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by nostromo 2y ago
Google Search hasn't felt less relevant to me ever than it does now. And I first stopped using Yahoo and switched to them some 20+ years ago. It'll find anything except what I'm trying to find. Quotes are useless. The co
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by nostromo 2y ago
I do think the fine should be collected but the resulting cash should be destroyed by the federal reserve. The goal should be safety and that’s it. Not a quick buck for local governments and traffic camera vendors.
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by nostromo 2y ago
I think government fines should be destroyed once collected. There’s no other way around the perverse incentives. You could send it to the federal reserve balance sheet, or withdraw the funds and shred the cash. Or maybe apply it to the na
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by nostromo 2y ago
Email already feels pretty dead. This will just hasten the move to walled gardens like Slack, Twitter, WhatsApp, where it's harder to be a bot sending spam.
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by nostromo 2y ago
1% is also about how well this worked, according to the sender's blog post. 10 signups / 970 emails sent
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by nostromo 2y ago
In Washington State (Seattle) I was attending the UW and targeting Computer Science when I discovered I could transfer in some number of general ed courses (not pre-reqs) from in-state community colleges. It saved me a fair amount of money
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by nostromo 2y ago
What problem does this solve? The article only mentions that data could be used to train AI to make CSAM... which seems needlessly alarmist and inflammatory.
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by nostromo 2y ago
> as he was murdered in a foreign country, no court in the US has jurisdiction for the president to be prosecuted You're underestimating the creativity of prosecutors. :) For example, they could have charged him with conspiracy to c
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by nostromo 2y ago
No, US citizens do not lose their rights to a trial because they're not in the US.
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by nostromo 2y ago
The prosecution of Trump was likely a big reason he's running again, for similar reasons. I'm not sure the prosecutors are even smart enough to realize they're the reason we're at where we're at.
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by nostromo 2y ago
It's worth considering the case of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, that was killed by Obama outside of a combat zone. (I'm avoiding the word "assassinated" because it seems overly charged.) In theory, some prosect
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by nostromo 2y ago
Yes, everyone gets paid except for the organ donor. It's a bad system. To hold it up as some sort of exemplar isn't smart.
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by nostromo 2y ago
> but it got to a point where restricting was enough to label parents as harsh, strict luddites Where do you live? I ask because this is not the case where I live in a west coast tech city. People here almost all applaud other parents
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by nostromo 2y ago
Plastics will get more expensive as we use less and less oil. Plastics are basically a waste byproduct from the energy industry. As we use less oil, there will be less plastic trying to find a use and flooding the supply of plastics. When
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by nostromo 2y ago
It’s clothes, linens, and bedding too. People use synthetic fabric sheets, pillow cases, not to mention mattresses. Most pillows are filled with plastic. We cover our bodies in plastic, then wash our clothes and microplastics enter the wa
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by nostromo 2y ago
Higher interest rates make building new housing more expensive. Fewer new builds + higher costs = higher rents.
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by nostromo 2y ago
It depends on your definition. The bank itself wasn't bailed out, but the customers and other banks were. The FDIC was expanded from 250k to infinity and the Fed created BTFP, which allows banks to borrow against their treasuries (wh
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by nostromo 2y ago
A few region banks may fail, but they’ll be bailed out just like SVB.
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by nostromo 2y ago
What a terribly written article. Why they oppose the plant expansion isn't explained at all. At the absolute end of the article, there's a few passing mentions of clearing of forrest and groundwater, but that's it.
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by nostromo 2y ago
This is the NYT Magazine though. Longer pieces about less-important issues are common.
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by nostromo 2y ago
> [she] retired at 49 with $1.3 million in savings. That doesn't not seem like nearly enough. How does she afford health insurance? I would be terrified that after a prolonged downturn you'd be left with nothing. And Social S
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by nostromo 2y ago
TV and video games had similar issues in generations past. The solution is parents need to be involved with their children and set limitations on their use.
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by nostromo 2y ago
None of that is new. What changed is that politicians didn't like the messages being sent on TikTok. And, yes, the act calls for it to be banned unless it's divested. That's still a ban.
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by nostromo 2y ago
It's kinda crazy just how untouchable Israel is in the US politically. TikTok can spread all sorts of craziness amongst America's youth for years -- but the second politicians find out it's being used to oppose Israel's
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by nostromo 2y ago
"Dollar collapse" in this context means the dollar is extremely devalued -- something that is already happening in the long term. It doesn't mean the entire government will fail. Look for example at the Lira, Ruble or Argenti
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by nostromo 2y ago
The inflection point is 1971. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ 1971 was basically the year the government decided it could print money infinitely. Assets prices used to go up and down, now they mostly go up. The last two ti
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by nostromo 3y ago
The funny thing is that NPR's listenership is extremely white. National Review showed a while back that 90% of listeners are white. More recent numbers estimate it's around 80%. Believe it or not, Fox News' viewership is m
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by nostromo 3y ago
The originals still exist and you’re free to watch those instead. This just provides a new way to watch older movies should you choose to do so. Or not.
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by nostromo 3y ago
I'd agree with this comment if it was 2010. But today the US has good internet speeds -- in general much better than Europe despite it's bigger geographic size and less-dense population. https://worldpopulationreview.c
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by nostromo 3y ago
It's expensive because of the patent holders, not the technical complexity.

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