dc396

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by dc396 9mo ago
> The UN is structurally designed to give China and Russia outsized influence. An interesting assertion. I presume you are implying outsized influence over the US (or do you mean every other country?). I'm honestly curious: can you
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by dc396 9mo ago
> Is the presence of a human driver keeping you from using Uber/Lyft/taxis more than you currently are? Yep. A couple of bad experiences with Uber/Lyft drivers put me off using them. Waymo is honestly more comfortable&#x2F
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by dc396 9mo ago
Yep, the "Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley." (perhaps ironically given the reputation of Berkeley).
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by dc396 9mo ago
iOS is around 10%, Android around 90%. ( https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/iran/%20 )
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by dc396 9mo ago
“Our government does not want to offend the Americans because it is afraid of reprisals,” -- from the article
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by dc396 9mo ago
You're confusing data with facts. A "fabricated fact" (or "alternative fact" if you prefer) is an oxymoron. Actual truth, as opposed to a vibe or what people are basing their decisions on these days, is orthogonal t
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by dc396 9mo ago
I suspect there is going to be a flood of money in the EU for the creation of replacements for any US-based technology any of the EU countries are dependent upon (e.g., https://www.joindns4.eu ). The real questions are whether th
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by dc396 9mo ago
> It's always doable to find or fabricate facts, and the truth wins based on the amount of energy, power and money that the person has. You appear to be using unusual definitions of "fact" and "truth", more akin
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by dc396 9mo ago
Why? North Korea doesn't have oil.
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by dc396 9mo ago
Have _any_ of the signers contended that it isn't real and/or they didn't sign it?
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by dc396 9mo ago
https://rall.com/2026/01/08/checks-and-balances-are-dead
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by dc396 9mo ago
Wait. You mean if you read it on the Internet, it might not be true?? People will have to apply critical judgment to what they view/read/hear? We're so doomed.
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by dc396 9mo ago
Because I like to support the NPS, I'd usually buy a year pass any time I went to a national park (well, OK, I would also buy one because I sometimes forgot to bring it). I won't be visiting national parks for a while.
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by dc396 9mo ago
Wrong tribe. The outrage is reserved for the D-tribe actors (e.g., imagine the reaction if this was done in the Biden or Obama administrations), not the R-tribe, at least until members of the R-tribe are personally and individually impacted
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by dc396 9mo ago
Trust the US for what exactly? Looking out for US (business) interests? Sure. Wanting access/control of oil. You betcha. The interests of the people in those countries? Pull the other one. I imagine the people of Venezuela and Iran, a
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by dc396 9mo ago
I had the same experience recently and felt similarly (more or less, I didn't really find it embarrassing, more irritating). If the restaurant I was calling had simply said "Hi, I'm an automated service" at the beginning
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by dc396 9mo ago
You miss my point. I have no idea whether or not something is there and can't be bothered to look into it as, to me, even if it's true, it's just a drop in a planetary ocean of incompetence, fraud, waste, and abuse. The reali
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by dc396 9mo ago
Call me cynical, but I figure in our post-truth world, faith depends on the tribe you belong to, not "transparent investigation". To me, this is yet another episode of one side screaming "conspiracy" and the other side
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by dc396 9mo ago
<eyeroll>. Not a big fan of warning labels like this. While I might agree that "social media" (whatever that gets defined to be) can have a very significant negative impact on mental health and/or society as a whole, tr
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by dc396 10mo ago
s/If it's on the Internet, it must be true/If an AI says it, it must be true/g At least we now know the answer to the Fermi paradox.
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by dc396 10mo ago
Reread what the previous poster said. They were talking about folks coming to the US. Around 50% of doctorate level scientists and graduate students in STEM come from outside the US.
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by dc396 10mo ago
Who said anything about merit? Given the US is a democracy (presuming voting is reasonably representative of the voter's intent, i.e., voter fraud is not significant in determining the "will of the people"), and plenty of exa
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by dc396 10mo ago
I was a fairly heavy user of Perl, but eventually migrated to Python. The primary reason was the generally abysmal quality of what was in CPAN compared to what was available as third-party packages for Python. I found myself having to spend
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by dc396 10mo ago
> aluminum is not safe [Citation needed] As I understand it, aluminum salts have been used for decades globally, administered to over 1 billion people in vaccines with no statistically significant indication that it is unsafe. For exampl
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by dc396 10mo ago
I was wondering when the enshitification of LLMs would begin.
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by dc396 10mo ago
Asking the US Dept. of State would almost certainly result in "huh?" from the folks there. The part of the USG that plays in the ICANN kiddie pool is US Dept. of Commerce (NTIA) and they no longer have a veto on what ICANN does. O
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by dc396 10mo ago
Social media != the Internet. Social media might be dying (don't really participate too much in social media myself, so I can't really comment), but it's ridiculous to assert the Internet, on top of which social media is an a
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by dc396 10mo ago
[citation required]
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by dc396 11mo ago
How's that going to help ocean acidification?
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by dc396 11mo ago
Haven't had a problem getting printed boarding passes or getting stuff done via United's website myself, but I might be unusual -- I use them a lot.

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