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by tzs 2mo ago
There are several problems with this. First, you are ignoring gas. The US stopped building coal plants because of the fracking boom. That gave the US huge sources of natural gas which was cheaper than coal. China has little natural gas but
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by tzs 2mo ago
That's a pointless point, because any system to actually control emissions requires allocating them to nation-states, because it is nation-states that actually enforce things on people.
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by tzs 2mo ago
That is both completely right and completely wrong. It is right because all the planet cares about is the amount in the atmosphere. It is completely wrong because whatever total amount X of CO2 emissions we decide we need to limit humanity
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by tzs 2mo ago
Laptop use and LED light use (and most other uses of electricity) are not increasing so rapidly that they can not be accommodated by the normal expansion in electric system capacity that has been part of long term planning for quite a whi
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by tzs 2mo ago
Or he missed the chance to get Google to move that check to the back end and then when it is time to renew find out that he cannot, if he’s lucky enough for it to not break earlier.
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by tzs 2mo ago
According to Uber it wasn't a lot of drivers. They should be able to easily have a human review each case.
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by tzs 2mo ago
If that's what he was talking about he would not have said "women and other people".
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by tzs 2mo ago
Add John Backus (FORTRAN) to that group. Like Grace Hopper, got his degrees long before CS degrees existed. His bachelors and masters are in math. Dennis Ritchie (C) got his degree, bachelors in physics and applied mathematics from Harvard,
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by tzs 2mo ago
They are also more exposed industrial disinfectants and cleaners used to clean the cabin than are pilots.
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by tzs 2mo ago
According to a bit of Googling (which included LLM responses so if you need to be sure verify what follows), although flight attendants and pilots spend about the same amount of time in the air and so get the same exposure, flight attendant
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by tzs 2mo ago
98% of the commenters here have no idea what Swartz was actually charged with, or what he actually did. Here are a couple of articles that cover this from an expert in the relevant areas of law [1] [2]. Also, due to the very stupid way the
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by tzs 2mo ago
You are greatly underestimating what was going on. Over the course of months they tried all kinds of blocking methods that would stop most people, but he kept evading them. It is impossible that he did not know his use of the free access
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by tzs 2mo ago
JSTOR didn't own the copyright to any of the material, so could only serve it under the license agreements it had. Nevertheless they were able to arrange for their license to allow over 10000 schools, libraries, and other institutions
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by tzs 2mo ago
Or you’ve got it backwards. Claude et al. with offshore developers to fix hallucinations and verify answers will replace onshore developers.
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by tzs 2mo ago
Section 230 has nothing to do with whether a platform is impartial or not. All it does is make it so they are not treated as the publisher or speaker of third party content. So if I post something on Facebook full of libelous statements abo
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by tzs 2mo ago
Section 230 has nothing whatsoever to do with any distinctions or differences between "publishers" and "platforms". That's just an internet myth. In fact protecting publishers from liability for user generated conte
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by tzs 2mo ago
That's not at all how Section 230 works. There's a popular myth that it distinguishes between "publishers" (who make editorial decisions about what content is shown and how it is shown) and "platforms" that jus
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by tzs 2mo ago
Of that 510-1012 tons of water only 50-100 pounds of water actually ends up in the plant. I wonder how much of the rest could be recovered and reused?
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by tzs 2mo ago
Doing the job asleep is actually possible in some cities. There's a book called "Rough Justice: Days and Nights of a Young D.A." by David Heilbroner about his 3 years starting in 1985 as an assistant district attorney in the
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by tzs 2mo ago
They are usually attached to the base of the valve stem, so if you are just putting on new tires they don't even need to be touched.
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by tzs 2mo ago
> The energy thing is exaggerated. Want to compensate for a week of heavy AI coding usage? If you drive to work, telecommute for one day. Skip one long-distance DoorDash order. Cars use tons of energy, a lot more per-user than the fracti
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by tzs 2mo ago
They have a 32 bit ID, assigned sequentially during manufacture, with no coordination among manufacturers to avoid overlap. There will certainly be collisions. Those can often be disambiguated though because there is almost no standardizati
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by tzs 2mo ago
> The problem is LLM output’s value is intrinsically zero because there is no scarcity to it. I too can just prompt “What’s the rate of self hosted email?”. If an article is signaling that its value is zero, then everyone should just mov
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by tzs 2mo ago
It uses a session cookie to remember that you are logged in. Commenting requires being logged in, so it definitely tried to set one on your machine. Maybe you've got an extension or something that prevents the cookie from actually gett
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by tzs 2mo ago
There are people who most of the time only put stuff on the card that they can afford to pay off that month, but occasionally put something big on to pay off over time. They don't put anything else big on the card until they have broug
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by tzs 2mo ago
It sets several cookies. Did you mean to say it doesn't set the kind of cookies for which permission is required?
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by tzs 2mo ago
In the classic 1979 book "Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness" by Garey & Johnson, here's how they explain what it means for the practicing programmer. Chapter one starts with a fictiona
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by tzs 2mo ago
You have missed a case: 0. There are tiny people who are not invisible but there is something that makes it so humans ignore them. That specific mushroom interfered with whatever that is so that we can see them. An argument for #0 and in
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by tzs 2mo ago
If you follow the whole process from the point of view of the horseshoe crab it is disturbingly similar to the stories many people who claim to be alien abduction victims tell.
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by tzs 2mo ago
The article is slightly wrong. It is "addictive" feeds that are address, not "algorithmic" feeds. The definition is in in the bill, but the copies I have seen are formatted in ways that make copy/paste too much work

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