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by rsynnott 5mo ago
> Everyone always complains about chlorinated chicken, not realizing that <5% of US chicken is washed that way as chicken now uses vinegar washes, and those that did were at concentrations deemed safe by the FDA. So, the issue with ch
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
The EU has said it will, and some member states, like France, have, but a full ban is still pending.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
Probably not common enough to move the needle much; they’re not _that_ normalised.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
The US imprisons more people per capita than any other democratic country, and than most non-democratic countries (only North Korea and arguably China really come close). Unaccountably, it is not a crime-free utopia (it's actually fair
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
There's the criminal guilds approach from Discworld, I suppose (in which thieves, assassins etc are regulated and given quotas). May be some practical problems.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
I feel like if they were really committing to the bit, the ship date would be some time in the mid 22nd century, rather than November.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
They seem, fairly clearly, like, at the very least, a market inefficiency. In a perfect spherical-cow market they would not exist.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
> It’s important to note that index funds will eventually get in S&P500 at least requires profitability, so these stocks may not make it in anytime soon.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
A normal non-FAANG tech salary will support such sybaritic luxury as busying a phone and using Netflix.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
So… how is this company retaining senior employees? I mean, between this and all their other recent nonsense, you’d think those who could would just… leave.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
... How do the "paper-pusher regulators" feel about getting a completely different part unannounced? I would guess unhappy, tbh. Like based on the thread it's not trivial changes.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
Oh, wow, I was expecting from the title that, eh, maybe they changed the process or something, and someone was being a bit fussy. But yeah, no, different part.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
The fascinating thing about LinkedIn is how little LLMs have changed it; even before LLMs, most LinkedIn content was written is that awful inane botslop style.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
That will presumably be a temporary phenomenon.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
> The message you’re sending is that you think I’m not capable of reading and writing my own emails. Huh, really? The message I take from Google’s AI fetish is that Google is _desperate_ to push this stuff on people so that they can show
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
Also, sometimes, the next level up is something that not everyone will actually want to do. And, depending on personal circumstances (and what the company's expectations are; many will have a level that there's no expectation peop
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
Has this chip actually been used in any real product yet? Nvidia has, er, a bit of a historical problem with overpromising and underdelivering with their mobile chips (in particular see the Tegra 2 and Denver); I would be cautious until the
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
Main headline figure is life expectancy at birth, which doesn’t _really_ account for immigration. In any case, a number of rich countries (Ireland, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, most of the Nordics) have higher immigration rates than the US,
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
Yeah, I’d buy that car-dependence is a problem there, especially for older people. Though, in Ireland, for instance, the worst parts of the country for car dependency would be close to as bad as the US. Their life expectancy is a little low
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
> The US had the second-highest avoidable mortality rate—deaths caused by conditions that can be prevented with primary care or treated with timely medical intervention. Only Mexico had higher avoidable mortality. Similarly, the US also
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
Thing about common sense is that it isn't.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
I mean, Trump was all but outright saying "I am going to be comically terrible"; the people voting for him presumably knew at least the broad strokes of what they'd be getting, if not the fine detail.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
People tend to be terribly confused about what the EU actually does and is for.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
Eh? This sort of corporate misbehaviour would obviously make the news; it’s both scummy and just bizarre. That makes for good news.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
> Founded by alums of Tesla That tracks.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
“We told people what not to eat based on the research, and they ignored us, so instead we should tell them what not to eat based on the ravings of random podcasters” is not a reasonable approach. There are approaches which seem to work (som
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
It’s largely an American thing, but I’ve occasionally heard it from conspiracy-theory-prone (antivax etc) types in Ireland.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
> I find it extremely unlikely that evolution got us to like foods that are supposedly that bad for us. … Yeah, on that basis you should consider following your beef tallow fries with a nice cigarette, and maybe a cheeky injection of her
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
> People who follow seed oil influencers “And what do you do?” [mutters] “What?” [shamefaced] “Misinformation about cooking oil on tiktok” Like, honestly, how could anyone think this was a reasonable way to make a living?
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
Oh, I mean people have known that high-sugar diets are a bad idea for about a century, but you could argue that it started coming more into the public consciousness in the early 21st century.

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