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by vharuck 1y ago
>I'll take a potential solution I can validate over no idea whatsoever of my own any day. If you have to validate what the LLM says, I assume you'd do that by researching primary sources and works by other experts. At that poin
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by vharuck 1y ago
While reading the article, the now-less-common business of vacuum and TV repair came to mind. I imagine it's easier than ever to repair vacuums, with improved tools and free internet repositories of schematics. But I only know of one
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by vharuck 1y ago
>How about Israel stop fighting, right now? Right this minute. The magazines come out of the rifles and the fighter jets stay on the ground. As soon as the Gazans decide that this is what they want, they can return the hostages and this
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IIRC, the ancient Greek mathematics we learn about today was the university-equivalent mathematics of that era. Common people did not use geometric abstractions to figure out math problems. Before Fibonacci brought algebra to Europe, every
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Poor health increasing social isolation isn't even a hard casual path to argue. Common health problems can physically restrict how often and how long one leaves the house: people on oxygen can only travel as far as their supply and we
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My current (irrational?) fear is this: 1. Trump declared a Venezuelan gang as a terrorist organization. 2. Since then, Trump has ordered the military to conduct extrajudicial killings of people suspected of being in that gang who were on bo
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by vharuck 1y ago
Cancellation page worked fine for me around 11:30 EST. And here I thought I'd be late to the cancelling wave.
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by vharuck 1y ago
Between 2015 and 2021, Americans diagnosed with invasive[0] melanoma had a 94.7% net 5-year survival rate[1]. That means, if all other causes of death were impossible, an estimated 5.3% of those patients would have died of melanoma. That&#x
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by vharuck 1y ago
>The problem is the citizens, which are chronically disengaged (a fact which has ample evidence behind it), not the legal framework. That sounds like a problem with the legal framework, if it relies on millions of individuals changing th
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by vharuck 1y ago
At the risk of pedantically answering just this one example, wrap the nav bar list in a <nav> element: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
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In the US, recommendations come from the United States Preventive Services Task Force. They explicitly do not consider cost in their decisions. They look at harm vs benefit, usually with a focus on mortality reduction. Most insurance compan
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I don't know how common it is anymore, but I vaguely remember people tipping their garbage men at Christmas.
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This is an administration that once had a man who, during a meeting about deportations attended by department lawyers, in response to what would be done if the courts rejected their rationale, said "Fuck the courts." This man is n
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by vharuck 1y ago
Not only that, but it's a dead end for societal policy. Even if a person actually believed parents deserve the most blame for kids' educational outcomes, that person should recognize there's no real way to influence this (sho
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I listened to an interview with one of the article's authors, and she said the reason non-violent protests defeat a state willing to order violent crackdowns is because the soldiers performing those crackdowns are regular people. They
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by vharuck 1y ago
Here in Pennsylvania, the minimum wage is still $7.25/hour, but the Burger King near me is paying $11.96/hour for new "team members." Every fast food place and gas station around here started paying over $10/hour an
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by vharuck 1y ago
Every set will introduce two or three new mechanics. Some of the cards from that set will be entirely based around those mechanics (for example, Vehicles as artifacts that become creatures when "crewed" by other creatures). Many
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by vharuck 1y ago
That sounds suspiciously like democratically enacting local government ordinances.
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I'm no international poverty economist, but I imagine lower income relative to neighboring countries would still have some effect. For instance, if a poor country suffers a famine in its staple crop, can that government and its citizen
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Zeno's poverty
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That might have been sampling bias. If they were hired and not fired quickly, they had probably already passed some test for critical thinking. This is like testing whether familial wealth affects SAT scores by comparing the results of ric
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But government funding was set up in a way meant to counteract fickleness. Government actions are supposed to be proposed publicly, accept and consider public comments, and then allow legal arguments about the process and motivations. And
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No. I'm just saying we should remember that regular Palestinian citizens deserve the same compassion and support as the regular Israeli citizens.
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It's less "both sides" and more "two of the four sides." There is Hamas, the weak but fanatical terrorist organization, the powerful and cruel ruling Israeli administration and military, the Palestinian citizens str
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So DOGE might not be consolidating and linking data just for ICE, but for providing to companies as a training corpus? In normal times, I'd laugh that off as a paranoiac fever dream.
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I'm not willing to believe this was the plan while the tariffs also apply to crops we can't reasonably grow in the US, like cocoa and coffee. And the tariffs are also single across-the-board numbers for each country. And were orig
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by vharuck 1y ago
Before the 2008 Great Recession, most gas stations around me allowed people to pump then pay cash. After some stories of people driving off without paying, the stations changed their policies.
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Doge now targeting SEC policy, eyes SPAC rules, sources say(reuters.com)
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Let's go by the ICC definition for genocide (Article 6 of their Elements of Crimes): https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/Publications/Ele... Israel has been killing Palestinian civilians. Is
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by vharuck 1y ago
>Why would a lower court have more authority than an appeals court? That makes no sense. An appellate court considers the decisions of the courts below it, so it makes sense its actions would be restricted to those courts. What makes no

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