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by vharuck 2y ago
If there are more trees in 10 years than there are now, and we keep that number relatively steady, won't that mean less CO2 in the atmosphere? Individual trees may die and decompose, but they can be replaced.
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The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is the body doing that meta-analysis and writing recommendations. The recommendations are for general patients (high-risk patients should be identified and guided by their doctors), and are bas
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>Maybe, but that doesn't seem practical, outside of having some large oversight body employing many people to review this... which is just what DOGE purportedly is. The oversight body is Congress. They hold hearings, call on experts
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The NIH and CDC have incredibly detailed medical event data for infectious diseases, cancer diagnoses, and death certificates (which have a ton of data beyond "John Doe of New York City died of such and such on such and such date.&quot
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>This is completely wrong, if anything an increase in the usage of LLMs to generate small pipelines will lead to increased demand for professional pipelines to be built. Because if any small thing breaks the dashboards/features brea
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>Or maybe our mind is based on a bunch of mathematical tricks too. Some people used to push the theory that quantum probability was where free will and the soul reside. That is to say, people will imagine how the hard questions of old ne
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by vharuck 2y ago
Separation is a good idea, but the implementation in the US needs some work. As majgr said, the feedback loop needs to be short. It's good that policy takes a while to change, because that allows debates, public comments, investigative
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by vharuck 2y ago
"You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich. - Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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>You say government is not like code, then what exactly is it? Government is mostly individuals deciding goals and attempting to convince others. Then rules are added to prevent harm to others or using corrupt methods of convincing. That
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by vharuck 2y ago
In 2024, US companies exported $137.8 million to Mozambique, and imported $201.7 million from that country[0]. If that country were crippled by a healthcare crisis, that's less business for companies in the US and other countries that
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by vharuck 2y ago
A lot of federal money goes to state and local health programs. For example, consider mammograms. A state will be given a budget to spend on mammograms. The state doesn't do those screenings itself, so it solicits bids from several hea
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by vharuck 2y ago
Most federal workers do not serve at the pleasure of the President, ever since the Pendleton Act in 1883: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendleton_Civil_Service_Refo... So remember, when Trump talks about the "de
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by vharuck 2y ago
That only makes sense if everyone downloads every data set in case they need it one day. I unhappily agree that's the case with private companies' data, because any company's not guaranteed to be around tomorrow. But the gov
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by vharuck 2y ago
I wouldn't count the Executive Orders related to ICE in the "nepotism and favoritism" group fzeroracer referred to. Those might be more of the "smokescreen." The orders for mass layoffs or encouraging quitting of ci
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by vharuck 2y ago
>It may have been part of Garfield's early design to use card rarity to limit the meta but it simply doesn't work It works with how they imagined the game would sell: somebody in a game group convinced their friends to buy a fe
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by vharuck 2y ago
I've had to relax my rule to never needlessly harm insects, and never do it just because it's the easiest way to get rid of them. For example, a single ant gets scooped up and thrown outside, but a line that found food is getting
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by vharuck 2y ago
It's easy to forget how many skills and "heuristics" go into listening. I once read a scale of language proficiency that placed "Can converse over a poor phone connection" at a very high level. When a word is garbl
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by vharuck 2y ago
Standing up to Trump is dangerous to one's political and mortal future. He's removed the security details of Mike Pompeo and John Bolton, two Republicans who served him during his first term. Trump is a spiteful man with no care
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by vharuck 2y ago
Because their duly elected representatives, senators, and president agreed on the bills that included this money. Even if everyone said "We elected the new president to specifically stop all health funding," the Constitution does
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by vharuck 2y ago
For games: Forkyz (collects crossword puzzles from different sources, like the New York Times) PySolFc (mahjong, solitaire, other classic single-player games) Shattered Pixel Dungeon Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup MTG Fami
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by vharuck 2y ago
>(1) Preëmptive (i.e. absent conviction); I think this is necessary class of pardons. A hypothetical example of a good preemptive pardon would be Congress repealing an unjust law, and the president pardoning anybody who broke that law be
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by vharuck 2y ago
Presidents can pardon classes of people. Carter pardoned all people guilty of evading the draft during the Vietnam War. So Trump could pardon everyone involved in certain companies or involved in a specific act.
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Advocacy organizations shouldn't aspire to extremes. The ACLU should offer reasonable and practical help and commentary on civil liberties. Otherwise, you get the modern NRA that fights every law about firearms.
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>Another extreme, let's say the government declared that you may speak freely but only by filling out a web form routed to Dave. Great guy. I mean they haven't technically taken away your right to speak? And someone will hear w
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Probably to get the votes of those who had been backing RFK Jr in the election.
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Books are special cases, because they can be considered discussions. And, often, they're nonthreatening discussions. Pick up the book if you'd like, read it, think about it, respond by talking to others or writing letters. Great
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Banning plastic for unnecessary goods may rein in consumerism a bit. Consider cheap plastic toys. Without plastic, those toys would cost more, and people would buy fewer of them. I doubt the priciness would cause real harm poorer families,
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It can be surprising to learn what civilisations accomplished before inventing a writing system for their language. I was amazed when I found out that Japanese didn't have a writing system until the 4th century AD despite 600+ years of
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by vharuck 2y ago
I was chatting with a guy running a bakery/board game store. He was saying how hard the finances were (the store eventually folded), and he mentioned the price of alcohol insurance. The store didn't serve alcohol, so I asked why
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by vharuck 2y ago
>I now realize that talking about malicious compliance with respect to GDPR was mishandling the Hanlon's Handgun. No, it's not stupidity, but it's also not malice Callous compliance?

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