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by rippercushions 3y ago
This statement contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
> If you think there’s a market and money to be made - start your own I'm genuinely unsure if this is a parody of the American Way here. "There's no problem here, but if there was, the free market will solve it!"
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Are there any taxi-like systems anywhere in the world that pay drivers for idle waiting time?
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Deepfake as a Service: Tencent Cloud AI Digital Human(cloud.tencent.com)
1 points by rippercushions 3y ago|0 comments
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by rippercushions 3y ago
This is pretty much what Australia does: credit card surcharges have to be clearly disclosed and must be commensurate with the actual fees. Nevertheless, partly thanks to COVID, cash usage is way down and many people seem happy to pay the s
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Friendship Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by rippercushions 3y ago|0 comments
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Yes, in the early days of the pandemic there was a lot of official resistance to acknowledging this, mostly because doing so would have meant accepting that COVID was effectively unstoppable.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
> Remember when Google said they would hold on to everything that their users did on their site forever? Err, no, as a matter of fact I don't. Would you have a cite for this?
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Pendleton seems to be a reasonable control, since the reported prevalence of 0.21% in patients under 60 matches other large data sets like the UK (0.25%). https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/sites/default/files/2018
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Geekier but immensely more detailed: the World Atlas of Language Structures. https://wals.info/ Has both maps like https://wals.info/feature/13A#2/19.3/152.9 and detailed language feature inv
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Obligatory $5 wrench xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/ Still, physically threatening/kidnapping somebody is an entirely different threat model, although it's very common in the Bitcoin world: https://g
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by rippercushions 3y ago
It's recognizable and easy enough to fake, at least to the degree that another American would recognize it as British English. Most people would not recognize a (say) New Zealand or South African accent, much less be able to replicate
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Indonesia has around 10,000 inhabited islands, although around half the population is on Java and most of the rest on the next big five (Borneo/Kalimantan, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Bali, Papua).
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by rippercushions 3y ago
This is particularly sad since Indonesia is volcanically very active and has tons of potential for geothermal power. Many of its islands are also quite dry, which couples with the equatorial location makes them great for year-round solar.
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Burning Down the House(defector.com)
3 points by rippercushions 3y ago|0 comments
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by rippercushions 3y ago
They're considering going the other way to left-hand traffic (right hand drive), because all their neighbors except DR Congo do so as well.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Oddly, Samoa went the other way only in 2009, switching to LHT to make it easier to import cars from Australia/NZ and Japan.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Sure, but it's one more radically different platform consuming Tesla's engineering and production resources as a whole.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Sad but not entirely surprising: in recent years S and X sales have been a rounding error compared to 3 and Y, and they've got the Cybertruck and the rumored mass market 2 in the pipeline as well.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Moderation in all things, including moderation.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Popehat nailed it: breathless headlines proclaimed "up to" 67 years in federal prison, he ended up with 2 years of probation. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sushi-chef-whal...
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SpaceX’s Falcon rocket family reaches 200 straight successful missions(spaceflightnow.com)
4 points by rippercushions 3y ago|3 comments
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by rippercushions 3y ago
First I'd heard of this, but there is some preliminary evidence that saffron has positive effects on depressive symptoms: https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article/77/8/557/5... But if
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by rippercushions 3y ago
The Swedish plan is very much being realized, they've been testing since 2012 and they're building out the first permanent segment by 2027. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Transport_Administrati... The
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Low yield bonds are pretty much by definition the safest instrument around, that's why they're low yield. (High-yield aka junk bonds are the risky ones.) In SVB's case, the risk was not in the bonds themselves, but in the fa
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Inductive highway charging is entirely feasible and there have been various experiments around the world for years now. The main issue is how to fund outfitting cars to make use of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ele
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Brightline is operational and wildly successful between Miami and Palm Beach, expanding soon to Orlando, and it's literally the only higher-speed passenger railway actually built in the US since the Acela. So, yes, it is very much a
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Not sure why this being downvoted: I can still remember people freaking about about the superior buying power and stability of the Japanese yen in the 1980s.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
> diversifying their portfolios, not fleeing the dollar for another currency Aren't these literally the same thing? Selling dollars and buying something else is dedollarization, regardless of whether it's for diversification
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by rippercushions 3y ago
If you have never witnessed the glory of the mentioned "CNC Song", congratulations, you are one of today's lucky 10,000. Mass Games version: https://youtu.be/xpupc4zxlTo Music video version: https:/&#x2

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