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by tootie 2y ago
Isn't this what actuarial science is? Surely the boffins at the EPA can model potential outcomes and weigh potential environmental downside against the economic downside. Including factors like how replaceable is formaldehyde and are t
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by tootie 2y ago
I think that's the wrong line of reasoning. Even if the science isn't 100% settled, you're in a scenario where it's possible if not probably that formaldehyde is major carcinogen. Maybe futures studies say it's not
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by tootie 2y ago
It's not clear anyone in the military participated beyond pretending to follow orders. Soldiers guarding the National Assembly seemed to do a terrible job securing the building and it may have been intentional. A reporter on the scene
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by tootie 2y ago
I'm so confused on the value prop of Bedrock. It's seems like it wants to be guardrails for implementing RAG with popular models but it's not the least but intuitive. Is it actually better than setting up a custom pipeline?
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by tootie 2y ago
CNN is reporting that parliament has successfully overturned martial law.
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by tootie 2y ago
S Korea was a laggard in the years after the war and their economy was modernized by a militaristic authoritarian government. The military authority was harsh but effective and only gave way to democracy in 1988. There is still a lot of sym
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by tootie 2y ago
FTA "One also suggested we take a look at social media on its own because it’s a source of worry for many and we did not find anything special about this form of online engagement.” It's a subset of what they studied. Surely a lot
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by tootie 2y ago
It's mostly just used for analytics. Getting a rough idea of how people are accessing your services.
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by tootie 2y ago
I know this is targeting social media but just pointing out that there is no evidence screen time is affecting kids development and pretty solid evidence that it doesn't have much effect at all. https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk&#x2F
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by tootie 2y ago
Ultimately it's the platform's choice where to draw the line and it should be a function of their ethos and the observed value to users. It seems pretty clear that Twitter functioned extremely well with a robust moderation team of
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by tootie 2y ago
I think this isn't as hard to solve as you may think. There is definitely gray area to all of them, but there's plenty of stuff that is obviously unacceptable. On X right now, it is common to find straight up Nazi propaganda flour
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by tootie 2y ago
Personally, I'm 100% on board with heavy moderation. I think it's a complete myth that unfettered free speech will make for a useful platform. Spam, abuse, disinformation, hate speech. They all make the platform less valuable.
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by tootie 2y ago
The only value I got from twitter that I now get from bluesky is following prominent people and institutions. Journalists, scientists, engineers, economists or whatever interest group you align with. It's a great way to keep up with in
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by tootie 2y ago
I look back and I honestly wonder if that lawsuit actually had the effect they intended.
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by tootie 2y ago
What about disinformation?
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by tootie 2y ago
It is functionally impossible to run an unmoderated message board that doesn't devolve. Holding out hope that "we" learn where "we" is everyone in the world is not going to happen in 1000 years. The only way for a f
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by tootie 2y ago
There's also no historical baseline of comparison. I know for a fact that ghost jobs have existed for a long time. I don't see any evidence they are more prevalent now than 10 or 20 years ago.
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by tootie 2y ago
The actual CEO, Ben Collins, has been running The Onion for a short while and his background was as a reporter for NBC. He covered a lot of internet topics very, very well (IMO).
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by tootie 2y ago
I have a bad feeling about Wonder. One opened near my office and had a load of free meal promotions and it was packed. A few weeks later it went very quiet. I had a few meals and they were decidedly meh. The promise of ordering options acro
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by tootie 2y ago
I was a dedicated grubhub user for a while until it became very obvious how much extra they were charging. My tactic now is to go the restaurant website and click whatever online ordering they prefer. Usually 5-10% cheaper. I do fondly reme
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by tootie 2y ago
Gigantic writedown for the previous owner
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GrubHub sold to food startup Wonder for $650M(techcrunch.com)
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by tootie 2y ago
Since last time, he survived two impeachments for which he was dead to rights and had the SC declare he has near total immunity for official acts. With a senate majority he knows that he can now operate with total impunity. He can cancel Co
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by tootie 2y ago
Harris' vote total was down from Biden 2020 by 15M and Trump's was down from 2020 by like 4M. So a net 11M Dem voters didn't show up.
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by tootie 2y ago
It's actually libertarian gibberish.
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by tootie 2y ago
The original intent of bitcoin was to be a currency so that's how it was evaluated. The point of this thread is that despite it's increasing popularity it has never functioned as a currency. Calling it an asset is dubious since it
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by tootie 2y ago
He indirectly ended abortion rights and presidential criminal liability. And while it wasn't a single bad event, he spent 4 years making climate policy worse. More directly he attempted to extort a foreign leader for political gain and
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by tootie 2y ago
The point is that it isn't a currency. Nor is it debt or equity. More like an incorporeal commodity.
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by tootie 2y ago
When Bitcoin was conceived economists said it would have built-in deflation and it seems they were right
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by tootie 2y ago
That's perception. In reality layoffs happen all the time even in a growing labor market. I saw tech layoffs in my network up to maybe a year ago and almost everyone is employed again. We had a correction after what was the most overhe

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