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by rurp 2y ago
Well he started the drive to ban TikTok, but did a 180 after a single meeting with a billionaire who owns part of it. I have no idea what Trump's DOJ will do with this case; I doubt he knows or cares about the case himself. I won'
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by rurp 2y ago
That hardly seems objective. Every single statement I saw on the homepage was anti-Israeli. This Israeli government has done any number of horrible things, but it's a complicated situation that is not at all summed up well by "Isr
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by rurp 2y ago
I tried Kagi but just didn't see notably better results than other search engines. Maybe if I spent more time on the power user tools, or if Kagi offered more of a trial period I would have, but adding yet another monthly subscription
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What drove Asian and Hispanic voters to the right in 2024(noahpinion.blog)
4 points by rurp 2y ago|1 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
If you're worried about the national debt you're really not going to like the next 4+ years.
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by rurp 2y ago
Speaking for myself, in terms of policy this issue wouldn't even crack my top 100. But in terms of electoral politics? I think the evidence is pretty good that it had a lot of salience in the last election. Many swing voters who broke
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by rurp 2y ago
It's one thing to have liberal beliefs that influence your work in subtle ways, and a whole other thing to actively manipulate research to promote those social causes. Research on gender affirming care for minors should not be publishe
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by rurp 2y ago
I feel like you missed a big chunk of the article. The author points out a number of cases where SciAm published outright false or misleading information, which always echoed progressive activist talking points. This has nothing to do with
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by rurp 2y ago
Eh, western militaries are holding a lot of weaponry back from Ukraine; like the vast majority of it. They have run low in a few areas that have been key in this war, like artillery shells, but that's in part because these countries
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by rurp 2y ago
You seem confused about which country invaded another and kicked off a major war in Eastern Europe.
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by rurp 2y ago
Interesting, I had the exact opposite experience as a student at a public university in California. There were meter maids patrolling the parking lots constantly , and it was common for people to be ticketed within minutes. It must have be
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by rurp 2y ago
You aren't exaggerating! There are some creepy arms in that image, along with the other weirdness. I'm surprised Karpathy of all people used such a poor quality image for such a post.
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by rurp 2y ago
I can't imagine a more valid use for defamation laws than to prevent someone from knowingly and repeatedly causing death threats and other harassment to be directed at parents whose children have been murdered. After being sued, Jones
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by rurp 2y ago
Musk claims a lot of things. Amplifying right wing propaganda and conspiracy theories, often from his own twitter account, is not politically neutral.
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by rurp 2y ago
> When I was young, I refused to learn geography because we had map applications. I could just look it up. I did the same for anything I could, offload the cognitive overhead to something better -- I think this is something we all do con
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by rurp 2y ago
> the only thing that confuse me is why DDG - who initially felt better - chose to run after Google down the path of insisting to give me results for things I didn't ask for. I have the same frustration. The killer feature that got
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by rurp 2y ago
They are highly dependent on outside search engines. Someone from Kagi gave an explanation on HN of their search costs and why they can't go lower, and calling the Google API on many (most?) search queries was a major driver of their c
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by rurp 2y ago
Yeah I would say in general habits are the most powerful force in health. Finding an activity you enjoy is 1000x easier to stick with than anything that feels like a grind. Same thing for food. Trying to switch to a healthier but difficult
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by rurp 2y ago
True, but it's not like any of the alternatives to this guy are going to be a crusader for consumer rights and a free open internet. The party has been pretty clear about how they feel about these kinds of issues, and that vengence and
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by rurp 2y ago
Right, I'm sure the new FCC will crack down hard on Twitter and the owner's legally dubious election interference. This is a party of principles after all! At least that's what I keep hearing from them.
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by rurp 2y ago
It depends on what you mean by reliably. There's always short term variance, often a lot of it, but a player with an edge will absolutely win reliably in the long run.
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by rurp 2y ago
Probably not many explicitly, but I bet it contributes to a lot of shoppers thinking the appliance is "sleek" or "modern". Touch screens have been a big design fad in recent years and design fads sell products. I'm
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by rurp 2y ago
Last I saw Kagi was highly dependent on Google for their search results and seemed much more interested in LLMs and other side features than in replacing that core part of their search stack.
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by rurp 2y ago
Taking a hit on their giant salary seems completely reasonable to me. Having skin in the game makes people perform better in all sorts of cases, and I don't see why a CEO would be different. Do you also object to sales reps or athletes
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by rurp 2y ago
That strategy only works if the anchor is in the realm of reality. If I'm selling a 20 year old Toyota Corolla and initially ask for $900,000 that's not going to help me get a higher price.
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You May Be Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than a Billionaire(propublica.org)
16 points by rurp 2y ago|10 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
A huge industrial corporation spending millions on lobbyists in order to make it easier to dump pollutants into the environment without consequence, increasing their profits at the expense of local populations, is also a form of lobbying.
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by rurp 2y ago
I can't imagine that working, even if that AI were more reliable than currently possible. Someone who already disbelieves credible reporting and objective sources is not going to be swayed by an AI telling them to disregard their fanta
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by rurp 2y ago
If you can do everything you use your truck for with a non-truck you don't need a truck, you want a truck. Which is fine, it's pretty common in the US to use a truck as nothing more than an expensive commuter vehicle. I do fin
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by rurp 2y ago
A number of institutions promote both stances.

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