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by lurk2 1y ago
> “The French researcher in question was in possession of confidential information on his electronic device from Los Alamos National Laboratory — in violation of a non-disclosure agreement— something he admitted to taking without permiss
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by lurk2 1y ago
Which scientists have been deported?
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by lurk2 1y ago
> In one, a kidney transplant specialist at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, was deported to Lebanon after trying to re-enter the United States with a valid visa. It was later reported that pictures on her phone had linked h
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by lurk2 1y ago
Which researchers have been deported?
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by lurk2 1y ago
> all USD transactions go through US institutions regardless of where those transacting partners are located This isn’t true.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Propaganda. Isn’t that just telling people what you want them to believe? If so then there’s plenty of it to go around. In the USA the republicans have one story and the democrats have another. DPRK has its version of the events which
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by lurk2 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_bill > Many legislatures may have a tradition of extensive deliberation and debate prior to the adoption of laws, which can postpone passage of necessary legislation. Thus, in o
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by lurk2 1y ago
> This post features contributions from a coworker. Also with contributions from Gemini 2.5 Smelled it from “What's one positive action you can commit to this week?”
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> Compensation: In addition to huge prizes—capturing a merchant vessel could make a captain wealthy for life—there was a wage system where officers were oversupplied and naval officers that weren’t at sea were kept at half pay. The unemp
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by lurk2 1y ago
I’m saying that most jurisdictions likely already do require data to be machine-readable, but when you run into PDFs, it isn’t a document dump (which courts don’t look kindly upon), but is instead a product of mixed parts convention and mot
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by lurk2 1y ago
> or plug it in and be done for a year Until the network goes down or an element of the hardware fails, or you move and need to set it up again, or… People liked the idea of smart homes, too, but they remain niche because you need the mo
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by lurk2 1y ago
A “Do Not Disturb” door hanger costs $7 on Amazon.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> The solution is to make it illegal to do this: wiretap data, for example, should be provided in a standardized machine-readable format. There's no ethical reason for simple technical friction to be affecting the outcomes of crimin
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by lurk2 1y ago
> But that doesn't stop the salient myth of liberal indoctrination in colleges. It isn’t a myth. > mainly because they don't have those pesky general ed requirements that might accidentally tell people how to fight against t
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by lurk2 1y ago
Do you work in the trades?
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Are you just using "fascist dictatorships" as a generic label for things you don't like? That has been the pattern for the last 10 years.
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> America is burning Please take it back to Reddit.
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by lurk2 1y ago
This is all very interesting. The pedagogy you mentioned tracks with how I can remember a lot of my schooling, but it’s also how I would teach. The pedagogical term is “scaffolding,” I think; you assess the student’s current understanding a
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by lurk2 1y ago
That is irrelevant. The question was weather or not the ports can be considered empty if some ships are up to 30% empty, which is not the case. Emptiness can be more encompassing than 0% (there is still some residual water in an “empty” gla
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Very interesting. Could you recommend any further reading?
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> These aren’t static systems. That is irrelevant.
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> But it’s in the ballpark It is not remotely in the ballpark. The word “empty” is not understood to mean “70% full” anywhere in the English-speaking world.
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If I drink 30% of a glass of water, is the glass of water empty?
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by lurk2 1y ago
> We can advocate for political freedom, material security, and just societies—and probably get better results—if we don’t model people as helpless or uninformed or without agency just because they’re in a socially vulnerable position. S
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by lurk2 1y ago
I tried Replika years ago after reading a Guardian article about it. The story passed it off as an AI model that had been adapted from one a woman had programmed to remember her deceased friend using text messages he had sent her. It ended
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Not what the article is about.
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by lurk2 1y ago
That’s what I suspected you meant, but it doesn’t address my two other questions. What does this have to do with sexual others? How does it track with the Protestant tradition?
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Religion was more likely a way of understanding the natural world, like death, floods, luck, etc. It’s impossible to know because we lack written records from the period, but this largely aligns with the earliest religious writings; th
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> I notice these tend to be unusually popular with people who have too short an attention span to absorb knowledge rigorously Airport literature.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> caused by a 10,000 year search for meaning that isn’t there. We had our first surplus as a species when we discovered agriculture and husbandry. Religion predates the emergence of both agriculture and animal husbandry. These belief sys

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