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This piece mentions Harari’s new work. Has anyone read it? I find his style appealing but I have also read comments here that are eyerolls similar to how Malcolm Gladwell is received, so I am wondering if I should even bother.
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Gas taxes only fund about half of road construction because it hasn’t kept pace with inflation. The general fund covers the rest.
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“Contrary to what many believe, U.S. corporate law does not impose any enforceable legal duty on corporate directors or executives of public corporations to maximize profits or share price.”
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Please please please stop repeating this meme. It’s not true, and it never has been. https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...
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I just went to the MySpace.com front page and it features only news from 2022. Is this some sort of bug for EU users?
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> The most notable deficiencies are in lithography systems (as the best that China's SMEE can produce in volume are good enough for 90nm-class process technologies and thicker), ion implantation tools, and electron beam inspection s
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You should try going to europe sometime.
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I came to this conclusion by reading the book “Determined” by Sapolsky. https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780525560975
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Arendt makes a compelling case, but unfortunately one that does not stand up to our advances in neuroscience. The will as described here does not exist. There is nothing beyond conditioning.
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Be careful with the LBJ series. It will absolutely ruin all other biographies for you. You will become intolerant to other authors’ lack of detail.
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“Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.“
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I prefer not to participate in the acceleration.
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Yeah. Nothing stopping dealers from charging out the ass for a few gb of data transfer. A scam as old as time, I remember my mom almost paying $500 in the early 2000s for a new maps DVD for her lexus. I found the iso on usenet and did it my
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That’s the intention but very few users enjoy being unpaid QA for trillion dollar corps.
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This sounds like a joke but Amazon made a device specifically to listen to people talk all day and tell them how they sound to others. It is called Halo.
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It’s worse than that. These systems can be adapted by looking at failed user commands, but people don’t really sit around trying out fun things and watch it fall on its face for longer than the first day or so. After that, the novelty wears
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_transducer https://medium.com/fetch-ai/classical-roots-of-ai-unpacking-... .
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The Kirkland house brand is often backed by one of the name brands they sell. They have quality metrics for Kirkland and they check the products regularly. If the quality dips, they swap out the provider.
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The definition of “acceptable” will just keep shifting
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Thank you. I kept reading AI/ML and couldn’t figure out how more data would help…
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Palantir is a government contractor. You don’t investigate your friends
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Lesser? The US is the largest economy in the history of the world. And military. It is responsible for brokering and maintaining the freest, most prosperous time in history — the post WWII globalization. Oh, here’s where I’ll be a little le
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Of course there’s a risk of negative consequences. In fact, the US experiences many of them. But, it ultimately ends up stronger.
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I suspect it will be a hit in Utah.
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This is all I ever hear from the linux crowd. “Demand less.” Gets really old.
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Lot of people seem to feel personally attacked in this thread.
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I suspect you are fine with it for the same reason I am:you understand that women historically were kept out of the workforce.
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Is the grid not composed of power lines?
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Notice the deflection by the Lt Governor: “People have a right to be extremely frustrated with CenterPoint. People are suffering through terribly oppressive heat, a lack of food and gasoline availability, debris everywhere, and much more,”
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Would you mind elaborating on: > it doesn't suspend like older laptops but it does always work

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