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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
"The Color of Law" covers it a bit. HOAs became popular as a means to enforce racial covenants on property deeds after courts ruled that the only parties "harmed" (and therefore with standing to bring a suit) when a raci
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And when they managed to build them, white people burned them to the ground out of spite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
Right? What world are people living in? On anything other than a 30% coinsurance PPO, you aren't getting anything done without insurance pre-approval. And that's an extra month or two wait on top of the three month wait to get in
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
Heather McGhee's "The Sum of Us" talks about this in detail - she refers to it as "drained pool politics." It's a great read. https://www.powells.com/book/the-sum-of-us-9780525509561
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
I worked with ffmpeg for a few years about 6-7 years ago. If I learned anything from that time period, it's that whenever I started a sentence with "ffmpeg doesn't do ..." I was wrong. It may not do it out of the box, an
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
> There are no traffic jams In the US, most tracks prioritize freight traffic over passenger rail. And there is a tremendous amount of freight traffic. There may not often be traffic jams, but when you are diverted to side track to wait
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
To be fair, the special case of the Turing test where participants only discuss recent sporting events seems substantially simpler than the general one. I'm not totally convinced you need GPT-3 level capabilities.
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
If you are reading about the results of sporting events, you've been reading bot spam articles for several years, at least.
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
Another day older and a deeper neural net, one step closer to a dead internet.
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
TIL. I just googled the phrase in quotes - didn't actually know the song.
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
https://genius.com/The-grateful-dead-women-are-smarter-lyric...
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
Good politicians do things they know will be popular. This isn't always a bad thing. Presidential actions can influence a lot of down-ballot races. For good or ill, both Obama and Biden are politicians, and only took the steps they fel
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
One answer to your question is probably "because he spent his limited political capital trying to ensure everyone in America had access to healthcare." Another would be that he actually laid the groundwork for this kind of action.
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
I am not aware of a successful GAO audit of the defense budget in the US. Do you know of one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
Open? That's the state of the world. It has been for a couple years, now. Police don't have their own tech, they just have subscriptions to clearview. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/18&#
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
Police just buy this technology from corporations right now. Presumably in practice this bill would be interpreted as "you can't search clearview.ai's website unless you have a warrant" https://www.nytimes.com
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
Oh you sweet, summer child. That is not how gaming NFTs are going to work. They are not going to be consumer-friendly transferable assets. They are going to be vendor-locked, and they will only get invested in if they increase the bottom li
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
Over a million people, in the U.S. alone, died in under two years after being infected with this virus. Even granting the unlikely possibility that this mouse model is reflective of the immune response in humans, whatever other microorganis
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Maybe https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
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That makes a lot of sense. I think I was confused by news stories about situations where the reactor has failed in some way, and then there are stories of how radioactive water needs to be stored / disposed of somehow.
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So, in a conventional reactor, you use nuclear fission to heat/pressurize water and then use your hot, slightly radioactive steam turn a turbine. This mostly works because moving even very hot, very high pressure water around is kind o
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
I have bad news for you re: humanity. The size of the video game micro transaction market is enormous, growing, and consists almost entirely of ways to extract money from individuals for goods which don't exist or provide utility. htt
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
If you live in less-than-temperate climates, adjusting the AC/heat is very common. If you listen to the radio, switching stations is common (a not-safe-for-kids story comes on the news, a song you hate comes on, there are obnoxious com
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
Need some in Endurance for Chem Resistant
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"Why have 3 roommates in a house when you could have 300 roommates and live in a recently, cheaply converted commercial building designed to be a clone of the Googleplex?"
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second or third? Don't really remember
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https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=how%20to... It was fun, actually
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by dangerlibrary 4y ago
Aaron Huey's Ten Sleep Canyon guidebooks are a lot of fun. I have an older version - Lies and Propaganda from Ten Sleep Canyon - that was invaluable when I was climbing there but is likely now hopelessly out of date.
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What are the consequences of brewing in the fridge vs. at room temperature?
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I'm not sure what to make of your hypothetical question about the GP commenter's likelihood of responding, since the first (and only) response to this when I went to bed was from walrus01, whom I was responding to and had a brief

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