RustyEarthfire

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[–] RustyEarthfire 12 points 1 week ago

Most of them are leaving. I think the ones remaining rely on bundling with other insurance or services.

[–] RustyEarthfire 3 points 2 weeks ago

For perishable items, you'd get a bathtub curve. For humans in particular one more precise estimate is the Gompertz–Makeham law of mortality.

[–] RustyEarthfire 9 points 2 weeks ago

My biggest frustration with OneDrive is in combination with Office (on my work PC). You browse to a local folder and save, but instead of saving it locally and syncing to the cloud, it saves to the cloud and downloads, and it is slow.

[–] RustyEarthfire 10 points 3 weeks ago

A progressive individual tax would be far more complicated, as you would have to assign, track and audit individual use. And that doesn't even get into secondary uses (e.g. manufacture and transport of goods).

The flat rebate makes the tax progressive. Typical people pay $0 net tax, or even come out ahead, while heavy polluters pay almost the full tax. Just raising the tax will effectively make it progressive.

[–] RustyEarthfire 10 points 3 weeks ago

Seems to mostly be called "Screaming Seagull" or "Inhaling Seagull"

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/inhaling-seagull

[–] RustyEarthfire 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

why did it take so long to pass Congress

H.R.4277 never did pass Congress; it didn't even make it to a vote in the House. This new policy is coming from the CFPB.

Also Biden did not pardon those 1500; he commuted them to time served.

[–] RustyEarthfire 10 points 3 weeks ago

Paper is paywalled, but from the SciTech article it looks like mostly it was sodium sulfate. They did also make some "ocean-degradable plastics".

[–] RustyEarthfire 4 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the link and breakdown.

It sounds like a better description of the estimated thinking speed would be 5-50 bits per second. And when summarizing capacity/capability, one generally uses a number near the top end. It makes far more sense to say we are capable of 50 bps but often use less, than to say we are only capable of 10 but sometimes do more than we are capable of doing. And the paper leans hard into 10 bps being a internally imposed limit rather than conditional, going as far as saying a neural-computer interface would be limited to this rate.

"Thinking speed" is also a poor description for input/output measurement, akin to calling a monitor's bitrate the computer's FLOPS.

Visual processing is multi-faceted. I definitely don't think all of vision can be reduced to 50bps, but maybe the serial part after the parallel bits have done stuff like detecting lines, arcs, textures, areas of contrast, etc.

[–] RustyEarthfire 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It does look like they don't currently have any funding issues. They have 1.5 years of reserves and give about 15% of their income out in grants to other organizations. And like most web sites, the actual hosting costs are a relatively small part of their operation.

[–] RustyEarthfire 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

leaves no calling cards

I think the engravings on the bullets were intended as a message. It seemed like he expected to be caught with his "manifesto" as well. Not saying that's sufficient to call it terrorism, but it does show a bit of intent beyond anger/revenge.

[–] RustyEarthfire 5 points 1 month ago

Haven't played, but I found this (negative) review compelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF-Kd2BBpx8

He did play through the whole game.

 

Saved up all my splinters. Gonna run a lotta breaches.

Saved up all my splinters. Gonna run a lotta breaches.

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