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by burkaman 1y ago
For example, today they defunded a critical transmission line in order to block renewable power from getting to people who need it: https://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-terminates...
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Where are your numbers from? "during low price periods" doesn't really make sense here, we're talking about LCOE which is the average cost over the lifetime of a plant.
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Where is your $40/mwh figure from? The claim in the podcast is that average LCOE for new gas in the US is "around $76, $78" or "around $70".
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https://atcoder.jp/contests/awtf2025heuristic/tasks/awtf2025...
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by burkaman 1y ago
I was actually thinking about this guy when I wrote that comment: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nh-green-card-holder-de...
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by burkaman 1y ago
Not in the future, these tools and policies are already used against everyone right now. Plenty of Trump supporters have already been arrested and/or deported by ICE.
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Hard sci-fi can definitely be popular, The Martian and The Three-Body Problem are two examples I can immediately think of. I think the Arrival and Contact movies would also count (not sure if the books were considered popular before their f
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by burkaman 1y ago
It does support Reddit comments. HN feeds are provided by a third party ( https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss ) which doesn't provide comments on posts, but you could request or implement that feature if you wanted to.
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by burkaman 1y ago
> This is one nation under God. This is especially egregious because "under god" was only added to the pledge of allegiance in 1954, when H.W. was 30 years old.
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Honestly I don't know, I think it would depend on how long ago the crime was and if there's a credible reason to believe they won't do it again. I do think there's a meaningful difference between "they murdered some
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by burkaman 1y ago
Calling someone a robber means they are currently a robber. It can be inaccurate and untrue in the same way that calling someone a bartender would be inaccurate and untrue if they are a lawyer who hasn't tended a bar in 20 years. I don
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If you're willing to pay a little, I have used https://bazqux.com/ for many years and it has every feature I've ever needed built in. You can set up everything the parent comment mentioned in a few minutes.
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by burkaman 1y ago
Please, please reconsider this product and take it offline for now. The vast majority of "information" in these stories is complete garbage. You are making up numbers, facts, quotes, and entire narratives. I made a list of example
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This currently has an extremely serious hallucination (aka lying) problem, and I am begging people to not use AI-written "news" services. AI aggregation of links to real stories is maybe ok, but you cannot trust anything that clai
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Yes, there are a few reasons: - External pressure, including a high profile boycott campaign, was widespread and widely reported - Brendan Eich remained a Mozilla employee for years after his donation was first publicly discussed (in the LA
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He wasn't fired, he resigned, almost certainly because of external pressure more than internal. The board (who had just appointed him 10 days before) tried to get him to stay in a different role after he submitted his resignation. htt
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I don't know if it's uniquely American but I agree it is a very annoying term. It just means cash. Finance bros like to pretend they are "going into battle" or something when they go negotiate an acquisition, so the anal
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I think that comment is referring to Trump v. United States, where the court said that a president cannot be held accountable for using a Constitutional authority to break the law. It is very literally "a blank mandate to break the law
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It is also incomprehensible to most victims, before and even after it happens to them. Many people never report the crime because they're so embarrassed and cannot explain their own behavior. If you talk to them about it they usually w
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Ok, I think you may have misinterpreted some other comments then. The argument was that "proven" in "innocent until proven guilt" is too high a bar for a low-stakes internet discussion.
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Those are not the only options, those are the two extremes of a spectrum. Most people fall in the middle with something like "assume people are innocent unless you see convincing evidence of guilt". This is a reasonable philosophy
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Like every AI launch demo I've ever seen, the results are unbelievably high quality, but if you take a second to read the prompts they never quite match. Here basically every single example is ignoring a portion of the prompt; sometime
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by burkaman 1y ago
Sorry I misunderstood, I thought you were saying Fanpage's actions were petty.
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You are missing that facts are not universally known, and it is normal and good for news organizations to provide ongoing coverage of stories their readers might care about. Many people who read this article will have never heard of governm
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Attending a political party's events and reporting what they say and do is petty?
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What you're saying is that Democractic party leadership is so trustworthy that anyone they appear socially friendly with must not be a threat
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> There's no difference between 'not in the training set' and 'not real'. I know what you meant but this is the whole point of this conversation. There is a huge difference between "no results found" an
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by burkaman 1y ago
The headline honestly downplays it a little - not only do they go to this restaurant every day but that is their only meal of the day. More than 80% of all the meals they have eaten for 15 years (20 now) have been identical.
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by burkaman 1y ago
I don't think that sentence necessarily implies that he joined the Confederacy because he was racist, although that isn't a very far-fetched claim. It is true that he fought for the Confederacy, and it is also true that he held ra

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