I was taught that if your visualization is less intuitive than a spreadsheet, you need to reevaluate your approach. Why the heck would you code the year of the occurrence in color?

Whatever, I’m sure some asshole fell off his horse while reading a letter or something. No, I think this map is terrible because they connected to the wrong database.

Your quote actually made me go and read the article. Thanks a lot dude, I’m fucking pissed now.

“The city’s role is significant as much as Ms Grossman’s and Mr Erickson’s. The city was on notice of the problem,” Grossman’s attorney, Esther Holm, said in court, referring to a previous complaint issued to the city.

Ms. Holm, your client hit those kids in a crosswalk at 73 MPH. Are you really trying to say the city’s landscaping had equal responsibility in these deaths?

“As we flirt with a prospective IPO for our hilariously unprofitable company, I would just like to say our product is so good it scares me.”

I’ve been reading this for years, and the hypothesis always seems to be that zipper merging is good because it maximizes road usage. You know what else maximizes road usage? Bumper to bumper gridlock.

I am guessing that if anyone actually tests that settlement in a court of law that it will not be worth the paper it’s written on. All it takes is one person in the IRS to grow enough of a testicle to actually call for the audit.

This is so dumb. I absolutely love it.

Yeh it’s peak, really goes downhill from there.

Yep and it’s also important to consider the political/economic climate.

The 2010s had most media groups reporting on rapid, ostensibly directionless growth in China. One of the more recognized themes were the “ghost cities”, so I imagine this got a lot of attention for its apparent absurdity. I honestly can’t remember this one but I must have seen a hundred stories like it.

It will be such a weird case, too! Stealing taxpayer money from one organization to be used in direct opposition of another? It’s such awful fiscal policy that trying to entertain a defense of it might cause Thomas or Alito to have a stroke lol

Every place I’ve ever worked has tried to play cute with security researchers. I’ve never understood it. I’ve always called it out. But I keep fucking running into it!

If a complete stranger reaches out for help, do it. Your future self will thank you.

Honestly not an insane stance for an app repository. LLMs puke out what they ate, and there’s a perfectly reasonable concern that they might not have legal authorization to everything they trained on. I definitely wouldn’t want to get sued for hosting an app that is found to be in violation of a license agreement.

You know, there’s an entire god damn article after the sound byte you felt you could attack, and the story it tells is pretty alarming for a lot of people.

Bro you can’t even run a publicly traded company. Don’t even say the word “utility”. Fuck outta here.

They’re certainly making an impressive go of it, but I don’t see anything in their arsenal that’s going to survive sustained attacks.

SPYDER is so comically expensive that resisting long range drones will bankrupt the country, and automated turrets, while much better from a price per kill perspective, simply don’t have the range of other solutions (hundreds of meters at best rather than 40km of SPYDER or 5km of iron dome).

A better solution for the drones in the OP might be the new Rheinmetall platforms with airburst ammunition, but I’m not sure Israel can procure those in the numbers necessary to cover their defenses or infrastructure.

My dude, data center owners are actually trying to stand up new nuclear facilities to fulfill their own demand. Doesn’t matter if it’s in New York or Wyoming: math’s clearly not working out.

(FWIW I’m totally on board with new power infrastructure, but I don’t trust these geniuses to build or maintain it)

I see them as ways to find content that otherwise wouldn’t be on my radar. I generally don’t let them “talk me out” of seeing something that interests me.

I hate to disappoint you, but data centers are driving up the price of electricity. This is a very well-documented phenomenon.

I’ve been wondering about this for a while, but what does it cost to maintain the iron dome when your batteries are depleted and the missiles are on backorder? It’s not like literally anyone else is fielding this equipment, so what happens when the only customer suddenly needs a tall order every week?

Under normal economic conditions, a tamir missile costs about $80k, and a shahed drone costs about $30k (and dropping). These are not normal conditions, and I expect that Israel is going to have spotty coverage in the coming years.

The worst part is that I’m sure Netanyahu and his ilk have priced all this in and agreed that the casualties and long-term dependence on foreign funding and ordnance is a fair trade for the additional territory. I really hope the Israeli people disagree.