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by vharuck 7mo ago
As somebody who supported GG for the first month or so, Wikipedia has the better intro from where things stand in 2026. GG started by piggybacking on general distrust of gaming journalists, but was quickly consumed by misogyny. An article d
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by vharuck 7mo ago
It went up by 4 per 100k. And, since it was at 6 in 2000, that's a large increase. >Zoom the chart out, and you would probably be excused for assuming it is flat with some noise. That's true of all cancers, if not all statistic
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by vharuck 7mo ago
The trend has been upwards for invasive colorectal cancer among US residents under 50: https://seer.cancer.gov/statistics-network/explorer/applicat...
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by vharuck 7mo ago
Personally, I enjoy reading through comments that are obviously from non-native English writers. They often include idioms or sentence constructions from their native language, which is fun to see. Besides, this isn't an English poetr
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by vharuck 7mo ago
Wasn't this something Nine Inch Nails tried at a concert during their ARG for Year Zero? They wanted to beam messages to specific audience members'. It just didn't work well.
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by vharuck 7mo ago
Even if a law provides few guardrails to restrict how it's applied, courts care that applications of the law are not capricious.
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by vharuck 7mo ago
It's going to be a short time until we see the newest version of the "Mission Accomplished" banner, I'll give you that. But the length of the war depends more on the power groups that rise up in Iran's wreckage. We
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by vharuck 7mo ago
https://apps.naaccr.org/data-dictionary/data-dictionary/vers... 771 columns (and I've read the definitions for them all, plus about 50 more that have been retired). In the database, these are split across at
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by vharuck 7mo ago
Yeah, math has a lot of ideas that seemed like silly puzzles when first explored. The term "imaginary numbers" was originally an insult (from Descartes!) for math involving the square root of negative numbers.
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by vharuck 7mo ago
Thanks for your response!
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by vharuck 7mo ago
>Based on my experience (especially on pre-Musk Twitter, but in other places as well), 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, and 14 apply fairly well. I'd like to hear your rationale for that. In the meantime, I'll add my comments on t
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by vharuck 7mo ago
Your math doesn't include the hourly wages of the people who do the searches multiple by the time spent on them. Granted, I don't have that info, but I'm guessing it's not peanuts.
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by vharuck 7mo ago
This certainly isn't going to attract foreign investment. Business isn't big on governments that capriciously threaten to seize control of or financially harm them.
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by vharuck 7mo ago
>A tweet is not a legally binding statement. In the recent Supreme Court hearing over the firing of Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve, the administration is acting like Truth Social posts are official notices. >Several justices have
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by vharuck 7mo ago
If the title doesn't make a difference, then there's no point to insist on it. People say "the Pentagon" as shorthand for "military leadership in Washington." Not using the shorter term wouldn't do much b
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by vharuck 8mo ago
I don't live in a cave, so humans probably cooperated at least a few times over our history. (This is also my go-to argument against zero sum economics)
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by vharuck 8mo ago
Isn't there a saying about the US military being a logistics firm that sometimes carries guns? There are a lot of military activities that don't involve violence.
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by vharuck 8mo ago
What if somebody asked the bot for ways to maximize the amount of a specific vitamin in their or a child's diet? The bot may give sycophantic advice that leads to poisoning. Again, the butt stuff is an absurd example. But it works beca
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by vharuck 8mo ago
This is more of a reducto ad absurdum . If it doesn't take much to get a tacitly government-approved list of foods to shove up your butt for nutrition, then how much should you trust anything this bot writes? Why did tax dollars pay
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by vharuck 8mo ago
>Your neighbor is still not allowed to defame you. Anyone can defame anyone else on the US. The only time the libel or slander laws apply is when the defamed person can prove real harm in court. Not harm to dignity, but monetary loss, pe
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by vharuck 8mo ago
The worst case scenario now is not limited by process and law. Compliance with politics is taken into consideration for all government business. For examples, see the executive orders blacklisting specific law firms, the withholding of fund
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by vharuck 8mo ago
I'm a government statistician, and a private researcher I'd worked with asked me to give a talk at a STEM charter school about to start their science fair. She asked me to focus on the reports and data tools the state publishes, s
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by vharuck 8mo ago
I would hope this case wouldn't be hard to make. If the government isn't allowed to censor people through third parties (e.g., threaten onerous investigations of a platform unless a specific person is kicked off), the government s
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by vharuck 8mo ago
The United States Preventative Services Task Force[1] reviews studies and meta-studies to make recommendations about screening procedures. Their ratings are used by Medicare and Medicaid to decide what's covered and for which patients.
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by vharuck 8mo ago
>The law specifically permits detention pending a determination of immigration status, and in some cases requires such detention In many cases, they are using detention where a simple bond would work. There's a NY Times opinion toda
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by vharuck 8mo ago
I've found people are friendlier with me when I'm with my son. His aura of cuteness probably makes me look less curmudgeonly.
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by vharuck 8mo ago
>I think he unfairly places the blame on the immigrants themselves, when the true culprits are the employers and system of black market employment. The same thought formed in my head listening to that the other day. He even talked about
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by vharuck 8mo ago
Authoritarian governments are always more efficient than democracies. Their flaw is that citizens have no say in what goal will be efficiently pursued. When a technocratic authoritarian is in power, things improve overall (but there are s
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by vharuck 8mo ago
The last time I heard about "little green men" (other than ETs) was to describe obviously-but-unofficially Russian soldiers who invaded Crimea in 2014 and claimed to be natives who wanted Russia to annex the region. https:/&
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by vharuck 8mo ago
I was thinking about this yesterday. For the US system, what if the top roles of an independent Prosecutorial Branch were appointed by the Judicial Branch, but Congress would control them by using the budget and impeachments? The President

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