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by angelzen 5y ago
> Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed into law a bill that bans 24-hour and drive-thru voting, imposes new hurdles on mail-in ballots and empowers partisan poll watchers. Is this article a joke? All these measures are com
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by angelzen 5y ago
True. Everybody has a right to decide their own risk profile according to their own life circumstances and risk tolerance. Not to scold, but please notice that some people have quite a bit larger choice space than others. For example, white
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by angelzen 5y ago
Like any parent will tell you, 'hurt' is simply a signal for 'avoid'. As language decoheres at accelerated speed, we can safely say that electrons are hurt by the electromagnetic field generated by other electrons.
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by angelzen 5y ago
GPT + GAN = the future of news
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by angelzen 5y ago
That we don't know doesn't necessarily imply that we need to assume the worst case scenario.
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Some of these people will end up bitten by a brown recluse, have a heart attack and then die in a car crash on the way to the hospital. For a really large population, a tiny but not zero number of people will undergo all sorts of crazy scen
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by angelzen 5y ago
Hypothesis: The Italian guy might have a better chance of picking up Spanish if the Spaniards were to speak a bit slower than usual :) Especially at the fuzzy mutual intelligibility boundary, a lower communication speed helps. Italian sylla
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by angelzen 5y ago
I'm addressing the condescending Western trope, IMHO stemming from denial, that China somehow lacks 'a source of creativity and critical thought' to be 'truly innovative and successful in the high-skill arena'. Comm
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by angelzen 5y ago
'Are French and Spanish just dialects of Latin?' Yes :)
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by angelzen 5y ago
Clone legacy tech, leapfrog at the cutting edge. Masterful strategic execution, hats off to China. One example. Drones have proven to be a strategic gamechanger in the 2020 Azeri-Armenian war. In the same league with the musket, the machine
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by angelzen 5y ago
Technically speaking, there are other cultural spaces than US/English. In one such space E[X] is written M(X) and called 'average value'. But that's quibbling. 'Expected value' is simply 'weighted sum&#x2
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by angelzen 5y ago
> Ask yourself: if notation was genuinely confusing, why would mathematicians make themselves suffer needlessly? Sometimes notation elides 'obvious details'. The details are obvious to those that have already gone through the l
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by angelzen 5y ago
You raise good points. Some open questions in this space: What is the influence and reach of media organizations? What responsiblity do they have to the public and to the truth? How about social media influencers? How about social media com
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by angelzen 5y ago
dis·sim·u·la·tion: concealment of one's thoughts, feelings, or character; pretense Watch how the most vocal egalitarians just happen to send their kids to the most elitist private school they can possibly afford and collect the most cr
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by angelzen 5y ago
For a long time I've been watching with dismay the rapid growth of Bitcoin's energy consumption. At some point it dawned on me that a global currency must be backed by a non-trivial share of world's energy consumption, simpl
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That part of the media is more than happy to propagate a hoax without checking just because it supports their political narrative is worrisome. Which part depends on the story, both sides are prone to this behavior. That the narrative is fr
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by angelzen 5y ago
This is sadly a general trend. Take some numbers out of context. The numbers appear large because they are a small fraction of really really large population. Publish on social media and induce outrage. Clicks and clout follow. For example:
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by angelzen 5y ago
That an outrageous 0.0015% of the estimated 6.8 billion price tag of the 2016 election. Damn Ruskies and their election interference [shakes fist at the sky]. Fun fact, 100k is 0.4% of the price of the Mueller report itself, at 25M. https:
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They may not be going to China, but China is coming over.
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Nitpick: the USA is not good for the USA either.
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Monoclonals outpatient treatment: 70% reduction in Covid hospitalizations(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by angelzen 5y ago
> “To sum up, I may say that if the taste of our people [in France] for possessing land, and our habit of cultivation on a small scale, have singularly facilitated our progress towards equality, it is probable that the excess of opposing
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by angelzen 5y ago
> In a poll conducted prior to the 2020 election, 44 percent of Republicans and 41 percent of Democrats said that there would be “at least ‘a little’ justification for violence if the other party’s nominee won the election.” Damn.
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Sadly, cloth / surgical masks are only marginally useful. N95 and above work better, but it borders child abuse to force kids wear N95 masks eight hours in a row. Source: I have diminished lung capacity and can't wear N95 for more
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According to CDC estimates, it's 20% of US population up to late July 2021. And that's before Delta, which everyone agrees is significantly more infectious than Wild/Alpha. It gives me no pleasure to say it, but as a parent w
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Yuck. Not sure who you imagine Monica Gandhi is, other than a (non-tenured?) medicine prof at UCSF and a minor Twitter influencer. Without more context, the video could as well be the inauguration of the corner icecream shop. Frankly, I hav
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by angelzen 5y ago
'gh' is somewhat common in American English. ghost, ghetto, aghast. 'dh' is unheard of.
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The point it that they were hopeful . Piling on them, even if wrong, is distasteful.
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The horror! Edit: Covid is a miserable disease, but it seems that some of us want to abandon the joy of living because, in the big scheme, slightly more people die than usual. The price of being alive is death, and it's well worth it.
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by angelzen 5y ago
> Multiple countries have eliminated the virus. In fact, virtually every country that aimed at it succeeded at this goal. Which countries have eliminated the virus? Aren't you playing out the exact same kind of baseless optimism you

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