akimball

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by akimball 6y ago
It would be inappropriate to infer that the OP was advocating for unicorns.
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by akimball 6y ago
Migrants don't do the violence. Refugees are victims, not perpetrators. The infrequent counter-examples are "man bites dog" stories, which leave out the causal history.
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by akimball 6y ago
"Less to lose" is a pretty coarse attribution. While true tautologically, I would argue that it is misleading. The poor lack the power to institutionalize violence. The overwhelming bulk of violence is institutional. Large pop
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by akimball 6y ago
In the US. But here we are better at keeping it down low.
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by akimball 6y ago
I worked at a small US defense contractor for a couple of years. I was not in that loop, but my impression from those that were was that this sort of thing was to be expected if you entered into competition against the wrong incumbent.
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by akimball 6y ago
As has been argued many times. There have been several important revivals of classical mediterranean patterns. A relatively recent one which stands out is the "Third Reich". US federal style is another example.
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by akimball 6y ago
State of the art is always open source in MT.
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by akimball 6y ago
It actually requires more rigor. Methodological laxity is particularly deadly in such challenging domains.
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by akimball 6y ago
The claim is not particularly extraordinary. Gravity wave observations are extraordinary. True information from internal mental dialog is quite ordinary. The variety of that dialog is remarkably wide, and not well analyzed for distributi
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by akimball 6y ago
Either it happened or it didn't. If it did, it constitutes important differential information, and publication is important. Saying that it is not medicine or science implies that medicine and science disregard facts, which is an impl
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by akimball 6y ago
The likelihood of stopping in an infinite search space depends on the distribution of stop regions. The hypothesis makes an implicit assertion about that distribution. I'd love to see that assertion made explicit, and support provide
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by akimball 6y ago
A would have liked a warning that this is a dark pattern website which is prone to capture browsers,and won't display content on common modern client platforms.
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by akimball 6y ago
The first, most obvious, difference is the relative competence of economic planning.
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by akimball 6y ago
English vocabulary rules - vocabulary is built of axiom schemata - are insanely complex, and still we have to rely heavily on disambiguation by context. It is the nature of NL semantics. I'm not arguing against more precise terms of
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by akimball 6y ago
If only they would suppress disinformation issued by governmental sources, I wouldn't be so troubled by this.
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by akimball 6y ago
I can. R0~5.7 has dropped below 1.0 in many mask-averse stay-at-home regions, which I consider compelling evidence of efficacy in an adverse environment, under common-sense priors informed by the medical literature.
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by akimball 6y ago
Try to effect some justice, and you'll quickly learn how authoritarian the US is.
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by akimball 6y ago
One should not too quickly provide an exception for the laws of physics. The underlying axioms which make evolutionary dynamics deducible elsewhere do not obviously exclude physical law.
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by akimball 6y ago
under-rated comment.
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by akimball 6y ago
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... is the gold standard placebo-controlled double-blind RCT. It shows no significant benefits, substantial adverse effects. Also published today,
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by akimball 7y ago
Nucleic acids store bits pretty well.
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by akimball 7y ago
When you control the content of the stream, you control whether there are repeated blocks. If there are none, do any objections to ECB remain?
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by akimball 7y ago
Power struggle then becomes what are rights, and who owes them to whom? Who gets what rights and how are they enforced is pretty much the core of political struggle.
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by akimball 7y ago
The evolution of the wave function which determines the probability distribution sampled by observations is deterministic and reversible in all of the quantum theories I have personally studied (which is not many).
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by akimball 7y ago
Panic gets a bad rap. It is much better to panic early, when you have the leisure to plan ahead with abundant resources. Panic becomes bad late in the game when resources are constrained and there is not time to implement or optimize a plan
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by akimball 7y ago
Most cases will be like a cold. As many as 8% may require ICU care to survive. Unless protocols improve, at least a quarter of those will die. We need a lot more ventilators, immediately. And aggressive use of existing antivirals, prote
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by akimball 7y ago
Not open source ==> not auditable
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by akimball 7y ago
In particular, Nixon started the war on drugs to take down black people.
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by akimball 7y ago
Minneapolis/St.Paul has (or had - my info may be as much as 10yrs old) the largest population of PRC national college & university students in the United States.
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by akimball 7y ago
There isn't a lot of contest about free speech in the US. Some, yes, but not much. The objections to getting shot are much more motivating than the objections to being spoken to or even about.

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