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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Virtually all plastic in the oceans comes from Asia. For the rest, there are ways to filter it from river outflows using bubble barriers. There's a demonstration project in Amsterdam that successfully capture floating plastic garbage w
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
That's unfortunately not the case. Yes, mRNA based meds had been going through proper testing. They kept failing due to severe safety problems that only appeared after multiple doses. https://www.statnews.com/2017/
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Surely it's naive optimism that's brain rotting. What you call cynicism here looks merely like an accurate assessment of reality.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> Sylvester, the cowboy mummy This story sounded so cool, I just looked it up. Unfortunately, the bullet hole is apparently fake and the reason he didn't decay is because an embalmer deliberately mummified him immediately after his
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
It says it covers an area of 56 square kilometers. But, it's not laid out as a square, large amounts of that area are empty. Also: "The Bhadla Solar Park has faced some challenges due to its location and scale. One of the main cha
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> All these carbon capture things are just fossil fuel companies extending their lifetime Aren't most of them startups? The point of the article is that this is the first time an oil company is doing it (and they're doing it to
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Romance books can sell to women already in a relationship, AI bots can't. I think it's probably no more complex than that.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
They tried to copy/paste by dragging, and in browsers, everything is selectable by default.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
The main service they supply is a form of pseudo-price discovery like h indexes and more vaguely quantified reputation, needed because it's not a market economy.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
That isn't going to happen. People have been submitting computer-generated BS to journals for years. Nobody ever loses their jobs because nobody in academia cares, the media almost never report on it and people continue to be fed a die
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
It's not like the authors are using them for the actual results indeed. After all, that would be dishonest! From the article: Cabanac noticed that some of the equations in the paper didn’t make sense, but the giveaway was above a tabl
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
The amusing thing is that von der Leyen has used WhatsApp during Pfizer negotiations to avoid her communications becoming FOIAable.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
What's the specific threat you're worried about? Abandonment and needing to port to some other language eventually?
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Depends what you mean by this aspect of security. If you flick through the fixes for Android CVEs, you'll notice that there are only a few remote code execution vulns and they're all in C code. The rest are bugs in the Java side b
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Hardcore Star Wars fans are very much not what "cultural elite" means. Quite the opposite. TLJ got great critic reviews and poor audience reviews because it was propaganda designed to please movie executives and their friends who
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Mostly that's actually indeed the case, because of how statistical agencies define employment. People who are so terrible at work that they can't get a job anywhere eventually give up looking and fall out of the workforce entirely
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Not sure. I noticed this problem weeks ago. Back then those two were the top results if you filtered for 1 star reviews, so it was really noticeable. I didn't do an in depth investigation though.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Don't think it's to do with ownership. Google reviews have the same problem. There are tons of 1 star reviews that praise movies with what sounds like critic or AI written text. Try searching for barbie movie for an example. Click
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Corporate CEOs do go to jail, there are numerous famous examples just from recent history. Elizabeth Holmes, the Enron guys, Sam Bankman-Fried. If your post was true then these rich people would have just lobbied to change the law in their
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
The post I was replying to talks about price.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
The UK uses FPTP and has at least three major parties in Parliament (Lab, Con, SNP) and in the past Lib Dems were big enough to enter into coalition. There are also smaller parties in the Parliament too, like the Greens and sometimes indepe
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> they are oblivious to the idea that associating those cultural practices with a race is the racist part Is the issue here that English doesn't have a word/concept like "culturism"? If there was such a word, would it
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> there are, in principle, physical limits to infinite exponential growth You're making a different argument now, probably without realizing. The original blog post starts by saying: > I said to him, “economic growth cannot conti
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
The backdoor in the EC DRBG algorithm was detected but never leaked because to actually open that back door required a key only the NSA had, but that key itself never leaked. Only the NSA could decrypt streams that used this PRNG. To everyo
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
My point is that the price of oil has nothing to do with the price of labor and frequently fluctuates in massive ways unconnected to the labor market.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
People who become politically active in China end up disappearing regardless of party membership. I mean, you realise the "party" in a communist state is nothing like a political party in democracies? The word used is the same but
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
But other than the media none of those people or agencies are capitalist. They're all parts of the state.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Now do the oil industry.
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This is a nonsensical understanding of employment! The reason there are unemployed people is a combination of transit times (if you lose your job as a programmer tomorrow you don't want to be allocated to a job as a hairdresser just be
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Seems very unclear to me. If it were true then rich tech firms and banks wouldn't constantly be treated like piñatas by governments, who very much enjoy fining and regulating them despite their protestations. This is the problem with s

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