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by burkaman 1y ago
> Would the average person today think it a good use of public funds to put people on mars? Yes, support for public funding of NASA has only been increasing for the last 50 years: https://news.gallup.com/poll/260309&
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The Tech Recruitment Ruse That Has Avoided Trump's Crackdown on Immigration(propublica.org)
7 points by burkaman 1y ago|0 comments
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by burkaman 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Years_(film) It's just an ad. I'd be willing to bet that there is nothing in the safe and the film is just a file in some corporate cloud that will be deleted in 10 years w
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by burkaman 1y ago
It's very difficult to tell what the global recycling rate is, here's a good article about that: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/battery-recycling-... . It might be as high as 59%. There are a lot of
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by burkaman 1y ago
In addition to what the sibling comment says, a few minutes is fine for predictable changes like sunset, but you also need enough dispatchable power online to deal with unexpected changes. What if a transmission line goes down and cuts off
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by burkaman 1y ago
Charging doesn't show up as curtailment, that is mostly due to grid congestion, as transmission lines reach their maximum capacity and physically can't get all the solar power to loads that need it. Also, nuclear plants can't
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by burkaman 1y ago
"many, many more entries" are included. Moby Dick and War and Peace are in here.
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by burkaman 1y ago
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/firefox-labs/try-out-link-pre... This is an opt-in feature that uses a local model. After some brief testing, it doesn't seem very useful yet. It often just extracts a few sente
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by burkaman 1y ago
I think I would still call that a hybrid post. Fully AI would be if you contribute nothing except the topic and tell the AI to research and write the whole thing.
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by burkaman 1y ago
I don't think it made sense either, especially because cutting the congestion pricing revenue last-second meant she had to start talking about raising taxes on the entire state instead, but that is the consensus on what she was thinkin
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by burkaman 1y ago
She delayed it by 6 months because she thought it would hurt some candidates in House elections, and then she reduced the fee by a significant amount when it did go into effect in January, but it's still working incredibly well.
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by burkaman 1y ago
Yeah it really looks like someone added something about South Africa to the system prompt. Just scroll through its latest replies until you see one with an unprompted South Africa discussion, it won't take long: https://xcan
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by burkaman 1y ago
If anyone is curious, the original tweet here is not accurate. I'm pretty sure Scherzer is not getting any money from the Mets or Rangers this year. He will get paid by the Nationals, but that's a deferred payment from a past cont
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by burkaman 1y ago
https://xcancel.com/grok/status/1922651218595439063
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by burkaman 1y ago
I respect your opinion, to me it does sound like a lot, and it's also on top of many existing programs and a few other new things included in this announcement. > The initiative also includes a target for member states to allocate 3
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by burkaman 1y ago
- Most of the titles have incorrectly split words, for example "P ART 2—R EPEAL OF EPA R ULE R ELATING TO M ULTI -P OLLUTANT E MISSION S TANDARDS". I know LLMs are resilient against typos and mistakes like this, but it still seems
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by burkaman 1y ago
If you're looking for test cases, this is the first thing I tried and the result is very bad: https://pure.md/https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF00/2025...
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by burkaman 1y ago
Just opened a private window to try this, I did one search and clicked on four results, then a second search and got a 429 error. That is wild. I guess it's an anti-scraper measure?
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by burkaman 1y ago
They're working on it: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/europe-launches-prog... Here's an article from a European perspective: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world&
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Scientists Looking to Leave the U.S. for More Welcoming Environments(spiegel.de)
56 points by burkaman 1y ago|19 comments
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by burkaman 1y ago
William and Mary actually have a very in depth page on their opposition to federal suppression of free speech and what they are doing about it: https://www.wm.edu/sites/federalguidelines/
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The Half Life of Empire(economicsfromthetopdown.com)
2 points by burkaman 1y ago|1 comments
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by burkaman 1y ago
I don't think promises like this should be considered news. Take a look at the list of people who have signed Gates' own Giving Pledge and ask yourself if making the pledge changed their behavior at all: https://en.wiki
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by burkaman 1y ago
Note that the top result has actually been deleted though: https://www.nih.gov/nih-style-guide/inclusive-gender-neutral...
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by burkaman 1y ago
'pregnant people', 'transgender', 'nonbinary', and 'racism' are others I found
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by burkaman 1y ago
Yes you can also just put "gender" in quotes and it works. Or you can spell it wrong - transgender is blocked, but you can do transgendr and it will correct your spelling and return results. Of course, some of the pages it returns
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by burkaman 1y ago
Yes, this same guy is helping "to cut more than 40% from NIH’s 2026 budget and pare its 27 institutes and centers down to just eight." - https://www.science.org/content/article/new-nih-director-def... He
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by burkaman 1y ago
If you were really hardcore you'd erase your entire OS whenever you're done for the day: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/
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by burkaman 2y ago
The Ministry for the Future fits what you're looking for.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Did they become less popular? I think they are just less visible by nature, they've always been pretty common. I guess some people switched to Facebook Groups for a time, but even that is sort of a form of group chat.

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