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by MarkusQ 28d ago
It's exactly the right measure to use if the claim is that they "slashed spending". They didn't. They continued increase may or may not have kept pace with other measures (GDP, population, whatever). But they didn&#x2
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by MarkusQ 28d ago
If so, they passed up the opportunity to make another dumb Ohio joke: "Ohio isn't actually square, though you wouldn't know that from talking to the inhabitants" or some such.
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by MarkusQ 28d ago
https://everydayastronaut.com/mars-climate-orbiter/ Although, as it turns out, "orbiter" was a poor choice of name.
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by MarkusQ 29d ago
They did not slash spending. At most the rate of increase slowed down for a year or so before continuing to rise at an even faster rate. https://dof.ca.gov/about-us/history/state-budgets/
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by MarkusQ 29d ago
Took me a minute to figure out why I got a picture of a tree[1] for haloarchaea. https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/660443931
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by MarkusQ 29d ago
They didn't start the fire. Quantum + biology → Woo has been with us since the 1960s at least.
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by MarkusQ 29d ago
Vlatko Vedral (of Oxford) to be clear. (He's listed as V. Vedral on the Tardigrade paper you linked, and it's more common to use last names in this context.)
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by MarkusQ 29d ago
That makes it sound like the increase was due to some inexorable natural force. California's per capita budget is over twice Arizona's, and they're running a huge deficit on top of that. If taxes are too high, cut taxes. I
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by MarkusQ 29d ago
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of
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by MarkusQ 29d ago
They aren't synonyms and are, in general, not interchangeable. If I'm trying to get out of an unpleasant task by intentionally failing an aptitude test, the "correct" answer is going to be the least effective. Likewise
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by MarkusQ 29d ago
Whoa! I think maybe I stepped on somebody's agenda? Both capitalism and evolution depend on the fact that over time, on average, less fit organisms/organizations are displaced by better alternatives. You may not like that, but do
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by MarkusQ 29d ago
Wait until we all get popcorn though, and find a comfy place to watch from that's just outside the splash zone.
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by MarkusQ 29d ago
> Capitalism cannot survive when products last a lifetime. This is totally backwards; capitalism would do fine in such an environment (in the same way that evolution does fine in an environment where organisms live more than just a few s
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by MarkusQ 29d ago
Is that a typo or a proposed title for the sequel. (Even if it's a typo you should probably claim it as a sub-conscious coinage, since it's quite clever.)
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by MarkusQ 29d ago
Not the OP, but I'd disagree. It's pretty easy to find the edge of what's been written about, even starting from "the feed" (but this works with pretty much anything). Start with some topic that people are posting
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
"I have fantasized about sentencing the author to read them aloud, certain that they themselves will be unable to endure the slop that they are foisting upon the rest of us.)" I wish that were true, but I fear it may not be. http
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
As someone else noted, the site isn't affiliated with the project it's promoting. So there are two distinct "they"s in play here. No idea why that's the case, but it feels sus.
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Ah, yes, I see. The distinction between a working clock and one that's right twice a day.
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
So, normal art-writing nonsense. Or maybe I should say that, in presenting the problematic sentence first, and the putative "retroactive explanation" some distance later, the author has engaged in a form of dialectic which invites
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
It's an order of magnitude estimate of the worst case per acre, multiplied by a very course estimate of the number of acres affected, with little or no accounting for the length of the outage, the timing of the outage relative to speci
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
TFA article claims: "Indeed, the solar storm of May 2024 is estimated to have cost the US agricultural industry $500 million due to disruptions in precision navigation." This seems hard to believe. The link provided hand waves th
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
You might want to try coding in monochrome as well occasionally. Syntax highlighting can be useful, but it has hidden mental costs.
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Bingo. Some of them we probably also live streaming their reactions to the game. And some were working. And I'll bet more than a few were doom scrolling. Or playing Pokemon. Or arguing politics online (possibly with bots, but not k
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
By training it on a whole bunch of examples with valid external citations, to the point where it's able to hallucinate something that's valid. Of course, it won't always work, which is the point of TFA.
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
From the article "A more common defense is to say, just in general, people attack Zitron because of Y (usually his style), but they never address his points." The article "engages with Zitron's work"; the post you r
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
It's that dang lone monopole again!
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
It would have been even more interesting if we had any reason to believe they were true.
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
The paper, unfiltered by journalists: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2609825
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
Ah. Yeah, that's probably it. So by the same logic we should lay off sex traffickers because Epstein killed himself after he was arrested?
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by MarkusQ 1mo ago
https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/96b559fa-c165-4575-805d-e636909e2...

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