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by vharuck 1y ago
Going by Occam's Razor, you'd be correct. The scenario with the least assumptions is the DOGE people are using personal devices too much, one of which had already been compromised. Which makes sense from Russian intelligence'
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by vharuck 1y ago
Here's a story I was listening to today about a program at an all-boys school trying to address the growing prevalence of loneliness, depression, and bad behavior in school. https://www.haverford.org/the-big-room-blog&#
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Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump's proposed health cuts(washingtonpost.com)
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by vharuck 1y ago
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20250417223723/https://www.washi...
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by vharuck 1y ago
Yup, this is something that shows up¹ for melanoma, thyroid, and prostate cancers: those who are diagnosed when the cancers are in situ (haven't left the tissue of origin) have better 5-year survival chances compared to people of the s
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by vharuck 2y ago
I also like this fun though dated handbook, full of gotchas common among new R programmers: https://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf
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by vharuck 2y ago
Guaranteeing that families won't go bankrupt due to market forces beyond their control would make so many things so much easier. For example, in my state of Pennsylvania, fracking is a political issue. It's a fossil fuel industr
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by vharuck 2y ago
I didn't say I would automatically believe something just because the reporter says "anonymous source." The reality is the administration's PR people spout an endless steam of lies, and "leakers" who share real
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I'm sure you mean that the article doesn't name any federal worker or person with knowledge of the events which they've quoted or paraphrased. In which case, of course. This administration has shown it will vindictively punis
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by vharuck 2y ago
We absolve government officials and agents of legal liability for almost every act they do as part of their job, but that's under the assumption that (1) fear of prosecution would paralyze every decision, and (2) the government acts in
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by vharuck 2y ago
>People like the OP and us are mocked for moves to block billboards in space as being “alarmist” or out of touch, yet driving along any highway in the USA will bombard you with ads on billboards, on busses, on rideshares, on overly-large
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by vharuck 2y ago
If you want to see someone that makes you say "Wow" and/or "Eww", look up videos of tarantula molting.
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by vharuck 2y ago
They do need protein. Nectar is an extra and easy source of energy. And my wife is the kind of person who wants to play with her pets, no matter the species. The Q-tip was the only thing I agreed to, because I didn't want to terrify t
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by vharuck 2y ago
The Peckham Society is an informal group that shares research on jumping spiders: http://peckhamia.com/
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Jumping spiders make great pets. The ones I've kept build silk tubes in the upper corners of their terrariums to hide and sleep in, meaning I could see them most of the time. They actively hunt, which is fun to watch. And even the comm
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by vharuck 2y ago
This analysis doesn't say whether minority drivers were more likely to be pulled over for traffic violations, only that they were more likely to be issued a citation and that those citations came with higher fines. I would guess a cop
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by vharuck 2y ago
I'm reminded of something said by a famous author (I can't remember the author's name or the exact wording, and am having a hell of a time searching for it). Paraphrased from shoddy memory, the author was asked about how insp
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by vharuck 2y ago
The information they discussed is almost always classified. If somebody were to declassify it so that these discussions could take place on insecure devices at insecure locations, then it's gross incompetence. There's a reason thi
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by vharuck 2y ago
My 3 year old loves YouTube kids, and I'll admit he gets a good amount of it. We make sure we're watching it with him, and we control the remote. Some channels/topics we all like: - Aty and Ui, two pet otters in Japan. Their
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by vharuck 2y ago
>If I cared more, I'd make a website called Department of Lies (since the regime defines what they're doing as the truth) and catalog all the actions of the regime, and how they're illegal. https://whatthefuckju
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by vharuck 2y ago
>The reservoir of potential candidates is vast. The risk this mitigates seems important enough to give up on additional potential candidates. I've recently grown to value this idea of "No single person is special or necessary f
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by vharuck 2y ago
Exact systems that put people in jail would be much more terrifying, because they'd achieve simplicity by ignoring complexity. The existence of the state and federal supreme courts in the US shows the need for careful consideration of
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by vharuck 2y ago
So this finding is in the same vein as mathematicians who can't yet prove or disprove a conjecture, but can prove tighter restrictions than we knew before. Still interesting, and, more importantly, often productive of new paths or met
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They'd pull the same stunt that they did for Trump. If Trump had been convicted for the Jan 6th riot, that would've disqualified him from becoming president. So SCOTUS dragged out the appeal that reached them. Then their decision
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by vharuck 2y ago
PvP MMOs tend to all have a similar make-up of players. At the top are the elite griefers prey on noobs, and beside them are the elite duelists who challenge each other. The griefers and duelists don't interact too much. Below them are
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by vharuck 2y ago
>I'm arguing there is no conspiracy. This is usually the correct view to take, but in this case I'd disagree. Hot button political topics are easy "conspiracies." Political parties are groups that get together and dec
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>Who are the “right people” who would’ve flagged and stopped $29 million in usaid funds going to destabilized the government in Bangladesh, or DEI projects in Serbia? Congressional representatives. You can share what you know with your r
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by vharuck 2y ago
What about early retirement for unnecessary bureaucrats? You give them their most recent salary and benefits until they're 65 or would've been eligible for retirement, then handle their retirement plans as though they'd been
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by vharuck 2y ago
Consider this hypothetical: a federal judge rules against the Trump administration's firing of the inspectors general and must offer the fired employees their positions back. The Attorney General says the judge overstepped his constitu
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by vharuck 2y ago
>Rapidly identified key personnel without weeks or months of subjective analysis and political posturing by workers and their supervisors. This doesn't make sense to me. The federal government isn't a company making Widget X, w

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