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https://archive.ph/FBFjJ Given that 75% of all grades in 2022 were A's, grade inflation has already made the indicator value of grades pretty meaningless. I think this take from a student captures it well: > Louth,
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I think that's possibly one of the main problems with grades and why they inevitably lead to the grade inflation crisis. From the article: > In May, Harvard University faculty voted to approve a 20% cap on the number of A’s per un
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Nobody wants to license programming. The skillsets are far too diverse and rapidly changing anyways. What programmers could use though is a union
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You think they have a f'n choice?? This has to be a troll comment
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I think every American should also read the ACLU's report ( Resistance, Retaliation, Repression: Two Years in California Immigration Detention ). https://www.aclunorcal.org/publications/resistance-retaliati... Som
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They do not directly talk/query each other. But Relays and AppViews allow PDS's to be aggregated to create apps like BlueSky. I don't think anyone would describe ATProto as p2p
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ATProto is definitely not P2P and probably not federated. Every user has their own personal storage and gives apps like Bluesky permission to write to them. They solve different problems and, in theory, you can use ATProto and ActivityPub (
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I don't support the death penalty at all but I have to admit I think society would be better off than what we currently have
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They were really so proud of that AI image that they just had to tack it on at the end? Did nothing but make the blog post feel like cheap mass produced slop
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every time I see someone take seriously carbon credits/offsets I lose some hope. Possibly the most successful greenwashing campaign yet. Study after study have shown their uselessness. It doesn't even feel fair to call their probl
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If we all just get a little cancer instead of some people getting a LOT of cancer then Amazon will be able to power its robot factories!
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Also an important part that keeps getting left out for some reason: they're doing so illegally . They are running unpermitted turbines. They claimed the turbines were off and journalists had to use thermal cameras mounted on drones to
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I would say "down with Palantir". That doesn't mean I want every member of that organization dead. In the same way, it's absolutely fine to say down with a state. States/corporations don't have rights. People d
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I'm saying it is foolish and historically uninformed to hold a blind faith that everyone that the US labels an "adversary" is evil. Would you like to engage with the comment I left?
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I mean it's not like we know those "adversaries" ever wanted to murder us. For example, the US has a long record of assassinating labor leaders in South America to protect our Banana Republics on behalf of Chiquita. I think i
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Coacervates, liposomes, acetogenic precursors, etc are all commonplace and could be considered proto-life. Some scientists have even argued that viruses are proto life. Prions (misfolded proteins that can self-replicate) and plasmids (non-c
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Agreed and I think ecological succession is often underappreciated. In secondary succession an ecosystem typically has a deep soil seed bank[0] to draw from. If a plot of land has been ravaged by human development and then abandoned, that m
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If you read the article you see that 1. There isn't even a penalty. Journalists literally had to fly drones with thermal imaging to prove the gas turbines were indeed on. Then some non-profits had to use their own money to file a lawsu
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I didn't downvote your comment. I assume it's the same bots that flagged this post immediately. Call me a tinfoil hatter, but I've come to the belief that the data center lobbyists likely have bot armies to alert them there&#
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> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. — Upton Sinclair
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This isn't a formal publication. This is the type of post that used to be celebrated in hacker culture. The type of post that purposefully flounders respectability politics even if it's just for aesthetic forms of rebellion. Clear
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Yes, a lot of startups are only successful because what they are doing suddenly isn't illegal anymore because it's being done with an app. Cory Doctorow has written about this in his book Enshittification
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Or even state vs local. These developers have a LOT of money and often use it to pass state level legislation that prevents cities or counties from having a say in these projects. Take Hood County where a Texas senator prevented them from c
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> The Colossus I Data Center was brought online in 122 days from breaking ground to operation. Some hail that as an achievement, but others (like myself) see it as a brutal pace to avoid having to answer pesky questions like "How wi
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> In the latest example of corporations existing outside of the law, SpaceX (who is for some reason the controlling entity of xAI now) announced they'll be removing the illegal, unpermitted gas turbines they've been running at
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Probably zoning and anti-corruption laws too. That's why I think moratoriums like what Maine did are incredibly important. We should take our time and make sure things are done right. Pro-data center people who oppose those things are
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No it was the Freeway Revolt
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It's also wrong. The industry is pushing this PR talking point really hard and not enough people are pushing back. Per acre, data centers absolutely use way more water. But even then its apples to oranges. Golf courses use non-potable&
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Conversely, the pro-data center camp seems so deeply misled about water usage. 90% of current existing data centers are indeed open loop and use evaporative cooling which use SIGNIFICANTLY more water per acre than even farmland or golf cour
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NIMBYs are the reason San Francisco doesn't have massive freeways splitting through the center of it. Sometimes NIMBYs get things right

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