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by blagie 3y ago
I don't like guilt-by-association, but here's a short list of things the folks in Scotland didn't do: - Genocide against the people who lived in America - Bring India to its knees, from one of the richest to one of the most i
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by blagie 3y ago
The outcome I'm observing is isolationism. Brexit means that doing business with the UK is suddenly much more complex and expensive. Mandatory backdoors would break many products, and then products which rely on those products. The UK
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by blagie 3y ago
Edit: Additional thank you. That's a fascinating article and really well-written. I'm learning /a lot/ from it.
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by blagie 3y ago
Thank you! Footnote: That's a 180 turn-around from state-of-the-art science a year or so ago. At the time, we thought there were individuals where it persisted (evidence in immunocompromised), but nothing like this.
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by blagie 3y ago
Long covid is generally defined as >4 weeks. There are subdefinitions for different lengths. However, a lot of long covid may be a form a post-viral fatigue. That doesn't discount it's importance, though. It's a lot more c
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by blagie 3y ago
Why do you believe that?
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by blagie 3y ago
Going from 50% to 75% to 88% to 94% to 97% to 99% to 99.5% reduction in risk carries an exponential increase in cost. Bringing risk to zero isn't a reasonable -- or possible -- goal, but how much this should decrease depends on individ
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by blagie 3y ago
This is basic communication within a traditional setting. There are at least two issues: 1) In a multicultural setting, words written and words read may carry different meaning. Words carry subtly different meanings, and tones and subtexts
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by blagie 3y ago
I'd be very surprised if it helped. There's pretty good evidence that long covid isn't caused by persistent virus. My own speculation is that it's autoimmune, simple due to having it seen resolved when people were vaccin
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by blagie 3y ago
Yeah, no. The science -- and basic common sense -- is against you. There are many people who are hypochondriacs and make stuff up. However, anecdotally, I know people who: - Had severe memory problems for a few months following covid - Had
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by blagie 3y ago
unlikely ≠ won't Defense-in-depth gives a broad range of tactics, and the goal is to combine enough of them to limit risks.
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by blagie 3y ago
I actually think it's the opposite. There is a hyper-polite culture in the west where people tone down statements: - It's [X] - Have you considered it might be [X]? - Is it possible it might be [X]? - ... The goal is to not appear
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by blagie 3y ago
.... maybe .... It depends on the purpose of the test. For example, a trillion dollar question is still long covid. Very significant numbers of people are on disability right now. About 10% of Americans have some form of long covid, and &gt
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by blagie 3y ago
As a hobbyist, at $3000, I can say this would not pay for itself. I'd absolutely love to have one, but for hobbyist use, it would need to be O($100). I think the real innovation would be to bring this from O($3000) to O($100). I actual
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by blagie 3y ago
Is there a TL;DR on how to filter PFAS out of drinking water, ideally economically? (e.g. "Buy X and install it in your sink" rather than general guidance about getting a carbon filter or something)
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by blagie 3y ago
I think the reason this was never raised is because -- within a Polish sense of humor -- issues like this are hilarious rather than offensive.
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by blagie 3y ago
I don't think the results they were trying to achieve were "a setback for human rights." They're a non-profit investing their time and money to try to make the world a better place. There is disagreement on what makes fo
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by blagie 3y ago
I'd actually like to see more of a citation. The trail starts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Watch_International Which references: https://politicalresearch.org/sites/default/
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by blagie 3y ago
> Anger and hate are two different things. You're attempting to conflate them to garner sympathy I am not. The word "and" isn't the same as "equals." > As for hate being effective, these people got a &quo
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by blagie 3y ago
Consultative status is not consulting status. Was this a typo, a misunderstanding, or something else? Do you understand what consultative status means? If so, can you explain it in plain English? I'm reading online, but it's not r
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by blagie 3y ago
If you issue everyone a refund, you won't be very successful in business. I think a GPT-powered chatbot (not an old-school one) could screen between: - Genuine issues - Scammers Probably more effectively than a minimum-wage apathetic h
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by blagie 3y ago
So was I, the first few times this happened. My experience is that Amazon customer service did a complete 180 in 2020. Prior to that, every issue was resolved to my satisfaction, and they felt too generous, if anything. Today, every Amazon
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by blagie 3y ago
I'm not sure: - We might be sitting at a 500M population after the [climate / pandemic / AI / nuclear / system collapse / etc] apocalypse. - We might be sitting on a terraformed Mars (or in bubbles under the oc
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by blagie 3y ago
Why do you think the Earth has a fixed carrying capacity? As with Moore's Law for decades, there have been many similar predictions in the past, and they fell by the wayside as technology, output, and productivity improved. At some poi
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by blagie 3y ago
They can't all be wrong or mistaken, but there can be a very strong sample bias. I can go into a longer diatribe here, but the short story is: 1) Most people have a hard time finding jobs at any age. Recent college grads can't all
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by blagie 3y ago
True, but that's not the point. The point is I don't want to buy a pig-in-a-poke. I generally don't buy products which lose the transparency battle.
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by blagie 3y ago
I don't buy phones with hidden specs. The main sensor has specs (sensor size, aperture, and even who makes it). The ultrawide just says: Ultrawide Camera 13 MP sensor 120 ̊ field of view 12.5 mm equivalent focal length in 35 mm film ca
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by blagie 3y ago
Culture matters. I deliberately picked engineering/computer/mathy nerd schools for my list. A typical UC, a Calstate, or a community college won't be a nerd school. A better point-of-comparison for UC computer science would b
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by blagie 3y ago
Hiring is a die roll. Here's a good model: - You want to hire someone with a competency of 100 units - A bad hire is expensive, and you definitely don't want one slipping in. - There is a noise floor in the interview process of 50
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by blagie 3y ago
I had no impostor syndrome. Many of my peers didn't either; it's certainly not the case that almost everyone feels it. There seemed to be little correlation between ability and impostor syndrome too, so it's not a question of

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