additional layer is that according to comments first track is also used in chinese nature documentaries

of course MBA came up with this

an airplane doesn’t flap its wings

behold this fever dream animation

now you’ve got me thinking if storage in fridge is necessary at all, if these are salts. worst thing that can reasonably happen is that salt picks up some water from the air, on top of water condensing on sample when vial was opened while still cold. freebase would probably be air-sensitive, but for compounds that are known sensitive i’d put them under argon/nitrogen, tape vial shut (with normal electrical tape, not parafilm) and store in freezer instead. sigma lists storage temperature for MDMA analytical standard (weak solution of freebase in methanol) as -20C, but some of this might be legal cover with excess requirements for cases where you’d have to be absolutely sure that analytical standard didn’t decompose (like in evidence in drug cases)

there was a reddit ama with an ukrainian dude who was in charge of procurement of certain drones for ukrainian army. among these were uavs from anduril, and uaf decided not to buy them, chiefly because these drones don’t work and cost something like 20-50x more than equivalent ukrainian designs that do work. the reason why they don’t work is russian jamming, about which anduril people presumably were informed, yet somehow they still were complete assholes (to foreigners only) through entire process. which also means that ukrainian elint captured how russian jamming works, gave that data to anduril who proceeded to do fuck all with it, possibly leaking this intel in some signal chat

the reason why these were on the table to begin with is that (part of) american weapons aid is provided in form of money to be spent at american manufacturers, it’s not pallets of cash like fox news would like you to believe. (private donations to places like united24 do work this way, but also for example denmark does provide money with no strings attached, at least not these). (yea i’m effectiving my weaponized altruism, cranking up these numbers of dead russians per thousand euros). reasons for that are slight wage discrepancy between poltava and berkeley, compounded by scale (how many drones does anduril make per year, 20? ukrainians make low millions, probably with thousands to hundreds of thousands per type). most of costs in drone development is driven by software. doesn’t help that thiel’s people are swamped in vc money, therefore they don’t have to work efficiently, neither have their drones, or even they don’t need to work at all. ukrainians don’t have the luxury to blow millions into ai swarming that doesn’t work and instead put that effort into signal processing to avoid jamming, which does work, which they can check pretty quickly too.

this is the disruption they’re cooking. invest in eastern europe or something

another solution:

take duck, carrot and potato at once. if boat is fine if you put duck and carrot in but will sink if you put in duck, carrot and potato then you’re already on horrifyingly narrow engineering margins and probably shouldn’t use it in the first place

in the worst case you can put duck on a leash if it’ll run away otherwise

also cryonics and “enhanced games” as non-FDA testing ground. i’ve never seen anyone in more potent denial of their own mortality than Peter Thiel. behind the bastards four-parter on him dissects this

i have coauthorship on a book released by Wiley - they definitely feed all of their articles to llms, and it’s a matter of time until llm output gets there too

but but this branch brings more hype money, it’s earn to give, you know nothing about effective altruism /s

lol @ the implication that chatbots will definitely invent magitech that will solve climate change, just burn another billion dollars in energy and silicon, please guys i don’t want to go to prison for fraud and share cell with sbf and diddy

who is this guy anyway, is he in openai/similar inner circle or is that just some random rationalist fanboy?

when bubble pops, chatbots will vanish but nukes will remain for a long time

lol, that’s too charitable to them, nukes at least work

it’s weird and lowkey insulting imo. let’s assume that for some bizarre reason tech ceo needs a burner phone to call governor newsom: do you think i can’t get that myself, old man? i’d assume it’s bugged or worse

So far France and Netherlands have already set up programs to poach american scientists fired during recent ripping copper from the walls, so i wouldn’t say there’s nothing done

and yeah, excessive use of force by police is kinda the big part of the reason why protests are going on for so long in the first place. what a braindead take

Mind elaborating? The arguments in sibling comments seem to be some variant of “avoid escalating to more dangerous chemical agents”. I don’t see how that’s relevant to protests. Are we seriously expecting the protesters to escalate to mustard gas because the police used tear gas?

shut the fuck up Saddam Hussein

regardless, i think that existence of LRAD is a valid reason for a civilian to own antitank weapons and that Vucic government should be destroyed

I think it already happened. Somebody made a previously nonexistent library that was recommended by chatbots and put some malware there

tbf two nickels is billions ahead of genai sector profits so far

i have been Called

gold is pretty much nontoxic, definitely bulk (gold teeth anyone?), maybe as nanoparticles. gold compounds can be, like any other heavy metal, but it’s so inert that these won’t form in air under any normal conditions. lead will get oxidized much more easily, and if you’re riffing on leaded gasoline then it’s lead oxide particles that made it work in the first place, so it’s already in bioavailable form, and full brain damage is only seen some 20 years down the road