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by angelzen 5y ago
The interview loop is not necessarily an indication of the work environment. It is a chore, 1-2 interviews a week, about a couple hours each including prep & report writing, evaluating a candidate that will not work on your team, except
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by angelzen 5y ago
That is precisely the point where Science ends. The notion that Science can and should provide a full account of the Universe in all its complex glory is a very strange idea, conveniently promoted by those holding the credential purse strin
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To get conservative support, Michelle should consider a push to support one income families where one family member can dedicate themselves to provide improved nutrition for their own children. Conservatives believe that the State is not a
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Flat-earthers should be given as much room as they want to make fools of themselves. I find the notion of "it's on YouTube, therefore it's authoritative" intriguing.
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Google doesn't care to pass the Turing test. Their goal is to suppress any and all discourse skeptical of the official line. A few false positives are not a problem. Even better , the subjects learn that nothing and nobody will pass t
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Armored vehicles are obsolete. See Azerbaidjan campaign in Nagorno Karabakh. More than 200 tanks & armored vehicles obliterated over a few weeks by drones raining hell from above.
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> wars fought like this may involve less loss of life Western audiences forget why wars were often fought to the last man. Mass murder could often be the merciful option. Vae victis. A military superpower unwilling to impose its will thr
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The set of unique and special needs follows a power law: you are going to get most of the benefits from a small set of very common commands. The long tail will be rarely used. Under a reasonable assumption that 'brain space' is fi
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Thanks for sharing. It comes across as a stretch to focus on ' nonviolent causes of death', when the first three causes of deaths in 2019 10-24 age group (page 11) dominate the charts with cumulative 73%, and the first 'nonv
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There are 3006 counties in the USA. Given that the pandemic is not trivial, it is possible to find a couple counties with overwhelmed ICU beds on any given day. The catch is that the counties change as the pandemic waves come and go. The
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> US companies don't offer paid sick leave and economic conditions for many in the US require them to go to work even when sick Indeed, this is a long standing major issue that might have turned the pandemic into a tragedy. I fear w
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Do you have a source for "third leading cause of nonviolent death"? According to CDC, a 24yo female death has a 113 : 2416 = 4.7% chance of being caused by covid, and a 24yo male death has a 195 : 6756 = 2.9% chance of being cause
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This is rough, sorry to hear that. Hopefully it will get better in the long run. You are absolutely correct: if the only reason for not getting the vaccine is concern over vaccine side effects, then take the vaccine.
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This is reminiscent of intense wingsuit videos. While the drones are small and the speeds are not quite there yet, being able to change course on a whim may prove sufficiently appealing. I wonder if zipping through obstacle areas could beco
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Tangent note: I wonder if this tweet illustrates yet another way Twitter is driving us crazy. > Please, get vaccinated. > I will respect your decision, but I would also like to have you on the team the next 3 seasons. Here is the data
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> A vaccination covers a huge range of mutations in that spike protein as the immune system memorizes multiple targets. This is an excellent technical point. Trouble is we already know that we are 'a few mutations away' from a
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Unless there is a technical explanation on how exactly the study 'controlled' for the data bias they failed to disclose, the study is tainted, sorry. This is a technical audience, we can double check the math. They should retract
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CDC has tainted epidemiological data by issuing guidance to exempt vaccinated people from testing unless symptomatic. Vaccinated asymptomatic cases were simply not counted for a period of time ending in late June 2021. I can't find the
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Is this a joke? CDC issues guidance that vaccinated persons should not get tested anymore unless symptomatic, then collects data showing that, lo and behold, vaccinated people have lower rates of reinfection. Duh, you just stopped measuring
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California has instituted state-wide vaccine mandates for kids in schools. LA has instituted vaccine mandates for restaurants, gyms and malls. The long term safety and efficacy of the vaccines is yet to be proven. Literally, since not enoug
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The linked article does not study long term reinfection rates, it studies systemic antibody response. Unfortunately, the topic of long-term covid antibody research is a difficult area: both exponential antibody decay and antibody location a
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To be fair, that statistic is an indication that something does not add up. There are plenty of other countries with similar or less access to modern medicine (modern ICUs, mRNA vaccines, etc.) due to sheer poverty that fared better, at l
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by angelzen 5y ago
Back in the 1600s it was the printing press. 30 years and 50% population decline later, it was corrected. Hopefully we can avoid too strong of a correction? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War
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by angelzen 5y ago
Fair enough. I don't believe that either.
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Who decides what's a professional painter? Car builder? Software engineer? The market. A healthy market needs a ton of providers and a ton of consumers. The news market in the social media era is not healthy. Historical precedent: htt
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> We need 5000 professional news outlets competing for the public's trust. The target has been stated. Are you in or are you happy with the social-media era status quo? If you are in, at least in principle, then constructive comment
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Regular people should talk to each other. But that is different than clicking 'like' button on a deluge of information nobody has the time to validate for accuracy or relevance. Worse, what actually gets propagated is not decid
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The idea of viral news, where the masses somehow take the place of editorial control, is bananas. The average Jane simply has no mental energy to do it properly. No amount of algorithms and bureaucracy can paper over this fundamental realit
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It's right there in the link OP provided. Senator Gillibrand: "We need a Data Protection Agency." Frances Haugen: "And there needs to be a regulatory home where someone like me could do a tour of duty after working at a
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Granularity matters. Social feed granularity is small enough that an algorithm, even primitive, can sketch an arbitrary narrative on the spot by juxtaposing unrelated items, akin to a ransom note built from letters cut off from different pu

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