This is standard for how they do technical inspections. They can't check every rule on every car, so they check just a few important ones for every car (fuel, weight, etc) and then do random checks on a handful of cars each for others. The idea is to prevent it from being worthwhile to break the rule, while also requiring substantially fewer resources. That's probably also why the penalty is so steep: if it was a slap on the wrist that you had a small chance of being caught for, you might as well just always run out-of-spec.

The resolution has declaratory power only but provides international backing to those countries that want to take additional steps against Israel.

Make their birthday a magic number

From some searching around, it looks like the hole tilts as you stand on it. It doesn't look dramatic but it could definitely induce falls in people who are prone to such.

I thought, "1.4 billion pounds of cheese can't be a real number, right?" Turns out, it kinda is. 1.4 billion pounds (actually generally 1.45-1.5 billion) is the amount of cheese the USDA stores in cold storage warehouses across the US. And indeed, much of that seems to be in caves in Missouri. But any particular cave probably only stores a few million pounds, although getting specific numbers is rather difficult.

I mean yeah, not exactly new news. Although I have to make a correction:

Manifold is a startup that runs Manifund, a prediction market – a forecasting method that was the ostensible topic of the conference.

Manifold is the name of the prediction market. Manifold the company also runs Manifund, which distributes money to various EA efforts.

Also, "Manifest has no specific views on eugenics or race & IQ" does not give me confidence in Manifest's views on eugenics or race & IQ.

Which comes out to about 1/7 of a person in that room being shot per year.

On the other hand, spontaneous generation was very much still a thing at this point, so a lot of the basic rules of the world around us were really not worked out yet

Here's the full quote:

Case in point: in addition to having to pay a guy who he bet $5 million couldn’t prove him wrong $5 million after that guy proved him wrong, and after he went to court to try to avoid paying the money, Lindell will now have to pay some of that guy’s attorneys fees, which were incurred in court.

There's nothing technically wrong with it, it's just really awkwardly worded.

Apparently it ended up being 12. You can look them up here:

• Don Bacon, Nebraska
• Brian Fitzpatrick, Pennsylvania
• Andy Harris, Maryland
• Jaime Herrula Beutler, Washington
• Richard Hudson, North Carolina
• John Kakto, New York
• Nicole Malliotakis, New York
• Daniel Meuser, Pennsylvania
• Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Iowa
• Bill Posey, Florida
• Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey
• Frederick Stephen Upton, Michigan

If you use the Japanese name of a show with a well-known English name while speaking English just to be more obtuse, I think that's fair to criticize.

Felons in New York can vote as long as they're not incarcerated.

I also think that AI companies shouldn't be allowed to have non-disparagement agreements. Not because of x-risk or anything, but because a) I think all companies shouldn't be allowed to have non-disparagement agreements, and b) it would create a bunch of entertaining content for this instance.

Eating live fire ants is flawed. But what's the alternative?

I think even wilder is that he thinks content which has explicitly been labeled "do not scrape except for search engine indexing" is a "gray area" with regards to scraping for AI. Like, that's exactly what it says not to do!

My main takeaway is: Alexis Ohanian (Reddit's u/kn0thing) is married to Serena Williams???

Glad to see an RSS feed, will be subscribing !

Because it's fake, it's a joke about that GitHub troll a couple weeks ago

The COFA states are very strongly aligned with the US and pretty much always vote with them. I don't know much about, say, Tonga, but I'm guessing it's a way of signaling cooperation to the US as well.

Then why are 2012 and 2016 included? It's extremely confusing to have a line graph over time where intervals of time are missing, even if you clearly call attention to it, which they don't here.