cmendel

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by cmendel 6y ago
Facts are very effective against homeopaths, you just have to dilute them 100x first.
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by cmendel 6y ago
Because people aren't necessarily great at clearly communicating their needs.
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by cmendel 6y ago
Part of it has to do with capital, but a fair portion is due to network effects. As an example; in Boston, if you are looking to setup a Biotech shop you need to throw a rock down the street and you'll hit someone involved in the indus
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by cmendel 6y ago
>about 3 Trillion a year. What a coincidence, that is approximately how much we've spent on corporate welfare since the Corona Virus crisis started.
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by cmendel 6y ago
GP was talking about states rather than cities though >is there any state with decent mass transit in the USA?
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by cmendel 6y ago
Ad hominem attacks seem to be a disproportionate response to pointing out your inconsistency.
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by cmendel 6y ago
Most western countries have substantially higher emissions per capita[1] than most of the developing world. Hence, the concern about the effects of Africa/India/others standards of living increasing since it is likely to correspon
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by cmendel 6y ago
I'm having a hard time here, what exactly are you arguing? Resources are finite and I can't control other people. Should I increase the strain on an already overburdened system because other peoples future descendants might use th
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by cmendel 6y ago
Okay? That doesn't really support toasterlovin's claim that: >Nope. Most people will never care about someone else’s child the way they’ll care about their own flesh and blood. Stepparenthood implies a myriad of confounding fac
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by cmendel 6y ago
That is an entirely different claim than the one that you made previously. >Nope. Most people will never care about someone else’s child the way they’ll care about their own flesh and blood. != >The overwhelming majority of people opt
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by cmendel 6y ago
[citation needed]
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by cmendel 6y ago
This is simply false. The greatest effect you as an individual can, realistically, have on climate change is to choose not to have children. Through the magic of exponential growth it outweighs basically every other choice e.g. veganism, bi
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by cmendel 6y ago
Right; however, the problem is that ML is generally pretty good at finding underlying patterns in data, so even if you make an algorithm race-blind it can still construct a dummy variable that is effectively race. Unfortunately, it does thi
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by cmendel 6y ago
I like the cut of your jib.
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by cmendel 6y ago
>When you give peons like us $10K, you don't get any of it back, except in taxes. Where do you think it goes exactly? This might help explain our disconnect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
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by cmendel 6y ago
10K? What are you talking about? We blew 30 Trillion! in a month! With that we could give every person in the USA 90K!
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by cmendel 6y ago
As of this writing, 281,057 people have died from COVID 19. 2 months ago that number was < 8,000. Forgive me if I don't advocate for massively increasing the transmission rate during an active, uncontained, global pandemic.
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by cmendel 6y ago
I'm presuming you dropped your /s, but it says something about the state of the world that I'm not sure.
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by cmendel 6y ago
So I checked on glassdoor, which is known to lowball tech wages, for Washington D.C. So It isn't NY or Silicon Valley/Forest. The Median wage for a System engineer is 182K USD. At the current conversion rate that is 167.7K Euro. U
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by cmendel 6y ago
How much do you think a competent System engineer should be paid?
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by cmendel 6y ago
I'll rec On War, by Clausewitz
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by cmendel 6y ago
Give it time, give it time.
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by cmendel 6y ago
Truly? How many Trillions of dollars have we spent to slow the descent of the stock market in the last few months? How many more are we planning on spending? We aren't on the gold standard, we're on the idea standard. As such, our
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by cmendel 6y ago
From your source: "Recent modelling studies of COVID-19 predict that school closures alone would prevent only 2–4% of deaths" a 2-4% reduction in death rate implies quite heavily that children would be a disease vector.
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by cmendel 6y ago
[Citation needed] Small children are absolutely a disease vector.
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by cmendel 6y ago
>Tracking someone using London CCTV is someone staring at a screen for a number of hours trying to follow them on playback. It is until it isn't. Soon it will be a ML system and it will be possible, then what?
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by cmendel 6y ago
Good news! It's not anything like CS. Things you need to learn, not an inclusive list, before med school: Chemistry, drug interactions, A&P, Ethics, Statistics, Maths, and Biology. That's (6, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4) 18 courses minimum.
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by cmendel 6y ago
My apologies, I didn't mean to come off harshly, it's approx 3 am here so I'm not exactly a ball of sunshine. Do doc's need to spend 4 years doing an undergrad before med school? Maybe. There are a lot of things that you
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by cmendel 6y ago
Are you trolling? Are you legitimately asking why you need a doctor to check something that might be, amongst the million other possible complications, Cancer?
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by cmendel 6y ago
You are speaking from a place of ignorance. The prerequisites needed to take the courses that you mention alone are >1 year, yet alone all of the material needed to become a doctor. Where I went to Uni, you didn't take biochem unti

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