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by burkaman 2y ago
Not just the US, the EU elections that just began will have a huge effect on our future efforts against climate change.
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Here's a (not at all exhaustive) list of concrete actions the last Republican administration took: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-envir... . Major things you may recall are withdra
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by burkaman 2y ago
I'd recommend reading this article, as it's about a new study that would not have been included in the past articles you read. > Without warm water flowing toward the Arctic, he added, winter sea ice could expand as far south a
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by burkaman 2y ago
What's the next sentence? The Wikipedia summary is oversimplified, it's very easy but you do have to affirmatively express an interest and fill out an application ( https://www.gov.il/en/service/declaratio
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by burkaman 2y ago
I'm not accusing him of anything, I'm just saying he's one of two known cases. I don't personally consider it a problem and I wouldn't care if he hadn't renounced it.
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by burkaman 2y ago
I could be wrong but I think it's an intentional misrepresentation of Israel's Law of Return ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return ), which allows any Jewish person to move to Israel and then become a c
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by burkaman 2y ago
It is relatively common for people born outside the US to be elected to Congress ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign-born_United_St... , https://www.senate.gov/senators/Foreign_born.htm )
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by burkaman 2y ago
It's incredibly easy, almost every landlord I've ever had did it in addition to a normal full-time job, and spent maybe a few hours a week on it. One didn't even live in the same country as the property. Of course it is risky
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by burkaman 2y ago
Using an algorithm is not what makes it criminal, facilitating large-scale collusion is what makes it criminal. Here is the FTC and DoJ's explanation of algorithmic price-fixing: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files&#x
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by burkaman 2y ago
Federal investigation of RealPage has been ongoing since at least 2022 ( https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-realpage-rent-d... ).
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by burkaman 2y ago
I don't think you're misinterpreting the testimony but I do think you're drawing too strong of a conclusion. The fact that one official couldn't remember a scientific basis during a 14 hour interview doesn't mean th
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The pilot didn't support that, but there isn't any detailed information about what the expanded version will support yet. I would guess K-1 will not be supported for a while, here's what the announcement says: > The IRS is
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by burkaman 2y ago
A summary of the paper: https://www.iisd.org/publications/brief/no-new-fossil-fuel-p... An open access version will apparently be posted here at some point: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/political-science&
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No new fossil fuel projects: The norm we need(science.org)
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Government agencies are not restricted to only regulating the words in their names, and the FDA was named 118 years ago. It was given the authority to regulate cosmetics in 1938: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_
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by burkaman 2y ago
I don't think this is true. According to the FDA's site they could regulate tattoo inks but have chosen not to. > FDA considers the inks used in intradermal tattoos, including permanent makeup, to be cosmetics. When we identify
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law
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No, I don't think you're understanding correctly. The students first pitched an idea explicitly based on users uploading "specific assignments, exercises, and even the actual tests" to their tool, and the institution app
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by burkaman 2y ago
Is it on your side? It looks like your already very low crime rate had been going down steadily for many years before these scanners were installed: https://data.marincounty.org/Public-Safety/County-Sheriff-Re... . What
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by burkaman 2y ago
I don't know what to tell you, there are direct quotes from his books in my first comment. Here's another one: > Shamanism is not confined to specific socio-economic settings or stages of development. It is fundamentally the ab
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by burkaman 2y ago
> the idea that nonhuman entities from other realms kickstarted human culture I'm not attacking him I'm just posting some quotes. In addition to his ideas about lost prehistoric societies influencing ancient Egyptians, he in tu
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by burkaman 2y ago
It's still aliens with this guy. > In his book Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, Hancock (2006) explored the cultural importance of shamanism and psychedelics and the idea that nonhuman entities from other
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by burkaman 2y ago
What I am trying to argue is that valuing a human life accurately doesn't matter if you're weighing it against your own profits. The correct comparison is against societal benefit, profit is completely morally irrelevant. I agree
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That would be illegal, and "the public" is much larger than just the customers of a particular company. This is beside the point though. The government asks "would the average person be willing to pay $x to lower their chance
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Government agencies use the statistical value of a life to weigh the benefits of a regulation against the costs to the public - the same people who would benefit from the regulation. Would a new safety requirement for cars be worth it if it
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Just looking at the map doesn't tell you what hardiness zone means or how to apply (and not apply) this knowledge. I would say it makes you feel informed by teaching you a piece of trivia ("I'm in zone 8a") without actua
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by burkaman 2y ago
Only one does at the moment, but others might have in the past. Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tectonics_of_Mars Venus: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02102-w
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by burkaman 2y ago
No he doesn't even have a Bluesky account. This is an absolutely wild quote, imagine if someone made him explain what magical technology Twitter has that grants you rights without having to depend on the Twitter Corporation. He's
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by burkaman 2y ago
Yes, I mean obviously cargo ships are not well inspected, they lose power all the time and companies just hope it doesn't happen near anything important. The oil industry is like this, you've got bottom-of-the-barrel tankers ( htt
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by burkaman 2y ago
I don't think there's any assumption, and later on he explores your point of view as well: > The matter was not nearly as strange or metaphysical as I had been supposing. Where was I? In two places, clearly: both inside the vat

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