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by chmod600 6y ago
Is it statistical illiteracy or something else? I think it's because journalism has become all about the journalist and their narrative and social signaling. Even when data is used, it's not for the purpose of dispassionate analys
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by chmod600 6y ago
I've also been watching Florida. Schools open since August, only a brief lockdown, few mandates. Middle-of-the-pack death rate results slightly worse than California which has major mandates and lockdowns. Florida is also a large state
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by chmod600 6y ago
Why did it have to be a verbatim copy rather than just a very similar API spec?
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by chmod600 6y ago
Why is that the most important question? To me, the fact that experts are lying to me is more important. I like science. I wish I could trust it to be presented honestly and fairly. But I can't, so I have to fill in some gaps, do some
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by chmod600 6y ago
When they said "masks don't work", that was a lie. It was an obvious lie. Would you rather a sick person coughs and sneezes on you (a) with a mask; or (b) maybe on their hand or elbow if they react fast enough?
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by chmod600 6y ago
The problem is this: if you ask a doctor, they will tell you "of course you shouldn't be deficient; get tested and supplement if necessary". But lots of people are deficient because of modern lifestyles and won't bother
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by chmod600 6y ago
From the dissent: "Instead of creating its own declaring code—as Apple and Microsoft chose to do— Google copied verbatim 11,500 lines of Oracle’s declaring code and arranged that code exactly as Oracle had done." I didn't re
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by chmod600 6y ago
This is not a Constitutional issue. This is a purely legal decision based on a federal statute passed by Congress. Constitutional issues are somewhat of a mix of the political and legal. SCOTUS tries to be apolitical, but by its nature it c
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by chmod600 6y ago
Your analysis doesn't seem to affect the most important part of the quotation, which is that free thought is impossible when some opinions too dangerous to express.
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by chmod600 6y ago
Can you please expand on your point?
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by chmod600 6y ago
Quotation (related only because it's from Russell): "The fundamental argument for freedom of opinion is the doubtfulness of all our belief... when the State intervenes to ensure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so beca
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by chmod600 6y ago
This feels more practical rather than ideological, which I intend as a compliment. Small team, get people focused, pay enough to not worry about personal financial stress, and let equity act as the primary reward system.
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by chmod600 6y ago
Florida schools have been open since August.
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by chmod600 6y ago
So if high risk people choose not to vaccinate, then we don't need to modify our lifestyle any more. They've accepted the risks.
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by chmod600 6y ago
That's on the order of a bad flu season, right? So not enough that it should affect our behavior in major ways. The argument for our lifestyle changes was always to "slow the spread" or "bend the curve". It seems we
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by chmod600 6y ago
I don't see how that makes May 15 and beyond look any worse. A wave now means more organic immunity as well as more tranmission in the short term. But with so many vulnerable people already vaccinated, and so much organic immunity alre
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by chmod600 6y ago
Does anyone expect covid to be a significant cause of death in the US past, say, May 15? I guess if we get another wave very soon, maybe it could persist. But it just seems like this is on its way out between organic immunity and vaccine im
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by chmod600 6y ago
If "acting positively" means "work it out in the legislature", then we agree. But the language of rights starts to push this responsibility into the courts (at least in the US). I am not saying there will be no arguments
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by chmod600 6y ago
The BOR ends up constantly in the courts. Do we want our medical system to be created by the courts?
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by chmod600 6y ago
Interestingly, the right to vote doesn't appear in the original constitution, probably because it doesn't fit well with the idea of natural rights. It's a little easier to reason about a right to vote, though, because in any
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by chmod600 6y ago
That can be seen as just part of the burden of charging you with a crime: the state needs to provide you with a judge, jury, and counsel. Amd it's not the greatest example of rights-in-action if you ask me. Often such counsel is overlo
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by chmod600 6y ago
I don't think the language of "rights" makes sense here. It conflates things like free speech or religion, which are self-serve rights, with something someone else must provide. Rights as in the Bill of Rights can be sued ove
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by chmod600 6y ago
Logic - at least rigorous logic - is much more limited in applicability than we'd like to believe. Religion probably has the most influence over family structure, a topic where it's hard for me to imagine that logic would play a l
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by chmod600 6y ago
It depends on the religion. Some are just better at applying religious teachings to lifestyle than others. In my opinion, Catholicism (for all it's good qualities) is too theoretical and abstract. It's easy to walk out of church w
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by chmod600 6y ago
It is not logically rigorous, but it illustrates a point. Can you expand on why the distinction you are drawing is important?
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by chmod600 6y ago
There are a lot of emotions involved in a startup, and everyone can be close to a breaking point (a lot of people thought Musk was falling apart during a low point for Tesla). Being the bearer of bad news or unwelcome advice carries social
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by chmod600 6y ago
I think everyone knows that #4 is a plausible theory. But it's frustrating to see how the media played it as a conspiracy theory, which just discredits the media. Kind of like how they said that masks aren't helpful at first, with
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by chmod600 6y ago
I didn't say FB should be forced to do anything. I am just saying that what they are doing is bad.
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by chmod600 6y ago
It's not a megaphone. A megaphone forces people to hear whether they want to or not, and drowns out others trying to speak. A facebook page does neither.
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by chmod600 6y ago
Can we just all agree that censorship is bad? All this "nuance" about censorship vs deplatforming, or worries about misinformation, just sound like rationalizing something we know is wrong. This power is always abused. It's a

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