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by danharaj 7y ago
This article is almost completely rhetoric, bereft of quantitative analysis and at odds with what the broader medical community has been saying. The New York Times really does let any credentialed dingus post shit on their website.
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The amount of labor necessary to keep people alive and infrastructure from crumbling is a small portion of all the work that is done.
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I'm going to give my old one to a friend and get the new one :) It's such a jank piece of hardware but I love it.
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by danharaj 7y ago
The entire world was unprepared, period. If you haven't noticed, the world economy operates in a global capitalist mode. Being #1 among losers is still losing.
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by danharaj 7y ago
You can have all the ideas that you want but the levers of power and the ability to actually implement response efforts at the level of thousands to millions of people, nationally and internationally, is only in the hands of a "far sma
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by danharaj 7y ago
> that pleases nobody Somebody is making a lot of money this way. They donate to both parties.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Government Vs. Industry and Liberal vs. Conservative are distinctions that serve to obfuscate the true divide in our system: Capitalists vs. everyone else. Capital doesn't care about these distinctions. The difference between the Cabin
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by danharaj 7y ago
Qq, are you a scientist? Have you personally observed or have been involved with science as it is actually done?
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by danharaj 7y ago
king behavior
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by danharaj 7y ago
This is frustratingly short sighted. I suppose you dont have anyone you care about over 50?
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by danharaj 7y ago
At this point new cases in China are declining. They may have misstepped seriously at first but their heavy handed response seems to be working out now.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Mathematical activity doesn't proceed from axioms. Axioms proceed from mathematical activity. The philosophy that grew out of the axiomatization of mathematics in the early 20th century never really took root in its culture or practice
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by danharaj 7y ago
> Fourth. Do not tell me to "spit it out." It is rude and if you do it again you will face consequences to the extent that the rules on this site allow. Do it. You won't.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Ecosystems are far from equilibrium. Evolution couldn't happen if they were. Come on, spit it out, what are you trying to get at?
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by danharaj 7y ago
As a contractor, I'm happy for them. One day we will have one big union.
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by danharaj 7y ago
By the time you were in the schoolyard you had already been inculcated in modern notions of property and exchange.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Emotional stress is biological stress unless you believe in an extreme form of cartesian dualism incompatible with modern understanding of physiology.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Everything is a metaphor, you probably prefer inanimate metaphors (like channels, pipes, scripts, keys, libraries, etc.) But metaphors involving animals being considered more childish and less serious is purely due to your cultural milieu.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Who cares? We can sustain all of the socially necessary industries of modern civilization with a fraction of the workforce. I don't want to work with people who are working just because they are coerced to work. They get in my way and
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by danharaj 7y ago
If your model has 17 billion parameters, you missed some.
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I guarantee you Chomsky knows more about game theory than you.
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Free speech is important because speech has consequences. If speech didn't matter, then it wouldn't be a right worth enshrining. One has to grapple with the fact that speech has power regardless of whether they think it is an invi
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by danharaj 7y ago
But smartphones! /s
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We all choose every day to continue reproducing business as usual.
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Businesses are even more neurotic and irrational than individual consumers.
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The forces that drive evolution will just as indifferently drive the collapse of all human civilization.
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by danharaj 7y ago
There is merit to that skepticism but if effect sizes are large enough then it doesn't matter. You don't need to double blind to figure out the impact of gunshots on cardiovascular health.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Dovetails nicely with the previous paragraph, I think you doth protest too much. "In the early days of broadcast development and regulation, Crosley and WLW sparked debate about what radio should and could be. Could a few clear-channel
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by danharaj 7y ago
If you understood who Ray Blanchard is you would understand that it is. Insofar as a negative can have supporting evidence.
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Marx was right.

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