Florin_Andrei

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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Athena Glaukopis Well, it's complicated. Glaukopis could also be translated as "blue eyed", or "grey eyed", not just "owl eyed". Being the goddess of wisdom and handicraft (among other things), perception
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
The "random expects", as you describe them, were saying exactly that: that there is no evidence , so stop the conspiracy theorizing until some evidence is produced.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
That how social media reacts to anything that sounds panic-y.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
You don't get it. They absolutely need accountability produced somehow, even out of thin air if need be.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> Why is the view being pushed so hard? Because it validates a certain worldview. "I need things to be this way, or else the universe is wrong."
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
I mean, that's like 99.9999....% expected, since they all evolved with a big light signal in the sky that operates on a 24 hr cycle. Plants, even more than animals, should be optimized to function that way (do mostly resource productio
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> Not surprising at all Given that the amount of evidence is exactly zero, anyone can spin their favorite "unsurprising" theories all day long.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> the lab origin story sounds the most plausible and has the least holes in it You seem to ignore the fact that there's exactly zero evidence either pro or contra. The fame of the "media person" is the kind of argument y
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
I think the point of the article is this: If people are like CPUs - if all CPUs are busy 100% all the time, then latency, as we all know, sucks, and processes may crash occasionally. You want decent latency, and avoid crashes, then keep the
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
That's kind of what happened to Ayn Rand. She and her family suffered quite a lot from the Communist Revolution. I think she probably had a form of PTSD or similar. The mythology she came up with is so obviously opposite-to-communism-i
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Yes, the pathology of "freedom" is somewhat more recent, at least in terms of its extreme intensity. My gut feeling is that it can be traced back to Ayn Rand & Co, but it's hard to say. But around that time, and near that
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
They have none of the mental blocks the "West" tends to suffer from when it comes to weighing "individual freedom" vs collective action. The West needs to take a long look at itself in the mirror, seeing as some of its f
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
This, right here, is the true differentiating factor.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> South Korea and Vietnam don't have super strict lockdowns or quarantines. Instead, they wear masks indoors and have effective contact tracing. > reverse contact tracing is even more effective Yes, but in some cultures that
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
At this point I feel that category of people may not be able to absorb any rational lesson at all.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> Why is it a problem then? I honestly think the Ayn Rand crowd are missing a few circuits. Well, that's a crude way of putting it, but let's just say it's like color blindness but for ethics. No amount of oratory will m
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
So, you're still missing the point. Or "missing" the point, not sure which. Interesting.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> Either you don't think modern CEO pay is a problem, or you think it's a problem because it makes shareholders poorer. The fact that you appear to be completely blind to the third option - the actual issue - is far more tell
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
TLDR: CEOs are wildly better paid nowadays, compared to decades ago, via mechanism X, as opposed to mechanism Y. Both X and Y ultimately deliver money.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
And that includes plain water as well.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> I've seen some pushback that a lot of hard-to-diagnose chronic syndromes are now being deemed "long covid." My assumption is that at least some of this is happening as it's the trendiest disease of the moment. The
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
We know that a majority of cases are asymptomatic or have minor symptoms. That's not news. But the weird long-COVID cases are problematic - they're real, they affect a certain slice of the demographics, and can be pretty serious a
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
I've had to read other people's Perl code before, and that experience basically made "flexibility" a bad word in this area for me. Please stop the ^$%@#$%#@^@$%^&( nonsense, Perl hackers. That's not flexibility,
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
Perl almost encourages obfuscation. Some folks took pride in writing hard to read Perl code - and the language gave them all the rope they could hang themselves with. For that reason I always disliked Perl, quite strongly, and from the begi
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> if Moderna and Pfizer were working from the same sequencing data, why would their resulting vaccine mRNA sequences be different? Even slightly? Ever tried to compile the same source with different compilers?
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
Well, it's a matter of leverage, isn't it?
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
Make sure your eyes are dark-adapted. I.e. you've spent at least 20 minutes in pitch darkness, with no sources of light other than the sky. And no Moon. Altitude is not relevant in most cases.
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> What do other folks use to avoid this situation? Don't use Microsoft?
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> I’m finding myself attributing this to some form of “move fast and break things” That was the case when they were the small and hungry startup. Meanwhile they've been acquired by a giant corporation with a less than stellar repu
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by Florin_Andrei 6y ago
> the Andromeda Galaxy (distance ~ 2,4 million light years), which is very hard to see with the naked eye That's due to light pollution in populated areas. If you're out in the deep desert, it's not that hard to see. The

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