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by burkaman 3y ago
I haven't been to Yellowstone so maybe this doesn't make sense, but is there a reason they couldn't implement the same system as Zion? During most of the year the main road in Zion is closed to private cars, and everyone uses
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by burkaman 3y ago
To your employer maybe, but not to you. You get paid either way.
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by burkaman 3y ago
Experiments like this are how you confirm whether or not your predictions are accurate.
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by burkaman 3y ago
There is also an upcoming UN plastic treaty that could potentially exert some influence here.
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by burkaman 3y ago
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183
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by burkaman 3y ago
Not 100% sure this will work, but there is a Mailchimp signup, and Mailchimp newsletters have RSS feeds. Based on the newsletter URL the RSS feed should be https://us21.campaign-archive.com/feed?u=96d33fd949860389358... . Th
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by burkaman 3y ago
It's not just you, and it's not just Safari. I use Firefox for everything, but have to keep Chrome installed for the Google products I'm forced to use for work. I don't know if I can accuse them of intentional sabotage,
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Chemistry-albedo feedbacks offset up to a third of forestation's climate benefit(science.org)
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by burkaman 3y ago
That is a difficult problem in general, but in this specific case it's easy because Elon's charity has not been operating legally, as the article says. We could start by just enforcing the existing laws.
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by burkaman 3y ago
The IRA already got this started, it's certainly achievable: https://apnews.com/article/electric-vehicle-charging-station...
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by burkaman 3y ago
For the US you can see a state-by-state breakdown here: https://energyinnovation.org/2023/07/27/ev-fill-up-savings/ .
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by burkaman 3y ago
Yes sorry I should have linked to this: https://www.nist.gov/artificial-intelligence/artificial-inte... > develop science-based and empirically backed guidelines and standards for AI measurement and policy, laying t
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by burkaman 3y ago
They abandoned the non-profit model 5 years ago.
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by burkaman 3y ago
Ok I see, I interpreted the phrase "association with" to be more about the people he's associating with than the beliefs, but the article is incredibly vague so there's no way for us to know what these criticisms actuall
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by burkaman 3y ago
OpenAI doesn't give stock, they give "Profit Participation Units" that are directly tied to how much profit the company makes. If they aren't making a profit and you can't find a buyer who thinks they will in the fu
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by burkaman 3y ago
Where did that list come from? I don't see anything like that in the article.
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by burkaman 3y ago
That would be great, but I don't think federal appointees are ever forced or even asked to divest anything. At most he'd just have to disclose the conflict of interest.
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by burkaman 3y ago
It seems concerning that he would be in charge of determining AI policy when he was a high-level OpenAI employee for 4 years and presumably has a huge financial interest in their success ( https://www.levels.fyi/blog/ope
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by burkaman 3y ago
No religion is a good idea, but no politics is impossible unless you don't understand the definition of politics.
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by burkaman 3y ago
Several issues with your analogy: 1. The accountant will tell you that pricing up front, so you can make a decision before you send an email. No doctor in America will answer any question about pricing ahead of time. 2. The vast majority of
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by burkaman 3y ago
I don't think it's the best assistant by ability, but if you're like me and you bought a lifetime Tabnine subscription for $29 when it debuted on HN in 2018 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18393364 ), ma
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by burkaman 3y ago
Yes, D&D is very popular and most people who play it enjoy it (or they would stop). I would be willing to bet that most players would not be able to name the publisher if asked and have probably never heard of Wizards of the Coast.
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by burkaman 3y ago
> No net increase in CO2. Accelerating the "natural" cycle is bad even if there is no net increase. A massive forest fire technically doesn't cause any net increase in CO2, but releasing that much CO2 at once causes a lot
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by burkaman 3y ago
It might if companies sell carbon credits based on methane reduction, but that's an argument against the credits not against the actual mitigation action.
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by burkaman 3y ago
I'm familiar with this stereotype, but again, do you know of any such research in this case? I'm not an economist but I can't immediately find any, even if I add stuff like "conservative think tank" to my search ter
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by burkaman 3y ago
That's reasonable, and this post is making that specific argument "that wages have not caused or continued the inflationary surge observed in 2021 to 2023." So I think you and the author agree here. I'm guessing the auth
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by burkaman 3y ago
Do you know of research that disagrees with this post? The Economist article doesn't mention any, in fact there is only a single sentence supporting its headline: "Although American pay growth has subsided from more than 5.5% year
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by burkaman 3y ago
Generally the people in charge are old and don't need a long term strategy.
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by burkaman 3y ago
All the options are awful. Obama got in trouble for saying "if you like your plan you can keep it" when promoting the Affordable Care Act, because it wasn't true, but in some sense it was true because I truly cannot imagine a
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by burkaman 3y ago
It is absolutely false advertising and probably illegal, and it's not just you: https://jacobin.com/2024/01/health-insurance-giants-companie... . There has been some congressional interest ( https://

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