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by burkaman 5mo ago
> One of Waymo’s robotaxis was spotted driving through a flooded street in Atlanta, Georgia on Wednesday before it ultimately got stuck for about an hour, according to local news reports. The vehicle was recovered and removed from the sc
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by burkaman 5mo ago
I think "we" refers to "we human beings". That chart looks pretty similar to population growth by world region (with the notable exception of Africa). https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-re
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by burkaman 5mo ago
> not just ___, but ___ > Honestly? We're genuinely > isn't ___ -- it's __ Repeatedly saying the same thing with slightly different phrasing: "Flipper One isn't an upgrade to Flipper Zero", "Flipp
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by burkaman 5mo ago
Thanks, couldn't find this. This is essentially a proposal to the court about how the case could be resolved though, not a promise, and he only proposed it after the judge denied his original proposal ( https://cdn.arstechnic
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by burkaman 5mo ago
I think you are referring to a tweet on March 16th where he said "Btw, the proceeds of any legal victory in the OpenAI case will be donated to charity. I will in no way enrich myself." Not during the trial, not a donation to OpenA
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by burkaman 5mo ago
I don't think having the money causes the problem, it's the journey to get to that point. People like MacKenzie Scott or lottery winners generally don't act like this. But aside from those rare instances, in order to make it
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by burkaman 5mo ago
This is a study comparing the cost-effectiveness of renewable energy deployment and direct air capture. > Using cost-equivalent deployment scenarios across 22 U.S. grid regions from 2020 through 2050, we compare direct air capture to uti
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Direct air capture has substantial health and climate opportunity costs(nature.com)
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by burkaman 5mo ago
I am a climate activist and I don't want this, because temporarily reduced supply and spiking prices do not do any long-term damage to the oil companies, if anything they just make more money. What I would like to see is a steep drop i
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by burkaman 5mo ago
At least $10 million but likely much more. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61942
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by burkaman 6mo ago
You can't buy them in the US. You could buy one in Mexico and drive it across the border, but you wouldn't be able to register it in the US. It is probably possible to legally import one but it would be very expensive and time-con
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by burkaman 6mo ago
What do labor shortages have to do with nuclear power?
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by burkaman 6mo ago
I wouldn't assume most people do that. For me the last few looked basically the same so I selected the same color for all of them.
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by burkaman 6mo ago
It starts on July 1st of this year: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/about/news/solar-sharer-offer-help...
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by burkaman 6mo ago
He is also the real danger. He is an adult responsible for his own decisions and capable of saying no. Treating him and his supporters like easily manipulated children is not helpful.
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by burkaman 6mo ago
There aren't, and there certainly won't be if we keep blocking the industry at every turn. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point but I don't see how this is relevant. Blocking a developer that wants to buy wind turbines
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by burkaman 6mo ago
They have spent immense effort blocking huge amounts of domestic solar and wind production, even paying off developers to simply not build planned power plants.
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by burkaman 6mo ago
Axios style and LLM style are sort of indistinguishable so it's hard to tell, but yeah it does kind of look like this guy fed some links and quotes into an LLM and it made up a narrative to fit.
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by burkaman 6mo ago
This is a pretty weird article. I know the author doesn't choose the headline but "police" is obviously the wrong word, the pope is just offering advice. Then this section: > The push has fueled speculation — especially on
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by burkaman 6mo ago
His workplace is a public governmental building, so that seems like standard journalistic practice. It is also normal and appropriate to visit his house to seek a comment when he didn't respond through other channels. It would have bee
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by burkaman 6mo ago
This is not final and still has to be approved by a judge ( https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jo... )
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by burkaman 7mo ago
Does the rest of the world really pay attention to internal political details like that? I can't imagine the average non-American thinking "well I know they have a legislative election this year that may impact Trump's abilit
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by burkaman 7mo ago
The important point is that he was paid to write the argument against them. In theory it would be great to have a sort of team of rivals where intellectual opponents of regulations consult with the agency and push back on excessive or ineff
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by burkaman 7mo ago
It coined a catchy phrase but the essay just described a change that was happening, I don't think it effected any change itself.
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by burkaman 7mo ago
What part of the Claude Constitution are they claiming it violated? It looks like they just got it to help with security research, I'm not really seeing anything that looks different than normal Claude behavior.
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by burkaman 7mo ago
One of those people is the CEO though.
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by burkaman 7mo ago
Also, it's been a while but remember Trump literally said he wanted to "take out the families" of terrorists ( https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-terrori... ).
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by burkaman 7mo ago
The claim I'm responding to is "I refuse to believe anyone in the decision chain would move forward if they believed kids were going to be killed." I agree it's unusual for anyone in the US military to drop a bomb primar
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by burkaman 7mo ago
> If you do - how can you? Why would they? I can't answer why they would do it, but I don't think it's unusual for these people to knowingly strike civilian targets that they believe will have children present. In the famo
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by burkaman 7mo ago
They are very entertaining stories, that's why they're so popular. If that's what you're looking for then you'll probably like them. If you're easily annoyed by plot holes or historical/scientific inaccura

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