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by burkaman 3y ago
This is just physically banning them from parliament buildings, which seems pointless. I don't think modern lobbyists work by literally waiting in the lobby anymore.
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by burkaman 3y ago
That might be true in Latin but that isn't how English works. Botanic and botanical are synonyms, just like cyclic/cyclical, geologic/geological, mystic/mystical. Generally the -al versions are more common, but either on
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by burkaman 3y ago
Here's one site that seems solid: https://nativeplantfinder.nwf.org/ Note though that your climate is changing, and what was historically considered native for your region may no longer be a good fit: https:/&#x2
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by burkaman 3y ago
Here's a NYT article with some good photos, gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/climate/tiny-forests-clim... Here's a photo of what it looks like when it's first planted: https:
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by burkaman 3y ago
I know how to fill that hole - increase the ~5% target payout rate to ~8%. Also, I'm not really suggesting they use any of their existing endowment to cover tuition. Just put a lot of it in the bank and interest alone fills the "h
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by burkaman 3y ago
Harvard's latest financial report ( https://finance.harvard.edu/files/fad/files/fy23_harvard_fin... ) says that 30% of the endowment is flexible and 20% is explicitly allocated to "scholarships &
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by burkaman 3y ago
That's a typo in conclusion 1, the wind is blowing east to west as it says just above. "the gale comes from the eastward"
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by burkaman 3y ago
The estimate is from 10 years ago, before the consequences of the CIA campaign were known: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26018167 . It's also an opinion piece and the estimate is not a direct quote, so I'm wond
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by burkaman 3y ago
Yeah if you clicked the unsubscribe button and they're still sending you email, then it's spam. It doesn't matter if you think the company deserves to be "punished" or not, this is just literally what the word spam
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by burkaman 3y ago
I agree with you, it is unquestionably more profitable to spy on people and then sell them ads. My point is that you can still make money without the spying part, and there is no reason for us to accept that the two always have to be bundle
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by burkaman 3y ago
No they don't. People sold ads profitably for hundreds of years without any sort of surveillance, and many people continue to do so today. If it were impossible to make money just selling ads (I wish it were) then billboards and bus st
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by burkaman 3y ago
Maybe it was trained on a bunch of 3d Google Earth videos.
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Definitely a lot worse, but still an order of magnitude better than every other attempt at generative video. Even these may be cherry-picked though, he's only posted a few and I'm sure he's gotten thousands of requests alread
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by burkaman 3y ago
I think Nitter may still work if you self-host it, but otherwise no, they have made it impossible to read without an account.
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by burkaman 3y ago
Wow that is a great quote, really makes it intuitive why sample size doesn't have to grow with population size.
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by burkaman 3y ago
It's definitely more expensive to produce in the US, but I think it's priced at $2000 because this is literally the only option for people who want/need a US-made phone. I don't think it actually costs them double to pro
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by burkaman 3y ago
> Is it possible to build a cell phone in the US? Definitely possible, this one is mostly US-built: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa/
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by burkaman 3y ago
From paragraph 64: > For a detailed description of safeguards that should be set out in law for it to meet the “quality of law” requirements and to ensure that secret surveillance measures are applied only when “necessary in a democratic
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California's electric bicycle driver's license bill is here(electrek.co)
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by burkaman 3y ago
That is his website.
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by burkaman 3y ago
I see what you're saying, that makes sense for that vehicle. I think pure EVs tend to get about twice as many miles per kWh as your car, so for an average pure EV compared to an average pure ICE I think the EV is still cheaper to fill
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by burkaman 3y ago
Thanks that's helpful, and just found an overview of current rates that matches what you're saying: https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/... I think it is still
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by burkaman 3y ago
Gas in California is $4.50+ at the moment.
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by burkaman 3y ago
> It's now more expensive to fuel a vehicle with electricity than gas This is very hard to believe, what are you paying for electricity? California gas prices are also way above the national average at the moment. Here's a per-
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by burkaman 3y ago
I think this is interesting to read and constructive for the discussion, but "a scientist who was a witness" is a fairly misleading description. This is not like an independent expert that was just called in for the trial, which i
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by burkaman 3y ago
Is that true? At least based on the verdict, it seems like the factually incorrect claim that his work was "fraudulent" was punished more harshly than the child molester comparison.
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by burkaman 3y ago
That isn't alarmist, but almost all privacy features in Brave are already in Firefox as well. Looking at this page: - Chromium customizations: Not necessary in Firefox - Client-side encryption for Brave Sync: https://support
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by burkaman 3y ago
No, looks like this has been up for almost two years: https://web.archive.org/web/20220511125450/https://en.nearby...
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by burkaman 3y ago
I think it's more Corporate English. I've never heard anyone say it outside of a work meeting.
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by burkaman 3y ago
> The December letter from Swift’s attorney states that Sweeney’s actions are “in violation of several state laws” but does not specify them. The letter does, however, cite nine anonymous Instagram comments

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