burkaman

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by burkaman 2y ago
> If were to bury the equivalent amount of wood, we would be equal. Burying wood that would have taken decades to decay is not equal to instantly releasing the equivalent amount of carbon. I'm not sure it's physically possible
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by burkaman 2y ago
The guy that bought it is not an artist, he was just trying to distract from some good-old-fashioned corruption: https://popular.info/p/a-chinese-national-charged-with-fraud Based on the coverage of his purchase it see
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by burkaman 2y ago
I get the sarcasm but I don't really understand who you're mocking. I guess people who foolishly followed the herd and bought a gas car in the 80s instead of doing their own research and inventing an electric one.
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by burkaman 2y ago
We didn't all launch an ongoing decades-long campaign of lies about what the consequences will be though.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Several US states have already done that, Maine just did a couple days ago: https://www.maine.gov/ag/news/article.shtml?id=13129752
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by burkaman 2y ago
Good point, that's a good explanation. I think the timing with ChatGPT and how consistent it was for 5+ years before that make for very strong circumstantial evidence, but you're right that there is at least one other good possibi
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by burkaman 2y ago
Even ignoring the AI detection, their simple graph of average word count over time is incredibly suspicious. I can't think of any explanation for that other than rampant AI usage.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Definitely valid to see what people you know are thinking (that's the whole point of the site), I just don't like the idea of believing you can see "what most Israelis are thinking".
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by burkaman 2y ago
I don't necessarily think you're wrong, but drawing any conclusions from random people on Twitter seems like a mistake. They might not be human, they might not be Israeli, and they might not be representative of Israel's 9 mi
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by burkaman 2y ago
I've never heard of anyone doing this either, but it is true and it's a pretty reasonable rule in my opinion. If you're an "independent student" then you don't need to report your parents' income, and the
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by burkaman 2y ago
Here's an alternative frontend you can use that doesn't require javascript: https://blueviewer.pages.dev/view?actor=auonsson.bsky.social...
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by burkaman 2y ago
It's also unclear if she even agreed to share her notes. This article says she did, but other sources ( https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-dust-bowl/sanora-babb ) say her boss just gave her notes to Steinbeck wit
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by burkaman 2y ago
There is strong circumstantial evidence ( https://www.politico.eu/article/balticconnector-damage-likel... ) and an open Estonian investigation. None of us know whether or not there is direct evidence that has not been ma
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by burkaman 2y ago
That is a lot more than I realized, I guess US-made is not really noteworthy then.
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by burkaman 2y ago
It's news because new solar farms are one of the things this site reports on. See this story from a few weeks ago for example: https://electrek.co/2024/10/21/a-solar-farm-comes-online-on-... . They report
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by burkaman 2y ago
It seems like a lot of primary sources for this article used the French name. Even if it was incorrect, maybe that was how it was commonly referred to outside of Belgium at the time? - https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections&#x2F
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by burkaman 2y ago
If they actually follow the legal requirements listed in that article I will come back and apologize to you.
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by burkaman 2y ago
The National Science Board was established by Congress, its activities are defined and governed by the law that created it, and it is clearly a part of the executive branch. Why do you consider it to be external to the government?
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by burkaman 2y ago
> clearly just a government/institutional exercise in dictatorial/systemic power
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by burkaman 2y ago
> where you prevail with better arguments What is your argument? It sounds like you aren't very familiar with the case ("whatever the claim was"), and I don't think just declaring that something is ridiculous is a ver
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by burkaman 2y ago
Because "Alito did not report the 2008 fishing trip on his annual financial disclosures." It was extremely difficult for anyone to find out about this. Parts of Alito's response are extremely difficult to believe. > Until
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by burkaman 2y ago
If you first open one of the menus or press and hold to bring up the right click menu, and then you click on the text area, then the keyboard comes up.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Damn that is very sad, I have donated in the past. Sounds like there is a chance they could find a new funder though. > But we have adjusted to the news and we’re committed to finding a new outlet where we can continue to publish stories
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by burkaman 2y ago
This will be a paid feature apparently: https://kagifeedback.org/d/5305-kagi-translate-feedback/9
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by burkaman 2y ago
I don't know how the translation quality compares, but the advantages to this would be that it's free and it can translate web pages in-place.
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by burkaman 2y ago
This is the link they gave for feedback: https://kagifeedback.org/d/5305-kagi-translate-feedback/4
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by burkaman 2y ago
It looks like CEPR is funded mostly by donations, but some think tanks also make money by performing specific studies for funders. Sometimes a government agency or corporation wants to study the potential effects of a policy change or somet
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by burkaman 2y ago
The question: "The [Outpartyl are not just wrong for politics, they're downright evil". I suspect a lot of people polled interpreted "The Republicans" or "The Democrats" as referring to the small group of
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by burkaman 2y ago
It is very beneficial for the newspaper to have them working eastern timezone hours (frequent meetings with NYC-based staff and deadlines driven by daily publishing schedule), and be familiar with the subject matter they are working on. The
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by burkaman 2y ago
I have a cast-iron waffle maker from like the 20s that works very well and is very fun to use. Added bonus, you can bring it on a camping trip and make waffles in the woods. I did not pay $400 for it, but it looks like this: https:/&#

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