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by burkaman 2y ago
Yes, the following countries improved their scores between 2023 and 2024 and passed the US (71.22 -> 66.59) in the ranking: Chile (60.09 -> 67.32), Ghana (65.93 -> 67.71), Poland (67.66 -> 69.17), Fiji (59.27 -> 71.23), Armen
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by burkaman 2y ago
It's a ranking, so presumably part of the US dropping is due to other countries improving. There is another major negative change noted though - more newspaper closures and huge layoffs at news organizations. It also sounds like the So
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by burkaman 2y ago
I think Stability is not doing well and ran out of money to pay for all their compute, so they should probably use some Airbnb guests right now.
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by burkaman 2y ago
I think this is generative AI and it doesn't know how confident it is. So far it hasn't gotten any of my pictures right and it's made pretty bad guesses, a human could do better on most of them.
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by burkaman 3y ago
No, they did have them tested and knew they wouldn't pass NIOSH testing. Page 17: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Razer-PACER-No1... . I encourage everyone to read the complaint, there i
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by burkaman 3y ago
See page 17: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Razer-PACER-No1... . They were not even close, they knew they weren't close, and senior executives removed disclaimers that would have warned
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by burkaman 3y ago
Yes sorry it's confusing terminology, what I meant is they get paid regardless of your number of paid subscribers. The price tiers apply to both free and paid readers, so if you pass 1000 free subscribers you move up to the next tier.
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by burkaman 3y ago
I think the complaint is that Substack is incentivized to make things worse for readers by constantly prompting them to subscribe, encouraging authors to paywall content and insert subscription ads into their articles, etc. They might be te
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by burkaman 3y ago
You're right, I didn't realize they were still actively involved with the company. Sundar has 0.01% though.
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by burkaman 3y ago
No it wouldn't, see here for example: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/011516/top-5-g... . All Google employees combined own probably less than 1% of the company. They would need to own at le
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by burkaman 3y ago
Mull probably has WebGL disabled as an anti-fingerprinting measure.
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by burkaman 3y ago
Not sure if this is a good use for it given the need this article is talking about, but discarded aluminum can apparently also be used as an energy source: https://www.found.energy/faq
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by burkaman 3y ago
That's not the same argument. Some people claim that CO2 increase does not cause temperature increase and therefore temperature increase is not anthropogenic (which is what your link is debunking), but nobody claims that the CO2 increa
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by burkaman 3y ago
Actually yes, some dictionaries (like Merriam-Webster) define fee as "a fixed charge"
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by burkaman 3y ago
Responsibility doesn't imply fault. For example we all have a collective responsibility to protect and improve our environment, even though none of us created it and none of us caused any of its problems.
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by burkaman 3y ago
Batteries are recyclable and a bunch of companies are already doing it, for example: https://li-cycle.com/press-releases/li-cycle-reports-full-ye... . As demand for battery materials grows I think recycling will become
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by burkaman 3y ago
You can't go 80 on most highways.
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by burkaman 3y ago
I mean yeah if you're on a pitch black highway and you can't see anything outside your headlight beams, you probably shouldn't be going 80 even if that's the speed limit.
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by burkaman 3y ago
That is what spectrum means, and some autistic people say the word is not applicable to the concept of autism.
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by burkaman 3y ago
Literally every single accomplishment in human history was built upon millions of small "symbolic" individual actions. Good things don't just magically happen on their own.
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by burkaman 3y ago
I can't find any source that matches what you're saying. "Tremor" seems to always be defined in terms of earthquakes, either as a synonym or a "very small earthquake", which wouldn't even apply here becaus
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by burkaman 3y ago
A dishonest steel salesperson can also lie to you about when their steel is from. If you don't have a way of measuring the radiation, then you have to rely on trusted sources that you don't believe will lie to you, and not accept
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by burkaman 3y ago
I don't personally find them exciting but robotic vacuum cleaners are pretty popular, I guess they could make an expensive one of those and be successful.
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by burkaman 3y ago
Yes, it was an incredibly extensive network before cars took over: https://urbanists.social/@straphanger/111059691532896415
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by burkaman 3y ago
I have no idea, I don't know anything about Roblox. It's possible some kids are spending so much time making content to sell on the platform that it interferes with their schooling. It's a bit beside the point though - "
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by burkaman 3y ago
Child labor is a defined term that doesn't just mean kids working for a business, it only qualifies if the work "is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children and/or interferes with their scho
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by burkaman 3y ago
You're right, but the jails in this particular case are public.
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by burkaman 3y ago
404 Media itself is a similar collective of ex-Vice people, I think pretty directly inspired by Defector.
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by burkaman 3y ago
I could be wrong but I'm guessing nearly every European would agree that their own national parks are also worth more than their crown jewels.
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by burkaman 3y ago
I don't know why it isn't more common, especially when most parks have a relatively short main road/loop that 90% of visitors never leave. Yosemite for example has a great bus system that goes everywhere you need, except that

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