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by avalys 2y ago
What is a specific plausible scenario of something that could be done with “my DNA” that I should be concerned about here?
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by avalys 2y ago
This looks more like they had a bug and lost a few, other than a static photo representation that was probably stored independently.
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by avalys 2y ago
How does it respond when there is a police officer directing traffic? What if the police officer gives a verbal command? FSD, as Tesla markets it, is hype. They are no where close to a marketable solution for the use cases they advertise -
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by avalys 2y ago
Uber is the most dishonest app (and company) I know, by an order of magnitude. The app lies about everything. What the wait time is likely to be, how many drivers there are, whether your driver is moving or not, how long it will take to fin
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by avalys 2y ago
Speaking of secret spacecraft - has anything interesting ever been revealed about the “Zuma” satellite, which failed to reach orbit a few years ago? It was supposedly a very expensive, very important program, but so secret that no agency ev
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by avalys 2y ago
They can’t build equipment themselves? You’re saying socialist countries can’t feed their citizens without relying on equipment invented, designed and built by capitalists?
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by avalys 2y ago
“Led by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (Arpansa), the systematic review examined more than 5,000 studies from which the most scientifically rigorous were identified and weak studies were excluded.” This is not
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by avalys 2y ago
This is the dumbest thing I've seen in a long time. Yes, let's commit fraud on the bank using our own ATM cards and bank accounts, at physical ATMs with video cameras recording ourselves doing it.
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by avalys 2y ago
That’s hardly unique. You’re also rejecting democracy, in your earlier post, by saying “25% of voters have such obviously wrong opinions that we are justified in scheming to cut them out of the process until they die.”
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by avalys 2y ago
So, you think we should have the president make the laws, and the president should also control the courts so that they’re unable to stop him from making the laws? Do you not see a potential problem with this approach? Congress is not deadl
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by avalys 2y ago
That is not what the decision overturning Chevron says. The requirement is not that Congress now has to write regulation about specific chemicals or specific details of every area. It's that ambiguities in the authority granted by Cong
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by avalys 2y ago
The Supreme Court made the right decision. Unlike the hyperbolic coverage in the press - the decision did not say that judges are now responsible for making regulation, rather than experts in regulatory agencies. What they said is that now,
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by avalys 2y ago
A few months ago I took a mental imagery quiz and one of the questions was "Can you imagine what it would feel like to lick a brick wall?"
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by avalys 2y ago
You're not missing much. As far as I know, I have a very good ability to visualize things mentally. I can picture objects and scenes vividly, with good detail, rotate objects in my mind, etc. However, there's one critical aspect o
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by avalys 2y ago
That’s confusing the issue a bit. Or, if you prefer, you are arguing against a strawman. The claim is not that climate change “causes” fires (how would that even work, exactly?) The claim is that the conditions that allow these fires to gro
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by avalys 2y ago
You pick your leader in the presidential election. Being a nominee of a major party is not a requirement to get on the presidential ballot.
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by avalys 2y ago
It’s completely possible that he’s fit for office now but realizing that he won’t be able to convince voters that he will remain fit for the next 4 years.
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by avalys 2y ago
Primary elections are private matters, “nominee of the Democratic Party” is not a political office.
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by avalys 2y ago
Yes, we shouldn’t confuse verbal fluency with intelligence, or the lack of one with the lack of the other. Perhaps you should go back in time to 2000 and step up to defend George W. Bush. However, when someone was previously verbally fluent
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by avalys 2y ago
The problem with automated enforcement of laws like this, is that the laws were not written for 100% automatic enforcement. Everyone who has ever followed a car driving 5 mph below the speed limit on a two-lane road knows that it is basical
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by avalys 2y ago
Is there any reason to expect it should be otherwise? Competing in sports is a very selfish thing to do, and produces no benefit for anyone else unless you’re good enough to be entertaining to watch, so why should anyone expect to make mone
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by avalys 2y ago
The same legal protections already apply. You can invite a person into your house to perform a service for you. They can define conditions on performing their service: "I'll shampoo your carpet for $50." Those conditions coul
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by avalys 2y ago
That’s already illegal. The problem is enforcement. Ever since the pandemic and the “defund the police” nonsense I’ve hardly seen the highway patrol on the roads at all, much less pulling anyone over.
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by avalys 2y ago
If we’re talking about crimes like “murder”, yes, it’s pretty clear. If we’re talking about crimes like “bribing a public official”, it’s less so. There are countries where that is simultaneously 1) technically illegal by that country’s own
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by avalys 2y ago
I know next to nothing about bowling, but it sounds like without Bowlero it would be nearly dead.
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by avalys 2y ago
Since there’s a lot of commenting about his age, I’ll remark (as a 36-year-old private pilot) that in my opinion an elderly man flying recreationally is actually much less hazardous to the general public than an elderly man driving a car. F
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by avalys 2y ago
That’s how I plan to go out.
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by avalys 2y ago
I hope these improvements have also led to reductions in their manufacturing cost. I'd love to buy an R1T but I don't want to be left with an orphaned vehicle in three years if the company goes bankrupt - or gets sold to some low
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by avalys 2y ago
Why should population density continue to rise? Have you ever flown over Texas?
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by avalys 2y ago
Richer people are happier, healthier, live longer, less stressed, and have a better quality of life. Is this a surprise to anyone?

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