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by adamiscool8 1y ago
This doesn't make sense. If you had a 99.5% success rate, you could simply use a fixed $ stop and clean up. I agree you need an information edge, but the difficulty of finding one inversely correlates with your scale. Buying and holdin
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by adamiscool8 1y ago
You could say that about building almost any infrastructure anywhere populated.
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by adamiscool8 1y ago
I don't think this article makes a good case for why you should. >The more of us who incapacitate Google's analytics products and their support mechanism, the better. Not just for the good of each individual person implementing
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by adamiscool8 1y ago
I like the concept but shouldn't the score be counting down? Or am I trying to shepherd Pac-Man into eating as many as possible to get a high score?
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
I don't think this reflects a flaw in LLM's at all. It is true that Paul Newman is not "known for" having alcohol problems. Paul Newman is known for acting, and salad dressing. Paul Newman has been "known to" h
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
Check out The Elephant Man
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
Yes, but the same contractor manages the AirNow Data Management Center [0], and according to this talk [0] DOSAir is the actual program here, and they are piggybacking the EPA AirNow data infrastructure, and per the OP they are keeping the
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
Or, the not-so-secret third option, a disgruntled State Dept bureaucrat made a choice.
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
Those most passionate about capital-S Science are often aggressively anti-Trump, making them prone to accepting reports like this uncritically. If the State Department spends a crazy sum maintaining the air quality app, questioning that exp
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
Do you have a source for this? The article on says it's "due to funding constraints that have caused the Department to turn off the underlying network" but does not elaborate on the constraints. Given embassies clearly have l
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
>Air quality data is not a high profile valued thing. Disagree completely - saying "we had to turn off the air quality data network" is vague enough to be plausibly blamed on budget cuts for a non-tech-savvy audience, while sti
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
>The stop in sharing data was “due to funding constraints that have caused the Department to turn off the underlying network” read the statement, which added that embassies and consulates were directed to keep their monitors running and
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
>Why would common services be overburdened? Water restrictions? Fatbergs? Brownouts? Congestion? Traffic? Breathing room? Not to mention increasing demand on any inelastic local supply will drive up prices. To my initial point, the upsca
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
Dystopia usually conjures up a neon bright towers of an overwhelming big city. I've been to Atlanta too and I quite liked it. Low density, lots of green space, decent public transit (MARTA). Lots of interesting neighborhood variability
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
Would be interested in reading more about this claim, but it is not true for my suburb which raises plenty in development fees and property tax. Looking at a random SF suburb, "Pleasanton" [0] - it looks like 72% of their budget i
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
Not saying those don't exist but China also has like 50 tier-3 cities significantly larger than SF. And for the most part, really great transit between them.
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
Granted there are economic efficiencies. But I'm not convinced the fully expanded multipliers from one Super SF with 4X the density - turning it into somewhere like Manila - would be better across all metrics (economic and human) than
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
Maybe a boon for the city, but is definitively a boon for the people? Or could they be better served by building up another nearby town and connecting it?
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
Is it cheaper because the infrastructure is going farther, or because every individual is getting less and less of an overburdened commons? If you build out instead and everyone gets the SFH white-picket-fence life, the escape to nature is
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
There would be 3-4X the people, yet still the same amount of roads, services, and public utilities. Why is densifying always seen as some unalloyed good? I constantly see this pitched as a plan for housing problems without the basic conside
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
>the government's continued use of X legitimises and directs traffic to a platform that no longer prioritises fact-based, accessible public communication. What does this mean exactly? There's no indication the Government of Can
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
As evidenced, the scream test can be used effectively for everything.
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
Depends on the results. Being accidentally fired for a few days is not going to cause debilitation, death, and destitution.
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
This is a weird way to look at it. There's a shifting of incentives towards less "dangerous" topics. But "dangerous" just means citizens have decided research involving these terms is generally not the highest ROI f
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
The alternative dogma of egocentric hedonism creates at least as many monsters.
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
Sounds great, hopefully Library & Archives Canada will be more reliable stewards than the Canadian Media Fund who inexplicably decided to abandon and delete their 5 year "pilot" effort to preserve memorable Canadian film and T
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
It means you can strike "some of the most" from my comment and the point remains unrebutted. > The stuff they were protesting was very real, and those measures specifically caused disruption to hundreds of thousands of people&#
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
While that can be your truth, it may be worth re-evaluating because it is not reflecting reality, then: > In August 1963, Gallup found considerable public opposition to the now-famous civil rights march on Washington in which King deliv
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
>The Emergencies Act has nothing to do with war War is the obvious example that meets 3(a) and 3(b), because the Emergencies Act replaced the War Measures Act, which was designed to give the government wide latitude for authoritarian act
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by adamiscool8 2y ago
>“We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice,” Martin Luther King, Jr.

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