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by jevoten 3y ago
Having to first get an error message for every other error condition first, to find what this error is about by process of elimination, is not reasonable or informative.
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by jevoten 3y ago
Tangential, but Firefox's error message "Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site. An error occurred during a connection to nitter.net." is so user-friendly it is useless. Is the certificate invalid? Is the DNS record miss
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by jevoten 3y ago
> You do not receive a full chemical makeup, structure, and formulation of the medicine you are ingesting I was not aware of this. Predictably, this causes problems [1], just as the closed nature of the pacemaker in the article caused pr
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by jevoten 3y ago
Keep this in mind next time academia produces a study advocating for this or that social change - anyone willing to publish a study giving ammo to the wrong side of the culture war could not even get hired. This is not speculation - this ha
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by jevoten 3y ago
The comic contains an important factual (not legal or ethical) error. It claims "the people listening think you're an asshole, and they're showing you the door." This is incorrect - it's not "the people liste
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by jevoten 3y ago
Technological myopia bordering on outright blindness. Ever? Compare technology today to that from 2000 years ago. Now compare it with technology from 2000 years in the future. Now 10000 years. A 'generation ship' could be just a b
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Open source is orthogonal to quality at that level. "Quality" has many meanings. The article gives the example of Sandler, who was unable to read data from her pacemaker, because the correctly functioning, quality, high-assur
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by jevoten 3y ago
Populations that don't think it's a problem will be replaced by those who do.
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by jevoten 3y ago
> standard levels of immigration Immigration to the US is at its highest level since the 1910s, in both absolute and relative terms: https://cis.org/Graph-Immigrants-US-Number-Percent
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Any other similar outcomes to the Czech Republic? Or are they an outlier perhaps unable to be reproduced? "We shouldn't try because it won't work. We know it won't work because there are so few examples of it workin
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Even countries with robust natalist subsidy policies cannot materially lift the TFR. So we are told, but this reeks of pretend-helplessness, an excuse not to even try. The Czech Republic raised its fertility rate from 1.1 in 1999, to 1
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by jevoten 3y ago
This 2018 paper is quite clear [1] that, for example, immigration reduces native fertility. Yet immigration continues to be sold as the solution to ailing fertility. One can only conclude that society, or rather its rulers, at best do not c
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by jevoten 3y ago
> which fell under US jurisdiction due to the use of US financial services. Looking forward to falling under Iranian jurisdiction for using their oil, or Chinese jurisdiction for using their phones, and getting arrested and having all my
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by jevoten 3y ago
> The DOJ said “multiple entities” affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were involved in the scheme to “disguise the origin of the oil” and illegally sell it to China, according to court documents. Just to be clear - Ira
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by jevoten 3y ago
A relevant comment from an earlier thread on this topic: Interestingly the TV drama doesn't mention Adam Crozier, who was CEO of Royal Mail 2003-10. I wonder if this is at all related the fact that Crozier was also CEO of ITV 2010-201
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by jevoten 3y ago
> But the consumer has one choice, constrained by geography Even if their choice wasn't so constrained, the choice between shopping at the Walmart next door, or the Walmart down the road, is not very helpful. It would have been laug
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by jevoten 3y ago
> asking accused parties for comment, asking adjacent experts for comment Don't forget the most important part of all: omitting details and testimony for the public good: https://jonathanturley.org/2023/12/
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by jevoten 3y ago
You also rely on many people being able to hide things if you want a pleasant society - journalists, whistleblowers, activists, anyone doing politically sensitive work (e.g. Tor or Signal developers, labor organizers, even small businesses
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by jevoten 3y ago
> I turned in time to see that a bulky and bald White American man had knocked her and several other protesters over. [..] More than anything else, it was the look in his eyes that I will never forget. Not the hatred, not the violence —
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by jevoten 3y ago
They should phase-out fossil fuels first, then. I'm so tired of "wind and solar instead of nuclear", while fossil fuels are still burnt.
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by jevoten 3y ago
People go missing/get arrested all the time. What justifies suspicions of foul play is when those disappearances are unusually concentrated in some group, e.g. politicians, and more frequent than usual for that group.
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by jevoten 3y ago
Stalin's purges extensively utilized false accusations and show trials, so there being a plausible story for each individual disappearance/conviction doesn't make this not a purge.
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by jevoten 3y ago
> awful shitty omnibus bills Several countries have bans on omnibus bills [1], so like billboards [2], this is a solvable problem. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-subject_rule [2] https://www.the
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Is this what europeans think the US is like? No country, just an economic zone? Just enforcing your southern border is controversial and critically underfunded. I would say that is a minimum requirement to be considered a country. >
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by jevoten 3y ago
What an amazing asset, to not even have a country, just an economic zone where you get to compete with talent from all over the world. To slowly become a despised minority in what used to be your country, but the economy does so well! I am
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by jevoten 3y ago
No wonder they can't find workers, if from a nation of 334 million, all but ~16k/year [1] are considered substandard because they couldn't get into an Ivy. Edit: More relevant is comparing Ivy undergrads (64.5k) to all US und
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by jevoten 3y ago
> For instance, orthokeratology contact lenses improve vision by temporarily squishing the cornea into a different shape, reminiscent of how ancient Chinese soldiers are said to have slept with sandbags over their eyes for the same effec
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by jevoten 3y ago
Achieving supply-chain security by controlling every link in the chain. This Jon is very noble.
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by jevoten 3y ago
> an influencer’s appropriation of a 3000 year old name Most of the results for "artemis onlyfans/instagram" are Caucasian. Meaning it is overwhelmingly likely that the model in question is a descendant, at least in part,
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by jevoten 3y ago
Unless you have a source showing things have changed for the better, I don't see how the age of my examples is relevant. Especially since they may have been granted in the 90s, but expired only very recently.

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