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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
In a way that's true though, because the majority of kids who have that soft-landing available don't go on to achieve any kind of success like that.
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
I'm from Brazil and Brazil is one of the most regulated places on Earth regarding labor laws and it costs the country a lot of productivity. You shouldn't assume that every country is like the average European country and thus wha
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I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua(github.com)
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by adnzzzzZ 6y ago
That is an increasingly cynical view to expose given that the people who decide to do that just get blacklisted by the financial elite. https://twitter.com/TheEbonyMaw/status/1277120076186112000 , https:/&#x2
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Making rxi's lite my main text editor(github.com)
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
They literally just posted this a few days ago https://twitter.com/WHOWPRO/status/1243171683067777024 when we know it's false and that masks do offer some level of personal protection on top of making everyon
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
And Trudeau himself is not being tested: https://twitter.com/CameronAhmad/status/1238281503005642753 . I don't understand why some governments seem so averse to testing in general and have really tight constra
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
You shouldn't discount the psychological factor of these things. Today, 1 day after the big move by the US to ban flights from Europe, we're seeing a lot more movement from various governments and states in taking action against t
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
According to this the range is 0-24 days with a median of 3 days. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v...
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/ This is not updated often so it's a few days behind current numbers. But basically it comes from CDC's and health ministries of other countries
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html There are only 70 known cases because the US has only tested 472 people. Compare this to South Korea which has tested 90k+ people or Italy which has teste
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.18.20024539v... This is a paper that looks at 50k Chinese patients and 18.1% of them are considered "severe cases", which China has been using to mean need
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
The media mostly ignored this story for 1 entire month despite its constant seriousness and despite it being clear that it was the biggest event of the year so far. Only this last week has it picked up on it. For people who have been follow
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
Based on a WHO official's statements they found no evidence that this is happening when they went to China. https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/25/new-data-from-china-butt... , https://twitter.com
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
Verification should serve the purpose of verification alone and not related to what Twitter agrees with as a company or not. They're a platform and should act as one. https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
>It really depends on what your life experience is to determine which camp you fall in. If you've been on the receiving end of hate speech or discrimination, you tend to be in the second camp. If you've lived a relatively privi
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
Unlike vapes or car crashes, a virus can spread and do damage exponentially. If you have any understanding of mathematics it seems pretty logical to take the threat seriously and do the most you can do prevent it from spreading as fast as i
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
I stand corrected. How is it a moral panic to point out that there's a problem, in the case of the vape situation something with the chemicals used, and in the case of this virus the fact that it can kill and spread more efficiently th
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
The "vape moral panic of 2019" killed almost 3000 people in America. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/s... I'm sure if you had a family member or friend who died due t
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
I think you're being a bit too dramatic. For instance, read this https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1229202134048133126 where a senator raises several possibilities (ascribing the most probability of bei
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
Anti-vaccination advocacy exists because some kids do get problems from vaccines. I'm not an anti-vaxxer but it's an inherent feature of how vaccines work that a very small percentage of kids will have some serious things happen a
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
This is the first comment I've made on this forum about China, so whoever you're speaking to is clearly not me but a collective "you" instead. Responding as myself, I simply added balance to the comment above me. Many pe
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
This kind of analysis I'm seeing everywhere is so misguided. The reason the local government didn't report on the situation accurately and even punished some journalists for speaking about it is a flaw of how their country is run
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
He talks about this in the video. In his own experience in his studios he never noticed someone being unfairly pressured to work more than they wanted, and he had colleagues who worked 9 to 5 and who did just fine. He also claims that from
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
John Carmack got to where he is by being a game developer. If you discount all wildly successful people in a field that is known to be a winner takes all environment then you won't have that many successful people to listen to.
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
Many well known game developers disagree with this notion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIvHkaV6Ri8 that this is a huge problem. All the sources you see seem unhappy because those stories get the most attention, but it do
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
If you have some time most of your questions are answered in this set of lectures about the subject from someone in the field https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCceO_D4AlY&list=PL22J3VaeAB... . If you don't a lot of t
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
I think most of these are based on the Big Five, so they're defined from self reports. Personality questionnaires are far from ideal but they're what we've got and they're fairly reliable.
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Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
3 points by adnzzzzZ 7y ago|0 comments
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by adnzzzzZ 7y ago
If you believe yourself to be an ethical person then you want to build companies like those yourself rather than stop, since you can be sure that you'll do your best to handle data properly while providing the world with that service.

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