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by the_lego 3y ago
> great companies can have an enormous upside for countries (e.g., taxes and employment) A company split into multiple still provides taxes and employment. And the employment conditions tend to improve, since there would be more companie
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by the_lego 3y ago
How does the data distinguish between a pretext stop, and a stop for a genuine traffic infraction, like minor speeding or a broken light, that a cop uses their discretion on and issues only a warning? Naively, forcing cops to apply the law
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by the_lego 3y ago
I don't know how to limit it to a set of countries, but only the past 10 years gives the following results: "desalination israel", 15,800 results: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=desalination+is
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by the_lego 3y ago
> If this medium is only for a specific subset of ideas It is - "If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." - https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by the_lego 3y ago
> However, lots of papers refuse mention Israel and obviously omit the data from Israel due to politics probably and instead mention the need for 'desalination in Palestine' "desalination israel", about 29,700 results
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by the_lego 3y ago
> Curlett added that 98 percent of the agency’s poison devices are placed on private lands and “only when the private, municipal, state, or federal landowner or manager requests assistance and enters a written cooperative agreement.” &qu
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by the_lego 3y ago
> Attacks and doxing make me personally MORE likely to support stronger safety features in chromium, as such acts increase my suspicion that there is significant intimidation from criminals who are afraid this feature will disrupt their
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by the_lego 3y ago
> Only after resources have been distributed along familiar lines of gender and race do discussions of equality enter the scene. [...] The colonization of data to generate training sets resembles a familiar plot in our world. Pioneers ha
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by the_lego 3y ago
This highlights the need to distinguish "CCP baggage" into protectionist trade policy that is (today, not in the past with disasters like the Great Leap Forward) similar to what Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan used to grow their ec
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by the_lego 3y ago
Don't hold your breath. XPrivacy software for rooted Android could give fake data to apps 7+ years ago [1], effectively accomplishing what that policy would. But rooting has become more difficult and more undesirable due to SafetyNet,
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by the_lego 3y ago
Notable excerpts: Tyson acknowledged in 2015 that people were dying due to diseases from factory farms, due to their dangerous and unhygienic practices. Now, in 2023, they still admit people are dying from diseases caused by their practice
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The Material Point Method for Simulating Continuum Materials (2016) [pdf](math.ucla.edu)
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by the_lego 3y ago
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
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by the_lego 3y ago
Will chatbots (and soon voice chatbots) just be used as a denial of service attack against customers? To cheaply waste your time, giving the illusion of meaningful interaction, until you give up?
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by the_lego 3y ago
I read the whole thing and still don't know what Buddhists do to their children that the author finds so.. worrying? That was also unclear.
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by the_lego 3y ago
> In safety-critical and highly-regulated systems like automotive and health care, there's a meaningful regulatory interest in ensuring that the devices as sold and authorized to be on the road (or in patients' hospital rooms)
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by the_lego 3y ago
> groups such as proud boys, patriot front etc
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by the_lego 3y ago
> This may include media, text, illustrated, or computer-generated images. Regardless of the intent, viewing, sharing, or linking to child sexual exploitation material contributes to the re-victimization of the depicted children. I am cu
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by the_lego 3y ago
> How Did More Encryption Cause Less Privacy? But it didn't. It just forced governments to reveal the existing lack of privacy. The author thinks that you are more free if you face the wall, so you don't see the bars of your
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by the_lego 3y ago
That's perfectly analogous to color. You can argue all day which shades of teal belong to the broader categories of blue or green, and you could also instead talk solely about narrow shades like mauve, cyan, indigo, etc. That doesn&#x2
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by the_lego 3y ago
Objections to more context are never in good faith.
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by the_lego 3y ago
> The overpopulation story is a joke The human impact on the environment is proportional the population*. Here's an article on it, that doesn't look remotely humorous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_im
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by the_lego 3y ago
I'm having trouble finding which groups are on terrorist watchlists, but the implication that right-wing or white nationalist groups or individuals are ignored is false, and was false even under Trump: Top law enforcement officials sa
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by the_lego 3y ago
I agree it is not responsible, as part of an investigation or not.
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by the_lego 3y ago
It's hard to guess, but posting that CSAM as evidence in service of some open-source investigation (I.e. "I found this - can someone look into it?") is consistent with and supported by what little context we have ( https:&#x2
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by the_lego 3y ago
Of course there is - population-wide genetic variation, as my wikipedia link demonstrates.
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by the_lego 3y ago
That's like claiming color has no physical concept, because wavelengths vary continuously, and our language about color doesn't perfectly match the underlying physical reality. "What do you mean 'green'? Two sharp p
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by the_lego 3y ago
How much will that right help, when the human is selected and paid by the insurance agency?
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by the_lego 3y ago
> Farage says he was effectively "de-banked" for his political views and that he is "far from alone" Contrary to the BBC's portrayal, this is not an unsupported opinion coming from Farage - he is citing what th
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Geometric Algebra for Computer Graphics, Siggraph 2019(arxiv.org)
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