KarlKemp

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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I was hedging a bit... Even assuming it's true, it might actually be preferable to allow them to come up with some face-saving "clerical error" and reverse course. That's assuming they are at least somewhat spooked by th
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
That's certainly not ideal, but still completely different. Many countries have understandably banned/slowed exporting these supplies. Some of those restrictions certainly went too far: Canada, for example, depends on US supplie
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Yes, these were paid in advance by MA. There have been dozens of similar reports. Nobody is currently shipping anything without up-front payment. Here's a detailed account from a hospital administrator in the New England Journal of Med
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Is there any pure psilocybin being sold? My (entirely pop-culture based) impression is that "white powder" and similar processed substances of high purity are the dominant form for almost all drugs. Cocaine isn't sold as leav
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
> So voting "didn't work" until very very recently? The time from about 1740 to 1800 was for newspapers what the 2000s was for the internet. 1787: US Constitution (first democracy) 1789: French Revolution (2nd) 1832 (to 19
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
The article cited by Wikipedia is pretty comprehensive (and damning): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/politics/trump-coronav...
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
This is the "willpower" theory by Baumeister. There's a book of the same name. The theory is controversial. The effect likely isn't too big, or it would be harder to design experiments where it doesn't show up at al
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Voting without information is like air conditioning without a thermometer, or self-driving cars without LIDAR, or regular cars with a blind driver: It just doesn't work. Because the information flow needs to be circular to allow the ac
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
It wasn't intentionally, and it happened two decades ago. I'm pretty sure, for example, that the Times gets criticised for this at least ten times as often as the Republican Party does, even though the latter was not only the orig
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Funny how this suggestion comes up every time Google or Facebook are subject of some minor regulation outside the US. Yet suggest they should give up their participation in military or US border security, two areas that are unlikely to be l
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
This reads like Ayn Rand Fanfic. In particular, I can't think of anything a child could give away that would fit the "X" in "How are you going to survive without X?" I also doubt that anyone would remember their act
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Meh... it’s a bit of both. Nazi comparisons are just annoying now, and people outside Germany tend not to realize how much of a faux pas they are, triggering reflexes of both “I’m sorry” and “Go fuck yourself”. OTOH the help was a bit lackl
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I believe it’s very much expected to see some resurgence and to adjust measures accordingly. Over time, it might become easier to measure which interventions are most effective and to focus on those. Schools are certainly a risky gamble, bu
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
> Often incorrectly represented as s-curves, they are the result of the inherent cost/benefit of the technology [...] You're taking from two completely different levels of abstraction here. Tech adoption rather obviously happe
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I believe our supposed inability to predict economic bubbles (and other financial crises) is mostly just tautological: those crises we can predict never happen because they are "self-falsifying prophesies": If enough people beli
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
You are mixing up "DC the actual city" and "DC as a synonym for politics". DoD couldn't care less about Bezos' mansion or HQ2's impact on the city's economy. And running a newspaper that continuously
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
That's been the default behaviour for as long as I can remember. I'm fairly certain of my 2008 Macbook Air doing this. Less so (but still better than even odds) for my 17" PowerBook. You'd want some minimum charge to, at
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
It's natural. The lab only existed because everyone knew this could happen. There's absolutely nothing point at that lab, except the very existence of that lab. Zero. Nada. That being said: what would happen if it were? Again: n
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
This is an analysis of the viral genome. The only thing that “came out of China” here is the virus itself.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I do remember this phenomenon being mentioned quite a few times in my genetics classes. Don’t remember the name, unfortunately. But the logic is fairly obvious:a virus wants you to die just as little as humans want the earth to die. As I re
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
He’s given $38 billion to his foundation so far, on track to eventually give close to $100 billion. What, exactly, is he getting in PR that’s possibly worth $38+ billion? He’s not even selling anything! And his foundation’s charter even spe
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The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2(nature.com)
64 points by KarlKemp 7y ago|46 comments
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Maybe, just maybe, the lab studying viruses in bats was located in a region with many bats, and many viruses? The potential of these viruses jumping to humans was the reason for the lab in the first place, after all. I imagine Iowa State Un
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
People sometimes die because they fail to mention their drug habits to their anesthesiologists. Pregnant Teenage girls commit suicide because they fear anyone finding out, or die giving birth all by themselves, or bleed out with a coat hang
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I was mocking that idea, not supporting it. The problem always was that it’s really hard to give evidence for what’s basically different ideas about human nature. And that the truth is almost certainly some mixture of circumstances and indi
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Can’t get over the fact that even food banks are apparently drive-through operations in the US, in what appears to be a suburban wasteland... And considering that the increase in demand here is exclusively people who had a job until the bot
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Everything kills viruses in vitro.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Merchants have no interest in allowing you spend you loyalty bucks with other retailers. Or they'd just give them to you in cash. As always, cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to this scenario.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Counterpoint: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2020/04/15/the-subway-is-...
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Maybe Tesla stock would be higher today, if the market didn't need to price in the CEO's erratic behaviour.

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