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by Retric 5mo ago
You can see ripples in the waters surface when there’s a hole in the crossing. At least when the average depth is shallow enough you’d want to cross in a normal vehicle.
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by Retric 5mo ago
I can personally name 3 people who had their catalytic converter replaced to pass an emissions inspection. Trying to cheat the system when they stick a hose on your tailpipe and test the emissions isn’t trivial.
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by Retric 5mo ago
For emissions there is often nothing visually wrong with the car. So you’d essentially be giving up on enforcement if you didn’t require everyone to get their car checked at least every few years. Doing it every year is IMO overkill. As t
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by Retric 5mo ago
You don’t need to solve everything, catching a few thousand non existent citations with such a policy is on its own a net benefit.
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by Retric 5mo ago
That’s arguable. “LL.M. programs are usually only open to those students who have first obtained a degree in law, typically an LL.B. or J.D.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Laws It’s generally for people who
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by Retric 5mo ago
I think you’re missing the point #1 reason people talk negatively about unions, they cost shareholders and management money. Essentially every large company and wealthy individual has a vested interest in reducing union power or preventing
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by Retric 5mo ago
Despite all the propaganda, unions work. In this case they got better pay and benefits.
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by Retric 5mo ago
There is hard data showing they extended several thousand lives. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/988-hotline-linked-to-th... The important thing to remember is the variability of the human condition, stuff tha
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by Retric 5mo ago
I think it’s less shocking because we’ve seen several years of increased inflation. I’m frankly used to prices being noticeably higher every year where the COVID spike was being compared to 2000-2020. So sure Trump’s been consistently bad
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by Retric 5mo ago
Many products are shipped half way across the US on semi trucks, that hits everyone’s pockets even if you drive an EV. Train’s move around vast amounts of freight but they got optimized for coat per ton for coal, wheat, etc not latency. Wh
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by Retric 5mo ago
LLM’s can still only pass limited Touring Tests. The longer the interaction the worse they do. Which of course means you can easily create an experiment they successfully pass, but just as easily you can create an experiment where they fa
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by Retric 5mo ago
> That takes 10 minutes Verifying LLM output needs to occur every time LLM output is generated, so no it doesn’t just take 10 minutes. It takes 10 minutes + time to change the LLM input + 10 minutes to verify it worked * ~the number of t
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by Retric 6mo ago
Flowery language is a powerful tool, but it demands more from both the reader and writer. That’s the fundamental flaw in using simple heuristics to evaluate language, the exact same text can be useful or deeply flawed just based on the cont
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by Retric 6mo ago
The issue is using a single factor to push change does not mean that change is a net good. Nobody talks about windmills killing birds because that’s what they actually care about, instead there are so few downsides they needed to find some
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by Retric 6mo ago
Not bankrupt doesn’t mean the company is actually worth anything. A large number of tiny business are still in operation because the owner is willing to work at below market rates to keep it operating.
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by Retric 6mo ago
No. The law allows passengers in self driving Taxi not to be responsible. Including Taxi operated by Tesla. Here Tesla makes it clear to people who turn on “Full self driving” the driver must maintain supervision and thus responsibility.
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by Retric 6mo ago
That may have been a knock on religion rather than a pedo issue. However, school systems also try and avoid teachers and kids being alone together. A pedo in a room of 30 kids isn’t likely to do anything.
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by Retric 6mo ago
No, climate is based on consistent weather data over a long period. Across long enough periods the underlying assumptions that make climate a meaningful thing to talk about fail due to orbital mechanics etc. Plate tectonics for example show
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by Retric 6mo ago
Force of gravity for spherical objects of constant density is calculated from 2 masses + 1 distance + a constant. Before the experiment you can measure the mass of both objects. In the experiment you measure the force and distance to calcu
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by Retric 6mo ago
It’s not a bias on the educational side, it’s the inherent requirement for knowledge before you can learn skills. Memorization creates a Rosetta Stone the enables people to start reading. You need to know what happened historically before y
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by Retric 6mo ago
> and gave himself that title Declaring yourself president means nothing. I’m the president of planet earth and nothing changes. Similarly he could go by grand pimp and it would be just as meaningful. Legitimacy comes from all the people
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by Retric 6mo ago
> Native Americans would have used up their forests They already had used up a large fraction of North America’s forests. Killing off over 90% of the population + 200 years of growth before Europeans showed up made people underestimate
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by Retric 6mo ago
2) This was more a hypothetical argument than an analysis of a specific individual. Humans survived before electricity let alone AC. They can’t survive without food. What’s the minimum someone can meet the basic needs for survival paying
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by Retric 6mo ago
> even if relative wealth disparities remain constant. Relative wealth disparity increases as absolute wealth increases because below a minimum level of income people starve. IE you can’t make 1/10th the median wage in a subsistenc
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by Retric 6mo ago
Is your counter argument that you’re not wrong just attacking a straw man? Because it really sounds to me like you are just clueless. Strip mining goes back thousands of years, it’s a simpler technology than making tunnels. And no it wasn
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by Retric 6mo ago
How so, being precise and correct is IMO worth preserving in a world of handwaving slop. The industrial revolution was from ~1760–1840, it was a major shift it doesn’t cover everything that happens between 1760 and now more did it overwhelm
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by Retric 6mo ago
By that the token humans drove a great number of species to extinction long before the Industrial Revolution. So by that line of thinking we were already running into the limits of natural resources in the Neolithic. Obviously we’re becomin
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by Retric 6mo ago
By local you mean over 5 thousand of miles? Because yes moving wood was always in competition with growing it locally. But pine forests in the far north were untouched because of the low quality of the lumber they produce not the distanc
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by Retric 6mo ago
> powered solely by human muscle Both animals and water power go way back. The early steam engine was measured in horsepower because that’s what it was replacing in mines. It couldn’t compete with nearby water power which was already bei
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by Retric 6mo ago
> Prior to the industrial revolution, the natural world was nearly infinitely abundant. We simply weren't efficient enough to fully exploit it. This is just wildly incorrect. People started running out of trees during the early Iro

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