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by isthatafact 1y ago
The traffic lights themselves are often unaware of what they are for when a cyclist approaches, and insist on keeping the light red until maybe eventually a car might or might not arrive and trigger a sensor to turn it green. I am not sur
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by isthatafact 1y ago
Then why do media-bias rankings (at least the 1st source I could find) put them near the center? If anything, my perception is that PBS and NPR are a bit right leaning, except for the focus on things like diversity, which I am baffled why p
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by isthatafact 1y ago
Why would that be a bad thing? I guess I do not really understand the comment. I think science is a good thing for society, and I think giving interested volunteers the chance to participate in science is good, and maybe it also helps keep
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by isthatafact 1y ago
> What kind of new discoveries are available to backyard astronomers versus using JWST data? There are lots of projects a backyard "citizen scientist" can get involved with, some even using a backyard telescope, but also coveri
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by isthatafact 1y ago
A huge benefit of that is that it would force the publication of null results, although there would still be no incentive for others to cite null result publications, and citations are unfortunately the main metric that determines the &quot
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by isthatafact 1y ago
Even if we take the generous view that the science director is a poet who does not understand science enough to speak coherently about it (and hence the weird poetry containing misleading technical phrases), the situation is not normal. Wit
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by isthatafact 2y ago
I cannot logic that out as a metaphor. The language is perfectly clear in its absurdity. Airplanes do not "manipulate" space or time, and they do not "leave distance annihilated" (which is such a nonsensical phrase any
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by isthatafact 2y ago
While disappointingly high, that figure ignores walking and cycling. There is no need to misrepresent the data to make your point.
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by isthatafact 2y ago
Calling it "confidential information" from los alamos is probably just a trick to evoke thoughts and assumptions that he was stealing nuclear secrets. In reality, given the pattern of intimidation and lies from this government, it
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by isthatafact 2y ago
Why would a recipient of such an email, assuming it even makes it by their spam filters, assume it to be real? In particular, wording like this just seems like spammer nonsense: "must depart the U.S. immediately... there is no grace pe
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by isthatafact 2y ago
We should not pretend there might be anything normal about her treatment, which now includes 6 weeks of imprisonment so far: From the article: "The usual consequence of such a customs violation is forfeiture of the identified item, a f
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by isthatafact 2y ago
That looks completely fake -- was it verified? The supposedly official legal order to "self deport" delivered via an email message that has every appearance of a malicious spam is rather absurd.
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by isthatafact 2y ago
This one is interesting because the white house article links to a cnn article that shows how the white house article is disinformation.
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by isthatafact 2y ago
>>> Marc Andreesen didn't support Trump until AFTER the Biden administration bureaucrats met with him and told him they would ensure that they would only allow a small handful of foundation AI companies that they tightly regul
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by isthatafact 2y ago
> "let the market show us what's actually more effective" I am not sure what are the mechanisms for that. Would that simply be what maximizes short term profits? It sort of sounds like a suggestion to remove all restrictio
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by isthatafact 2y ago
I would need to see evidence of his claims in order to believe him because it is all just so wild that it has the appearance of an unhinged delusional paranoid rant. Besides that, Andreessen has been pushing the outlandish conspiracy theory
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by isthatafact 2y ago
The source study: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775 There is something very uncomfortable that Nature paywalls an article that is a summary of an arXiv paper that is itself a study of papers posted to the arXiv.
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by isthatafact 2y ago
Apple directly reported sales of "services" in the last reported quarter to be 24972M and cost of those sales to be 6485M. https://investor.apple.com/investor-relations/default.aspx I am no expert, but that
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by isthatafact 2y ago
The context is even worse than the bike ramp. The bike lane dumps directly onto a sidewalk, which is not really bikeable anyway with the impending complicated street crossings that require stopping to push a button to get a crosswalk again
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by isthatafact 2y ago
> "The idea that OpenAI had him killed is beyond ludicrous." On the other hand, given that everyone either assumes the whistle-blower was murdered, or at least that the stress of the situation contributed to the suicide, why di
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by isthatafact 2y ago
Yes, protection from suicides and "suicides" would be critical. How to do that while preserving freedom is an open question. If the organization and its leaders have a genuine incentive in keeping the person safe, do you think th
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by isthatafact 2y ago
Given the vulnerability of whistleblowers, I would suggest a (poorly thought out) mitigation: The organization being whistled at must take full responsibility for the safety of that person at least until the case is resolved. Obviously the
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by isthatafact 2y ago
I am also waiting for someone to explain it coherently. It essentially allows you to buy bitcoin at 3x the market price. (mstr market cap is about 3x the bitcoin it holds) People seem to equate that as meaning that the future stock price wi
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by isthatafact 2y ago
> "For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity." It seems like a blatant threat to me, although I c
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by isthatafact 2y ago
It does seem like a good idea. If the obvious major Nvidia customers see it as too risky (or we could speculate about other possible reasons why it has not happened yet), maybe some hedge fund who is struggling with where to put their cash
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by isthatafact 2y ago
I suspect this is just an ad. To me, the post is indistinguishable from an advertisement and contains very little information--fairly typical of reddit.
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by isthatafact 2y ago
A factor of 2 is within the noise, but I cannot really comprehend the concept of buying a product because their company stock is cheaper than their competitor. The only ones benefitting from that here are Intel investors who have held on d
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by isthatafact 2y ago
Would that happen without rain? and I am not sure there has been recent rain in Los Angeles?
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by isthatafact 2y ago
> "your perspective is incredibly dismissive of the real reasons iOS is gaining market share." I do not know the real reasons, but I have heard 2 things repeated often: 1 -- the ability to work smoothly with other apple product
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by isthatafact 2y ago
Intel still has about twice the revenue as AMD, so I am not sure how to see them as an underdog -- they have really maintained a death grip on market share in some segments even when their chips have not been at all competitive. And a big p

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