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Generally true, but it is quite funny that by pure chance Squanto was a baptized Catholic.
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by _--__--__ 9d ago
This ruling seems obviously correct to me? The plaintiffs claimed this was a 14th amendment issue, but at the time the 14th was added cholera outbreaks were still somewhat common in the US and there was no remote notion of safe drinking wat
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by _--__--__ 14d ago
Anthropic's legal team cares
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by _--__--__ 15d ago
Many opponents of Brave online are thoroughly convinced that Brave Rewards (which gives you their Ethereum coin in exchange for showing ads as OS notification) is on by default, when it isn't. They also claim that this replaces blocked
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by _--__--__ 16d ago
Do you think Google maps made a moral choice to eg show different names for the Sea of Japan in Russia and Korea?
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by _--__--__ 20d ago
Most of the people talking like that are far removed from real power and influence. But I suppose extending your twitter flamewar to include the chair of the FTC is one way to change that...
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by _--__--__ 27d ago
I doubt there was much evolutionary selection for the ability to run more than 50 miles at once (my understanding is that the female advantage in ultra endurance has to do with muscle/fat composition and lower total skeletal mass, whic
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by _--__--__ 28d ago
I live near the SF location and the biggest issues seem outside of their control: tax/import costs making things way more expensive than I know they would be in Japan plus spiky demand for the prepared food limiting the quality/qu
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by _--__--__ 29d ago
Was thinking about Terry last week as the anniversary of his death came by. I have a lot to say about him and the way online society treats people like him, but not now. For those who haven't seen it, this is one of the better write up
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by _--__--__ 29d ago
I think the resource curse didn't apply to Norway because they had an established post-industrial economy for hundreds of years before they got into oil exporting (they didn't even start drilling until the 1960s, 50 years after Ve
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by _--__--__ 1mo ago
Yeah this is awful. Every codebase becomes a graveyard of references to ideas or behaviors that were barely considered. It's probably also a compounding source of context poisoning when a minority of the comments/documentation are
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by _--__--__ 1mo ago
alternatively: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htCJTPu8GPE
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by _--__--__ 1mo ago
ATCs are chronically understaffed in a way that endangers all of us, and the FAA has been under scrutiny for their hiring practices for over a decade https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39184451 It's equally plausible
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by _--__--__ 1mo ago
Metaphoric use of 'decapitation' referring to an organization or state is normal and idiomatic in American English, especially if you spend a lot of time talking to people with military backgrounds. There's plenty of other st
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by _--__--__ 1mo ago
I'm from Jefferson county KY, the FAA had to fund a sound proofing program for a huge part of that area because one of the 5 busiest cargo airports in the world is smack in the middle of Louisville metro. Having lived in NoVA as well,
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by _--__--__ 2mo ago
They need to convince 65 year old law firm partners, not you or me.
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by _--__--__ 2mo ago
GitHub has about as much of a shot of doing that as I do of fixing my allergies by updating the base human genome.
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by _--__--__ 2mo ago
Russia still has a huge portion of the Nazi stolen artifacts but I have no idea how many are in public museums.
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by _--__--__ 2mo ago
But we're cool with this bill pushed by people whose primary concern is more tee times in Florida in January? I lived most of my life in a place that already has days with post 8AM winter sunrises on Standard time and can only really g
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by _--__--__ 2mo ago
People who work in finance and certain fields of law on the west coast start their day at 9AM eastern time .
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by _--__--__ 3mo ago
Do you seriously believe that the EPA is deferential to the current Republican coalition, and that it has been over the past few decades when it was asked to reconsider glyphosate multiple times? The IARC reclassification that kicked off th
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by _--__--__ 3mo ago
The people who put shit like this out, referring to the Supreme Court as the "Trump administration" siding with Bayer in favor of cancer and poison, think you are too stupid to find that "Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED.
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by _--__--__ 3mo ago
The vast majority of American employees are not maxing out every tax advantaged retirement account instrument, and putting everything in a 401(k) past the employer match level is not advisable exactly because of the limited investment choic
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by _--__--__ 3mo ago
The 'wallpapers' in question are pirated games made in renpy (python game engine) or rpgmaker (js based), which makes them a really good vector for malware. As another commenter noted this is a bizarrely common way for Chinese peo
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by _--__--__ 3mo ago
Direct links to OpenAI's own report: https://openai.com/index/prc-linked-influence-operations-ai-... https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/96b559fa-c165-4575-805d-e636909e2...
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by _--__--__ 3mo ago
180cm is the roughly equivalent round number benchmark but it's a bit shorter and most European populations are a bit taller on average than Americans
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by _--__--__ 4mo ago
> After the ban, Balochi priests in the Sindh region complained to the British Governor, Charles Napier about what they claimed was a meddlement in a sacred custom of their nation. Napier replied: >>Be it so. This burning of widows
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by _--__--__ 4mo ago
The article takes a while to get there, but it is focusing on a set of companies I hadn't heard of ("Transsion, Oppo, Vivo, and Lava") that buy components from last gen smartphones to make cheap devices to sell in the African
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by _--__--__ 4mo ago
Sports gambling a few advantages over any other subject that seem near insurmountable to me: - it has the semi-respectable veneer of something that normal people have done throughout human history - it has completely parasitized existing sp
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by _--__--__ 4mo ago
Most available data suggests that sports betting is much worse for the people making the bets, as it better targets people with poor impulse control. Bad bets in political markets aren't causing measurable increases in bankruptcy and d

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