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by _yb2s 1y ago
“States rights” has always been a dog whistle for slavery and Jim Crow, with no connection to the ideal of Liberty that the words imply. It means “my right to deprive others of their rights.”
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It really comes down to the teachers skill and personality- and that often comes down to if the school can afford the best teachers. Often in the USA regular public schools in wealthy communities will have better teachers than you will find
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There are different “factions” and accreditation organizations in Montessori. Some are more liberal and others are authoritarian and rigid. Not all Montessori schools are like you describe, but some certainly are.
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The president has a mob of violent supporters, and Congress is terrified for their lives to take a stand against the president. When Republicans in congress have gone against Trump even in the smallest way, all he has to do is tweet somethi
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Apple basically already has this built into macos - you can create an encrypted disk image and mount it to access the files. I'm not sure if it is possible to open these on ios.
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I don’t understand why customer owned co-ops aren’t ubiquitous. Vanguard is amazing- low fees, and great services- they beat all of the competition. I had to call their support line today and it was the most professional customer service I’
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Of course you do, that's the whole point: to focus on what you actually can control- your own actions, which absolutely includes using your own ingenuity and effort to influence things for the better.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> You're mistaking "knowing how they work" with "understanding all of the emergent behaviors of them" By knowing how they work I specifically mean understanding the emergent capabilities and behaviors, but I don&
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There's no belief or magic required, the word 'reasoning' is used here to refer to an observed capability, not a particular underlying process. We also don't understand exactly how humans reason, so any claims that human
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I'm sure both of you know this, but "stochastic parrot" refers to the title of a research article that contained a particular argument about LLM limitations that had very little to do with parrots.
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> You don't seem to understand how they work I don't think anyone understands how they work- these type of explanations aren't very complete or accurate. Such explanations/models allow one to reason out what types of
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> they are incapable of even the simplest "out-of-distribution" deductive reasoning But the link demonstrates the opposite- these models absolutely are able to reason out of distribution, just not with perfect fidelity. The fac
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Yes, that is the process basically for new virus discovery- sequencing and then looking for similarity to known viral sequences. That is still an expensive and time consuming research project, and it fails if the virus is too different to i
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Those real world early uses of nuclear technology were indeed awful- nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll comes to mind, which did intentional treatment vs. non-treatment experiments on the Marshall Islanders. Even that is nothing close to the f
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by _yb2s 2y ago
The paper I cited above that has an ancestor 40 years removed, is actually more closely related to SARS-CoV-2 than RaTG13. "We find RmYN02 shares a common ancestor with SARS-CoV-2 about 40 years ago and RaTG13—about 50 years ago"
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by _yb2s 2y ago
A lot of those claims about water physics used to market homeopathy are based on real experimental observations- see the link in my other reply, water really does do some strange and complex stuff. But the problem is that these observations
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Interesting, thanks!
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> It is unlikely. The samples collected would be checked for fragments. It is not straightforward to identify a new virus that is not closely related to known human viruses. You cannot just “check for it.” It is largely an unsolved probl
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> I grow most of my own produce, with RO water Do you really grow enough food to make up most of your diet on RO water? And is this specifically to avoid microplastic exposure, or what?
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I’m not going to systematically rebut what you cited because it has been done better than I can (see the TWIV link above), but I have heard all of what you cited before, and frankly it still appears to be just a politically motivated conspi
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Seems like an unidentified virus could be the cause?
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That is not how a dominant trait in genetics works- it means you only need one copy to express the phenotype, but it is no more likely to be passed on than any other genetic trait. It is possible to have a trait that occurs with high freque
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> there's nothing special about having darpa build it other than they provide funds DARPA chooses real world engineering/technical problems, and then works closely with the external grantees that develop possible solutions, to
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by _yb2s 2y ago
That is a subcommittee of the House of representatives- I'm not sure why you didn't mention the House, or mentioned Biden instead? It's a panel of politicians with an obvious political bias, and while some are MDs, none of ha
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by _yb2s 2y ago
It's not pointless at all- it's the core idea behind Stoic philosophy aka "the dichotomy of control," and has proven very effective at improving people's mental health through modern therapy methods like CBT and ACT
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There is still a lot we can do. Every demagogue and authoritarian regime collapses eventually, often quickly- and they haven't even succeeded in seizing total control yet. As long as we are alive, we can resist. Moreover, even under th
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by _yb2s 2y ago
This German comedy sketch sums up this situation incredibly well IMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Thanks! That makes sense, I have read that series, but didn't remember that was where this was from.
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> Lockdowns were in violation of the right to free assembly But we don't have a right to recklessly infect other people with a disease against their will either. Personally, as someone trying to keep elderly and immunocompromised fr
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1. I don't think allocating funds to reproduce research would be worth the cost of displacing other new research. The current way of discovering that research is wrong by trying to build on it isn't perfect either, but it is still

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