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by mapt 2y ago
> he was held up as a champion by the left. I don't think this word means what you think it means. More importantly, nor do Democratic politicians or self-identified leftists in general. Lumping them all together and equating the
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by mapt 2y ago
We have a word for when Bob comes up to Alice with a gun and threatens to shoot her if she doesn't hand over her purse. It isn't 'bluffing'. We don't even have a word for what is happening with Gaza, and any illustr
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by mapt 2y ago
Is it? Really? Or is it just "illegal" for an overseas competitor to a domestic industry, in trade disputes? What is the fine? How many days in jail does the company spend? What portion is its stock diluted by? We remember the
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by mapt 2y ago
Currently YouTube is blocked at work without a Google login, and Chrome keeps demanding and successfully convincing individuals operating shared PCs to stay logged in on a browser session indefinitely.
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by mapt 2y ago
Another alternative would be adopting South Korea and Japan into closer orbits the way we unconditionally support Israel. South Korea and Japan have strong commercial shipbuilding industries, which are just in the past few years going idle
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by mapt 2y ago
Chiang is a silly blob of meat, of course he's not capable of actual reasoning, much less "intelligence". We grant him personhood, but personhood, like the LA Review of Books, is just a social construct.
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by mapt 2y ago
One of the inputs to this that has shifted recently is that scientists are finding it difficult to locate a core sample of solid rock, anywhere, that is completely sterile. It seems like ecology percolates through almost anything in the cr
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by mapt 2y ago
HIPAA is pretty much the only halfway effective privacy regulation the US has. It imposes strong regulatory, licensure, and even criminal censure for violations. It's formulated so that they can give those contacts away rather than se
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by mapt 2y ago
What free market advocates fail to accept is that an unregulated monopoly position, whether it was arrived at "fairly" or "unfairly", includes Big Brother, bureaucracy and whatever other malpractice is profitable, every
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by mapt 2y ago
The speculation on pilot Youtube is that the helicopter in this incident observed a light in the sky, one of several in the closely spaced train of landing jets on approach to National Airport. The helicopter pilot asked multiple times for
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by mapt 2y ago
There are something like (in the reference diagram I'm looking at) eight levels of organization in the structure 'chromosome': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatin#/media/File:Chromati... On
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Tower systems are the last place in the world you would want a 97% accurate large language model, and the very last place we would culturally tolerate this sort of thing. Innate conservatism is what happens when deviations from perfection l
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by mapt 2y ago
"A reality check"? FAA-employed ATCs are like any other non-appointed federal employees - politics should have no impact on their employment and this arrangement is protected by federal civil service laws. Which Trump is roundly i
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by mapt 2y ago
Radial velocity surveys require so damn much light, and such a complex precision spectrometer that they're only used on the very largest 8m-10m class telescopes on the ground, shooting in near infrared through the most advanced adaptiv
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by mapt 2y ago
The search turned up what police say is the murder weapon in the suspect’s home. ... Police believed the shooter looked like Tolbert because he had the same “build, hair style, clothing and walking characteristics,” So what I'm getti
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by mapt 2y ago
Most people that voted for him either weren't paying attention to the clips you and I saw of what he said he wanted to do, or didn't believe him. People in the right-wing media ecosystem are not presented with anything that might
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by mapt 2y ago
This is hype. Anybody that presents terms like "green hydrogen", "blue hydrogen", emphasizing the renewable nature of hydrogen, is BSing you. The case will never close on these merits. The case can't even close on
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by mapt 2y ago
That is a matter of hope. If line keeps going up, line does catastrophic or potentially apocalyptic harm, given our current circumstances.
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by mapt 2y ago
Splitting water molecules is too energy intensive generally, but that is not the problem this solves. The problem this solves is that splitting water molecules is a process as old as chemistry, for which there are no private excludable rig
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by mapt 2y ago
These people will have to buy a second account because Microsoft up and deleted them when they bought Minecraft, and haven't been sued yet. If you were paying attention at the time they offered a migration process for Mojang accounts t
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by mapt 2y ago
If you look at the thermal design of a house, this strategy doesn't make a lot of sense. There's no thermal barriers between rooms, and plenty of airflow if the HVAC circulation is functioning.
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by mapt 2y ago
Thanks for the summary. I suspect you could get this to FAR higher accuracy if you combined it with a recent upload of Starlink et al LEO constellation ephemera, an initial GPS fix at launch, and a planned flight path, because LEO constella
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by mapt 2y ago
"Reasonably" is doing a lot of work there. It sounds an awful like you're defining the boundaries of reasonability at "Exactly what is built right now and using the exact borders of current municipalities", which i
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by mapt 2y ago
I wanted to read this, but not enough to make an account. Whoever is publishing this blog should consider whether a $0 paywall is worthwhile.
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by mapt 2y ago
The 'Laffer Curve' concept is treated at first glance as some kind of complex model created by experts that Explains A Lot, at second glance as something a bunch of drunk political operatives scrawled on a cocktail napkin in 1974
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by mapt 2y ago
That's orthogonal. The point is that your question should not be "have I made a profit on these houses relative to an index fund" like a speculator. Your question should be "would I have made a profit on these houses rel
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by mapt 2y ago
OP is a YIMBY for the record. Returning by right development to the UK is very possibly the single largest policy measure that might enable a way forward, not because it's so intimately tied to the financialization of the economy, but
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by mapt 2y ago
The NHS is not dying an entirely natural death. Murder most foul. Your question is coupling a matter of our policy preference, our tactical planning to arrive at that preference, and a hypothetical predictive model. If like some supervilla
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by mapt 2y ago
A lot of these complaints are not about an industry, but about late stage capitalism. About a failing society that privileges profits over social progress and material productivity because oligarchs and aristocracy own the institutions and
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Yes. And so complex to explain that it still isn't obvious what federation does or is after an afternoon of research by a tech enthusiast. Where does the data live? How does it spread? Who has control over it? You could tell me tha

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