ajna91

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Geoengineering to Stop Climate Change(ted.com)
2 points by ajna91 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
What if somebody honestly posts compelling, non-obvious misinformation? How confident are you that would be corrected?
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“Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked”: John Ioannidis (2016)(retractionwatch.com)
209 points by ajna91 7y ago|76 comments
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Is Medicine Overrated?(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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by ajna91 7y ago
While the handful of Fukushima related injuries are tragic, they pale in comparison to the thousands of injuries/deaths directly caused by pollution by traditional plants, not to mention climate change.
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by ajna91 7y ago
I wonder if all this online complaining is worse than useless, but actually counter-productive by acting as a release valve for real grievances.
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by ajna91 7y ago
What is the connection between taxes and low health care costs? Look at this graph, not all these countries are high-tax. https://www.investopedia.com/thmb/Y4EFa4HoQXxh4Vbal80eq7mAd6...
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by ajna91 7y ago
> Kohan called for a nurse, who explained that he would need jaw surgery that night. In the meantime, he tried to check whether the hospital — Dell Seton Medical Center — was in his insurance network. > “I was on my iPhone lying there
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He went to an in-network emergency room. He still ended up with a $7,924 bill(vox.com)
4 points by ajna91 7y ago|1 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
> If someone is full of shit it will work itself out eventually and people will stop following them. I'm curious what makes you think this is true. Surely the evidence is on the other side of the argument?
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by ajna91 7y ago
I find this kind of thing quite often, and it always annoys me.
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by ajna91 7y ago
why?
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by ajna91 7y ago
I think sadly we may live in the worst of both worlds. Overly burdensome regulation on medical innovation, yet free hand in other areas like lead in gasoline, microbeads in our hair gel, and who knows what else. A cynical take might be that
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How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the Answer(theatlantic.com)
68 points by ajna91 7y ago|55 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
It depends. Are Brave's ads more similar to the banner ads of the old days? If they are not so intrusive and privacy violating like modern ad-networks, that would still be a net win in my opinion. As for the hypothetical youtuber, they
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AI GPT-2 Writes a Story About the Creation and Censorship of the Internet(reddit.com)
1 points by ajna91 7y ago|0 comments
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How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the Answer(theatlantic.com)
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by ajna91 7y ago
"We showed a split-brain patient two pictures: To his right visual field, a chicken claw, so the left hemisphere saw only the claw picture, and to the left visual field, a snow scene, so the right hemisphere saw only that. He was then
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Our Brains Constantly Confabulate Stories(powerofstories.com)
3 points by ajna91 7y ago|1 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
If you want to be more blown away. (warning some comments may be NSFW) An entire subreddit where every poster/commenter is a GPT-2 bot. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/
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When you change the world and no one notices(collaborativefund.com)
2 points by ajna91 7y ago|1 comments
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Everything you know about the Gospel of Paul is likely wrong(aeon.co)
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Brian Kernighan on Successful Language Design(youtube.com)
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by ajna91 7y ago
If someone breaks into your house to steal your TV, knocks over a candle, doesn't put out the fire and leaves. Are they not to blame for the fire even if they were only interested in the TV?
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Lessons from History(collaborativefund.com)
52 points by ajna91 7y ago|5 comments
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Grep for Linguists(stts.se)
1 points by ajna91 7y ago|0 comments
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by ajna91 7y ago
I may sign up for this solely to support the kind of future I want.
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by ajna91 7y ago
Sorry to hear, my acquintance with him is via the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. "Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics