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by burkaman 1y ago
> maybe GPT5 had seen this or a similar construction somewhere in its training data I'm disappointed that he didn't spend a little time checking if this was the case before publishing the blog post. Without GPT, would it really
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> Can somebody explain the psychology behind these beliefs? They commonly arise when someone is getting paid by the coal company. Just boring human greed, not stupidity or insanity. > Where does this 'clean coal' concept com
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I mean it's already illegal to stop in the bus stop, and in some cities the buses have cameras to catch offenders, but people still do it. What would help is bus rapid transit ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_r
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by burkaman 1y ago
It is absolutely not feasible (yet), most of the job of the bus driver is knowing when to break the "rules", because someone is parked in the bus stop, or traffic is backed up so it make sense to stop a bit before the stop to let
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by burkaman 1y ago
Donald Trump and his friends are making the decisions. They have ignored the law you mentioned because they don't like it.
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You don't think any election in the last 10 years has made a measurable difference? Elections are the result of voting en masse.
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by burkaman 1y ago
Usually you would say "improving the efficiency of x and y". In this case at the end of the sentence it should be "improving the models' efficiency" or just "improving efficiency". I don't think it&#x
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by burkaman 1y ago
Report: https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/uber-for-nursing... HN discussion about a similar company exposing private information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349115 The apps are ES
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by burkaman 1y ago
Automatic Refunds for Cancellations is referring to when the airline cancels. This is related to a Biden administration rule abandoned by the Trump administration: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/business&#
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by burkaman 1y ago
Not my site and I couldn't figure out who the author is. Some of it could definitely be automated but I know I would have a very hard time recording food consistently like this.
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It is a common model, but I think "standard model for those times" is unfair, as even de Gobineau's peers thought he was a moron. He is not a good representative for understanding common attitudes of his time.
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by burkaman 1y ago
Delusion is the right word, I would encourage people to read the whole Wikipedia. Despite his complete lack of academic training or ability (he failed the entrance exam to a military academy), he published several anthropological/archa
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by burkaman 1y ago
From Wikipedia: > He came to speak a "kitchen Persian" that allowed him to talk to Persians somewhat. (He was never fluent in Persian as he said he was.) Despite having some love for the Persians, Gobineau was shocked they lack
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by burkaman 1y ago
I'm not an expert, but from the article: > To be eligible for a deduction, land needs to meet at least one of four broadly defined “conservation purposes.” These include protecting “relatively natural” habitats; historic sites or bu
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Probably, and the IRS does prosecute sometimes ( https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/two-ta... ), but they've already been understaffed for years and it's obviously gotten a lot worse thi
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by burkaman 1y ago
This segment is not as niche as it used to be and is frequently abused for enormous tax benefits now. There doesn't need to be any real economic or environmental value to the land, you can just pay someone to do a fake survey/appr
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by burkaman 1y ago
It is open source and you can self host it.
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Were they "cancelling in-progress solar and wind projects and claiming the feds will never approve another green energy plant"? That's the "likely outcome" we're discussing.
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We don't have to guess what the most likely outcome might have been, someone else was in office 7 months ago so we can just look at what they were doing.
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This is a problem across the whole planet: https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-groundwate... . One thing I learned from that article is that the California Central Valley is 28 feet lower than it was 100 y
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by burkaman 1y ago
Technically a bank is a much larger shareholder ( https://www.mazda.com/en/investors/stockinfo/situation/ ), but Mazda and Toyota have been collaborating for a long time with joint manufacturing ( https:&#
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by burkaman 1y ago
Reading the polling questions, it doesn't actually seem that contradictory. > To what extent do you support or oppose the introduction of age verification checks to access platforms that may host content related to suicide, self-har
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The patent office specifically calls out perpetual motion machines on their general "how to apply" page, presumably because they've gotten so many applications: > A working model may be requested in applications for allege
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by burkaman 1y ago
I don't really care if it's called salmon or not, but why is that gross?
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They do: https://xcancel.com/vxunderground/status/1888019174133276846 , https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-o... The tweet only names Meta, but it would b
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by burkaman 1y ago
Are you talking about Chicago? An express train sounds great, they should absolutely build one, but I think you're being a little harsh on the existing train. By America's (very low) standards it is quite convenient. It is already
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It is definitely different. I do think they could put in a request like "give me all footage between these hours in this area", and then do the facial recognition themselves. It's conceptually pretty similar to cell tower dum
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Source: https://x.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990/photo/2
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I consider stuff like this to be helping Trump: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1952836498971344926 , https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1954857646420369890 , https://xcanc

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