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by stubish 2y ago
The Justice System is all about clever legal maneuvering. It says it right in the name.
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by stubish 2y ago
The original voice that they pulled or the one they replaced it with under the same name after the lawyers started calling?
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by stubish 2y ago
So keep disability and aged care support, but drop all other welfare in favor of a UBI at around the poverty line or higher if budget allows? I can now see that working, and needing to pay care workers much more to get enough willing partic
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by stubish 2y ago
I was thinking about UBI the other day, and was unable to reconcile how it could work given people have different needs. For example, 'the poverty line' here is just under $24,000/yr. But someone on disability support may wel
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by stubish 2y ago
Patented and licensed, so not coming to a neighborhood near you unless mandated by local government. Because while people want their neighbors to use it, in enough cases they won't pay the extra and rationalize it somehow.
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by stubish 2y ago
Deaf people I know certainly wouldn't want to be wearing a headset, say, in a restaurant. But a phone app or tablet that can do live text-to-speach would be good enough in many cases if it can separate voices into streams. Anything lik
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by stubish 2y ago
A human brain certainly does do predictions, which is very useful to the bit that makes decisions. But how does a pure prediction engine make decisions? Make a judgement call? Analyze inconsistencies? Theorize? The best it can do is blindly
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by stubish 2y ago
Depending on the type of cancer, there are correlations with diet changes and slowing growth of cancer. Causation isn't known yet, with the speculations about reasons veganism works I've seen all refuted. Low carb effects seems ab
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by stubish 2y ago
Very similar to walking a wheelbarrow full of mobile phones down a street so the navigation systems think there is a traffic jam and route around it.
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by stubish 2y ago
They are larger and build damns and many other differences, so they fill different niches. The idea is to restore the pre-industrial ecosystem as best we can. Maybe their natural land management will improve the quality of the wetlands, or
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by stubish 2y ago
The Seagull, maybe not. But BYD already own the EV market in other countries with strict safety restrictions such as Australia, selling their pricier models. Price wise these are still comparable only with other Chinese manufactured cars su
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by stubish 2y ago
The BS 7666 is just a rationalization. There is a definition of CharacterString to be alphanumeric, which would be silly to use strictly since that would also forbid white space and hyphens. Later in the spec there is a specific example con
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by stubish 2y ago
The smarter birds are easier to study. As are the great apes and dolphins. Research has been finding it isn't brain size so much as density and architecture of particular parts that leads to what we call 'intelligence', and I
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by stubish 2y ago
In a language such as Thai, pronouns are left out in most cases, and only added when you need to disambiguate. No plurals either, requiring you to add this information with extra words when it matters. But nobody forces you to communicate e
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by stubish 2y ago
Per the very short article, the assets are not crypto. It even says the crypto is missing, which is interesting. "it has been gathering the funds to pay its debts by selling assets investments held by Alameda Research or FTX Ventures b
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by stubish 2y ago
No mention of energy efficiency alas, so cannot judge the claims of the effects usefulness. Drying maybe, where the lack of heat will have applications, but competing with existing desalination methods? Perhaps drying brine into powder?
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by stubish 2y ago
Australia has a feral cat problem and lots of studies on how they decimate animal populations, including birds. https://www.publish.csiro.au/WR/fulltext/WR19174 for example, which cites lots of previous studies as
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by stubish 2y ago
New people? Do you honestly think they have replaced an entire team in the few days since firing the last one? Only people in the building able to log into the project management system are likely Elon and the sysadmins.
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by stubish 2y ago
Pay more for a lower-quality car than a higher-quality one. Marketing and other social conditioning, so woo-woo sounds about right. While there are certainly reasons to buy new cars over old in many cases (features, maintenance & ongoin
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by stubish 2y ago
Plenty of times that we had to run scripts by hand on production with the log levels cranked up to determine how something failed the way it did. Can't do that if you haven't already annotated your tools with the logging statement
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by stubish 2y ago
One of the best things I did as one of the earliest employees at $company was helpers to setup Python logging and command line argument passing, so -v/-q flags controlled what level got emitted to STDERR, and other CLI flags configured
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by stubish 2y ago
It isn't censorship. It is just getting it wrong. Bing just refuses when things are censored, like trying to show Jesus having his toes sucked instead of feet washed.
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by stubish 3y ago
You just described the human mind. What we see in our heads is wholly imagined, mostly correlated to reality. You see things clearly, without the huge empty spot in the middle or fuzzy black-and-white periphery. And usually without hallucin
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by stubish 3y ago
Usually the proposal is massive solar arrays, and maybe only producing during daylight hours to avoid battery costs, and spreading the upfront build cost over the solar array's lifespan. I think a lot of this falls down though when doi
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by stubish 3y ago
They are working on the tech, not rolling it out. To answer your questions: 1) Capture stations will be setup wherever the people who license the tech or purchase equipment want it to be setup. 2) The easiest way to guarantee the electricit
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by stubish 3y ago
In democracies, the population decides what favors them, and the government enacts their will via regulation. Without regulation, some companies will abuse their customers when profitable to do so, often dominating over the companies that d
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by stubish 3y ago
Business is about staying in business, not being popular. A streaming pricing model, so you lose money on your best customers streaming 24x7 who get a great deal whilst keeping mediocre customers on a free tier because it is expensive. An a
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by stubish 3y ago
An attempt to store the encoding needed to decode the data with the data, rather than requiring the reader to know it somehow. Your program wouldn't have to care if its source data had been encoded as UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 or some futu
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by stubish 3y ago
https://www.ewg.org/foodscores/ might help you target specific brands. Many soy milks count as ultra processed because the additives are (calcium, vitamin b etc.). Less healthy than the unadulterated brands? I think th
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by stubish 3y ago
It is not easy. One day your VPN stops working, and you need to ask your friends for a new recommendation, and maybe they have if theirs didn't start failing last month, and set that up and hopefully it keeps working for a while longer

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