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by brlewis 6y ago
>> The MMA guy was apparently like "so I guess these guys have just never hung out with any athletes?" Turns out it isn't that abnormal for them to like cool and nerdy stuff. > "black swans" is not only abo
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It seems different to me, because on subreddits plagued by self promotion, nobody will ask.
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It probably spread at a similar rate relative to how fast truth spread at the time. Lots of old quotes about falsehood spreading faster than truth: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
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> The vast majority of the evidence is anecdotal True. But how does that compare to evidence that the vaccine will have serious adverse effects?
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Thanks. I only hovered over mRNA on a wikipedia page[0] and saw the word "fragment", so I knew it wasn't live or attenuated viruses, but didn't realize how novel this vaccine type is. That said, I'd still rush out a
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I did not think impersonal entities were what the gp post was talking about; apologies if they were. But even including impersonal supernatural entities, the wikipedia page I cited shows that's not a defining characteristic.
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Help me understand what risk you're concerned about. Have there been other mRNA vaccines where an adverse effect showed up in general use that wasn't caught in clinical trials?
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>In most languages, "religion" will imply an ordered belief in a supernatural entity and set of accompanying practices Buddhism is considered a religion and does not fit that description. Your emphatic capslock notwithstanding,
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That it's dumbed down and watered down explains the appeal.
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> I never understood the wave of Social Media; it appeared to be a dumbed-down and watered-down...junkfood... I'm confused. Before the semicolon you're claiming you don't understand the wave of Social Media. After the semi
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The author is right under the title of the article: Gilad Navot. Looking at the gray in the beard in Navot's picture on the about page, I'm guessing that Navot has more than one year of engineering experience. (I'd also guess
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> Vue includes a whole templating language, that have control structures in addition to JSX features (v-if, v-for, ...) This is why I like JSX better than idiomatic[0] Vue. Using SGML syntax for programming logic or other things it was n
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What emotional chord was struck with you that drove you to use absolutes like "completely", "nothing to do with", and "100%" when the primary bad parenting the author acknowledges is buying the daughter an iPho
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And if you can't get a dog, play a game like Pokemon Go or Ingress.
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Wii Fit is good for balance. I hope mine still works in 3 or 4 decades.
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You applied this question: When I modify this code, what tests will tell me that it still does what it's supposed to? To this situation: When I modify this code, will tests that enforce coupling between different components tell me
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> While that's true, you don't want I'm confused. These opening words make it sound like you're getting ready to partially disagree, but then the rest of the comment is pure agreement. What did I miss?
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I don't think clearly defined boundaries are what's needed. People just need to keep in mind that the purpose of tests is to catch bugs. When I modify this code, what tests will tell me that it still does what it's supposed t
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You are technically correct that they never said vim/emacs lacks those features. A tiny bit of reading comprehension effort can illuminate the intent of juxtaposed sentences.
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> That said, if you’re new to programming, a modern IDE could be helpful. With code completion, Git control, and even automatic deployment systems, modern IDEs are a Swiss Army Knife of features. Just in case anyone reading here is as co
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Hypothesis: The average printer buyer is not reading eff.org or having conversations with friends about friends' printer experiences. They go to a store and buy what the salesperson recommends. After purchase, they think of the restric
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> Who doesn't have an auto increment Id field on every table? In large organizations with a lot of teams, natural primary keys make interoperability easier across databases, as opposed to a forest of artificial keys that are all dif
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> I disagree that you should refactoring code "so that the entire team can understand the code". Teams turnover much more frequently than a code base should I didn't read it as saying the code should be refactored every ti
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When it's ground nobody's covered before, it's hacking.
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> there's nothing 'official' about it. If someone goes faster but never tells anyone, they still went faster The word "official" refers to authority, not to reality. I'm using the official definition.
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Merely believing in something false is harmless, but once in a while humans actually act on their beliefs. Suppose a restaurant employee believes that the requirement to wash hands before returning to work is a hoax by the soap companies in
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I'm not trying to be fair to the languages. I'm trying to be fair to the people looking at what skills are in high demand.
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There are 55k openings on Indeed for React jobs and 8k PHP jobs. When the absolute numbers are lower, there's more opportunity for high percentage growth, which is what they used to rank them.
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> people will complain to the restaurant about food being cold/slow not realizing that the restaurant isn't even involved in the delivery By using their name in commerce, restaurants have a trademark. People complaining to the
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I used to think that spammers would stop if their spamming didn't win them any results. But they don't care. They spread their spam as widely as possible without trying to prune out the places where it does them no good.

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