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The Insufferable Hubris of the Well-Credentialed(chronicle.com)
1 points by ardy42 6y ago|0 comments
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Where are the expert witnesses in this case?? In the trial court.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> At the current rate of +50K infections per day, that's 20 days per 1M infections, so we need 20 days * 92 = 5 years before we achieve herd immunity (best case, assuming no vaccines)? That doesn't seem right. I can't reme
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Liberalism and Its Discontents: The challenges from the left and the right(americanpurpose.com)
3 points by ardy42 6y ago|0 comments
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I still say, let everyone make the decision for themselves. Many old people (the majority) that get COVID don't die, but recover. They can attend performances. While we're at it, let's do the same with drunk driving. Af
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The point is dismissing anybody/somebody/everybodies' view out of hand or minimizing it down to complaints means you are missing when valid points are being made. I'm not "dismissing anybody/somebody/
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Sure people can retrain and reapply for jobs, do we need unions for that? Because they could make it easier for those workers. It's not like the business that laid them off is going to do a good job of that, if it's not comp
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by ardy42 6y ago
> You can take the same rules about hollywood union rules forcing lighting technicians and camera crew to have roles, even though the big expensive and hot lights they used to safeguard are long since gone. I don't know. That reaso
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Well, the real point is that children have full-time tutors, their parents. That's not universal, though. Many children are neglected to various degrees, and my understanding is they'll still work out their language if they
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> Are unions in the US really like that, or is it a one-off being used to spread fud? > Yes, they are. I've been working a booth at a convention showing off some tech and asked a passing worker for an extension cord. The resp
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Yeah. And the SAG rules aren't unreasonable IMO. But a union is not replacing the existing rules of your workplace, it's a second group of people who can add rules. Yes and no. 1) Rules aren't interchangeable, undifferen
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by ardy42 6y ago
Yeah, but so what? Don't most organization have rules designed to allow them to function as an organization or solve specific problems they encounter? It's not like an Apple employee can freely blog about the unreleased product
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by ardy42 6y ago
> But so far everyone only points to the screen actors guild as a counter example. Are there many other unions like it? IIRC, there are in the movie industry. I think writers, directors, etc. all have their own unions. Also given the n
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I think a lot of it is that in-demand, well paid workers don't have patience for the BS work rules that unions are notorious for. It might be unfair characterization, but "you can't change/test that code, that'
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> Trump was asked to condemn "white supremacists and [right wing] militia groups" and was pretty equivocal and strangely reluctant to do so. That's the story. > That's really not the story. https://w
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I'm genuinely curious, could you explain how the touchscreen is a disaster? Touchscreens in cars are a disaster, in general . They're a bad technology for the use case. They're more so in a Tesla, because Tesla relies
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The problem is that the internet broke the newspapers and cable tv. The internet has been able to allow people to get to the truth. Look at that maga hat kid story; if this were 75 years ago. The newspapers would never have retracted.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Is this the same Nick Land famous for his racist views that kickstarted the "dark enlightenment"? Yep, looks like it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24701129 The neoreactionary perspective is just oozin
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by ardy42 6y ago
> McAffe should have known better. He has enough money to buy any banana republic citizenship that does not have extradition treaties. IIRC, the citizenship of the person to be extradited is completely irrelevant , so having a "ban
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by ardy42 6y ago
> You may want to check out how elections were done in Venice in centuries past. They thought they could randimize their way to fairness too, it looks pretty silly and ineffective in retrospect: https://www.venetoinside.com&#x
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by ardy42 6y ago
> people like Scott Atlas The politically-active neuroradiologist, whose main qualification appears to be that he says what the president wants to hear? > It's incredible that you are taking the stance that the non-pharmaceutical
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by ardy42 6y ago
> We’re talking about a mild respiratory infection in 99+% of people. It kills 1% to 3% of people that get it, and many of the others have a pretty bad time. The fact that many people can get it with only mild symptoms actually makes
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Whether or not you agree with his approach, Anders Tegnell described the lockdown model used in most of Europe as "not sustainable," I don't think I trust the judgements of the epidemiologist responsible for Sweden'
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> and it's far from certain that a nominal and arbitrary lockdown (as US states have employed) in as complicated a system as a society actually does so The key phrase there is as US states have employed . Lockdowns have been succes
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by ardy42 6y ago
> And being such artifacts the means used by historians to reconstruct the past, while they deny others the same rights to interpret it, is quite ironic. Maybe that's because those others are more likely to do a bad job, because the
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> Colourisation does not bring us closer to the past; it increases the gap between now and then. It does not enable immediacy; it creates difference. > This really makes me wonder. How does it increase the gap, in comparison to B&
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by ardy42 6y ago
Looks like the link got messed up. This looks like it's the story: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/internal-...
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Distrust in public institutions is why we no longer live under despots. You need a balance. People don't mainly trust despots, rather they fear them. Though they may foolishly trust the "image" of the despot when they s
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> no offense but nz and other islands are extremely easy to control. as long as you close your border early and don’t allow it to take root in the first place, you don’t have to worry. I'm not sure there's actually much of a di
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by ardy42 6y ago
> If CDC and the Surgeon General had wanted universal mask use, the worst possible strategy would be something like: spend two months insisting that, not only do masks not work, but buying them is unpatriotic and selfish, because we need

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