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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
That’s not what your link says; impairment at 0.02 BAC is measurable , but a fraction of standard day-to-day variation for a person. It’s roughly equivalent to missing coffee at breakfast.
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
Penguins live in large colonies and, as a result, generally do not have issues with inbreeding.
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
It feels very strange to read someone describe these events as ‘LARPing as martyrs’ when there have been multiple tragic deaths.
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
Bill Ackman, among other people.
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
That ‘golf course’ was unused land protected by a conservation easement. There were other options for housing development.
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
It would be higher if the rents dropped, but despite the massive oversupply that doesn’t seem to be happening. ‘Just build more’ YIMBY types should take note of this, though I’m afraid I don’t know what the solution is.
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
SF has a relatively high ratio of housing units to population compared to other cities in the US and a 9.7% vacancy rate. By the numbers, it has an oversupply of housing.
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
We had nationwide riots for months back in 2020 over a police officer murdering a suspect, and that resulted in approximately zero actual political change. During the recent shutdown over the budget, we had one of the largest protests in th
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
> Time Burke and the Kanye thing, Project Veritas in 2022 and 2023 and the ABC news guy the year before are recent ones that come to mind Those were for computer fraud, possession of stolen property, and possession of child pornography,
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
Yes, and also Project Veritas hadn’t published it. The two events are completely different things.
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by lux-lux-lux 10mo ago
“Accept this money and go or be fired” isn’t remotely comparable to the situation and claiming it is reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of the offer?
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by lux-lux-lux 10mo ago
Restrictions on adult websites are invariably extremely political. PornHub gets tailored bans while the Reddits and Twitters gleefully serve up gargantuan amounts of pornography; payment processors threaten to wreck Itch and Steam for inc
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by lux-lux-lux 10mo ago
Automated vending machines have been a thing since their inception, definitionally.
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by lux-lux-lux 10mo ago
Accepting severance isn’t “liquidating the company,” it’s individuals minimizing risk when leadership is downsizing. Explicitly, in the case of Twitter.
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by lux-lux-lux 10mo ago
This was absolutely not true, and I don’t know where you’re getting this. A newly minted CS PhD with a top end clearance would have gotten a GS-13 at most, anything less would have been much lower. Where I worked, STEM bachelors were gene
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by lux-lux-lux 11mo ago
Long-term rental listings jumped nearly 30% after the ban, that’s far from ‘no effect.’ For a comparison, that’s about double what Austin was getting YoY for most of its massive building boom.
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by lux-lux-lux 11mo ago
> Who gets the blame for this? The computer, which cannot be held accountable. See how that works?
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by lux-lux-lux 1y ago
The feature was only available this month
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by lux-lux-lux 1y ago
‘Effectively canceling?’ Is Bill Burr silenced somehow? Ironically, he is being silenced - the contracts he signed in order to perform prohibit badmouthing the Saudi regime and its policies
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by lux-lux-lux 1y ago
In terms of negative outcomes - suicidality, etc. - problem gambling is roughly equivalent to an opioid abuse or meth.
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by lux-lux-lux 1y ago
Petty theft nets up to a year in jail, which is far more extreme than - relatively speaking - than handing out lifetime sentences for the damage being discussed here.
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by lux-lux-lux 1y ago
> In my local market we literally got a scan for 2k where the hospital we'd usually go to wanted 10k. That’s still 4-6x what it would cost at a private clinic in Canada.
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by lux-lux-lux 1y ago
> Cremieux Aka Jordan Lasker, whose reputation in this space is bad enough that even obvious calls like this one should be checked thoroughly.
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by lux-lux-lux 1y ago
What on earth are you talking about?
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by lux-lux-lux 2y ago
The aggregate harm of these measures vastly exceeds, say, a violent assault. Amazon has double the rate of serious injuries compared to rival companies.