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by timr 1y ago
I didn’t say the tests have no use, but trust me: if you’re otherwise well and don’t have symptoms, nobody is making aggressive pharmacological interventions based on the calcium scan. This is why, historically, they were rarely used.
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by timr 1y ago
“One of the most important skills of using Happy Fun Ball [1] is learning not to anger it.” You’re not wrong , but it’s hilarious that the “agentic future” must be wrapped in bubble wrap and safely ensconced in protective cages. People k
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by timr 1y ago
He’s better than most, in that he puts disclaimers on things that aren’t rigorously proven. That said, he talks a lot in that book about things that aren’t actionable, even if they were rigorously proven - such as the coronary calcium scan.
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by timr 1y ago
That article doesn’t say what you’re asserting. It says that they’re cutting OAR, National Marine Fisheries Service, and some other things. The writer then goes on to say that OAR, in particular, does climate research . But it’s the resear
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by timr 1y ago
I didn’t say it was. It’s still orders of magnitude cheaper than maintaining an entire telescope complex on top of a Hawaiian island.
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by timr 1y ago
I used to live near Kyoto Sanjo pre-2020, and was just there a month or so ago. I wouldn’t characterize it as “dead” at all - on the contrary, I was shocked how many new restaurants, stores and cafes were there now. Maybe the Showa vibes ar
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by timr 1y ago
> I've been using Bootstrap since it came out 15 years ago but it never developed a 3rd party component library. I assume because it doesn't have the same sort granular building blocks for building novel components. Except, it
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by timr 1y ago
Exactly! You want to continue measuring CO2 from the same spot? Much easier and less expensive ways to do it.
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by timr 1y ago
It’s in italics because, if the telescope is outdated or otherwise worth shutting down , keeping it around because it also makes a CO2 measurement is dumb. I don’t know why they’re cutting it, but the article is just wildly speculating.
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by timr 1y ago
Well, at least you’re bothering to have the argument that the article didn’t, but you’re also just speculating about the cost/benefit. There are good reasons to shut down telescopes, including age, outdated technology, and deprecation.
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by timr 1y ago
The thing they’re talking about is a telescope. They incidentally have a CO2 meter there. Running just the CO2 meter is something that could be done remotely, without the need for a telescope, at a tiny fraction of the cost.
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by timr 1y ago
We have other ways to measure atmospheric CO2 that don’t require maintaining a telescope in Hawaii. I don’t know why the funding cut is being made, but this article is leaping to a conclusion.
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by timr 1y ago
I use Copilot, with the occasional free query to the other services. During coding, I mostly use Claude Sonnet 3.7 or 4 in agent mode, but Gemini 2.5 Pro is a close second. ChatGPT 4o is useless except for Q&A. I see no value in paying
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by timr 1y ago
OK, the first link was about free speech, and the third was about "support for authoritarianism". Of all the issues you could possibly cherry-pick, those are amongst the ones where I'd expect the most extreme polarization (Su
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by timr 1y ago
That's actually an indication that what I'm saying is true. Polls aren't sensitive to pick up the subtle differences that divide the two-party system in the USA. For all that the people in the tails of the distributions wan
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by timr 1y ago
> The social conventions for online and face-to-face interactions are still markedly different (with good reason). When face-to-face, we generally care a lot more about maintaining a pleasant conversational environment and usually avoid
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by timr 1y ago
I actually agree with most of what you said, up until the last paragraph. Specifically this part: > If we have a strong signal that this is true (in this case the economic and social reality of broad acceptance and integration of undocum
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by timr 1y ago
I put it in quotes, because one can claim asylum , while not actually being a refugee. And a great many people have done exactly that, knowing that it essentially guaranteed them to be released into the USA pending a trial years in the f
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by timr 1y ago
From the article you posted: "Mr Abrego Garcia has acknowledged entering the US illegally in 2012, according to court documents" [1] He was currently here legally, only in the sense that a court had previously suspended his depo
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by timr 1y ago
> I am tired of people ignoring the US Condition. And in this context, rejecting the Due Process clause. Due Process us for all that enter the USA! Also tired of this rhetoric. Due process is the process that is due, nothing more. It has
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by timr 1y ago
I quoted the part of the comment I was responding to.
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by timr 1y ago
Fixating on a specific example that has become a cause celèbre is not a counterargument to what I said. Even in the Garcia case, there's no dispute that the man is/was here illegally. Everything revolves around a secondary debat
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by timr 1y ago
Downvoting is fine. I expect it. The comment was flagged down twice in a row, each time in under 20s. I can virtually guarantee that it will be flagged down again once I stop paying attention. Edit: sure enough, the comment was flagged down
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by timr 1y ago
I said nothing about criminal vs. misdemeanor. If you violate immigration laws, you can be deported.
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by timr 1y ago
I made it very clear that I don't support everything the current administration is doing. I still support the enforcement of our laws.
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by timr 1y ago
I made it very clear that I don't support everything our administration is doing.
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by timr 1y ago
> we are talking about politicians who proudly tweet about ruining people’s lives and tearing apart families, and their voting base cheering this on. There is no wording that you can use to turn this into a negative for these irredeemabl
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by timr 1y ago
You balked at the idea of volunteerism, but then I gave you less...demanding...versions, and you criticize them as being imperfect. It's clear that I'm not going to convince you, and you keep cherry-picking the most expensive &#x2
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by timr 1y ago
Japan is a big place. You can find anything.
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by timr 1y ago
I am giving/defending my opinion , in an effort to convince. It doesn't have to be yours. > What's wrong with tourism, seeing Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto? I just spent several paragraphs answering that question. TL;DR: a few days

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