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by blululu 2y ago
Can't speak to the other 49 states, but California does have a legal requirement for taking time off to vote on Election Day. We also have polling stations that are open in the days before the election so I was able to simply vote on a
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by blululu 2y ago
This is an interesting question, though I think it needs to be qualified a bit since there are many AI images and AI image generators that don't match this pattern. First, AI Images != OpenAI/ChatGPT Images. OpenAI has done a grea
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by blululu 2y ago
This is a consumer protection law that California has simply nailed. A simply copy/paste of the CA law to a Federal level would be a serious win. The experience of trying to cancel subscriptions/servies in say New York is outrageo
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by blululu 2y ago
Interesting. It is worth noting that the presence of Germanic tribes in Spain goes back much farther in time. and The name Al Andulus for instance comes from the Arabic name for the Vandals: a Germanic tribe who settled in Iberia.
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by blululu 2y ago
Maybe. San Francisco is unique among major American cities in a number of ways and it has a special charm to it. I don't think that a generic substitution of Santa Cruz vs ($BIG_CITY) would favor the likes of Seattle or Houston or Phil
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by blululu 2y ago
I've always thought that Santa Cruz is a great place to spend three months and a terrible place to spend three years. The place has a certain energy and but you can get sucked into the vortex and spend every day bicycling to the local
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by blululu 2y ago
New York City has no trouble staffing a great number of niche specialists. Somehow the parks department can find FAA licensed drone operators, but they are unable to find some lifeguards? And the issue is not just ocean lifeguard certificat
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by blululu 2y ago
This is great. At some point in time I realized how much I was using the terminal and spending a bit of time to learn the basics is a great investment of time. I used a similar rouge-like to learn (this one I think: https://gitla
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by blululu 2y ago
Absolutely. Of late I have an iOS app to measure the grade of hills. Initially this was to avoid parking tickets in San Francisco which requires curbing your tires for a 3% grade. The reality is that this is basically no grade and you shoul
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by blululu 2y ago
The lottery is another example where tickets allegedly fund education. The reality is that most of a state’s budget is set holistically and paid for out of the general fund. From an accounting standpoint you can’t really target a specific p
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by blululu 2y ago
The parent made a claim about the aggregate rate and its trend. You asserted that this claim is false and then provided a citation that is irrelevant and contains nothing to debunk the original claim (which appears to be true based on BLS d
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by blululu 2y ago
Please don't propagate irrelevancies: that link is about a single tech company is Austin TX and has nothing to do with claim about aggregate labor statistics for the country. The latest BLS data is here: https://www.bls.gov&
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by blululu 2y ago
I would be sympathetic if it were not for their insane level of dark patterns, spam emails and growth hacking schemes. I had to make a blanket ban on @nextdoor.com email addresses because a dying relative was unable to parse their actual em
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by blululu 2y ago
True, but more on paper than in practice. The Senate, Governor General and the King all take a back seat and it is unclear what would happen if they actually exercised their formal rights. I suspect that the entire country would blink and g
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by blululu 2y ago
This is maybe a nit, but a unicameral parliamentary system has much more power concentrated in parliament than the US system has in any branch. Parliament combines the powers of the house, senate and executive branches, but with a compositi
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by blululu 2y ago
Y’all make fun of us for everything from our lousy patchwork health care system to sucking at hockey. Seems only fair to send a little flack back across what’s left of the border.
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by blululu 2y ago
As a follow up I am curious as to whether the topic of eugenics was central to the trial or merely incidental and significant in hindsight? My understanding (the textbook narrative) is that the trail dealt more with questions of traditional
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by blululu 2y ago
This feels fair. I would personally be totally in favor of nationalizing college admissions along such lines. Every school is given a fixed number of admits/waitlists and these are then allocated by lottery based upon such rudimentary
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by blululu 2y ago
This is so cool. I just made a Timelapse from the images of the linked camera: https://youtu.be/pgexFsYzRYE
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by blululu 2y ago
Honestly the accents were a really well done part of that movie. A lot of the diversity and variety of Russian culture does not come through to Anglophone ears with fake Russian accents which are often a monotonous stern and gruff voice but
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by blululu 2y ago
LLAMA 3 is pretty sweet and some of their vision stuff like segment anything is cutting edge. Facebook just don’t need to publish or make demos since they have a robust path to revenue.
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by blululu 2y ago
Not sure about the downvotes. Vitamin A deficiency is a bogus diet issue. The problem can be solved with a sack of sweet potatoes.
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by blululu 2y ago
You’re talking past the point I made. Losses weigh heavier than gains in human psychology. This is a pretty robust finding. Inflation necessarily means losses for everyone. These can be offset but people don’t necessarily come away feeling
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by blululu 2y ago
Nah, inflation sucks across the board. The human mind and human society don’t really react well to things changing so fast. And since losses weigh higher than gains, and everything needs to be renegotiated, nobody feels good about the outco
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by blululu 2y ago
This is actually a really cool move. Not sure about the business case, but building an os for AR/VR is challenging. A naive port of Android or Linux will not really work (without inducing massive motion sickness). Having a framework th
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by blululu 3y ago
This feels like a corpspeak non answer to the serious question above. This move will increase operating costs by a considerable amount. Is the company sufficiently profitable that it can eat the loss or is this a gamble that culminates in a
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by blululu 3y ago
Finland has friendly neighbors? There is a good reason why they have a draft. A simple check of who is on the other side of their largest border combined with any history book from the last 400 years would suggest the reason.
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by blululu 3y ago
That’s sort of like saying a ripple and a tsunami are the same thing and they differ only in terms of energy, or New York City only differs from Utica in scale. Maybe it is true in some technical sense, but that is missing a lot of importan
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by blululu 3y ago
Ask any of your friends how much sea level will rise by 2050 and you will get some pretty wild answers. It's a technical subject that does not immediately affect most of us on a day to day basis. It is not surprising that people would
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by blululu 3y ago
Protecting a person makes sense, but a lake is not going to sue for its role in the story. These details feel sketchy, and that is sort of the take away from the original piece: when someone is unreliable in one area, they are more suspect

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