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by burkaman 2y ago
So happy this is failing, it looked like an absolute nightmare from the videos I saw. Endless ads, waste of energy, waste of time and effort, just a disaster.
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by burkaman 2y ago
We do have a plan, but it was going to cost ~$10 billion and NASA is exploring cheaper options now. $10 billion is more than an order of magnitude less than it cost to land on the moon, but our societal priorities are (apparently) different
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by burkaman 2y ago
I don't think it occurs to the average person that when you buy a vehicle, some parts of it might still be "someone else's".
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by burkaman 2y ago
This would be a consortium of billionaires and/or private equity groups buying TikTok with MrBeast as a PR figurehead. It doesn't make sense to talk about him buying it if he doesn't have anywhere close to enough money.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Does the library work? Also, this is an incredible achievement, but I don't understand this statement: > This wasn't something that existed, it wasn't regurgitating knowledge from Stackoverflow. It was inventing/creat
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by burkaman 2y ago
Why would anyone in Greenland believe that they would ever actually get paid? And if they were paid ahead of a vote, why wouldn't they just take the money, vote no, and go on with their lives? The US government has a history of not fol
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by burkaman 2y ago
I guess one challenge is you'd have to test these weapons on people to see if it causes the reported symptoms
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by burkaman 2y ago
They tried it on 6 people and found "slight improvements" after 5 weeks, with no control group to compare to and no longer term effects known yet. - https://gpsych.bmj.com/content/37/3/e101641 Certa
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by burkaman 2y ago
This was already a good idea even before LLMs, and it has been tried a bit in the US ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom ). Maybe it just happens to fit my personal learning style, but I think it would enco
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by burkaman 2y ago
It potentially makes sense because Walmart employees are also part of the community, and Walmart doesn't pay very much. It also won't employ as many people as all the stores it displaces did. Additionally, Walmart has extremely we
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by burkaman 2y ago
Was that about health concerns, or pollution and environmental concerns? Obviously health and the environment are very related, but what I mean is that even the term "microplastic" didn't exist when you were born, and I thoug
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by burkaman 2y ago
Yes of course, and lobbyists can be very effective. They covered up climate change and the harms of smoking too. I'm sure there are things that (almost) nobody knows today because of corporate cover-ups that we'll discover in 10 y
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by burkaman 2y ago
What did you learn in high school chemistry that made you suspicious of plastic? I did pay attention and I don't think I remember us covering plastic at all. > On the other hand, anyone who has some idea about the components of any
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by burkaman 2y ago
I understand, I'm just explaining why the average person wouldn't expect to find flame retardants in kitchen tools. It is not a logical assumption like the other comment claimed.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Wood is also known for being flammable, but wooden cooking tools are very common. I think anyone who cooks a lot has an intuitive understanding that just touching something hot is not enough to make anything in a kitchen catch on fire, and
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by burkaman 2y ago
I don't agree that it didn't surprise anyone. Flame retardants are surprising, black plastic being worse than others is surprising, common household tools nearly at the legal toxin limit is surprising. Even the general idea of pla
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by burkaman 2y ago
I am open to being convinced otherwise, but I don't agree that there was any widespread skepticism of the health impacts of plastic until very recently, maybe the last 5 years. There has certainly been broad concern about plastic trash
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by burkaman 2y ago
It is absolutely not on you. In order to function as an adult you need to be able to have some level of trust in your family, your society, and your government (depending on where you live, I guess). That doesn't mean blindly believing
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by burkaman 2y ago
I don't think peer reviewers need to be redoing every calculation, but you might expect them to be familiar enough with the field that "toxins in kitchen utensils are close to the EPA limit" would be surprising enough that th
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by burkaman 2y ago
There are a bunch of screenshots on the linked page, you might have a plugin that is interfering with the content if you don't see them.
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by burkaman 2y ago
If you don't want to worry about this you can get an Asus mouse that is designed to be repairable: https://rog.asus.com/articles/gaming-keyboards-gaming-mice/g...
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by burkaman 2y ago
Here it means beneath the UK's current standards for meat: https://www.food.gov.uk/business-guidance/meat-premises-and-...
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by burkaman 2y ago
It is on the long-term roadmap https://roadmap.thestorygraph.com/features/posts/an-api
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by burkaman 2y ago
Pinboard peaked at about 30,000 users: https://x.com/Pinboard/status/1810893626274128048/photo/1
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by burkaman 2y ago
> Trump said he won't touch medicare or medicaid. Said he wants to increase military spending and not touch social security. Whenever you see a definitive-sounding Trump quote, take a moment to see if he's also said the exact o
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by burkaman 2y ago
A pundit is "a person who gives opinions in an authoritative manner usually through the mass media". He clearly fits this definition. He does plenty of other stuff too, but "pundit" is a completely valid label to use.
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by burkaman 2y ago
I'd consider this if you had some kind of "green" fund that excludes oil companies and other polluters. I don't want to invest in the oil industry, but funds like that tend to have pretty high fees and expense ratios.
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by burkaman 2y ago
No he didn't. The most he said is that he would "SAVE TIKTOK" ( https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1130812582422... ), which can mean anything you want. If you think the ban should be repe
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by burkaman 2y ago
Those are not the same people.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Yes it is, but we've already heated the planet a bit. What we're trying to do now is prevent heating the planet a lot, which will come with much greater consequences (mass migration to escape heat and rising seas, droughts, famine

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