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you best believe it
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I used to be in some working groups doing something similar on the economic development side of things, i'm frankly not convinced of the value of most of these things, but there was a lot of excitement to combine FCCs fine-grained broadband data with other federal equity efforts.
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Here's the correct map link www.fcc.gov/reports-rese...
I'm not super familiar with the project, but my understanding is that FCC is organizing this and managing the infrastructure data, the the actual Epi work isn't really from FCC.
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Arguing the same of intercity rail (with 90%+ of costs coming from tickets) would be something wild, but when you're the MTA with only 15% of your bus costs covered by fares, where those fares are still not affordable at the federal poverty level, it makes sense to consider alternatives.
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Bus fares generate comparatively low revenue compared to implementation cost and are in fact a large part of household income for many. You can argue that the 10-30% loss in operating cost isn't worth it, even with higher overall ridership, but less an obsession than as a realistic policy proposal.
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there is strong evidence that many corvids and primates have both a theory of mind and can process center-embedded grammars. whether intelligence is defined by language use, conceptual reasoning, something more…it's not a binary condition, but a varied spectrum (w/ humans on one end).
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Language is likely the defining quality of human-like intelligence, but the idea that all people experience a constant internal monologue seems absurd to me, in no small part because I don't myself.
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I don't know we can even claim that with any confidence
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the average american would benefit from putting their phone down and focusing on healthy american activities like obsessive research into novel household uses of their favorite agricultural crop
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some of our local gangs have started to switch to electrics and honestly its great. they can shit tear up to their hearts content, i don't have to listen to anything but a soft electric whine.
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thanks for the interest but fuck off
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if we ever form the next american republic over here i am first in line to demand we stop fucking around and finish the transition. we officially metrified in 1975 and never want to see a fucking 1/4-20 bolt again in my life.
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we do use metric values, just in the stupidest possible ways. defining feet/inches/miles with meters, selling food by the ounce but marked in mL and with nutrients in grams.
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with the constitutional order hanging by a thread, DC is on just as shaky ground as any voting district. there’s never been a better time for Eleanor to step aside for someone ready to wield that mic for maximum hell and fury.
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i created a new account at some point this spring, just to stop being annoyed about not being able to see links to posts. the default feed for new accounts is full of crypto scams, with the nastiest reactionary proganda filling out the rest.
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watched somebody use this to avoid causing problems with the neighbors and while drilling tons of holes in boulders is a project by itself, seems like it works great
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tilda swinton
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(I should clarify that there is real environmental impact from any data center installation and a growth in AI usage will obviously increase this, its just that AI isn't notable vs. other use cases)
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I'm not familiar with that breakdown, but yeah total data center consumption is still around 1% of global energy use and is disproportionately served by renewables, especially outside of China.
There are plenty of issues with AI but energy and water consumption isn't one of them.
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AI does not destroy the environment
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Segregationists and Birchers, it seems
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wtf is wrong with you
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you wrote his description of these events and his version of events is easily verified as a lie. do you not see the issue with that being your only allusion to his having and sharing CSAM?
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Sharing excerpts of that video was used prosecute somebody as recently as last year: it's really that bad and he lied to you about the source and his intent. You really need to fact check large parts of this article.
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the center-left is often asking for a respect that they will likely never receive vs. the material votes that those further left typically delivers. i don't know whether this can be solved (or whether it matters)
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yup. same arrangement as in most california cities.
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Came back to Iowa to take over the family farm and ended up running real-deal barnstorming campaigns all over rural Iowa. J.D. is not of this century.
(Really nice guy too, btw)
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Hell of a great guy. Let's make this happen.
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endless edit wars forcing every roman senators page to be locked for years
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for one tom steyer, we can fund a city paper in every one of the largest 1000 cities in the country, all the way down to spanish fork, carpentersville. & friendswood. and we'd still have money left over to fund the rogan-esqe left podcast platform we already have: christmastown with dave and jeb
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i don't think you can completely eliminate it, but after working in government and seeing the deep dedication of civil servants, some of the solution is cultivating a deep culture of social responsibility, something akin to civic religion
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the author is the wapo space stuff guy, and likely he got this assignment because he has elon's number from writing his book on how billionaires are going to space and that's really cool. the glowing praise for returning mankind to the heavens is bleeding through.
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they are such delightful little weirdos
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as long as they have and can keep good form, people should lift however they like. if somebody wants one big arm like a lobster, good for them, none of my business what sort of strong other people are trying to achieve.
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idk this would get me through most of my days working as an unsuccessful onion farmer
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tradeoffs between 8- and 12-hour shifts are still somewhat blurry and shifts over 12 hours are pretty consistently worse. other high-stakes fields (e.g. military aviation) addressed cognitive limits and information management decades ago. maybe it’s time for medicine to grow up.
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genuinely surprised that paper got published as anything other than a throwaway blog post. its quite clear they never bothered to look at the source data, the paper doesn't have enough detail to make a case either way, the whole thing is a fucking embarassment
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the big lesson i've learned since the virus emerged is that economists are typically dumb as shit about epidemiology and public health.
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if its not a potato-shaped animal? instant block.