@AladinKumar1@mattyglesias It is not dishonest, especially if X and Y are related things. I was friends with doomers in 2021 but thought they were being silly. Then I saw that their predictions on AI progress were consistently better than mine...
@Clarksterh@jbarro Is there polling on this? I would guess it is 80-20 in favor of permanent DST. Lots of people are imprecise and say getting rid of DST when they mean permanent DST.
@daschloz Do you understand what a convention means in this case? I would think it would be a meeting of all the members of the state committee, but the NYT story said they explicitly won't do that and offered the "popup convention" as an alternative.
@emprestheodora@US_Stormwatch@dwallacewells Almonds have a respectable, though not efficient, water usage per gram of protein for plants. They are 2x better than dairy and 8x better than beef though which together use almost 50% of water in California.
@mansourtarek_@GaetenD@Rematch727 If you are acknowledging that it needs a spoiler tag due to it's uncanny accuracy, perhaps you should think through the implications of that?
@andrewlc_@TheStalwart@Polymarket Yes that is the case with equities as well. The issue in both scenarios is if the public doesn't trust that insider trading is banned than they won't want to participate at all. Any one case of insider trading provides useful info, but if it is norm than over all info is lost.
Now, there are complaints that the O visa is being watered down, as less-than-world-class applicants seek alternatives to presently-targeted visas. But this isn’t a complaint about the visa itself, merely its administration.