jasemurphy.bsky.social
Author of one(1) book. Journalist. Economist. #rstats #mecfs #ausecon. May be found walking his dog in Melbourne, Australia.
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Mr Joel's revision from embarrassing to landmark 20th century artist is, I expect, one indy film away.
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One of the few upsides of the horrendous oppression of the Chinese people's hearty and vigorous culture is that foreigners imagine them as polite Confucians rather than the rollicking drunken yobbos that they in fact largely are.
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They can't tell the difference between a semi automatic rifle and an overseas intelligence agency, but they have strong oar feathering technique?
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I am very unsure if I can recommend this book. A nihilistic pornography of violence that would make Tarantino grimace. Nice dialogue, laughed out loud, lifetime of nightmares.
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If you want a book that will leave an impression, this is it. If you want to sleep soundly again maybe leave it .
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Turns out, my dad hadn't finished it when he recommended it. Which is a relief.
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2/2 Update: this book can not be simply recommended. It is many things, but is certainly, possibly, evil? I'm not sure. People will be talking about it; I cannot suggest you read it.
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Amazing.
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No I didn't!!
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There's surprisingly little screening of cargo containers. They so numerous and hard to unpack/ scan easily. But if we decide to start checking them all it will be a HUGE drag on global trade. 4/4
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I'm reminded of how on 9/11 aeroplanes were turned into attack vectors. Doesn't have to just be terrorists, turning a couple of cargo ships into a launchpad for drones could be a great way for a state actor to start a surprise attack. Yellow arrows are cargo ships near Taiwan. 3/4
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Drones emerging from cargo containers was a cool and novel attack mode. But if 'drones emerging from cargo containers' becomes a thing, oh my god. The world is full of cargo containers. 2/4
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Done. Rounded up to account for interest accrued for my late payment.
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Name your charity Robert!
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I might have to try this!
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this frame. the extra perspective from that rooftop mounted lidar is very useful.
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In the first second of the video you see the power of the waymo lidar system. It doesn't actually spot the first dog but it does spots two people running, despite the dark, and starts slowing. A vision-based system would probably have flattened the dog.
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I prefer it here to there. But gee whizz does this place have scolds and olds.
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Battlefields of the future will be marked by a thick layer of lithium-ion detritus, from all the exploded batteries. Some good news though: Environmental lithium reduces violence! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Armies will figure out ways to stop drones. jamming. drones that stop drones. Maybe even nets for small light drones! But volume is going to win. The number of drones needed in a conflict will not in the tens of thousands nor the hundreds of thousands. 2/3
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But can they put on a backpack?
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You can use all of them more than once, it dramatically opens up the possibility space!!
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In the cats subreddit the folk are getting frothy about the possibility of Bailey Smith winning it, but the Cripps lesson seems to be that votes coalesce around someone senior and respectable so I suspect Danger will have pinched his votes.
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Can I be one of the test passengers?? Who will be on board?
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I might delete you from my feed instead bob . Suspect my life will return to its usual level of joy without you in it!
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I'm certainly not having fun now
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Bob I find you guilty of being no fun online.
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And the phone pinging at two listed locations of death caps!! That is plea deal territory. some lawyer must be behind on their private school fees.
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Pfff. A dingo put the mushrooms in the pie?!
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If I was a juror I'd really appreciate the total lack of pressure.
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I read this tweet to my 3 year old and now they want to fight you.
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This phenomenon is depicted quite aptly in the classic Australian novel Cloudstreet.
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Kids sometimes do the opposite of their parents.
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Nah they are all cheapies.
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What gets mown?
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I had no idea about Kobe but yeah. this is how you should do it. Hard boundary between density and wilderness.