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New comment by sbelskie in "EPA to revoke endangerment finding, the basis for regulating greenhouse gases"

sbelskie — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:11:27 +0000

> Since it was signed by then-Administrator Lisa Jackson in 2009, the finding has been used by the EPA to regulate sources of climate change-causing pollution from cars, power plants and other sources of transportation like planes, as well as oil and gas operations.

New comment by sbelskie in "US AI Action Plan"

sbelskie — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:50:32 +0000

So the government should step in to dictate what neutrality means?

New comment by sbelskie in "What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate"

sbelskie — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:48:38 +0000

Yea that makes a lot of sense. The first Expanse novel (at least Miller’s storyline) fits here as well.

New comment by sbelskie in "What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate"

sbelskie — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:17:36 +0000

If you don't read/like much genre fiction, I would say probably no. The pacing is well done and I genuinely find story compelling, but the writing while solid-ish is not exactly of high literary quality.

Additionally, in terms of genre I actually find Weir's books to be more like detective novels than sci-fi, though obviously lots of sci-fi elements in them.

New comment by sbelskie in "Military doctors say they're not getting enough experience for combat care"

sbelskie — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:42:36 +0000

> Only 25% of Army, 52% of Navy and 81% of Air Force emergency doctors were placed at locations where they directly provided care to patients.

Is there a way where this means something different than it sounds? Because that sounds pretty insane.

New comment by sbelskie in "New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles"

sbelskie — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 20:00:16 +0000

A plurality of those who voted, you mean.

New comment by sbelskie in "California now has more EV charging ports than gas nozzles"

sbelskie — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 12:44:35 +0000

By this do you mean that Chinese automakers are getting close to a charging rate that would be equivalent to the time it takes to pump gasoline for the equivalent energy? If so, do you have any sources on that?

New comment by sbelskie in "California now has more EV charging ports than gas nozzles"

sbelskie — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 12:40:39 +0000

You are likely correct.

> Of the 73,537 chargers added to the data set in 2024, 37,983 new chargers were installed in 2024. The remaining 35,554 chargers were installed before 2024 and identified through new data sources.

New comment by sbelskie in "MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming"

sbelskie — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:10:10 +0000

Is almost impossible to defend when done by a particular team. No other team has managed the kind of sustained success with it that the Eagles have. If it was impossible to defend surely other teams would be using it too.

Tom Brady also had similar success with the standard old QB sneak during his career and I don't recall attempts to ban that.

New comment by sbelskie in "Why is zero plural? (2024)"

sbelskie — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:01:12 +0000

Not in standard American English to the best of my knowledge, but it’s not impossible some dialects use this construction.

New comment by sbelskie in "Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades?"

sbelskie — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:37:19 +0000

How do we “know” this?

New comment by sbelskie in "'AI-powered judge' takes boxing closer to brave new world it appears to seek"

sbelskie — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:29:59 +0000

I believe the argument would be that humans are inconsistent, fallible, and gameable in idiosyncratic and individual ways not that they are less susceptible than AI.

New comment by sbelskie in "MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style"

sbelskie — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:12:34 +0000

> “In the event that any payment or benefit by the Company (all such payments and benefits, including the payments and benefits under Section 3(a) hereof, being hereinafter referred to as the ‘Total Payments’), would be subject to excise tax, then the cash severance payments shall be reduced.”

> The paper offers this as a more understandable alternative, with the definition separated out:

> “In the event that any payment or benefit by the Company would be subject to excise tax, then the cash severance payments shall be reduced. All payments and benefits by the Company shall hereinafter be referred to as the ‘Total Payments.’ This includes the payments and benefits under Section 3(a) hereof.”

https://bcs.mit.edu/news/objection-no-one-can-understand-wha...

New comment by sbelskie in "UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan"

sbelskie — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:31:09 +0000

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/us/brian-thompson-united-heal...

> A gunman, who investigators tell CNN was waiting for some time before Thompson’s arrival, opened fire from 20 feet away firing multiple times, striking Thompson.

This from CNN makes it sound like it could possibly be targeted, though there are very few details at this time and sometimes these things are misreported in the immediate aftermath.

New comment by sbelskie in "Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code"

sbelskie — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:34:59 +0000

Can’t claim to be “mentally well”, whatever that might mean, but I definitely read it as nanometers.

New comment by sbelskie in "US Senate to Revive Software Patents with PERA Bill Vote on Thursday"

sbelskie — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:16:12 +0000

Is it? Tillis is the only one I see associated with the bill. Have any Democratic senators spoken in favor of it?

New comment by sbelskie in "What's New in F# 9"

sbelskie — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 19:06:58 +0000

So .NET and C# have moved recently-ish to yearly single digit incremented releases and I’m guessing F# is doing the same. Not sure if they intentionally made the switch when it would line up with the .NET version or if that’s just a coincidence. C#, for example, released version 13 for .NET 9.

New comment by sbelskie in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

sbelskie — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:52:40 +0000

Is there any evidence it’s effective?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_Kingdo...

New comment by sbelskie in "Fed Cuts Rates by a Half Percentage Point"

sbelskie — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:47:47 +0000

Why?

New comment by sbelskie in "U.S. overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives"

sbelskie — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:41:08 +0000

The article does not appear to agree with that claim.

> We've almost tripled the amount of naloxone out in the community," said Finegood. He noted that one survey in the Seattle area found 85 percent of high-risk drug users now carry the overdose-reversal medication.