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by tzs 10d ago
When you file a lawsuit you basically say two things: 1. Defendant(s) did this things which harmed me. 2. This violates these specific laws and you list those laws and explain how the things from #1 violate them. The trial court determines
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by tzs 10d ago
I believe that "accurate" in this context means "not knowingly a lie" rather than "is objectively correct". The allegation is that city officials knew the water was not safe to drink but told residents that it
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by tzs 10d ago
The article makes it sound like this was a ruling from one judge. In fact it was a 15 judge panel. The article is talking about the majority ruling, which was joined by 10 judges. The judge they name is the judge the chief judge assigned to
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by tzs 10d ago
Again, the plaintiffs choose the argument. They choose to use a statute, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, that starts: > Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the Distri
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by tzs 10d ago
> The judge evidently is just a tool employed by Trump - against the people. Interesting that there may still be anyone who is not super-rich be a supporter of Trump if you give them factual evidence like this here. It depends on if they
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by tzs 11d ago
I did say what I meant. You overlooked the context. The person I was replying to was trying to make inferences from the fact that data centers have become a statewide issue in some states but golf courses have not. My point is that because
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by tzs 11d ago
> I've not seen a single politician calling for statewide bans on golf courses. I've not seen a single state where anyone is trying to build a ton of new golf courses. There are around 140 being built in the whole country, and
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by tzs 11d ago
> Meanwhile, they're currently building >200GW of new coal plants Many are being built as backups and peakers rather than baseload, designed (or retrofitted in the case of existing plants being upgraded) to be able to cycle up an
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by tzs 11d ago
I'd guess part of the reason he got downvoted is this: "The increased CO2 levels in recent years (slightly added to by human activities) [...]". Pretty much all of the CO2 increase above pre-industrial levels (280 ppm) is due
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by tzs 11d ago
> Actively remove greenhouse gasses from atmosphere. Will need to do that, but land use and dirty energy trends away from net negative. Also, it’s a 100 year project once started. I once did the math, assuming we have enough resources to
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by tzs 11d ago
One of the countries that is going up (China) is also doing more than any other country to rapidly roll out renewables both domestically and in other countries, and their emissions have peaked or are near peaking, and is capable of sticking
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by tzs 11d ago
> It’s one piece of many It is one of the last pieces to focus effort on. If I stopped eating all meat and dairy it would reduce the world's annual emissions by 0.0000000026%, assuming we can ignore animal quantization and market ef
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by tzs 13d ago
By native Brits he means white people born in the UK [1]. People who are not white are not native Brits by his reckoning no matter how many generations their family has been there. I think that is a lot more extreme than the average UK righ
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by tzs 13d ago
Interesting. For 3 players this set of 3 6-sided dice would work: #1: 1 2 3 4 17 18 #2: 5 6 7 14 15 16 #3: 8 9 10 11 12 13 But if you had those 3 dice but only 2 players you could not just have each player grab one of them and ro
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by tzs 13d ago
I don't see how AI brings that about since the thing keeping us from having that now is not a lack of "I".
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by tzs 13d ago
The proof of the classification of finite simple groups is bigger than that.
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by tzs 13d ago
They didn't do anything special for "Lake America". Google's long standing maps policy is to show people the names that their government says they have. As soon as that name showed up in the US government's database
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by tzs 13d ago
Meta just had to make a settlement in a major case that is bad for them. That doesn't look like the "donations" are working very well. And yes, that settlement is bad for them. What nearly every commenter here in the threads
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by tzs 13d ago
It is probably worth noting it is not unusual to have people who are not pilots move aircraft. For example in the US FAA regulations only require a pilot during flight time. Flight time includes self-powered ground movement if it is for the
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by tzs 14d ago
So I work for 45+ years, paying SS tax for those 45+ years, and what that gets me is a loan when I retire with payback deferred until I die? You'll have a hard time convincing anyone that they want to participate in that.
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by tzs 14d ago
> The culture of investing in training and mentoring to foster employee growth has been eroding for the past 40 years (if not more), to where it only seems to exist in limited capacity in legacy institutions and is completely absent in n
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by tzs 14d ago
Hah. Those were some of the screen editors we complained about. Emacs was popularly said to stand for "(e)ight (m)egabytes (a)nd (c)constantly (s)wapping". (8 MB is small by today's standards, but back then it was big. I beli
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by tzs 15d ago
Sometime around 1980-81 I had a part time job while an undergraduate in college doing system programming/admin for the Caltech High Energy Physics department. Rob Pike was the system programmer/admin before me when he was a grad s
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by tzs 15d ago
Worldwide outside the US BEVs are about 16% of new car sales (BEVs + PHEVs are about 25%). Hybrids are still going to be relevant worldwide for quite a while.
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by tzs 15d ago
Wait...your theory is that if we make it so I can copy and tweak any work of authorship I can find at no cost other than the actual effort it takes to make a copy and tweak it this is going to make me more likely to put in the effort to c
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by tzs 15d ago
> So the issue really isn't "social media", it's the blackbox personalized algorithmic feed. > So that is what we should be addressing. That is what the bill addresses. It bans providing an "addictive featur
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by tzs 15d ago
> This well-intentioned, but deeply flawed piece of legislation, cuts young people off from essential information and experiences, particularly harming vulnerable youth and marginalized groups who often find safety in supportive online c
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by tzs 16d ago
> I'd rather EU have a decent frontier model lab that plays to win, and steps on toes while doing so, than have a very elaborate bureaucracy that tries to prevent that from happening What in the AI Act makes it hard to develop front
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by tzs 16d ago
A big difference with libraries is that (hopefully) a whole lot of other people have used that same library the same way you are going to use it for the same purpose you are using it for. All the significant bugs hopefully were found by the
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by tzs 17d ago
> What reckoning? The settlement benefits Meta immensely. This was one lawsuit. It settled their immediate legal problems with the 47 states and DC that were included in the settlement. Florida is continuing with its own case against the

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