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by codefreeordie 4y ago
And how do you know that these women identify as "cis"? Just because you want to assign the word "cis" to some women doesn't mean that they identify that way
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Indeed, there was a great deal of evidence to support usage of vitamin D from the get-go, including the actually-settled science that lower levels of vitamin D are associated with worse outcomes in tons of other respiratory illnesses. Despi
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Yes, this is a thing, and there are very significant structural reasons for it.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Not just publications, either. FTX was the major funder for tons of COVID research (including the very influential "TOGETHER trial")[0] -- [0] https://www.themainewire.com/2022/11/bankrupt-ftx-gave-18-2m
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
This decision occurs at the same time as they stop requiring LSAT because it "hurts diversity", so ... yes, it's an attempt to mask the institutional decline caused by using diversity score instead of merit for admissions.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
This was already a commonplace occurrence in my own school days -- especially in the middle grades. It's nice to see someone finally willing to study it.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
This is true, but angry people do unwise things with relative frequency.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
I don't think that we can get back to the high road peacefully. The high road not only doesn't lead to victory, it leads to extermination. In a fight between two parties of even remotely similar strength, if one side tries to fo
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
If you're expecting a large fraction of your employee base to resign in protest, you definitely have to be concerned about the possibility of sabotage. Disabling access is one way to constrain sabotage until the dust settles. Of cours
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
By the modern definition of hero, there aren't any. There can't really be any. I mean, there never were heroes anyway, just people who did heroic things [in addition to the other less-than-heroic things that they did] -- but havi
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
That promotion, on the other hand, was real, and pretty much totally destroyed the company!
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
This is a very frustrating case, because while it is obviously the case that extreme hyperbole in advertising is permissible, in this specific situation, it really was not obviously nonsense. Sure, assuming that you could have a military ai
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
2) is a potentially viable endeavor -- though airing dirty laundry or being accusatory and combative are unlikely to be winning strategies. 4) is likely to result in termination. As is 3), really, though you can maybe milk it a long while.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
At some point, folks at Twitter will realize that either they need to get mostly line with the owner's goals or, if they find that repugnant, to seek employment elsewhere.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
It is unlikely that electricity won't increase in price more or less in line with gasoline. Plus, one 150mi taxi ride, at a cost of about $1000 today buys an awful lot of gas. And if you go out 150mi, you probably want to come home,
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
It is, sure. In theory, at least -- existing VC has fairly well demonstrated that they have no particular skill at directing investment to companies that will actually turn a profit (largely encouraged by scale problems). The real challeng
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
It is likely that none of the remaining services is actually capable of making a real profit either. These restaurant-delivery services offer(ed) a convenient way to get your restaurant takeaway delivered initially for surprisingly-not-that
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
It would be totally possible to make the journey -- just remove the roof rack, drive 20mph slower, and spend a few hours in advance mapping out precisely where and when to stop for charging. Or buy a gasoline car and just ... drive to your
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
It is purely people justifying doing the evil things they personally desire by claiming some unverifiable benefit that accrues to hypothetical future people who may never even exist.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
There is no such thing as "stochastic terrorism", it's just a new word for "speech I don't like"
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Precisely the same way they ignore everything else that is inconvenient to them, by taking it as an article of faith that "natural" emissions are just what they are supposed to be.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
"effective altruism" was never either effective nor altruistic. If people are finally working that out, good for them.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
My expectation, based mostly on seeing who I have observed being laid off is that there will be many fewer positions at a mid-senior level (Google L5 / Amazon SDE III, etc), and that many folks who have historically been in those roles
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Not directly, but you could appeal on those grounds but the Supreme Court has ruled in the past on Qualified Immunity so you're not likely to get your petition granted. (You can sue the United States over qualified immunity generally,
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
The indictment must have worked.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Presumably, one would start by permitting scientists to publish their work whether or not the results were politically convenient
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Heat pumps are okay, though less reliable than gas furnaces, but they have also begun banning new homes from being plumbed for gas kitchen appliances, and electric cooktops are infinitely inferior -- no serious cooking happens on electric.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Have to protect the house prices somehow. Making new construction inherently inferior and also more expensive helps
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
The state controls every aspect of your life through its ability to force.device makers to give it control over the software.
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by codefreeordie 4y ago
Nature used to be a science publication. Now that it is a political rag, we should stop considering any of it's "science" contents to be valid science, since we now know that they are primarily interested in politics.

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