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by shagie 5d ago
Returns cost money and if an agent generates more returns and hitting the margins or seller retention then that's something that's likely going to get increased scrutiny. The generally quoted return rate is 5% to 15% (and it varie
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by shagie 5d ago
(concurring opinion) LLM generated text lacks a certain "soul" to it, and it becomes more and more empty the more places one reads it. It has a certain quality to it that, when read again and again, feels hollow. That hollowness
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by shagie 6d ago
Ablaut reduplication is my favorite thing from linguistics. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduplication#English ) Tic-tac-toe. Flip flop. Live, Laugh, Love. Zig Zag. It's all I-A-O. Switch any of those arou
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by shagie 6d ago
It's avoiding two distinct vowel sounds in succession. Consider other variations of this rule. In French, one would say "l'hôpital" rather than "le hôpital" because the 'h' is an aspirated breath (try
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by shagie 7d ago
The same is true of black cats, the other way around. There are fewer orange (or black) female cats because female cats have another option of coloring - tortoise shell (no spots) or calico (with spots). Another way of phrasing it, half o
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by shagie 7d ago
Yea... I mean... yea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stratigraphic_units_wi... And then you're using a bit of the west and Great Plains (Utah, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota) for all the different species
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by shagie 7d ago
A fun book is Bad Magic by Stephan Zielinski. Kind of an awkward one to find since it's a common title from a while back (2004) at the very start of urban fantasy... and the author didn't appear to have written anything else. A
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by shagie 7d ago
Spots are different. The trim-color house cats refers to all calicos... calicos are white spotted tortoiseshell cats. The "is orange or black" is a X linked gene, so you can have XoXb... and then the x chromosome inactivation kic
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by shagie 7d ago
There's a YouTube (and other) channel out there about a guy and his (I use the possessive with caveats) coyote (named Weave). His motto is "Anything can be a pet if you don’t mind getting bit."
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by shagie 8d ago
https://www.goodwinlaw.com/en/insights/publications/2025/06/... https://admin.bakerlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ECF-23... > For the print library copies
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by shagie 8d ago
Else comment I made, trying to answer that same question, I found https://thepangeamap.com - one of the neat features is being able to put dinosaurs in the timeline. The Paleotopography selection (rather than GPlates) also give
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by shagie 8d ago
Reunite Pangea! https://thepangeamap.com (you can put Diplodocus on the timeline and see a projection of what the map was then)
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by shagie 8d ago
I'm not against AI data centers in principle. And I do believe that the water argument is incorrect in some areas. However, I do understand the argument that can reasonably be made for data centers in some places. I'm personally
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by shagie 8d ago
The water isn't taxable that way based on western state water rights. https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/15/as-googles-water-dema... > When Google purchased a defunct aluminum smelter in The Dal
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by shagie 8d ago
I believe the best argument would be "be good neighbors now before you're regulated and zoned out." Consider Texas... one would think that they'd be one of the more business friendly areas. https://www.busines
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by shagie 8d ago
The opposition to a data center isn't "data center vs all of the state" but rather "data center vs a town where it will double the water use and the locals are currently under water restrictions and there was a drought l
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by shagie 8d ago
The Columbia River has restrictions on diversions. https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_537.801 > Therefore, the Legislative Assembly declares that the waters of the state may not be appropriated, stored or divert
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by shagie 8d ago
Water use is one of the causes that can unite the various edges of political divides. Rural and urban. Conservative and liberal. Many parts of the country have been experiencing drought conditions. I had Oregon up there - here's th
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by shagie 8d ago
Consider the image of a data center. https://datacenters.google/discover-more/photo-gallery/ and scroll down to "The Dalles, Oregon" and well... look at them. And then its reported water use: https:&#x2
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by shagie 9d ago
For me, I see things like https://imgur.com/a/ekehKDx on the page. If I didn't have access to it, I'd be tempted to hunt down a VPN that would allow me to watch it.
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by shagie 10d ago
Btw, Dr. Who has full episodes on YouTube. Shada | FULL EPISODE with BONUS Animation | Doctor Who: Classic - https://youtu.be/Qt7JdpWXmtE The channel is https://www.youtube.com/@ClassicDoctorWho I've b
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by shagie 10d ago
Don't have the pitch deck directly, but do have some of the "what things looked like then" at https://www.ycdb.co/company/flock-safety The front page then had "All the footage is yours. Your neighb
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by shagie 11d ago
I find the freefall ones to be... more wild. https://www.threebodyorbits.com/orbit/freefall_part2_f2310_1... (change to a Short trail without a full trace)
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by shagie 12d ago
The Swedish cafe experiment: https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-sweden... > San Francisco-based startup Andon Labs has put an artificial intelligence agent nicknamed “Mona” in charge at the eponym
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by shagie 12d ago
Wild Gears for the modern physical version. There's also Spirograph Simulator (2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13256222 from... oh, a decade ago (I feel old). It still works. https://inspiral-we
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by shagie 12d ago
I was more referring to things like... a horticulturist. https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=horticulturist&city=&... Elsewhere in DOL, there's a definition of computer professional. https://
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by shagie 12d ago
Increased scrutiny of H-1B-dependent employers could well be in order. There is already that classification in place and restrictions... though I suspect that underfunding of the Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division may be contribut
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by shagie 12d ago
H1B also includes things like high school foreign language teachers. https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=french+language+immer... A stack rank by salary would mean "H1B is big tech employees" rather than &q
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by shagie 14d ago
The 10,000,000,000 (1 : 10B) scale would be kind of neat for Australia. Six soccer fields in Sydney and you've got the Sun to Pluto. One soccer field holds the Sun to Jupiter.... Alpha Centauri is in Perth. The speed of light is 100
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by shagie 14d ago
> ... I completely lose the ability to be a good worker bee ... Caffeine in Floral Nectar Enhances a Pollinator's Memory of Reward - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1228806 > Caffeine improv

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