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by themgt 6y ago
This was good, and I mostly agree that using verbal strategies that amount to digging into/reviewing the details of what a person is claiming is the best way to detect liars. The TSA thing at the end seems like a bit of a derail though
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by themgt 6y ago
After crime plummeted in 2020 ... “The era of ‘tough on crime’ prosecutors is over in Baltimore,” Mosby said I didn't see an updated graph for 2020, but in 2019 Baltimore set a record for homicides. A graph of the past 30 years is
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by themgt 6y ago
Apparently Falcon Heavy has 5 million lbs of thrust, so about 88 Falcon Heavies? SuperHeavy will have 17 million lbs of thrust so if Elon could deliver 25 SuperHeavy boosters with a total of 700 Raptor engines it could lift the Ever Given?
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by themgt 6y ago
Can we define what opinions are allowed to be held anymore? Just put up a list somewhere with all the opinions that should be banned from polite society and rightly get you fired, so everyone can understand what they are? Just as an example
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Multiple Destroyers Were Swarmed By Mysterious 'Drones' Off California(thedrive.com)
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Liberal Pluralism Is Fake(mattbruenig.medium.com)
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My Hospital’s Covid Failure(unherd.com)
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by themgt 6y ago
I disagree. "Master" is a pre-existing term closer to the actual meaning of that branch in a repository the way most developers work. Cambridge https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/
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by themgt 6y ago
My real hope is Apple releases the rumored "Mac Pro mini" to fill this gap. My desktop is still a 6 core Xeon 2010 Mac Pro, which now has 32GB RAM, 2 SATA SSDs, two HDDs, and with PCIe a NVMe SSD, Radeon RX 570 that can drive 3 di
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by themgt 6y ago
I wonder if the people working on asteroid deflection strategies would find it useful to have a giant cheap general purpose factory-produced fully reusable rocket that can refuel itself in orbit and quickly reach various points in the solar
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by themgt 6y ago
https://twitter.com/spacex360/status/1367256299923247109
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by themgt 6y ago
Right so if you look at LEAP[0] they talk about how "global average consumption of meat and dairy is rising, driven by increasing incomes and population growth ... livestock production can have major environmental impacts ... Livestock
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Blue Origin delays first launch of New Glenn to late 2022(spacenews.com)
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by themgt 6y ago
What's really amazing to me is Nx is just installed as normal hex package. `defn` is a standard Elixir macro: https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/blob/main/nx/lib/nx/defn.ex#...
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by themgt 6y ago
Steven Pinker maybe says it best, in a thread where he links to some notable SSC posts: A typical essay by Scott Alexander is deeper, better reasoned, better referenced, more original, and wittier than 99% of the opinion pieces in MSM. It&
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by themgt 6y ago
It's worth noting the original tweet is from Peter Daszak, who has been president of EcoHealth Alliance which has for 15 years worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology studying bat coronaviruses[1][2][3]. He's been on record ma
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How San Francisco Renamed Its Schools(newyorker.com)
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by themgt 6y ago
The BBC had a fairly objective review of data a few years back[1] I think at least a few things need to be understood/considered in the context of "farm murders". There's been a growing movement from the EFF/ANC for
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by themgt 6y ago
Yeah I have no way to assess the credibility of Amazon vs. SpaceX claims. But Amazon has not 6 but less than 5.5 years to get 1600 sats into orbit and they don't have a rocket to put them on. Blue Origin still hasn't been able to
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by themgt 6y ago
But while G.M.’s U-turn materialized in the weeks after the election, five of its competitors — BMW, Ford, Honda, Volkswagen and Volvo — had already legally bound themselves to tougher fuel economy standards in a deal with California. G.M.
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by themgt 6y ago
I'm actually an atheist who likes saying "Merry Christmas", not that I really care very much. But the small sliver of people who'd be outraged over cups at a hipster coffee chain are not reflective of the broader group,
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by themgt 6y ago
Yeah, I was reflecting back on that incident where BLM tried to breach the White House barriers. It was widely seen as a moment of weakness for Trump and opportunity to dunk on him for lying about it, and protests themselves described in su
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by themgt 6y ago
In "Eaters of the Dead", Michael Chrichton's fictionally-historicized retelling of Beowulf, it's speculated the monsters are a relic Neandertal tribe. It's a minor point in the novel, but it stuck with me (and has b
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New P.1 SARS-CoV-2 variant in Brazil shows signs of convergent evolution(virological.org)
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The Normalization of the Post-9/11 Regime(tabletmag.com)
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by themgt 6y ago
Look at how the same corporations are operating in China today , as the CCP runs an authoritarian and arguably fascist (in the original sense, regardless of the commie branding) dictatorship. Are any of them denouncing Chairman Xi or takin
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Amazon employees call for company to cut ties with Parler(cnbc.com)
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by themgt 6y ago
May 31, 2020 attempting to breach White House perimeter: "More than 60 Secret Service officers and agents were injured near the White House ... when protesters threw “projectiles such as bricks, rocks, bottles, fireworks and other item
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by themgt 6y ago
Caster Semenya is not transgender and has not had testosterone blocking hormone therapy, which is what these regulations/debates are about. I'd wager most women competing aren't hovering around the minimum levels (which is w
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by themgt 6y ago
The problem with this is that it's almost entirely based on prejudice and people saying things that turn out not to be true ... Caster Semenya [has] high natural testosterone Caster Semenya has XY chromosomes and internal testes. Sem

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