burkaman

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by burkaman 8mo ago
Does it cover AI tools or things like predictive policing? What about heavy weapons and equipment? What if some guy decides to donate a bunch of tanks and rocket launchers? Drones? Personnel? Maybe a billionaire feels unsafe and donates $10
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by burkaman 8mo ago
I think proactively passing a model ordinance is a good idea, but installing cameras is obviously not the only objectionable thing a police department can do. It isn't practical to make them get public approval for every acquisition re
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Ok maybe this is just a semantic issue, but I'm still not understanding your argument that money has nothing to do with it. In your case, instead of having the founder donate the cameras, the company itself essentially donated them, I
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Why is the money a red herring? Just like in Oak Park, the police in Vegas are required to follow a democratic process for large purchases, and they were only able to avoid that with the money. > Metro funds the project with donor money
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by burkaman 8mo ago
I wonder what the breakdown between meat/poultry and fish was. I know it isn't the dictionary definition, but I think the common definition of "vegetarian" in the US includes people who only eat fish. I don't know a
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by burkaman 8mo ago
He had access to the entire legal team for one side of the case. He also had access to internal legal discussions when the tariffs were put in place, when the president was almost certainly advised that they were illegal and would likely be
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Many have removable filters that you're supposed to clean periodically. If there's nothing obviously removable in yours then it might have a "self-cleaning" system that would be harder to take out and clean yourself.
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Mass Call: Laid-Off Tech Workers and Allies(wwwrise.org)
5 points by burkaman 8mo ago|3 comments
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by burkaman 8mo ago
They have both, see the bottom of the home page: https://pagedout.institute/
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by burkaman 8mo ago
For that I would recommend extensions like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/news-feed-era... which clear the endless feed but still let you visit the site for messaging. You can probably also us
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by burkaman 8mo ago
It looks like https://www.facebook.com/messages is effectively the same thing.
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by burkaman 8mo ago
I know it's hard to believe but I am not lying. Work is mandatory and refusal is punishable with harsher conditions and/or longer imprisonment. Here are a few examples. Alabama: Refusing to work is a "medium-level violation&q
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by burkaman 8mo ago
The "wages" are typically something like 25 cents per hour, often much less than that. The work is mandatory, and sentences can be extended if you refuse to work, so they effectively are sentenced to labor.
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by burkaman 8mo ago
You can't say "unobjectionable" and then link to three sources full of objections.
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by burkaman 8mo ago
You have to click Projects in the top left.
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by burkaman 8mo ago
> I remember reading that Americans eat 2x the protein they need on average Not anymore, because the new recommendations (1.2–1.6 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day) are up to double the old recommendations (0.80 g of g
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by burkaman 8mo ago
I don't think there's much thought put into it, the guy managing the site ( https://xcancel.com/as400495/status/2020634938320552016 ) really really likes Elon and wanted to promote his product.
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Directly linking to it doesn't seem to work, search for "Use AI to get real answers about real food" on the page. There is no integration or site-specific prompt, it's just a box that opens grok.com for you. Since there
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Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box(realfood.gov)
84 points by burkaman 8mo ago|86 comments
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by burkaman 8mo ago
I'm not sure a person wrote this website, but FYI on Firefox Nightly the text of the tweet is shown below the blocked tracker in a box labeled "Content from blocked embed". It doesn't have images or longer posts, so not
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by burkaman 8mo ago
This is incredible. > A thoughtful-man named Maxwell Mouser had just produced a work of actinic philosophy. It took him seven minutes to write it. To write works of philosophy one used the flexible outlines and the idea indexes; one set
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by burkaman 8mo ago
This kind of thing seems to be pretty core to the oil industry business model. In the US when they don't want to deal with an oil well anymore they have whatever fake shell company owns it declare bankruptcy and then they don't ha
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by burkaman 8mo ago
There has been a federal law for mandatory family and medical leave for 30+ years ( https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla ). It is unpaid and doesn't cover all workers, but that's a legislative detail that
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by burkaman 8mo ago
The easiest answer is yes, since many Americans currently earn minimum wage with no paid vacation, minimum wage with mandatory vacation would be an increase in total compensation. I don't know how paid leave regulations impact wage gro
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by burkaman 8mo ago
Every single nation on Earth has mandatory paid vacation, except for the United States and three tiny islands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b... . Edit: And looking into it a little, I&#x27
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by burkaman 9mo ago
I would not like to live like this. I don't believe that relaxed zoning laws would make a situation like this more likely.
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by burkaman 9mo ago
> Houses directly next to a corner shop I guess are worth a bit less than the same house a block away This could be true but I would want to see some data. I have paid extra for an apartment before because it it had a grocery store on th
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by burkaman 9mo ago
It is confusing, especially because the few places in the US that have walkable neighborhoods like you're describing are also extremely expensive, so clearly they are desirable. It is rational to buy a cheaper house in an area that doe
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by burkaman 9mo ago
I don't see any evidence of this happening in Firefox. Either it's more difficult or they just didn't bother, either way I'm happy. Edit: Can't find much documentation on exactly how the anti-fingerprinting works, b
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by burkaman 9mo ago
They have a games-only subscription option: https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/games/

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