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by ReadEvalPost 5y ago
Animals are host reservoirs for COVID as well, meaning the fantasy of 100% vaccine coverage also does not solve the problem.
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by ReadEvalPost 5y ago
Evolutionary pressure selects for less deadly viruses over time. You're right though, there is still longitudinal risk as this does not preclude a vastly more deadly strain--but at that point the effectiveness of a vaccine is similarly
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by ReadEvalPost 5y ago
Yes, of course I think about others. I would never go in with symptoms of any infectious disease. Were I asked to work in a building away from people that are high-risk or are regularly in contact with high-risk people I would easily oblige
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by ReadEvalPost 5y ago
Of course not. If I am sick I self-isolate.
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by ReadEvalPost 5y ago
I'm really upset with this decision. I have not gotten the vaccine as I prefer the known, extremely low risk of contacting COVID over the unknown longitudinal risk of the vaccine. My right to make these personal decisions regarding my
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by ReadEvalPost 5y ago
This is not the first Google paper on the question of energy efficiency. The ask was for Gebru to acknowledge existing Google work on the subject in her opinion paper. Her response to this ask is why she was fired, not the contents of the p
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by ReadEvalPost 5y ago
The right way to farm is to work with other plants and the weeds themselves to regenerate the soil. The idea that weeds are pests that need to be eliminated at all costs is antithetical to proper regenerative farming. Anything that enables
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by ReadEvalPost 6y ago
Tidbit: the term for this is "sortition."
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by ReadEvalPost 6y ago
Wonderful essay. I strongly recommend After Virtue as an introductory text to why virtue ethics is so important in the modern world. I find it very unfortunate that telos, the end-directed nature of people and our tools, has been wiped ou
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by ReadEvalPost 6y ago
Pure strain ressentiment.
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by ReadEvalPost 6y ago
> is precisely zero to indicate that such an NFT would increase in value with an artist's popularity. That's definitely how art works in the real world, I don't know why it would change here. > Also, precisely zero of t
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by ReadEvalPost 6y ago
They respect the unique identity.
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by ReadEvalPost 6y ago
There are two parts of NFTs, a really cool development and what most people will see. The first reason to buy an NFT is to support the artist in a way that may have value down the line if the artist's work gets more popular. There are
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by ReadEvalPost 6y ago
I'm looking to create a luxury co-living place with other engineers and automate common chores & tasks away. This post describes the reasoning and logistics behind this.
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Show HN: Bay Agora, or Automated Luxury Co-Living(counterengineer.com)
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by ReadEvalPost 6y ago
"Purely theoretical" is too weak. "Physically impossible" is better. AI Safety guys really like using the physically impossible to advance their arguments. It's bizarre! Pure fantasy isn't something worth react
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by ReadEvalPost 6y ago
"Were I president I would use violence to political ends" is not a call for others to perform violence. It's a fantasy for the use of violence. These statements are not uncommon. It is normal and socially acceptable to wish f
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by ReadEvalPost 7y ago
I don't really understand what your coin flip metaphor is supposed to mean in the context of the paper. That Superdeterminism could be used in an entirely facile way doesn't really suggest anything about the theory itself. When ch
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by ReadEvalPost 7y ago
Direct link to the paper this post sets up: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06462 Always been a fan of Superdeterminism, happy to see actual physicists working on it.
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by ReadEvalPost 8y ago
I jumped to the last couple paragraphs of that piece as most of it appears to be issues that do not have proofs within the theory of evolution. Assuming these issues are presented truthfully, they are valid and should be addressed. If they
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by ReadEvalPost 8y ago
> The proposed method is wasteful in terms of energy spent to get an answer, specifically in this step : ‘ sum the whole range of possible sizes‘, Er, the entire approach is motivated by the fact computing p(u) is intractable. That summa
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by ReadEvalPost 8y ago
Jaynes is a delight to read if you like an opinionated style over the more usual dry prose of other textbooks.
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by ReadEvalPost 9y ago
Charter schools that want to have great metrics select students in ways that public schools don't.
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by ReadEvalPost 9y ago
The two most common types of surface mining are strip mines (where there isn't much up/down climbing) and open pit mines (where the loaded portion is going up). It's possible the mine in question is an open pit mine where you
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by ReadEvalPost 9y ago
All cars use wiring harnesses, self-driving or no. You want to be able to remove and replace parts (wires included), so harnesses are necessary.
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by ReadEvalPost 9y ago
Why is that correct? Looking at their website they're currently running a lecture series/look back at the Russian revolution: http://www.wsws.org/en/special/1917/chronology.html None of it seems to
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by ReadEvalPost 11y ago
I'm unsure on the actual sizing but that wasn't exactly a rumor, that's when I was laid off. This was after a furlough and narrowly avoiding another layoff less than a year into my employment. Needless to say I'm glad I&
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by ReadEvalPost 11y ago
I'm in a similar situation and I'm planning on dominating in Stockfighter during that time :-)
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by ReadEvalPost 12y ago
I did look up the data, and saw what you saw. However, his daughter comment links an article that claims "whilst there have been gains in some areas, overall, most Black South Africans are materially worse off now than they were under
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by ReadEvalPost 12y ago
Did the wealth and GDP per capita in the Southern US increase or decrease after the abolition of slavery? Righting a terrible, terrible moral wrong should come regardless of the short-term economic costs. To suggest that economic concerns t

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