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by tejohnso 3y ago
Tesla wouldn't exist if Elon had shut down at the 2 month dire point. At least, I recall him saying they were at one point about 2 days away from bankruptcy. Not surprising though, that Elon would be in the same camp as this Convoy CEO
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AIDS (HIV?) test? Were they going to discriminate against people with HIV? I don't get it. What about other STDs?
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Just today my Thinkpad Trackpoint Keyboard II arrived and you might be interested to know, it uses 2.4Ghz OR bluetooth. The feel is great, and for me it's awesome because I don't have to accommodate a second keyboard layout. I&#x2
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Dulse here. Not uncommon in Canada, especially eastern coast. You can find it in grocery stores sometimes. Price has nearly doubled in the last few years. https://www.amazon.ca/stores/page/6A642280-AC30-4571-9ECB-0
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Lefty here as well. I always preferred the precision and consistency of a 0.5mm mechanical pencil over any type of pen. The option to easily erase a mistake is pretty nice. And the option to write from very faint to fairly heavy comes in ha
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She seems to feel the gap is really large right now. Even if it is as bad as she indicates, I wonder how long it will be before the gap is closed given the progress we've seen recently.
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> having a car, consuming cheap electricity, getting plastic toys from China delivered across the globe the next day and spending your holiday at the other end of the world is what destroyed the planet. And any attempts to move away from
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> Carmack and Sutton are deeply focused on developing a genuine AI prototype by 2030, including establishing, advancing and documenting AGI signs of life. Seems a bit inappropriate to use the phrase "signs of life" here. In thi
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It's not a range test demo. It's a real conversation with real people who aren't prone to melodrama. As mentioned in the video by Lex, it's the subtleties that make all the difference. I'm astonished with the accura
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Stats require collection, which can affect accuracy. They also require honest presentation and dissemination.
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From my experience in Canada, it means impregnate another, but not in a good way. It's usually out of wedlock, unexpected, and maybe not even in a relationship. It would seem very out of place for me to hear someone say they knocked up
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> If we stop burning oil now it will get worse for a while, and then it will get better again. It's not a given that it will get better again. Not on timescales that matter to our species anyway. >It also gives us the option to w
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It would also result in a near immediate (weeks) increase in global average temperature due to the reduction in aerosol masking. People like to fixate on a simple correction that they can work toward (more often just talk about), but the si
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Is that the option that comes to mind when presented with the facts? That's your reaction. Not mine. Who am I to tell people what to do or not do? You could just as easily have read what I said and thought: "So we need to prepare
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I'm not arguing a position for or against action, I'm pointing out that things are worse than the quote claims, and I'm pointing it out because there is a long history of downplaying the severity of the situation when it come
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It's relevant because people continue to downplay just how dire the situation is. It's not only going to get worse if we continue burning fossil fuels. It's going to get worse no matter what. If accepting that would lead y
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> Burgess said the summer had been one of tumbling records and it would only get worse if the world continues to burn planet-heating fossil fuels. It would get worse even if we stopped burning fossil fuels immediately. Because of lag eff
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> You’re violating Rule #1 if you think your investments can be the sole source of your retirement wealth What? That's exactly what I'm investing for. What the hell else should I expect to fund my retirement?
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Country pride: what I learned growing up in rural America(theguardian.com)
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It's hard to imagine that such a strong cultural financial norm wasn't popular just 70 years ago. I have a relative who was in his late 20s that long ago so I'm going to ask him about his early experiences with home ownership
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Cynical take: The job of the carbon offset is one or more of the following: - Assuage guilt - Virtue signal (personal, political, or corporate) - Profit financially from government incompetence - Profit financially from corpora
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Unfortunately 4/5 video links I clicked on were bad. Original title is better.
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> meat is a vital, and necessary food And you talk about "weird" statements?
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And maybe record high atmospheric CO2 concentration every few years as well. We're still on an increasing trajectory. The 2007 IPCC climate change synthesis report specified a deadline of 2015 for peak CO2 in order to meet the lowest m
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I don't think you have to listen to Russian government propaganda to understand the NATO threat if you have any cognitive empathy whatsoever. Angela Merkel is on record saying that the negotiated Minsk peace agreement was a complete sh
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Well I for one appreciate it. I was drawn in after a couple of paragraphs, and then started to doubt and figured I'd check the comments for exactly this kind of thing before I run off and tell my child about an amazing animal I just he
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> All you need to provide is a parking spot and restroom access during designated hours Why would restroom access be required for camping? That's not something normally associated with camping, is it? Is my idea of camping that far
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>It is frustrating to hear the discourse over the inappropriate students that are taking on too much debt, all the while ignoring the lenders that are taking on too much risk But as you point out, the lenders are not taking on risk. The
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> social scientists build storied careers on results that would get rejected from any respected science journal for lack of rigor Wasn't it called social studies? When did social studies get branded as science in the first place?
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Wish I had a personal teacher while working on my c++ hobby project a while back. I read Stroustrup, Meyers, plus the Core Guidelines, and I do my best. But it would have been great to show someone what I had done along the way, and have th

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