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by danans 2y ago
In the context of sites like Göbleki Tepe and the sites of the Natufian culture, which reach back 15k years, Ancient Egypt (and their contemporaries in Mesopotamia) are very recent. It's crazy how our perspective on the age of "ci
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by danans 2y ago
In addition to minimum wages indexed for inflation, more unions and stronger labor protection laws that allow the unions to negotiate. Also on the entrepreneurship side, more public support for small to midsize companies that share capita
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by danans 2y ago
> it surprises me that nobody in the US seems to even mention the idea of punishing the employer for employing illegal workers. The anti-immigrant politicians can't punish the employers because they would be punishing their own don
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by danans 2y ago
I think you have the directionality backwards. Trump is not currently in office or in control of the government, therefore he doesn't have the ability to constrain Bezos' first amendment free speech rights. If Bezos chose to cons
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by danans 2y ago
I use a 55" TV as a primary monitor at my desk also (alas only 4k). I've found that as tempting as it may seem to use the entire 55", at normal eye-distance, it's too big an area to track and it requires 45 degree head
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by danans 2y ago
I suspect we largely agree with each other, per your other posts, that corporations will willingly go along with demagogic nationalist authoritarians, as evidenced from Nazi era German corporations through to Russian oligarchs, and possibl
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by danans 2y ago
> Sorry. Trump lies incessantly. At this point the correct approach is to assume what Trump says is a lie and see I agree that most of his statements are lies, but his claim that big corporation CEOs called him is far more plausible than
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> If you think Big Tech can't be replaced, then you haven't been paying attention. I never said that. They are not safe. Specifically they are not safe from anti-trust enforcement and the threat that the corporate tax rate wi
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> The best way to deal with a narcissist like Trump is to ignore him. Not if you want something from the narcissist. Instead you chuff the narcissist up. It's gross, but we've seen them all do it reactively after he was elect
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> This particular claim doesn't pass the sniff test. why would Tim Cook call Donald Trump? > So no, there's no reason to believe this happened. Why hasn't he (or any of the other Big tech CEOs who Trump has claimed conv
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by danans 2y ago
Whatever his reason, this isn't a first amendment issue because it's a private entity constraining its own speech, not the government.
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Maybe not "supporting", but the other A apparently isn't above currying favor with him: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-apple-ceo-cook-c...
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> I'm not sure what the ride quality has to do with that - it's 100% down to the suspension setup and choices made by the manufacturer, regardless of the drive train Suspension isn't infinitely adjustable without other tra
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> They should be more like economy cars of today with the drivetrain simply swapped. This is how most first generation EVS from legacy car makers were made, and they dramatically underperformed in range, performance, and comfort due to t
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by danans 2y ago
> Elimination? OK, we can probably broadly define that, but I just heard news reports with quotes of Israelis calling for the elimination of Hamas, and Iran the elimination of Israel. How do we handle that? marginalized? as defined by w
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by danans 2y ago
> I think there's a genuine conversation to be had about whether there even is such a thing as "hate speech." It may be fuzzy on the far edges, but any speech that calls for the elimination, marginalizes, dehumanizes or de
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by danans 2y ago
I get that /tmp as a shared world readable location is a security issue, but in a day of easy-to-provision VMs, serverless architectures, are there many true multiuser (not multi tenant) systems out there, in the sense of multiple user
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Pollution (especially the greenhouse gas type) is like the proverbial frog slowly boiling in the pot of water. Eventually we feel the effects, often in huge ways but disintermediated by time. Whereas exploiting a new technology like AI for
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by danans 2y ago
> Surely the number of cars than can do it, and the price, also matters, unless you're going to ban private cars Indeed, like this: the more cars sold that claim fully autonomous capability, and the more affordable they get, the hig
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> The interesting question is how good self-driving has to be before people tolerate it. It's pretty simple: as good as it can be given available technologies and techniques, without sacrificing safety for cost or style. With AVs, f
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> There have been other cases in the past where drivers had an accident and claimed they were using autopilot when they actually were not. If that were the case here, there wouldn't be a government probe, right? It would be a norma
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by danans 2y ago
> Pedestrian' in this context seems pretty misleading What's misleading? The full quote: "A red Tesla Model Y then hit the 4Runner and one of the people who exited from it . A 71-year-old woman from Mesa, Arizona, was pro
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by danans 2y ago
> I.e. why wasn't in simpler in evolutionary terms to come up with some mechanism where 1% of the brain was dedicated to the relatively simple task of "station keeping", Supposedly this is how dolphins sleep, shutting off
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> It’s not real funding, it’s a power purchase agreement from something that may never be built! PPAs can be used as evidence of guaranteed revenue when raising funds in capital and debt markets. That capital and debt is used to develop
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> You’re the only one here fascinated with this haplotype. Which is odd, considering you yourself call it inconsequential. Then substitute it with haplotype G or E1b, or include all of them. Or swap out both the haplotype and the cultu
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by danans 2y ago
> It seems as if you think somehow DNA didn’t exist as a means of transferring genetic information to offspring prior to it being discovered. No that's not what I said. I said that DNA, though inherited, is irrelevant for determinin
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I'm aware of family line tracing for establishing tribal identity. It's not something unique to Judaism. DNA patterns often reflect the history of rigid social organization patterns like tribes (and indeed are essential for gene
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> Are you specifically claiming that a common ancestor does not exist, or that genetic information does not spread to offspring? I'm not making either of those claims. The first is an article of faith, and the second is trivially
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> Jewish DNA is that which has descended from Abraham, through Isaac, to Jacob and the Jewish nation. Gravity is an attraction between masses. These things exist – regardless of your machines’ proclivities. Including the term "DNA&
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> And you can be certainly be Jewish without having Jewish DNA, but there’s some controversy as to whether the reverse is true. What's the controversy? Biologically there's no such thing as "Jewish DNA". It's

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