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Happy Smallpox Eradication Day [video](youtube.com)
2 points by db48x 11mo ago|1 comments
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by db48x 11mo ago
It’s probably motivated reasoning.
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by db48x 11mo ago
This is not a pyroclastic flow and doesn’t look even remotely similar. The problem is that you’re comparing a very close up image of some lava falling on a camera to videos taken from tens of miles away from Mt St Helens. The scale and natu
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by db48x 11mo ago
On the contrary, it’s very surprising. There’s no way that 38% of people are disabled by any definition of the word. 10× differences between the disability rate between schools simply should not exist.
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by db48x 11mo ago
You've missed the point. How does Stanford end up with 38% of their students claiming to have a disability while other schools only have 3%? Are the other schools illegally discrimating against these students, so that their only altern
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by db48x 11mo ago
It would be way cheaper to replace the airplane with a modern twin-engine plane than to retrofit new engines onto an old plane.
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by db48x 11mo ago
Haber invented the process for artificially creating ammonia. Since ammonia is a critical fertilizer, this invention has fed billions of people. On the other hand, it’s also critical for the manufacture of explosives. His work on chemical w
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by db48x 11mo ago
Is the author surprised by that, or did you just misread it? The only relevant quote on that page that I see is “It is impressive to see Quake run at full speed knowing that Windows 95 runs DOS executable in a virtual machine.” He is perhap
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by db48x 11mo ago
They would not have had to resign if they could point to any attempt that they had made to fix the many problems detailed in the report.
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by db48x 11mo ago
I think you’re ignoring the problem. Regardless of anyone’s opinion on the matter, the BBC’s strategy of supporting one viewpoint and burying another is unethical. If you want people to trust the media then the media must report the facts e
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by db48x 11mo ago
> just like any other news organization you could name Excuse. > Show me the media organization whose reporting on this issue is agreed to be unbiased by all relevant parties. Excuse. > it’s being blown out of all proportion Excuse
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by db48x 11mo ago
Excusing the BBC for lying just because other people are lying too doesn’t really work.
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by db48x 11mo ago
I’ll give them +10 points for hiring somebody to measure their own accuracy, and −100 points for ignoring their reports and broadcasting deliberate lies anyway.
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by db48x 11mo ago
You still believe that lie? The riot had already started before he gave his speech. How then could the speech have instigated the riot? The people who were rioting never even heard it. In fact, most of the people there planned in advance to
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by db48x 1y ago
Doctoring footage is indefensible no matter who the footage was of. See also Crowngate.
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by db48x 1y ago
The right way to build trust in the media is for the media to actually be trustworthy.
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by db48x 1y ago
Making the traffic controller load a flight plan into the plane’s computer merely changes who will make the mistake. If you want to suggest changes, suggest something that actually has a chance of reducing the rate of errors. Besides, pilot
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by db48x 1y ago
That would be slower and ironically less precise than what we already have, which is navigation by named waypoints.
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by db48x 1y ago
Keep in mind that the person talking and listening to the radio is not the pilot flying the airplane. Pilot and Copilot alternate which job they are doing. It's not the same as the driver of a car talking on a phone.
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by db48x 1y ago
Oh, it was definitely doctored. They started with the beginning of a sentence from 15 minutes into his speech and cut directly to words from an hour later as if it were the end of the sentence and only the camera angle had changed. It was d
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by db48x 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3bUFgEcb4
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by db48x 1y ago
If a machine doesn’t function correctly or well, then fixing it requires blaming some part of the system that can change for the better. The dishwasher cannot change; it’s just a machine. It could be replaced, but that might be expensive. M
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by db48x 1y ago
I didn’t say that the machine was well designed. I said exactly the opposite! The very fact that it is not well designed means that you cannot rely on your intuition when operating the machine. If you do not have some idea of how the machin
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by db48x 1y ago
This is an aphorism, not a truth. But it’s true that dish washing machines are often badly designed, especially when there are multiple opaque options that can be turned on and off. Consider the example presented in this very video, where t
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by db48x 1y ago
Sure, but most people don’t have a modern dishwasher. It’s an appliance that lasts 20 to 30 years ergo most people have old dishwashers that were manufactured decades ago.
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by db48x 1y ago
That is exactly why they are required in restaurants. You wouldn’t want the sewage to back up into a sink where food or dishes might be.
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by db48x 1y ago
That probably just means you’re using your machine badly.
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by db48x 1y ago
You should actually watch the video so that you can see the graphs; it’s not pointless.
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by db48x 1y ago
Watch the video; it makes a huge difference even though the hot water input is not as hot as the water can get when the dishwasher runs its heating element. Also the size of the heating element is irrelevant. What matters is the power dissi
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by db48x 1y ago
It’s also extremely rare here, when looked at rationally. Those kinds of shootings are limited to specific areas of the country. The other 99% of the country faces nothing like that, ever.

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