawns that need mowing. Like, is chatgpt going to result in a significant change in who is mowing those lawns, or the frequency of lawn mowing, or the composition of yards?

What seems to be getting lost in the noise on this topic is that security has always been about security in depth and mitigating controls, in other words applied paranoia. There are always threat vectors and we're seeing a change in the shape of those vectors with more rapidity than ever before which is certainly exhausting for everyone. But don't forget the fundamentals here

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