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by zugi 1y ago
> Indeed, even in the worst-case scenario, the average annual global mean ozone loss is found to be between 0.17×10–4 % and 8×10–4 %, while the Antarctic local ozone concentration change can reach about 0.05%. Those impacts are negligibl
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by zugi 1y ago
I realize you're just repeating frequently reported information, and Intuit has indeed lobbied against the IRS creating a free competitor to their product. But Intuit has not lobbied to make taxes more complicated. Congress does that
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by zugi 1y ago
> As we do, we will also continue to comply with Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which ruled that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act makes it unlawful for universities to make decisions “on the basis of race.” This is already a sh
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by zugi 2y ago
I love this, yes the crime of getting a loan with stolen or fake credentials used to be called "bank fraud" and it was the bank's problem. Now it's called "identity theft" and they've convinced many of us
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by zugi 2y ago
> The reason they build dams is to create deep water that gives them protection from predators. How do they know the reasons beavers build dams? Did these reporters fact-check this by asking the beavers?
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by zugi 2y ago
Undermining the legitimacy of the new President to try to diminish his power seems common lately, e.g.: - Clinton only won because Ross Perot siphoned votes away. - Bush didn't win, the Supreme Court handed him the Presidency. - Obama
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by zugi 2y ago
Can you be more specific about what you mean? The search summary for that page says: > The Tiananmen Square Tank Man is an iconic image that emerged from the protests and subsequent military crackdown that occurred in Beijing, China, in
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by zugi 2y ago
> Can you talk about the Tiananmen Square massacre on TikTok and show the few videos of people who were disappeared? Yes, see www.tiktok.com/channel/tiananmen-square . Or read https://www.independent.co.uk/tv&#
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by zugi 2y ago
> Little do you know, they are taking your money and donating to those pineapple on pizza places. I love your analogy, even though I disagree with your conclusions. They publish their MMFAM policy right on their website, so you have fair
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by zugi 2y ago
> I feel that convincing people to pay monthly/yearly for something that has minimal monthly recurring expenditure/investment from the provider (unlike utilities, streaming services, etc.) is one of the biggest cons of the mode
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by zugi 2y ago
True, and I'm sure many, even most, folks working for Big Tech want to make the world a better place. We likely disagree about the merits of the DEA's War To Destroy the Lives of American Meth Users. That's a topic for anothe
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by zugi 2y ago
Sure, yet you're exemplifying the "judge others" stuff by calling what others do unethical, and judging without evidence that they only do it because of the money, and not because their moral world-view differs from yours. I
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by zugi 2y ago
Most people want to judge others and rationalize their own behavior, while piling on to whatever views happen to be popular at the time. What's worse, working for Big Tobacco, or working for Big Tech, or working for the DEA and spendin
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by zugi 2y ago
Frost said he loved to read the critics' reviews of his poems, so he could learn the meaning behind what he had written.
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by zugi 2y ago
This will get ugly: > Other airlines recovered more quickly than Atlanta-based Delta... "Delta’s claims ... reflect a desperate attempt to shift blame for its slow recovery away from its failure to modernize its antiquated IT infras
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by zugi 2y ago
"We're already AI'ing as fast as we can!" This sort of edict will result in wasteful spending and boondoggles that will make the front page of Hacker News a year from now. But it will also light a fire under some parts o
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by zugi 2y ago
Single English words cannot be trademarked. However, if you string two of them together, and demonstrate that you are actively using the phrase in commerce, you can get the phrase trademarked for use in a particular domain, e.g. computer so
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by zugi 2y ago
> However, they copied it to their commercial Wordpress site and offered it as part of their "business plan" and also their paid premium plan. That part is absolutely fine and is covered in the original article under "Wait
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by zugi 2y ago
> The 2024 NDTA highlights the dangerous shift from plant-based drugs to synthetic drugs It's almost as if it was a mistake to spend decades throwing people in jail for using the plant-based drugs... But perusing the document, I see
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by zugi 2y ago
This article was a really interesting read! Probably about a 9 out of 10.
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by zugi 2y ago
Perhaps this line from further down is what was meant by "not real": > The Andersen position was that “Y2K is a documentation problem, not a technology problem.” Sure, there were other people at other companies solving the &quo
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by zugi 2y ago
Fair enough and thanks for pointing that out. Even that focuses on "adhere to NASA requirements" rather than "will it work". In between there's stuff like: > DCMA also found that Boeing personnel made numerous ad
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by zugi 2y ago
> For example, Boeing Defense’s Earned Value Management System (EVMS)—which NASA uses to measure contract cost and schedule progress ... has been disapproved by the Department of Defense since 2020. Officials claim this precludes Boeing
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by zugi 2y ago
What's even more annoying is there were already browser plug-ins, and now there are built-in browser tools, for rejecting cookies or deciding which cookies to store permanently versus which to accept temporarily. GDPR forced a one-size
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by zugi 2y ago
Data point: I'm on Sprint, now T-mobile, and my plan has stayed at exactly the same price in dollars for a decade, despite 30+% inflation over that time and the addition of 5G data. Verizon has slightly better service in my area, but w
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by zugi 2y ago
There's just no avoiding those astroturfed marketing campaigns being pushed by Big Vegan.
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by zugi 2y ago
Not at all. Remember what FISA stands for: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. This law was originally written to allow spying on Foreign citizens. They stoked enough fear to get Congress to amend and expand the law to allow targetin
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by zugi 2y ago
This is the first time I've heard defending the first amendment referred to as part of "culture wars bickering."
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by zugi 2y ago
Top schools compete with each for students. Collaborating to keep prices high or keep admissions criteria consistent in a way that reduces competition between the schools would open them up to anti-trust complaints. But that would be hard t
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by zugi 2y ago
> When we initially suspended our testing requirement due to the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic I was about to call them out on this, since most institutions were using loosely supported discrimination claims to justify elim

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