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Comment #42866203
just for the chatbot, it's trivial to switch, create a new account and start asking questions from deepseek instead. There is nothing holding the users in chatgpt.
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Comment #42689907
The original comment made it sound like minorities are just hunted down by random whites, lynching style. But even if you look at police murders on civilians, they are killing more…
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Comment #42687764
If you look how many white people are killed by blacks versus blacks killed by white people, you will have a shock. Even when you account for whites being a few times more than bla…
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Comment #42634576
Little known fact (I am still amazed how people don't know the mechanics of global warming...): CO2 effect in the atmosphere is logarithmic, increasing with concentration. That is …
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Comment #42627400
> - whether the earth is warming or not The Earth is warming, but how much of it is caused by humans is under debate. The Earth is still coming out of an ice age, so it would be wa…
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Comment #41445725
> I thought they didn't bother and just buried it if it wasn't profitable. In my county, they are obliged by the contract to NOT bury the mixed recyclables. So they used to offload…
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Comment #41438160
It was viable only because we were shipping "recyclables" that had to be "recycled" by contract, not pure garbage that could have just been buried. Sorting through that whole mess …
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Comment #41438141
Loss of biodiversity and microplastics pollution are even higher in my opinion.
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Comment #41300326
> before GPS was viable GPS can be jammed (see Russia-UKraine war), so inertial systems are still very important for rockets, for example some HIMARS rockets start with GPS and the…
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Comment #41300212
I remember seeing one of those computers on Wisconsin, but I only saw it after decommission, as a museum piece. Those computers are truly mind boggling, if you're reading this and …
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Comment #41229909
> the opinion [1] seems to indicate that the geofence itself is not admissible, but evidence obtained as a result of it is still admissible That means they can geofence to get a sh…
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Comment #41129235
The even more annoying fact is that the whole global warming crisis is BECAUSE of that thermodynamic effect. With increased CO2 alone, if we emit as much as we could, would only wa…
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Comment #41120879
> The world was wrong to expect that climate change would trigger rapid and widespread desertification in the world’s arid lands The science never said that. It was popsci, magazin…
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Comment #40788085
I don't understand how Microsoft gets under fire so easily, but Google bundles everything in Android, and you can't even uninstall most of them (maps, gmail etc.). Same with iphone…
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Comment #40465776
> only 10% That does not mean anything. A car's engine contains only 10% of the parts in that car.
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Comment #40454059
the tweet doesn't say "killer app is Her", it says it's "SJo". Very big difference
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Comment #40016032
> Charging a fee just for linking to something is a bad idea. If you're profiting from it, it's not a bad idea.
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Comment #40004096
The map shows solar resource, irrespective of the technology you're using. For example, you could be using heat collectors that would capture closer to 100%. To keep things simple,…
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Comment #39842875
absolutely, but CAPS are intended to draw attention, and we should be paying much more attention to this. How did we end up in a society where multinational companies can assassina…
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Comment #39840024
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Comment #39833747
According to WorldBank[1], they import $36 billion and export $26 billion worth of food [1] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Yea... Such journalism...
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Comment #39832835
You should look at the deisgn of old stone bridges. Their side facing up ( so towards the floods and ice) is like a wedge pointed upwards. So it's not like he bridge needs a buffer…
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Comment #39758565
That leaves you only with candidates that are willing to work on a contract. Most are not that desperate. Do you want desperate employees? then go ahead. Also, don't be surprised w…
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Comment #39359860
it is...the entirety of fire marshal and firefights laws being replaced by just 4-5 rules would save countless lives: - build secondary escape doors and don't lock/block them - hav…
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Comment #39353156
There are 2 things that happen: you bribe the firefighters(rarer), OR you just continue functioning without their signoff(more common). Because most businesses were not compliant a…