Well, criminals generally don’t like law enforcement officers…

Are we? I’m looking to buy a car and I think gas cars make the most sense even now, because the change in the price of gas seems like a relatively small part of the cost of car ownership. A one dollar increase in the cost of a gallon of gas works out to about $300 a year in extra costs for me. That’s not enough to tip the balance towards an electric car.

For reference, I’m comparing a Hyundai Elantra N to a Tesla Model 3 - the Hyundai costs as much as the base Tesla at about $36.5k, but to get similar performance you’d need the $42.5k premium Tesla, and that price difference pays for enough gas to go 40,000 miles.

My guess is that Trump personally has neither a good understanding of the political situation in Iran nor a contingency plan for what to do if this war isn’t won quickly, but Netanyahu presumably does have both and Israel can’t “chicken out” and leave the region the way that many people expect the US to. Thus while I remain pessimistic about the possibility of victory through air power, I presume that Israel does have some plan that isn’t clearly a bad idea.

Would you say the same thing if you didn’t know that it was AI? I think it actually looks pretty good overall, although some of the changes (like deciding that this character dyes her hair had has undyed roots) are odd.

Edit: It seems to do a better job with the soccer player.

Edit 2: I wonder if it works better with male faces than with female ones. It’s making the woman’s eyes and lips bigger but not the man’s.

But people actually do do this, if for some reason a PC is overheating or the built-in fans are making too much noise. A big fan running slowly moves more air more quietly than a bunch of little fans. I even wired an external DC fan into the PC’s power supply once so that I wouldn’t have to plug them in separately.

But what about the people with strongly felt but incoherent world-views, like the ones who voted for Sanders before voting for Trump? They need memes too!

Do male mice have nipples? Why?

That was my take-home open-book exam from a somewhat eccentric developmental biology professor back when I was in college. I remember that the answer is no (although they still have mammary tissue and can get breast cancer) but not why.

We’re going to end up in a situation where whatever is necessary to train AI is permitted, and the main question is whether that will be through (re)interpretation of existing law or the passage of a new law.

Due to the disconnect between price, supply, and demand in the Soviet Union, many things officially cost little but there wasn’t enough for everyone who wanted to buy some. This gave retail workers (and everyone else in the distribution chain) informal power: they could make sure those who did them favors got special access.

When my family came to the USA from the Soviet Union, one of the weird things about the experience for us was how friendly American retail staff were. Brighton Beach in NYC is a neighborhood with a lot of Soviet immigrants, and you can still go there and experience retail staff glaring at you because you’re creating more work for them by coming into the store.

If you don’t want legal or medical advice from an AI, you can already simply not ask the AI for legal or medical advice. But I don’t want your paternalistic restrictions on what I may ask.

The content of the article does not match the title. It doesn’t actually talk specifically about the tech industry or claim that it is in particular difficulty.

Title is wrong. He’s an Ayatollah, not the Ayatollah. The actual article title is “Hardline cleric Arafi joins wartime leadership as Iran juggles conflict, succession”.

Arafi was appointed to an interim three-member leadership council to manage state affairs alongside President Masoud Pezeshkian and Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, following Khamenei’s killing at the start of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran on February 28.

My dog chewed up some razors once (the sort with lots of blades - I had a fun time making sure each blade was accounted for and he didn’t swallow any) and I thought that was maximal dog silliness, but maybe it was because he liked the taste of the gel. Why would a dog ever eat a whole bra?

I don’t expect that they will make significant military contributions, but I think it’s possible that at least some of them would prefer to see Iran thoroughly defeated rather than having the war wrapped up quickly.

How is bringing in more countries as enemies of Iran supposed to help Iran? Maybe the logic is that these countries would pressure the USA to negotiate in order to end the war, but I suspect that a pre-commitment to do this was part of Iran’s strategy for deterrence, but now that deterrence has failed, it serves no strategic purpose except revenge.

The dog would be fine. It takes a lot of chocolate to hurt a dog - I was freaking out once when my dog ate some chocolate but I learned that a 30-pound dog would have to eat an entire full-size Hershey’s Bar in order to experience any symptoms at all (and they would be mild and temporary). The same thing is true with onions BTW - fried onions can be dangerous because a dog could conceivably eat a lot, but raw onion isn’t unless the dog eats multiple whole onions for some reason.

Netanyahu’s sons did serve in the Israeli military, although how much danger they were actually in is unknown to me, and Netanyahu himself has extensive combat experience.

There’s a typo in there - construction began in 1988. (Asimov died in 1992.)

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