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by foxyv 2y ago
He's going to nationalize a foreign social media company? Can we do United Healthcare next?
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by foxyv 2y ago
It is a very rare person that sees the actual value of history. Mostly because it tells us stuff we don't want to hear.
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by foxyv 2y ago
The one thing that will universally get me in a video game is head bob mixed with weapon sway. My brain will nope the heck out of those games almost instantly. I will happily ride the worst roller coasters, boats, busses, and cars I can fin
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by foxyv 2y ago
Yeah, that's something I've been wondering about for a while. Sure you can get Fusion to create energy eventually, but the engineering to keep the reactor running long enough to break even on cash sounds even more difficult. Anyth
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by foxyv 2y ago
Same deal, two beams shooting out the top and bottom of their orbit. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/560
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by foxyv 2y ago
You are right, there is a lot more to it. It's an internet comment, not an econ textbook. However, the short answer is, the way the Fed "Prints Money" is through reserve rates, interest rates, and loans to banks. They don&#x2
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by foxyv 2y ago
Most latency isn't caused by SOL restrictions. It's usually the repeaters, firewalls, routers, and packet queues that slow things down. It only takes 103ms for light to circumnavigate the globe. However, latencies at only half tha
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by foxyv 2y ago
I think the place people get into the most trouble with hiring is when they use AI to filter applications. It's one thing to filter based on a specific criteria like education or experience, but to go by "AI didn't like the l
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by foxyv 2y ago
Typically wording will either be defined in the law, or decided by case law. Legislatures will usually include very long sections on definitions to try and reduce the amount of judicial leeway. For instance, in Texas motor vehicle code rega
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by foxyv 2y ago
What they are talking about is using AI as a proxy for racial, gender, and age discrimination. For instance, if you use AI for an adverse decision regarding employment, housing, education, or financial decisions you need to justify those de
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by foxyv 2y ago
It's a reserve system. Money is generated by banks lending more than they currently hold. The Fed lends money to the banks which is then multiplied 10-20x by the bank effectively "Printing money." This is the same way that ba
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by foxyv 2y ago
This particular strain is so virulent and deadly to chickens that it kills the entire flock before you can even cull them sometimes. Usually the first sign that farmers get is that 90% of the flock is already dead and the rest are dying. Th
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by foxyv 2y ago
I remember when Timsort replaced Merge sort as the default sort algorithm in Java and Python. Tim Peters is a legend!
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by foxyv 2y ago
I think the most telling aspect isn't just the salute as the unwillingness to condemn the ideology that the salute represents. This, taken in addition to his willingness to tolerate fascist rhetoric on social platforms paints a bleak p
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by foxyv 2y ago
It feels like being on a train about to go over a collapsed bridge. Watching as the first cars go over the cliff.
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by foxyv 2y ago
It depends on the type. Some are partially digested as carbohydrates. Others are not. You can look up their individual Glycemin Index. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0261/4761/8864/files&#x2F
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by foxyv 2y ago
This makes so much more sense than the labels in the USA.
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by foxyv 2y ago
So you can just make the serving size so small that everything is less than 0.5g
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by foxyv 2y ago
They literally published their plan and no one believed them. After COVID my expectations for our country were pretty low, but now they are even lower. My Dad who worked as a public health nurse for 20 years supported this guy who wanted to
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by foxyv 2y ago
Insulin injections as well. Also, just about every anti-depressant.
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by foxyv 2y ago
It doesn't help that food manufacturers intentionally make it hard to measure nutrition from most of their foods. They play around with serving sizes to hide carbohydrates making you have to do math just to keep up. Sometimes they will
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by foxyv 2y ago
Also, smoking levels have decreased. Edit: In addition, anti-depressant prescription has sky rocketed.
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by foxyv 2y ago
Consider the fact that, if a drug can make you skinny, perhaps a drug can also make you fat. Or, even your own body can make you fat. Sometimes, what we think are our choices, have more to do with our biology and environment. Just like you
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by foxyv 2y ago
Hopefully, one day they will turn large amounts of cheap energy into valuable chemical feed stock and fuels. When you think about it, aluminum producers are doing something similar.
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by foxyv 2y ago
Uh, you just did?
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by foxyv 2y ago
It wasn't a high bar, but they cleared it. Going to miss the faint hope of progress in that direction.
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by foxyv 2y ago
110 MPH is never a safe speed for a car on a highway. Crash rate increases exponentially with speed. At 110 MPH you are placing your life and the lives of other road users at risk for no real good reason.
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by foxyv 2y ago
You don't get to be a trillion-dollar OmniCorp by paying people to do things.
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by foxyv 2y ago
This is the sort of Kafka-esque world we can expect from automating human values and judgement out of our society.
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by foxyv 2y ago
I remember back in 2012 I was working for UPS as a package sorter. All along the aisle were leftover machines covered in dust and grease. They were all leftover from a time when some bright spark tried to automate package sorting. The idea

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