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by burkaman 1y ago
Here's a list of senators that just voted last night to let this continue (the NAYs are in favor of the strikes): https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1... I think this issue is int
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by burkaman 1y ago
They like blowing up boats. There is no evidence that any drugs or "terrorists" were involved, and there never will be because any potential evidence exploded. The government didn't even pretend to provide any evidence becaus
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Thanks for taking a look, please let me know your justification for the Miguel Silvestre case as well.
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They have immense power to punish anyone they feel like, and they can and do detain and deport US citizens. They don't give a shit that it's illegal, they're doing it anyway and they won't stop until they are removed fro
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I don't know what to tell you, they are not irrelevant even if they visually look irrelevant from where you are. Small things can have a big impact, CO2 is only ~0.04% of the atmosphere (compared to the ideal level of ~0.03%) and it&#x
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by burkaman 1y ago
Sure, I meant "must be" in the colloquial sense of "I have a suspicion", not "I am absolutely certain". Like "it's 5pm, must be a lot of traffic on the highway right now". If traffic turned out t
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by burkaman 1y ago
Greenhouse gases only interact with specific wavelengths of light. A lot of sunlight comes in as visible or ultraviolet light, mostly passing through those gases. It hits the surface of the Earth and is absorbed and then re-emitted as infra
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by burkaman 1y ago
It links to this post which has a little more technical explanation: https://notebook.contrails.org/comparing-contrails-and-co2/ And also this paper which is a very in-depth technical explanation: https://ww
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by burkaman 1y ago
What I'm saying is that successfully suing individual companies or people would have zero impact on her actual problem. If California says it's illegal and OpenAI says they'll ban anyone who tries it, then these people can ef
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No, she would not have any success. Take a look at this list and think about the sheer number of companies she would need to sue: https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-video/arena?tab=leader... . You'll see Google,
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by burkaman 1y ago
Here, I guess: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flightcontrol It is very strange to have headshots of individual investors on the page that would normally have pictures of your team.
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by burkaman 1y ago
FYI this is by the relatively famous British comedian David Mitchell, not the relatively famous British author David Mitchell (who wrote Cloud Atlas and a number of other successful novels). Every time I see a book by author Mitchell I get
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A human operator would see a moving crane and say "that's a construction site, I'm going to go around". They would not fly directly under a crane even if it visually looked clear. In this case the crane was actively lowe
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by burkaman 1y ago
You're right, I guess "overly masculine" is the core of what I didn't understand. I don't know what that means, and while I can imagine someone being disappointed if they couldn't find any books with masculine
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Don't really understand this comment, I'm looking at the latest Pulitzer and Hugo winners and seeing what sound like pretty classic masculine tropes. James is about a man who escapes from slavery, fends for himself in the wilderne
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by burkaman 1y ago
"Someone is at the door asking for you." "What do they want?" This is the standard way to refer to an unknown person in English, anything else sounds awkward. "What does the person want", "what does he or
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by burkaman 1y ago
The article doesn't say this explicitly, but I would guess the majority of the remaining Windows 10 population is not stubborn users that refuse to update, it's people who just can't because of the Windows 11 hardware require
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by burkaman 1y ago
Oh that's crazy, you're right: https://support.history.com/hc/en-us/articles/4411049949079-... I wish there was a way for The Internet to eminent domain this URL from the History Channel, they clear
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by burkaman 1y ago
They aren't dressing up as actual pirates and vikings, they're dressing up as fictional archetypes inspired by stuff like Pirates of the Caribbean and How to Train Your Dragon. Halloween pirates are as different from real pirates
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by burkaman 1y ago
I'm guessing this is a complaint about a full-screen ad that history.com is running. I can't confirm because I have like 5 different layers of ad-blocking that I'm not going to turn off to check this, but here's what the
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by burkaman 1y ago
There's at least one in Europe: https://www.augustaraurica.ch/en/roman-festival Also a British city that does an annual Saturnalia festival: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-6768
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by burkaman 1y ago
That's Bill Pulte, he's the director of the FHFA. The HUD secretary is Scott Turner, former football player and relatively unsuccessful politician.
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Brought to you by the same guy that eliminated all non-English content from the HUD website ( https://x.com/SecretaryTurner/status/1961153998330695765 ). Shortsighted thinking, he could have lied to a lot more peopl
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It was voluntary on paper, but there was a clear threat that if you didn't take it there was a good chance you would be fired with no severance. Whether this threat was implicit or explicit depended on what department you were in. Sour
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by burkaman 1y ago
One of the main selling points was stability and a clear career path, and obviously that's gone now. Would probably take decades to rebuild that.
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Wouldn't it be incredibly easy for merchants to expose slightly higher prices over the "agentic commerce protocol", so that users do end up paying this fee?
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by burkaman 1y ago
Here's an open source alternative you can self-host: https://llmgateway.io/ I think it's just called OpenRouter because the founder previously started OpenSea (an NFT marketplace), and also probably to sound a bit
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They literally just killed another journalist after torturing him for seven years https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turki_bin_Abdulaziz_al-Jasse... Another murder last month, this one they killed for the crimes of attend
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> People do act differently when they know they are being watched. Even more so when they know they are being recorded. Police (in the US) demonstrably do not care that they're being recorded and don't act any differently.
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He's not out of touch. He's the first or second richest person on Earth, he has substantial influence over the president of the United States, and he's about to control one of the largest media empires in the country. You sho

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