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Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study(propublica.org)
7 points by burkaman 4mo ago|0 comments
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by burkaman 4mo ago
There is a linked paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3749163
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by burkaman 4mo ago
I love this idea, but do these ships exist yet? I can only find renderings, and the company's "roadmap" page is not a roadmap ( https://vela-transport.com/feuille-de-route/ ). The only real footage I can f
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by burkaman 4mo ago
Yes, this post is an update to what was being discussed there
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by burkaman 4mo ago
Update to a recent discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560847
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Trump administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring(nytimes.com)
13 points by burkaman 4mo ago|3 comments
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by burkaman 4mo ago
It's a natural extension of "stop the count" and "if we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases".
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by burkaman 4mo ago
Nobody outside the administration knows what the US has greenlit, and a detailed peace agreement likely doesn't exist yet.
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by burkaman 4mo ago
This is not true, most people care about climate change, even in the US ( https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/yc... ). Maybe you think "if they care then why are they still driving/flying&
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by burkaman 4mo ago
There is no way to know what Jesus would or wouldn't like. Most religious people interpret their chosen text in whatever way best fits their preferences and lifestyle. In this case, they like war, so that means Jesus also likes war: h
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by burkaman 4mo ago
I've never read it but I think Atlas Shrugged might qualify. I don't think I've ever heard anyone praise the plot or talk about it as a novel, instead people who liked it say it changed their life, changed how they view thems
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by burkaman 4mo ago
I don't understand what we're supposed to be seeing here. The "new evidence" is four slides, one of which is titled "Ukraine Labs: Web of Connections to U.S. BW Defense Industry" but just has a list of logos th
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by burkaman 4mo ago
Their portfolio is beautiful https://adazshen.com/
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by burkaman 4mo ago
I listen to podcasts and videos at 2x speed or faster, I can still understand everything and it brings listening time about equal to what my reading time would be if I were reading an article or transcript. Average reading speed is generall
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by burkaman 4mo ago
True, I think they were early to the trend though, it's looked like that basically since they launched: https://web.archive.org/web/20210821023119/https://lu.ma/
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by burkaman 4mo ago
I think it depends where you are. SF is all tech stuff but https://luma.com/chicago for example is mostly non-tech.
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by burkaman 4mo ago
I see a lot of people using https://luma.com/ . I'm sure it's not as big as Meetup but it does have a decent community of users, and you can set up pretty much anything with their free plan.
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by burkaman 4mo ago
I just meant recreationally to mean "not out of necessity for survival". And I don't think conscious thought is relevant for this specific thread, I was just responding to the question of whether other animals besides humans
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by burkaman 4mo ago
I think it's pretty interesting to read what companies think of their own products, especially when the product is this big. A story about internal Microsoft opinions of Excel would also be newsworthy in my opinion.
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by burkaman 4mo ago
It is very common for animals to kill much more than they need: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_killing . Elephants, which are herbivores, sometimes enjoy killing rhinos for fun: https://www.bbcearth.co
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by burkaman 5mo ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/technology/sell-house-wit...
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I Tried to Sell My House with a Chatbot(nytimes.com)
4 points by burkaman 5mo ago|1 comments
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by burkaman 5mo ago
I wonder if they will try to do this for songs in YouTube Music. I've stopped using their auto-generated playlists/recommendations/whatever because it kept playing AI-generated songs.
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by burkaman 5mo ago
Sure, that sounds plausible. I'm not saying you need an enormous amount of money, but for this scenario you need supplies, car payments, gas, probably some kind of licensing fee, insurance, some kind of advertising, and a few months of
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by burkaman 5mo ago
How is a new graduate supposed to start a business without a loan?
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by burkaman 5mo ago
I can't find any evidence that Polymarket has a rule like this, and they have paid out for assassinations in the past: https://polymarket.com/event/khamenei-out-as-supreme-leader-...
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by burkaman 5mo ago
All of these "politican out" markets will resolve to true if the politician dies: https://polymarket.com/predictions/out . The language is usually "This market will resolve to “Yes” if <politician>
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by burkaman 5mo ago
> Eats for the way - your driver picks up a takeaway for you to eat while they drive you to your destination. This seems like the kind of terrible idea that an LLM might have come up with. I'm pretty sure most drivers do not want pe
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by burkaman 5mo ago
Ok I see the issue, at the time the BBC article was written they hadn't paused service yet. That remedy you're referring to didn't work though, so now they have completely paused service in two cities. > Waymo has now paus
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by burkaman 5mo ago
How would you phrase the headline? I think it's pretty accurate, they have pulled thousands of vehicles out of service and completely stopped service in two cities, and the reason is literally that one of their cars was swept into a cr

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