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by DanBC 6y ago
That's not the claim that RMS is making though, is it? And I'm responding to what RMS said, not necessarily what actually happened.
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by DanBC 6y ago
Most people didn't read it as a defence of Epstein, but (as RMS says) as a defence of Minsky. It's that defence of Minsky that's a huge problem.
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by DanBC 6y ago
> Some have described me as being "tone-deaf," and that is fair. With my difficulty in understanding social cues, that tends to happen. For instance, I defended Professor Minsky on an M.I.T. mailing list after someone leaped to
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by DanBC 6y ago
There was that whole COD WAR thing which was pretty intense at the time, and fishing quotas have been a thing in The Sun for a while, but I agree it doesn't feel like a huge part of the general identity.
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by DanBC 6y ago
A few threads on HN have mentioned some historians fears around colorised images, and people didn't really understand what the problem is. Here's a great example. This person isn't just adding colour. They're editing, ch
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A photo colorizer is adding smiles to people murdered by the Khmer Rouge(twitter.com)
1 points by DanBC 6y ago|1 comments
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by DanBC 6y ago
A few people on HN want to use health care data from people in England. Understanding Dr Nicola Byrne's aims and concerns will be useful to help predict what policies and laws around healthcare data are going to be implemented.
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Listening and building trust: starting as I mean to go on(gov.uk)
30 points by DanBC 6y ago|12 comments
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by DanBC 6y ago
In the UK people tend not to use the term alcoholic in a formal setting. They'll talk about dependant drinking or problem drinking or binge drinking. A person can regularly binge drink, but not be dependant on alcohol.
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by DanBC 6y ago
> Facebook _obviously_ have a set of standard data points they use for ad targeting, such as [...] gender, How can anyone read this about job ads and not think maybe it's a problem?
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by DanBC 6y ago
When someone talks about mass shootings in churches (Charleston - 9 dead), and synagogues (Pittsburgh - 11 dead, 6 wounded; Powey - 1 dead, 3 wounded) or cars being driven into protestors (Charlottesville - 1 dead, 19 injured) and you pop o
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by DanBC 6y ago
> While the riots of last summer were not characterized as terrorism, You can see how this destroys anything that you're about to say, right? To try to engage with your point: there's a difference between a demonstration (BLM)
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by DanBC 6y ago
We need to be clear that domestic terrorism in the US is evenly split between pseudo-Islamic extremism and the far right. Terrorist action from the left currently counts for a tiny amount of this violence.
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by DanBC 6y ago
I'm not sure it's manipulation, rather than large numbers of people who have differing interpretations of the data. > But if the messaging from the beginning had been "everyone wear a cloth mask inside, it might help&quot
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by DanBC 6y ago
See, that's not a study that shows whether masks work or not. It's a study showing how you persuade people to wear a mask.
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by DanBC 6y ago
> The government has clearly intentionally lied about things (e.g. government telling us early on that masks don't work, Lots of people say this, but it's easy to see that it wasn't a lie. Please try to find the good qual
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by DanBC 6y ago
> they didn't do studies No, they did do lots of studies for flu, and they really struggle to find a benefit for masking. Importantly, the quality of evidence for masks as source control (infected people wear masks to prevent trans
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by DanBC 6y ago
> it was a blatant lie to keep the PPE for medical workers. Can you post a link to the published studies that you think CDC / WHO should have been using to inform their decisions around masks? > evidence in general to support ma
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by DanBC 6y ago
He's dead, and so you don't need to say allegedly, because dead people can't sue for defamation.
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by DanBC 6y ago
I think you're giving columnists an easy ride here. > Every medical expert I have heard on the subject is reasonable and calm. All the healthcare professionals I know were taking covid-19 very seriously, especially when they heard i
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by DanBC 6y ago
She didn't have to wear seatbelts on public roads through her property. The Queen cannot be prosecuted in England.
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by DanBC 6y ago
Trans women are subjected to sexual violence from men in the same way that cis women are. They need to be protected from male violence. All women in prison are at risk of sexual violence. That comes from other prisoners (including cis women
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by DanBC 6y ago
> For all those down voting, perhaps you can enlighten me? It's not about covid. It's about for example measles, which is for children a very serious illness.
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by DanBC 6y ago
Listening to his questions, and the way he's asking them, he's clearly trying to provoke. "isn't it out of my control what hurts somebody? I can punch the air, and if that makes somebody mad it's not really my probl
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Quicksand Causes Dam Failures (2017)(youtube.com)
1 points by DanBC 6y ago|0 comments
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by DanBC 6y ago
> the fact that humans have been cooking inside on either wood or gas stoves for many hundreds of years Cooking inside using wood kills a lot of people each year. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail
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CosmicWatch: Catch Yourself a Muon(cosmicwatch.lns.mit.edu)
1 points by DanBC 6y ago|0 comments
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by DanBC 6y ago
Yes. And in some places it would be drinks during the workday, if the pub was close enough for a lunchtime pint.
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by DanBC 6y ago
https://twitter.com/TakethatCt/status/1379708839252070401/ph... pregnancy: 1 in 500 combined pill: 1 in 1000 recurrent flights: 1 in 300 ICU with covid: 1 in 10 AZ vaccine: 1 i
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by DanBC 6y ago
> It was a joke. Can you explain the joke? What's the set up? What's the punchline? What expectations are being subverted? Is it somehow a pun? You're claiming it's a joke, but I struggle to see how this works on any

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