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by vharuck 7d ago
For those unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...
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by vharuck 12d ago
I listened to yesterday's NYT's The Daily podcast about the Hugging Face incident, and they got to the part about some of the agents showing reluctance or guilt in the posts. Then I thought, "These are improv actors." St
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by vharuck 15d ago
What about researchers at universities? Maintain a list of experts and conduct a poll whenever an event like this happens or enough of the experts request. Or require an act of Congress. Obviously, we can no longer rely on Executive Orders
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by vharuck 16d ago
I'm happily surprised they didn't ask for money.
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by vharuck 18d ago
Imagine an arts and crafts company. The company wants to create a forum where users can share pictures and advice of their creations. There must be moderators, because unmoderated image boards become cesspools of CSAM and scams. Let's
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by vharuck 21d ago
>The first because a lower supply of labor is going to create breathing space for an entire working population who will see tremendous job upheaval due to AI automation. A lower aggregate demand on houses, services will also be welcome t
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by vharuck 21d ago
Don't forget, with the alleged drug boats to the south, this government claims anyone they designate a terrorist is immediately a valid target for lethal military action.
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by vharuck 1mo ago
4, actually. 3 voted to allow the executive order rescinding birthright citizenship. 1 voted against the order, but on the reasoning that it violated a law from the early 1900s, not the Constitution.
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by vharuck 1mo ago
Why, my good poster, there's nothing funny about 48 bushels in my butt (i.e. towed cart). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buttload
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by vharuck 1mo ago
DHS has the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency. Their job is to help organizations in the US with protecting public services and physical infrastructure. They are partially responsible for the outcomes. https://ww
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by vharuck 1mo ago
States may dangle the tax carrots, but localities could be the ones paying for road and utility improvements. The costs for that could be much less than projected gains in tax revenue, but that's a gamble. Not to mention being left wit
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by vharuck 2mo ago
I find that I care more when copyright violations cause actual harm to the copyright owner. Let's say there's an American kid who can't speak Japanese but wants to keep up with a weekly manga. He downloads a bootleg translati
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by vharuck 2mo ago
I vaguely remember a saying I read here once: A tech lover has a home full of smart appliances and systems. A tech expert has a computer, a modem, a printer, and a revolver lying next to the printer in case it makes a sound they don't
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by vharuck 3mo ago
>And some people keep them as pets. I can personally vouch for them being great pets. They're active during the day, hunt prey, don't need much food or water, and tend to "hide" in silk cases they build along the top
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by vharuck 3mo ago
Math is a terrible example. Euclid's "Elements" was a core book in Western math education for millennia, and it uses drawn geometric proofs. The proofs are then described in Greek, but the rigorous definitions are the picture
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by vharuck 3mo ago
>I have no idea how this stuff should be regulated. That's why we have a system where representatives of districts do research, debate, and hash out those details while the public who votes for them is able to contact them. >I do
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by vharuck 3mo ago
My wife and I set up sleep shifts during the first two months. I would sleep from 9 PM to 3 AM, then we'd spend an hour all together, then she'd sleep from 4 AM to 10 AM. During a person's sleep time, they were not to be dist
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by vharuck 3mo ago
I'm glad to hear the teenage drummer I used to see when googling myself has gone pro. He's doing pretty well, too, if these models can be trusted.
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by vharuck 3mo ago
>If it's to dangerous to make public, it's too dangerous to collect, and people should be aware of exactly what it is. While this may be a reasonable stance in theory, there are many examples in reality where the danger has not
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by vharuck 4mo ago
Take the National Basketball Players Association as an example. They represent NBA players and collectively bargained for a minimum wage, benefits, and processes to address grievances with management. NBA players aren't all paid the sa
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by vharuck 4mo ago
They joined Republicans in limiting presidential power after Watergate. Granted, these limitations usually come after gross abuses. But these are gross abuses, and there's no reason to think they won't get grosser.
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by vharuck 4mo ago
I wouldn't use the COVID economy to understand anything except "What happens to an economy during a pandemic?" People had more money, but there was a lot less to spend on for a while. Not to mention the psychological effects
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by vharuck 4mo ago
>Why would they ever fix the system. Some number of people will just pay it and those people are pure profit. Heck, fixing the system costs money. The system is run by employees of whatever agency handles taxes. Neither the employees nor
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by vharuck 4mo ago
I use ad blockers on my personal computer and phone to avoid tracking. My work computer doesn't have a blocker, but I only visit "professional" sites and major blog aggregators on it, so those ads aren't egregious. Ad bl
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by vharuck 4mo ago
No need to invoke a hypothetical water example, just look to how Nestlé pushed baby formula in developing countries¹: >For example, IBFAN claims that Nestlé distributes free formula samples to hospitals and maternity wards; after leaving
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by vharuck 4mo ago
100 years ago, horror stories featured wizard-like scientists using electricity to perform magic. A few decades after that, it was nuclear fission. Then quantum mechanics decades after that. Magical thinking will always live in the new.
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by vharuck 5mo ago
>Retroactive amendments change the legal effect of provisions for a past period — an amendment published today can declare that it applies from last year. This retroactively alters the legal state at historical points in time. I don&#x27
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by vharuck 5mo ago
Did both the president and vice president attend past dinners? I thought protocol was to rarely have them in the same location, in case of something like this.
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by vharuck 5mo ago
A lot of Ukiyo-e wood prints have small details that mean a lot to locals. I enjoy learning about them on the NHK's English channel. In this case, the boats are fast (each has a bunch of crewmen) and were used to catch valuable fish. A
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by vharuck 5mo ago
I (or really, my parents) were burned by something like this recently. They bought my kid an FAO Schwarz marble run tower for Christmas. It's made of terrible plastic, with rough seams, and every play session ends when a marble gets st

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