Lewton

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by Lewton 6y ago
By participating in the market
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by Lewton 6y ago
> Controversial topics almost cannot be discussed on HN because it only takes a few people to vanish the post for good. feature not a bug
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Still alive(astralcodexten.substack.com)
898 points by Lewton 6y ago|342 comments
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by Lewton 6y ago
Will they also learn to avoid magical thinking like "People en masse will all of a sudden develop abilities out of the blue"?
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by Lewton 6y ago
> But I don't think that that video supports his contention that police just let these people into the capitol building. Especially since it's a tweet with a quote from the guy who shot the video explaining that it's not a
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by Lewton 6y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/justinjm1/status/1347174957613199...
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by Lewton 6y ago
The author unironically uses a parable about aliens predicting chess outcomes with a coin flip and how wrong that is, to promote the idea that random fringe ideas without predictive power have value. I severely doubt anyone who isn't a
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by Lewton 6y ago
Whelp, guess I'm wrong on this one. That is extremely disappointing
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by Lewton 6y ago
> Ontario and Québec have endured many weeks of increasing numbers of diagnosed infections per day Which would indicate that they -shouldn't- be reserving doses...
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by Lewton 6y ago
This seems very Canada specific, is any other country doing it like this? I'm fairly sure neither the US nor most european countries are doing this (I mean, Canada seems to be the only place that are reserving the second doses) Edit: T
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by Lewton 6y ago
It's a shame you put that last paragraph, because that one is very much opinion, while the rest is a good explanation of why the GP is wrong
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by Lewton 6y ago
> i.e. it produces something Bitcoin does produce something. It produces "facts" that everyone agrees on (entries on the blockchain). Facts that everyone agrees on are somewhat rare, and this provides value as these facts can b
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by Lewton 6y ago
Agreed Also I was so looking forward to how they were gonna manage to track down antman Then it’s a rat ex machina
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by Lewton 6y ago
I did this course 5+ years ago and I still remember it fondly! I can pretty confidently say that it made me a better developer
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by Lewton 6y ago
Because smaller rural districts finish counting early, leaving only the heavily blue urban districts towards the end
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by Lewton 6y ago
> I never downvote, so not me Appreciate it (and your reply!) I think the issue was that most of the decisions made, over-reliance on intubation, withholding steroids, etc where made in the beginning, in places were the hospitals were ov
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by Lewton 6y ago
Is what I wrote wrong? Is it not true that in the beginning they saw an increase in fatalities when treating with certain kinds of steroids?
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by Lewton 6y ago
Experts didn't suggest withholding steroids just because they wanted to show off. Doctors in the field withheld steroids because the steroids they were giving patients with covid-19 was actively killing them. It took a long time to fin
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by Lewton 6y ago
Exactly, if we send anything now, it'll probably be overtaken by superior vessels within a couple of centuries
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by Lewton 6y ago
What? Has Been is 1. Great and 2. definitely not in the style of his rocketman cover After the success of Has Been, he did go back to the corny covers style of making music though There's literally only one cover song on Has Been, so i
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by Lewton 6y ago
Worth pointing out that this is nothing new for Denmark, I remember naked bodies being displayed in children's sex-ed shows in the 90ies. Sex-ed classes in school often involved(involves?) displaying pictures of a wide array of genital
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by Lewton 6y ago
Part of the reason why old fuddy duddies are obstructionist to science is the fact that brain plasticity drops off sharply somewhere in your mid twenties. There's zero reason to believe that we won't also find a solution to this i
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by Lewton 6y ago
Thanks for the update, hadn’t seen that
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by Lewton 6y ago
This is your daily reminder that a GPT-3 written post made it to the top of hn https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-v...
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by Lewton 6y ago
https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-v... It took some digging to find this
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by Lewton 6y ago
No? Relative to Denmark and Norway, they’re doing as bad as ever? (X4-x8 amount of daily deaths per capita)
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by Lewton 6y ago
I think big parts of Sweden might be hitting "herd immunity" relative to the measures that are currently in place. It doesn't mean that they're hitting herd immunity in an "everything back to normal world". But
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by Lewton 6y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/he95ak/blog...
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by Lewton 6y ago
Don't blame the journalist too much for what is probably a NYT general policy https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/he95ak/blog...
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by Lewton 6y ago
You seem to be attributing all sorts of malice to the journalist that Scott himself sees no reason to https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/he95ak/blog...

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