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by calgarymicro 2y ago
The Trump admin repeatedly weakened regulations around atrazine imposed by the Obama admin[0][1], only for the Biden admin to reimpose them.[2][3] I suppose we're about to see them severely weakened again. Edit: to the people talking a
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
I dunno, but the article continues to be live, and I can't imagine Substack doesn't know how to scrub posts from their platform if they wanted to. We'll find out eventually I guess, so I'll continue to urge people to be
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
The Substack is still live[0]. Anyway, one of the images in his Twitter banner[1] is an X-ray of a spine with a bunch of screws in it. The Substack is also named after Breloom and has a picture at the bottom, and that's also in the Twi
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
Was this linked from any of his existing social medias? Do we have any way of knowing it's actually him? I'd be just a tad cautious at this stage, given that the Substack page says it was 'Launched an hour ago' as of wri
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
X's mandatory self-reported figures in the EU show they lost about 6 million monthly active users in the first half of 2024. There doesn't seem to be similar data for the US and UK, but other metrics, like Similarweb, show decline
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
You think tech companies want the repair industry? You know about the right to repair movement, right?
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
> Without Citizens United politics would be even more restricted to a much smaller set of even wealthier people Really? Because there are many countries with far stricter regulations on campaign financing than the US had pre-Citizens Uni
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
Well, one of the three fabs did. The newer two fabs, including the one with the most advanced processes, started in '22 and '24 respectively; that was thanks to the Biden Admin, per TSMC.[0][1] [0] https://www.tsmc.com&#
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
I kinda doubt they're supposed to advertise support for macOS on there, even in VMWare.
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
> 95% of campaign contributions in favor of a campaign are not directly to a campaign. Yes, they tend to go to super PACs, not government election offices. > What was the outcome of the $450 million? Election offices having more fundi
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
Does it? The article I linked says > But election officials have said there is no indication of favoritism in how the money was distributed, according to previous AP reports. The board of the Center for Tech and Civic Life also includes
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
> after putting $450m into Biden's campaign in 2020 This is false; he donated to state and local election offices, not Biden's campaign.[0] [0] https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-mark-zuckerberg-ele...
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
The arrest tells us that he said no to one country, it doesn't say much about all the others.
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
Ironic that you link to an article about the Gilens/Page study, which showed that it was in large part Congress that was unresponsive to popular opinion, not federal agencies like the SEC.
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
The Parker Solar Probe is super cool. It's the fastest ever macro man made object, and will go even faster during its closest pass next year. It's also the man made object that's experienced the highest rate of time dilation
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
Sure, that's a valid concern to have, and I'm not saying the bill is a great idea. I'm just pointing out that there's nothing automatic about the process and the clock to divestment wouldn't immediately start tickin
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
> So to put it bluntly, if the CCP bought 20% of reddit, reddit can't be distributed, maintained or updated by any US company. Provided they have more than 1 million MAU (which they do, obviously). The president would also have to a
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
I'd guess it maybe takes time and money to ramp up/down natural gas capacity, so it makes financial sense to maintain capacity at a loss for now to better/more rapidly profit when solar capacity drops and prices go positive a
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
> The two parties do not significantly differ on their use of earmarks and pork barrel spending. This is not true; the Republicans strongly oppose them and have repeatedly tried to abolish them (and were temporarily successful at one poi
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
Debian and RedHat link liblzma into SSH for systemd which OpenBSD doesn't use. So in the sense of there being a larger attack surface with those distros I guess you can consider it more secure, but it's not just OpenBSD though; th
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
The EPA did try to curtail their usage but was blocked by the 5th Circuit[0]. They will hopefully either appeal or try to issue another rule using a different authority. [0] https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
That requirement only exists once the EPA has created the rule. What the 5th Circuit has just said is that if you've been using a hazardous process for a while by the time the EPA creates such a rule, even if the EPA and public did not
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
> The rule requires companies to alert the EPA if a new industrial process creates hazardous chemicals. Inhance has produced the containers for decades and argued that its process is not new, so it is not subject to the regulations. The
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
*Montenegro
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
Since Apple has to approve every browser anyway (whether on the App Store or not), why couldn't they just enable it only for WebKit browsers? But putting even that totally aside, more engines does absolutely nothing to explain why they
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
> AnyDesk spokesperson Matthew Caldwell did not respond to an email from TechCrunch. CrowdStrike, which is working with AnyDesk to remediate the cyberattack, declined to answer TechCrunch’s questions when reached Monday. > AnyDesk did
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
He's more of a Commodore guy than just an Amiga guy, but having been a long-time subscriber of his, it seems like he'll work on anything and everything. Worth sending him an email asking if he wants it at least; I've done it
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
Regarding their mobile OS, Huawei has previously made claims[0] several years ago that it would be "60% faster" than Android and that "one line of Harmony OS code can do 100 lines of Android code". Does anyone know if th
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
There are also all of the various GPD devices[0] as well if you're looking for something a bit more expensive that theoretically has more of a reputation. [0] https://www.gpd.hk/
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by calgarymicro 3y ago
Better yet: there is a company that is still currently maintaining and selling a commerical copy of OS/2![0] [0] https://www.arcanoae.com/

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