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by gs17 2mo ago
It only works while it's rare. If it was more common, scrapers would switch to OCR or simply reverse the font so they can decode the ligatures. Their own whitepaper brings up a bigger issue: if it works, it poisons search engines as we
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by gs17 2mo ago
I could see "semi-mirror" life evolving step-by-step. There's a few microbes that can eat L-Glucose already (although the enzymes involved seem to be meant for other compounds and just happen to work for it), they just aren&#
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by gs17 2mo ago
Honestly, it sounds like a decent TNG episode, the transporter malfunctions, but the "victim" seems fine, except he's left handed now. Soon, the whole ship starts falling ill.
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by gs17 2mo ago
L-Glucose already exists, but the problem is that the amount in, e.g. one soda would make your intestines decide to entirely empty themselves. It's been trialed as a colon-cleansing agent for colonoscopy in much smaller doses than say
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by gs17 2mo ago
The article mentions "an example of 彁 mistakenly used in a digitized Taisho newspaper due to a faded printing of 彊", but to me that implies the symbol already existed before then.
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by gs17 2mo ago
With electronic warrant systems and on-call judges, it can be 15 minutes or less, but that's typically for the simplest cases (e.g. DUI blood draw). However, given how non-seriously they take things currently I have little reason to be
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by gs17 2mo ago
> What is cyclospora, anyway? It is not a bacterium or thing that I am familiar with. It is parasitic; it is a eukaryote; beyond those two definitions, it might as well be an alien from Venus because I'm not familiar. It's a pr
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by gs17 2mo ago
> warrant-free flags for ongoing issues Why couldn't they get a warrant if it's an ongoing issue? It should be really easy, and warrants like that wouldn't take a long time to get usually.
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by gs17 2mo ago
> bikes and motorized treating busy sidewalks as special highways, which they use at speed I'm always amazed more people aren't hurt in these situations. I can usually jump out of the way into the street, but what are people wh
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by gs17 2mo ago
It's about technology, but also Flock Safety, a Y Combinator startup from the S17 batch.
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by gs17 2mo ago
That is unfortunately already sort of a thing. A ShotSpotter-recorded conversation was already used as evidence at least twice.
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by gs17 2mo ago
Actually, that brings up a good reason they can't fix it. Fable falls back to Opus when the topic is too "unsafe". That behavior requires traces than can move between models!
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by gs17 2mo ago
I was thinking a clicker game where your mouse gets harder to move as you click.
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by gs17 2mo ago
In the US it's entirely possible to do that as well. I've never been forced to see a doctor outside of getting a form signed before grad school.
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by gs17 2mo ago
Greenhouse gases cause warming powered by that sun-delivered energy!
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by gs17 2mo ago
Yes, but there's no reason to stop trying to slow the acceleration. Things can be less bad, even if it's not perfect.
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by gs17 2mo ago
> and we dedicate 5,000% more acres to growing feed crops than to vegetables And it's worth considering what would replace all that land (maybe some would end up being biofuel production, but a lot might be allowed to return to natu
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by gs17 2mo ago
> - 45% of the co2 from farming is plants. This would increase. And what percent of that is farming plants to feed animals?
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by gs17 2mo ago
Oblivion's problem is even worse than that. You can level up entirely from improving non-combat skills, so the enemies are harder and you're only better at jumping.
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by gs17 2mo ago
I think part of the issue is that Alyx doesn't really have any other options to fight besides guns that need ammo or however many grenades you're choosing to carry. They didn't have melee as a design decision, but it means th
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by gs17 2mo ago
The issue IMO is that there's a subset of gamers who really do not want games to try to balance things automatically, e.g. people who really hate skill-based matchmaking. Most people will enjoy the system, but this subset sees a balanc
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by gs17 2mo ago
It doesn't fix the spoiler effect (it makes its own version of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_squeeze ), and it removes monotonicity. The second one is a big deal for me, at least in FPTP a vote for a
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by gs17 2mo ago
X now has this really obnoxious animated finger tapping the button on mobile, and it makes me leave even faster.
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by gs17 2mo ago
This isn't so much "conflict is near" as much as reaction to a defense-related policy. The entire US defense supply chain will be banned from >80% of tungsten supply at the end of the year, while also being demanded to up
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by gs17 2mo ago
I'm not sure it's fair to say it's "sure, whatever" on a national scale. The electoral college means you're most likely saying "sure, whatever" to the majority in your state. My vote in TN was the sam
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by gs17 2mo ago
I mean, Reagan won 489 electoral votes and then followed it up with another 525, they could try doing some of that.
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by gs17 2mo ago
Sadly, the biggest group pushing for an alternative is FairVote, who exclusively push RCV/IRV, which doesn't fix most of the issues of FPTP and introduces new ones. I'm bombarded by their ads, where they outright lie about it
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by gs17 2mo ago
That seems to be by choice, not because it's inherently difficult at scale. It's not like we see them take things down when you report them, you'll get multiple reviews of "this obvious scam doesn't violate our rule
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by gs17 2mo ago
Yes, Nashville has a huge number of council members, and it's much better that way. I moved from there to Seattle, and there's 9 council members (7 districts + 2 city-wide) here so we share a representative with a huge area (six t
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by gs17 2mo ago
Interesting, I've kind of made a hobby of reporting scams and hate speech and watching it take a week to come back with "it's no violation", requesting another and getting the same response in another week. I've nev

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