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by crystalmeph 5y ago
The interactive quizzes at https://www.wrc.noaa.gov/wrso/security_guide/quizzes.htm are a good quick-skim way to learn a little bit more about this world. It will be interesting to see if these pages are still up
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
> Why should capital gains get favorable tax treatment over income My take on this is that the capital gain was not actually generated all in one year, but by taxing it as ordinary income, you are putting it into a higher bracket as thou
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
This is the point it’s coming to. When “the other side” says “one death is too many”, I’m almost tempted to scream “one death is not enough.” If we’ve literally made tragedy impossible, there’s no way we haven’t traded away a disproportion
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
You’re measuring the value, not setting it. Just like looking at a ball that was wrapped in a bag, seeing that it is red means your partner must therefore have picked the blue ball, but there’s no way you can control whether your partner h
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
Total layman, I’m sure I’ll get corrected if I’m wrong here: Bell's Theorem is just a model showing how two sets of measurements of certain properties of entangled particles would differ in a “Quantum Physics” regime where there is spo
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
That would actually be a silver lining in my opinion.
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
I mean, the OP article is literally about the "mainstream media" dismissing a valid hypothesis because they don't like Tom Cotton.
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
“We did it Reddit” stands starkly counter to your recommendation. I don’t know what the answer is, and I’ve been worried for a while that we are putting blind faith in “science” which just lines up with our preferred worldview. Maybe the a
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
It would be interesting to archive this and see what holds up 15 years from now.
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by crystalmeph 5y ago
I assume your /s was meta-sarcastic. With a few decades (years?) of refinement, this technology absolutely has the potential to capture private thoughts. Sure, it may require an implant, but just like we all carry tracking beacons that
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by crystalmeph 6y ago
I’ve been wondering if a radical, dare I say even Trumpian, centrist politician who is willing to pick vitriolic fights with both extremes is just what our times demand. I really believe that Republicans can elect some of the craziest Qanon
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by crystalmeph 6y ago
If the system is open to a l33t scr1pt k1dd13 who’s hacking knowledge consists of copy-pasting from 2600 articles, it speaks to a system that would stand no chance against a well-resourced adversary. This kind of thing may well be a new ki
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by crystalmeph 6y ago
I work in industrial automation, and I agree. There’s constant rhetoric about buzzwords like “Industry 4.0,” which, if it means anything specifically, means “connect all the things.” There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of thought around “
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by crystalmeph 6y ago
When it’s really obvious it won’t work, it’s worth considering when forming your opinion of the person who said it.
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by crystalmeph 6y ago
I think the approach here is one of messaging. Some people think emotionally, not logically. Figuring that out took me way longer in life than it should have. Logical thinkers will be able to do the risk/benefit analysis with “good en
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by crystalmeph 6y ago
“Fail early, fail often” may actually be cheaper in the long run than never running actual tests until you’ve run enough simulations and analysis to satisfy yourself the test will not fail. If you accept that premise, this test can definit
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by crystalmeph 6y ago
I was so happy to see us launch Astronauts from the USA again. Definitely took a little bit of the edge off this year.
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by crystalmeph 6y ago
All enemies, foreign and domestic. Maybe you can argue the definition of “enemy.” He believed he was witness to a system that was doing damage to the constitutional fabric of America, so those behind the system were acting against US intere
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by crystalmeph 6y ago
> Facebook says it will select scientific samples of Americans to participate in the study that will reflect the diversity of the nation’s adult population as well as Facebook and Instagram’s users. [0] The timing on this seems really su
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by crystalmeph 6y ago
>I've heard literally nothing from the medical community about tips, methods, or instructions for ensuring protestors do not cause a new outbreak. I think this is a typical example of the medical community's method of communica
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by crystalmeph 6y ago
> It doesn't bode well for a potential future (hopefully avoidable) pandemic that has far higher death rates. I think that if COVID19 was more deadly, we'd have a lot more agreement on implementing lockdowns, and not nearly as
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by crystalmeph 6y ago
Tangenting a bit. It saddens me to no end that this happens just after the unemployment rate for African Americans hit record lows. I'm not a SJW by any means, but it's so frustrating to see a whole class of historically mistrea
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by crystalmeph 6y ago
Yup. Year+ lockdown is not possible without reverting to a truly authoritarian government model. So ..., if widespread testing is not available, we don't have a choice, and have to manage the flow of bodies as we reopen society in sta
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by crystalmeph 6y ago
As I understand it, the material supply chains for testing are limited in two key ways: The sample collection material (swabs), and the reagents that the tests need to function. It sounds like this helps address the sample collection materi
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by crystalmeph 7y ago
>> I also don't get why everyone is clamoring for one company to control all video entertainment distribution. >Sounds like a perfect case for publicly funded infrastructure to me. Why would it be a case for publicly funded in
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by crystalmeph 7y ago
My guess is that you stand to make more money long term by trading with everybody. War profiteering is great money today , but I don’t think the Koch brothers take the stereotypical quarter-by-quarter approach to capitalism.
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by crystalmeph 8y ago
>The majority (about 90%) of Alibaba's sales are domestic (Chinese) But how many of those domestic customers get their own paycheck from exports? China is moving towards a more domestic-focused economy, but exports are still a big
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by crystalmeph 8y ago
Maybe it’s time to rethink our collective focus on safety as the most important attribute in everything we do. We in the “first world” live in the safest period in human history, but we are constantly being fed the idea that we are not safe
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by crystalmeph 9y ago
I wonder if part of this is due to the ever-increasing push towards creating metrics for every aspect of human behavior. It’s not uncommon when applying for a job that you take a “personality test” that measures not just technical knowledge
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by crystalmeph 9y ago
This specific case is perhaps not the best example, I personally had to choose to keep reading after he discussed how his own behavior greatly contributed to his dilemma. That said, I'm glad I finished the article, because it seems to

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