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by J-dawg 6y ago
The article misses one possibility, which I suspect is actually the most likely: The underperformer knows they're underperforming, but it's in their best interests never to admit it. I know because I've been there. I was unde
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Thanks for that. And you're right, I hadn't seen that document before. But concerns absolutely are being dismissed. I've personally listened to Matt Hancock and other ministers doing it. The idea that someone might want to wa
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by J-dawg 6y ago
The UK government has already stated that pregnant women won't be getting the vaccine. ( https://inews.co.uk/news/health/covid-vaccine-pregnant-women... ) This seems at odds with the gung-ho "it's 100
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Thanks for that explanation. I think this was misreported at the time (or I just wasn't paying attention!). In a way what you described is worse: a known bug that they decided not to fix. I'm surprised that displaying the sensor v
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by J-dawg 6y ago
In the original design, wasn't there an optional safety feature that added a second AoA sensor? It seems unbelievable, and is possibly one of the most ridiculous things about this whole story. Presumably as part of the update, this o
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by J-dawg 6y ago
> The maths says that we need about 70% of the population to take the vaccine in order for it to no longer be a threat ...to no longer be a threat to an unvaccinated person. This isn't like the childhood vaccines, where we need herd
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Conversely, I am finding the reaction to anti-vaccine sentiment from some politicians to be pretty creepy. Already there is talk of compulsory vaccination or "vaccine passports". Labour (the UK opposition party) were even calling
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by J-dawg 6y ago
I think there's an argument for breaking up Facebook for antitrust reasons. I used to be fine with the "Just don't use Facebook" argument. I quit it myself several years ago. But recently I've found myself being gen
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Why stop at accent bias training? We also need: Facial symmetry bias training Height bias training Big 5 personality trait bias training Parental upbringing bias training Intelligence bias training Competency bias training Maybe then we&#x2
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Stuff like this highlights (one of many reasons) why identity politics is such a bad idea. Every one of us can be sliced up a hundred ways into things that might be a "privilege" or a disadvantage: accent, height, attractiveness,
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by J-dawg 6y ago
It has often surprised me how many people don't understand this part of the egg industry. I eat eggs, so I'm definitely not making any moral judgements, but the process is brutal. I would definitely buy no-kill eggs when they come
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by J-dawg 6y ago
> There's plenty of evidence mask campaigns slow transmission By how much do they slow transmission? > It's not fun but I see it as a minuscule sacrifice for me to wear a mask to the grocery store if it saves even one person
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by J-dawg 6y ago
This might make you even more surprised about my existence, but I'm not entirely unsympathetic to the "ideological" types. Let me put it another way: why weren't you wearing a mask during flu season every year? Or, given
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by J-dawg 6y ago
That is an absolutely horrible idea, and is exactly what fuels widespread mistrust of public health initiatives. Tell the damn truth. If something is uncertain, tell the damn truth about how uncertain it is.
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by J-dawg 6y ago
I guess I could say I'm "mask skeptical" even though I do wear one to conform to social pressure. I wish the conversation would move on from "do masks work?" to "do they work well enough to be worth the cost?&q
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by J-dawg 6y ago
It's just a shame the UK is so densely populated / overpopulated. When the rules were relaxed in the summer, it seemed like every outdoor place I normally go to was overrun with people. Makes you realise how many people we export
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Absolutely, it's a horrible thing to contemplate. As a single man who is not very successful with women, I'm equally afraid of this outcome as I am of being alone forever. Perhaps even more. I would love to find a way of coming to
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by J-dawg 6y ago
One of the rather bleak theories that has come out of the Red Pill / men's rights movements is that women develop this sense of entitlement because: 1. Attractive / high value men are happy to sleep with less attractive women
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by J-dawg 6y ago
As soon as you learn about this phenomenon you start seeing it everywhere
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Almost all of these "OMG Google/Facebook is listening to me" happenings can be explained by this mechanism
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Recently I keep seeing references to protecting oneself by wearing a mask. When did the narrative shift from "wear a mask to limit transmission to others in case you might be infected and asymptomatic" to "wear a mask to prot
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Every time these things are mentioned, I always wonder about that. Now that someone is building a modern equivalent ( https://www.wigetworks.com ), I wonder what they are doing about avoiding collisions. Normal aircraft typically
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Around the peak of chatbot hype, someone described them as "an obfuscated command line". In my experience that's exactly what they are; you end up second-guessing the machine and thinking "what do I need to type to get w
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by J-dawg 6y ago
> Good God, your firm exists to facilitate trading in speculative assets peddled by libertarian internet millionaires and that just so happen to be exceptionally useful for laundering money - enabling a whole online industry of shadow m
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by J-dawg 6y ago
> When was the last time you read a news article about a topic where you are an expert, and walked away from it thinking that it would help laymen better understand the topic? You don't even need to be an expert. I recall reading ab
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by J-dawg 6y ago
I'm curious about the point you're making here. Clearly the quote you selected is pretty objectionable by modern standards. Is this intended to invalidate the quote in the parent comment? Does "cancel culture" apply to l
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by J-dawg 6y ago
It's interesting that in tech there is this expectation that every available thing should be done to make the employee as happy and relaxed as possible. If an employer refuses to do these things it's met with "does not comput
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by J-dawg 6y ago
This seems like good advice. Amateur diagnosis of mental syndromes seems to happen a lot these days. It raises an interesting question though. Every time narcissism / NPD comes up, the general advice seems to be that you should stay th
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by J-dawg 6y ago
This is a good example of how the modern philosophy of identity politics falls apart when you seriously examine it. Think of all the ways that people are innately privileged (or not): intelligence, height, beauty, upbringing, parental wealt
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Being tall is a huge privilege for a man. It's a large component of male attractiveness. Many women make it clear on dating sites that they won't consider anyone below a certain height, or at least taller than they are.

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