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by endominus 3y ago
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_disaster_cleanup , "In 2016, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry estimated the total cost of dealing with the Fukushima disaster at ¥21.5 trillion (US$18
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Science Cannot Count to Red. That’s Probably Fine(samzdat.com)
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by endominus 3y ago
This is just an opinion piece from someone who believes the "advent of Veilid" (a distributed, secure P2P messaging framework) will prove the UK's attempts to break encryption in messaging applications pointless. Discussion o
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by endominus 3y ago
There's a common belief that education is being underfunded in the United States, that the problem with schools is that they lack the budget to improve their learning outcomes. Statistically speaking, total spending on education had in
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by endominus 3y ago
On the other hand, it is extremely difficult for an outside observer, looking at the results of the New Approach, to judge whether it is not scaling well because of a lack of funding or because it fundamentally does not scale well. It can a
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by endominus 3y ago
This is a bit confusingly worded. From the title, I thought this was actually about Google being removed from W3C. It's just someone (granted, the guy who developed mobile Safari and CEO of RunKit) saying they should be.
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by endominus 3y ago
Firstly, the examples you gave are dissimilar; GP is pointing out a positive action (choosing a specific browser) while you're emphasizing negative ones ( not doing specific things to contribute to Firefox). Secondly, they did not say
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by endominus 3y ago
I'm sure that'll be fixed by release. You know what they say about premature optimization.
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by endominus 3y ago
Maybe that would work, but I'm also concerned about messing something up. In particular, tripping some bot detection/account duplication algorithm and getting my account banned and all its content gone. I'll suffer the small
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by endominus 3y ago
They're on the same TLD; amazon.com. I assume they were merged from some service Amazon bought and combined user accounts with, but I honestly am not sure.
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by endominus 3y ago
Speaking of Amazon's account process, I have a really annoying problem with theirs. Apparently I somehow managed to create two amazon accounts with the same email address, but different passwords. They have different order histories an
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by endominus 3y ago
Per https://www.gleech.org/psych : - Stanford Prison Experiment; Not an experiment, abuse was scripted, experimenter constantly intervened, reactions of participants were faked, and there was not even a scientific hypothesis
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by endominus 3y ago
Have you looked at Falling Frontier? Not quite the same, but some of the ideas in it (like resources being physical items that actually need to be moved around from harvesting area to production facilities, rather than abstract "metals
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by endominus 3y ago
In the same sense that learning about cognitive biases can equip people to become even more entrenched in their own beliefs. Being able to claim that others are falling prey to "confirmation bias" whenever confronted with evidence
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by endominus 3y ago
Reminds me of an old joke, retold to fit many ethnicities. Three men take advantage of a break in a diplomatic council to visit the bathroom. After they are done relieving themselves, the Japanese man fair blasts his hands with water, soapi
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by endominus 3y ago
For those who don't want to bother; monkeys were infected with polio, killed, and their spines ground up to make the first batches of the vaccine. Aside from being infected with polio and euthanized, there didn't seem to be any ef
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by endominus 3y ago
>Utilitarianism gives a consistent, albeit simple, answer. Except it doesn't. The "simple" cases of utilitarianism (i.e. happiness-maximizing or unhappiness-minimizing) are both supportive of killing people if their expect
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by endominus 3y ago
Relevant SMBC (especially to the sibling comments, holy shit): https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2095
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by endominus 3y ago
Fundamentally, a lasagna is a sandwich.
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by endominus 3y ago
It could be much weirder than that; the way movement works could be the brain very strongly predicting that a limb will be at a certain position and the rest of the body scrambling to prove that prediction true. See https://sla
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by endominus 3y ago
>(I exclude Eastern or specifically Japanese companies from the statement above because I don’t know enough about them to comment; Deming’s influence is largest in Japan. Perhaps they’re operationally rigorous, wonderful places to work?
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by endominus 4y ago
>State level policy depends on public support or opposition. Arguable - I'd say even unlikely in most real world situations. The US has recently had a wildly unpopular president who showed remarkable indifference to said public oppo
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by endominus 4y ago
In what way are you allowed to change state level policy on those issues? Should you (and by extension, everyone in your democratic society) be allowed to do so?
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by endominus 4y ago
AFAIK, it's literally the job of the Supreme Court to decide if laws are unconstitutional, and this news article suggests that they consider it so.
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by endominus 4y ago
Per a Reddit comment on a conversation with the Bing chatbot: >It's not "sad", the damn thing is hacking you . It can't remember things from session to session. It can search the internet all it wants for anything. I
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by endominus 4y ago
Do you have sources for this or do you have personal experience with people affected? I haven't heard this before and I'd like to know more. Sounds strange to me that considering that most of the popular books I know of targeting
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by endominus 4y ago
The graph includes state, federal, and payroll tax. They're stacked above the income after tax. They do not add up to $41,535.
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by endominus 4y ago
The first paragraph of that Wikipedia page: "Personal income is an individual's total earnings from wages, investment interest, and other sources. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a median weekly personal income of $1,037 f
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by endominus 4y ago
The Atlantic[0][1] has run a number of articles about the ACLU's changing values, and refusal to grapple critically with more authoritarian voices in the halls of power. There was also a New Republic article[2] discussing strife within
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by endominus 4y ago
Unpaywalled link; https://archive.is/oAuZH

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