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by blix 6y ago
Sad, and telling, that this is getting downvoted.
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In this situation, NZ has unique geographical advantages. Others that have tried similar measures without those advantages haven't found the same success. I think most European and North American nations recognized very early on that N
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> But the reason this is lasting so long... Masks and social distancing and banning birthday parties are not about speeding up or ending the pandemic but slowing it down (to minimize deaths) until a vaccine is ready. This is what 'f
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If a gig worker reguarly goes to multiple grocery stores (which is pretty common, moreso than for individual shoppers), there might not be much benefit for grocery store workers. The ability to transfer disease between grocery stores might
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It certainly reduces risk for the clients, but also increases risk for the gig worker. It might reduce societal risk overall, though I'd argue it's hard to say without a deeper understanding of overall behavior, especially since p
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If you order through e.g. instacart somebody usually still has to make an in-person trip to the store and take things off shelves. It's the same vector, but you are paying someone else to be exposed to it. It's not necessarily tru
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There's truth to this, but I don't think it's the whole picture. It's certainly possible to be concerned about the state of civilization without "doomscrolling" or checking covid death numbers each morning. The
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Some of my family members work(ed) at a south-side Chicago hospital that treats mainly low-income black people. The hospital is shutting down because of the pandemic (or at least using it as an excuse to get out of a low-value market). The
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I personally know many people who are suffering from severe pandemic-related anxiety and depression who have not contracted the disease. The current discourse and societal response to the disease seems likely to have as big or larger of a m
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I don't see the relevance of this comment. If you can't get approval from the authorities for your disability, then you end up in the same place. One path just involves more paperwork, paternalism, and shame. Anyway, I'm pret
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I don't feel it's dismissive at all. Yeah "rules of thumb" and correlational studies are imperfect, but I think they are better than nothing. It's usually easier to break out of a feedback loop once you recognize th
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Cause and coping mechanism are not mutually exclusive.
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Probably, but the effects of different types of screen time would likely be more similar to each other than going for a walk in the woods.
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If you somehow managed to convince a group of people to stare at a glowing white rectangle for 10 hours day, I would be pretty surprised if you couldn't notice any mental health effects.
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For people with 'untreatable' or 'psychogenic' chronic illnesses, universal healthcare would just mean a different institution denies your claim for treatment. Progressives, especially in 2020, don't look kindly on
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I often wonder if they suspected a Trump victory would boost their subscriptions and let that influence their behavior in 2016.
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One of my friends in college managed a medical journal, which was owned by a moderately well-known professor trying to quickly cash in on his fame. His job consisted mainly of formatting word documents while pretending to be a team of revie
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I don't care what Lightfoot looks like, I don't understand how you can watch a deeply segregated city attempt to isolate its poorest residents from its richest areas, even temporarily, and not see a problem.
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I agree that the river is in many senses a symbolic boundary, but I think its symbolism is important, especially in the near vicinity of the Loop. And while property crime and violent crime are separate to a degree, I think the city's
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While Chicago certainly does get mentioned more often than Houston for political reasons, it still has a pretty significant violent crime problem. And because Chicago is so deeply segregated, racially and economically, the areas hardest hit
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Rome was involved in multiple periphery wars during the "Pax Romana" as well. Instead, the historical term refers to internal peace within the empire. Pax Americana usually means the same thing, though the borders of the empire ar
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Are you meaning to imply that no democracy has ever tried to suppress information that was unfavorable to it? I think you simply won't find objectivity in politics.
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Ultimately, almost all arguments against conspiracy theories boil down to appeals to authority. Only a few people have personal evidence of the moon landing, the rest are relying on authority. The main issue with convincing people who belie
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Objective reality doesn't have a native representation in human language. When an event is recorded in text or speech it is neccessarily an interpretation. Even in memory, the record of an event is a mere interpretation of reality. I&#
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> Authoritarianism denies objective science while Democracy can only exist with it. Does this mean China, which leads the world in published scientific papers, is the model democracy? What about the Soviet Union, which definitely assigne
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If you look at the photo of Curie using any divergent colormap, you get roughly the same effect. The problem is that the colormap is divergent and replaces white with a dark color, not anything intrinsic to jet. If you map this image with B
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It is still important, and jet certainly has major flaws. I just think it's not so useful to compare jet to non-divergent colormaps. Any divergent colormap would look bad on a photograph of a human, which seems to be the main evidence
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Not all rainbows are divergent, but if you look at jet you can clearly see it's designed to be roughly symmetric about the mean. Rainbow and divergent are not mutually exclusive.
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If your data is centered around zero (i.e. lots of uninteresting data points near zero), why would you want your perceptual peak there? I can't think of any divergent colormap that has this feature. In jet the cyan and yellow regions h
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This is a weird article. Jet is effectively a divergent colormap and allows highlighting of extemes, but none of the other colormaps they consider are useful in this context. Jet isn't competing with batlow and viridis, it's compe

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