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murderberry

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    Comment #36408431

    It's pretty complex, though. If a farmer pumps water out of the aquifer directly underneath, irrigates crops, and most of the water (minus evaporation and crop biomass) is returned…

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    Comment #36399506

    LCDs have PWM-dimmed backlights, so if your laptop isn't set to maximum brightness, you're probably staring at a flickering surface too. Perhaps a simpler explanation is just contr…

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    Comment #36284304

    Yes and no. It's a common trope at many tech companies that these are two completely separate tracks, with no special upside to either. But then, here's the reality: any large comp…

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    Comment #36273000

    "Technology bad." It's really that. He falls for the same trap many modern critics of progress do: the nostalgia for a world that never existed, when men lived meaningful lives in …

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    Comment #36253589

    Real estate is just a slog. It takes years to build new office space. Lease opportunities come up on weird schedules and tend to be long-term too. They're likely offloading the spa…

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    Comment #36245429

    "Persuaded" is a loaded word here, and I think you're anthropomorphizing it a bit too much. Early LLMs were very malleable, so to speak: they would go with the flow of what you're …

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    Comment #36187593

    Another fairly reasonable hypothesis is the difference in account age. If you've been on Twitter for a decade, a lot of the accounts following you are just dead : people who no lon…

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    Comment #36143403

    A power company is unlikely to do this, in part because they are not an industry that fetishizes growth at any cost with the value of individual users approaching zero. And in part…