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by avs733 5y ago
as a pedestrian I've just found that the result of those in Georgia, USA is that drivers ignore pedestrians more slowly.
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by avs733 5y ago
Sidewalks are an optional extra on road building so...in his defense...you can't build a sidewalk without a road, which makes it significantly more expensive.
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by avs733 5y ago
"In most places in America walking is not a practical mode of transportation because of distance; it’s miles from your house to the grocery store, for instance. If you live in a city this might not be obvious to you but half the countr
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by avs733 5y ago
this is exactly the roll our judicial branch should play and so rarely does. Step by step in America, the judicial branch has become more and more deferential to the executive branch when it comes to law enforcement. The reality is that I
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by avs733 5y ago
and the courts choose to be party to this, and there is no consequence.
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by avs733 5y ago
which is the (great great?) grand parents point ... laws not being reasonably applied.
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by avs733 5y ago
He means “lied about”. He may not know it but that’s what he means.
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by avs733 5y ago
thats part of the goal of this approach to argumentation. Its not a bug it's a feature.
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by avs733 5y ago
did you really compare saying Marijuana and a word you won't say?
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by avs733 5y ago
ugh...uniforms for employees
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by avs733 5y ago
this is helpful. None of these things are even remotely true, therefore wokeism (by your definition) can be dismissed as nonsense.
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by avs733 5y ago
the idea that we as individual aren't capable of and responsible for evaluating knowledge claims is silly. The increasing use of that idea to deny the obvious is troubling and not something that that should be celebrated.
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by avs733 5y ago
You’re right! It is used to play the strategic ambiguity game. Where what one means when they say it is never the same as what it means when they are asked to explain what they mean.
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by avs733 5y ago
Lord…three comments. Three comments in before “don’t be a jerk to people different than you” is called a cult.
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by avs733 5y ago
Yeah…this. How much of the homogenization is due to “broader impacts” and “intellectual merit”. Which became the default lingo of nsf grants in about 1997
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by avs733 5y ago
Add in “grant writing specialists” with no domain expertise but lots of “test the nsf as an api” expertise and you have even bigger sources of error in these claims.
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by avs733 5y ago
Words don’t represent JUST represent ideas. Words transmit ideas. The difference is notable I’m this data set in particular. I posted a longer version elsewhere in the thread but to summarize. During this time period the nsf became more str
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by avs733 5y ago
The telling part for me is the scale of the graphs from the original paper and the blog post The paper graph shows a decrease from like .1 to .075 over 30 years The blog post shows a decrease from .35 to .1 over 100 years However, the crims
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by avs733 5y ago
I can hear the steampunk aesthetic from here.
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by avs733 5y ago
Just as an observation about this…I’ve increasingly begun to see the term knowledge expand to encompass information as if they are equivalent. That tracks, in my field, with changes in US K-12 education and the problems we now see in co
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by avs733 5y ago
“ Cannabinoids Promote Progression of HPV-Positive Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma via p38 MAPK Activation” That is the study name. You are referencing the title of the press release from the university they work at. While it’s perf
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by avs733 5y ago
...that's the point? they are making an argument for their point of view. They list specific actions and evidence to support their points. They don't claim to be 'unbiased'. The fetishization of objectivity and being unb
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by avs733 5y ago
sometimes called copy stupid in extreme circumstances
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by avs733 5y ago
I'm less worried about somebody attacking more radio and more annoyed that radio stations have taken to using an information mechanism designed to tell me what I'm listening to and used it to serve ads. Unless we are calling servi
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by avs733 5y ago
> While Amazon is Not a wrong comparison at all. His point is that Amazon was a place that sold books. They took risks and grew into a marketplace for selling everything. One mismanagement of their AWS development or platformization
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by avs733 5y ago
Well I just laughed so hard I woke my baby up. Thank you for that on a Saturday morning.
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by avs733 5y ago
Exactly When capitalism fails and something else steps in to fix it, the fact that the fix is happening at the same time as something bad means it must be responsible.
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by avs733 5y ago
so in sum, Thomas Bayes just kicked Tesla square in the ass?
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by avs733 5y ago
what Musk wants/will do is largely irrelevant to the eventual success of self driving vehicles. pardon the use of his pet acronym FSD but what will make the technology, not Tesla, successful is a build environment that a car can intera
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by avs733 5y ago
Personal opinion...FSD won't work within the existing paradigm largely because driving is a social experience not purely a technical one. It could, and should, be made to work in CONCERT with infrastructure changes to enable and suppor

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