Cogito

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by Cogito 6y ago
The curriculum in New South Wales, Australia, is changing to be like this. Students of a certain grade (and thus their teachers) are currently assessed on if they have a certain competency or not. This means a student coming into Year 7 (fi
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by Cogito 6y ago
I have noticed with both lightning and macbook chargers that high current draw (and associated heat) while the cable is bent seems to be associated with the cable degrading. Not using the phone while charging negates this, as does having th
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by Cogito 6y ago
It's a little different, I think. You could have it set up where your face is the one-and-only thing that identifies you, but that doesn't seem to be the case in practice. Instead, we have the multipart authentication used in ma
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by Cogito 6y ago
Insurance companies, depending on the company and the line of business, will aim to make both an underwriting profit and an investment profit. If it is a particularly high premium line, and especially if there is a lot of competition, it&#x
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by Cogito 6y ago
Small correction, at least in the article they talked about the relative thrust of the upper stage engines, but don't discuss the acceleration profile of the two (noting that the shuttle is heavier so even with bigger engines not neces
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by Cogito 6y ago
I'm not sure what argument you are referring to here (if it was one above). I think these organisations are criticising the tool builders for creating tools that are easily misused (or are created with unreasonable limitations, like on
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by Cogito 6y ago
It seems like they are making the case that if reality is biased then models of reality will retain that bias. If so they seem to make the point well. If the only information you have about a loan applicant is where they live, your decision
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by Cogito 6y ago
I have no idea what system they used (if any) but this reminded me a lot of how 'Every Frame a Painting' [0] described their note-taking when watching films. One of the best parts of their videos was that every technique they were
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by Cogito 6y ago
> the young woman in the painting... isn't even real There is some evidence that Vermeer could have been using optical tools to create his photo-realistic paintings. If so, she would have been a real person, as that is how the techn
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by Cogito 6y ago
In these threads it feels like you are not reading what they are saying, or at least reading it in the least charitable way. Defensive driving simply means to not assume drivers are going to take an action until they give evidence of it. If
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by Cogito 6y ago
To a first-order approximation, and from far enough away, a collision with the Earth is a collision with the Solar System. Our motion within the Solar System is relatively small if the asteroid is a very long way away; it's easy to fin
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by Cogito 6y ago
FYI there is a known issue with the brightness of recent SpaceX satellites, that is being worked on. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1252986968058802177 The important bits: Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut
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by Cogito 6y ago
are those statements executed one after the other? In any case, it's definitely a pitfall, one that has been fairly widely publicised, even with checks embedded into various tools/IDEs.
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by Cogito 6y ago
Yeah it sounds a lot like a picture rail[0], the main difference is that the picture rail runs around the whole wall while this is more specific. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molding_(decorative)#Picture_r...
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by Cogito 7y ago
Those two usages are not mutually exclusive, I just don't know which one you are using (or if it is some other usage). I'm not sure that there is any intrinsic purpose to anything, only ever purpose imbued. I understand the word g
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by Cogito 7y ago
You seem to have defined (very narrowly) what life is not. It’s also not clear if you are discussing “why I do something” (purpose of an action) or “why am I?” (purpose of me).
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by Cogito 7y ago
See, I think this is exactly why you are begging the question. The word purpose has lots of usages, but the one that seems to be discussed here is some intrinsic purpose that an object or creature has for existing. I can perform an action w
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by Cogito 7y ago
You're begging the question here; you need to establish they have any purpose before you can ask if one has more than the other.
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by Cogito 7y ago
Small reminder that STIs are not just transmitted by 'sex', but also through other intimate acts like kissing. The only suggestion that seems remotely plausible is 'all participants getting tested first'. There are still
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by Cogito 7y ago
It was near unreadable. I was hoping someone might have some insight as to why it was worth reading. I couldn't tell if the lede was buried or non-existent. It's not about a quick or easy payoff, it's that nothing in the text
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by Cogito 7y ago
Having read through the first I don't know number of I don't know how many pages, I have exactly no idea what Peter Thiels's religion is, or what this person is trying to say about it. Maybe it's sort of Christian? One o
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by Cogito 7y ago
Sorry, I'm not sure what you're referring to. My point is that you should compare projected number of infections and deaths from COVID-19 to the flu. If you do, it's clear that this is not just another flu. I'm not sure
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by Cogito 7y ago
Misinformation includes misleading information. Even if a statement is technically correct it can be designed to (or can accidentally) mislead people into coming to the wrong conclusion. From the start you were advocating the conclusion tha
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by Cogito 7y ago
Something I meant to say upthread slightly and didn't: It seems like the nature of the overloading is different. In particular, from those reports you mentioned, it doesn't seem like staff had to decide which patients to treat or
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by Cogito 7y ago
Thanks, those are good examples I hadn't heard of. From the descriptions there and coming out of Italy it should be clear that COVID-19 is much worse than the worst flu we've seen in a decade. The only thing keeping deaths low t
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by Cogito 7y ago
The flu is community spread, and not possible to contain. There are many strains, and immunity to the previous season's flu does not provide immunity to this one. The new virus can be contained, at least could have been though perhap
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by Cogito 7y ago
It's just about the ROI. Turns out people who have just purchased something are far more likely to purchase that thing again than a random person. This makes them the perfect person to advertise to. Even if the percentage is quite low
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by Cogito 7y ago
Safety. You have to understand what 'deactivated' means for this virus, and that people won't get significantly sick if you feed it to them. That takes time.
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by Cogito 7y ago
Not at all. The effectiveness of a vaccine is related to the effectiveness of the bodies immune response to the virus. As long as different mutations do not affect the effectiveness of a given immune response provided for by a vaccine, that
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by Cogito 7y ago
And this blurb is misleading (or more to the point, the article is misleading). They didn’t determine how much the customer was willing to pay, they modelled how much they could change the renewing price and still retain the customer. In ge

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