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by derbOac 3y ago
I've had two experiences in the last 10 years or so involving two "significant" conditions — not necessarily in the standard sense of threat to life, but in the sense of nonroutine and potentially becoming something more prob
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by derbOac 3y ago
I wrestle a bit with how relevant books will continue to be in the future at all. I way this not as someone who wants to see the demise of books, but more the opposite. It's difficult to read articles about the financial reality of boo
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by derbOac 3y ago
This has been my impression of this story since it was originally posted, that the discussion of it has been extremely odd and focused more on Taub's narrative than what's actually going on on the island. My memory of the original
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by derbOac 3y ago
I've been in academics as a tenured faculty member and in other capacities and this story rings very true to me. Obviously extreme but by the same token clearly illustrative of prototypical problems. Note that this isn't the first
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by derbOac 3y ago
A complementary story to the one about Karikó is one about a researcher in Texas who, prior to the pandemic, kept getting his grant proposals for a coronavirus vaccine denied because "no one cares about coronaviruses". I'd li
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Unprecedented Cryptosporidium Outbreak in UK(arstechnica.com)
39 points by derbOac 3y ago|25 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
I know that in certain circles that some people in positions of power, for lack of a better way of putting it, socialize around drinks. The broader problem isn't necessarily being perceived as rude or odd, it's simply being left o
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by derbOac 3y ago
I agree completely. I attended a conference one year, where for unusual reasons I have not seen replicated since, colleagues seemed to gravitate around coffeeshops and teahouses instead of bars and it was a revelation. I've been a long
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by derbOac 3y ago
The reason to remove such products is because they contain dangerous agents that aren't being disclosed. The same would be said of any scientifically well-validated product that was tainted. If bottles of paracetamol/acetaminophen
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by derbOac 3y ago
Just to go back to the philosophy thread, this is one of the things that made Kripke famous (relatively speaking, philosophically speaking): a priori "knowability" or predictability is not the same as determinism. You can have a s
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by derbOac 3y ago
> I have never seen such a product before that is so popular, and yet many of its users are also rooting against it. This is basically what it looks like when there's a product people feel locked into because of network effects and
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by derbOac 3y ago
The article makes a fair point, but just like college, you have the problem of signalling value: does a degree/Thiel's program/award X only recognize potential, or also contribute to potential by drawing attention to the reci
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by derbOac 3y ago
I think the issue is stereotyping. Replace "libertarian" with "republican" or "democrat" and reconsider the statement.
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by derbOac 3y ago
This isn't a criticism of the practice but I did think it might be more effective to use something in safety green or orange, maybe with reflective surface, or maybe blinking lights. But I'm not an expert with this, and I can see
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What's really the average human body temperature?(smithsonianmag.com)
4 points by derbOac 3y ago|1 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
Unfortunately I can't download the paper; I get an error page. I had the same reaction as you though. My impression is people have respiratory issues, throat irritation, and it's worse during the concert season in dry concert hall
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by derbOac 3y ago
So, I lived through a lot of that and feel like some of this is people either forgetting or not having experienced what it was like pre-cold war thaw. On the other hand, Ukraine feels different to me for some reason and seems tied to broade
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by derbOac 3y ago
This is maybe getting tangential but one of my pet peeves is that the industry doesn't establish standards for large batteries, like lawnmowers and leafblowers. If they were serious about electric transition they would make batteries t
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by derbOac 3y ago
Indeed. Suicide rates in the US reached an all-time high last year: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/cdc-data-finds-... I didn't really see the article itself as victim blaming, but I agree that t
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by derbOac 3y ago
I think this is a dangerous way to approach the problem. Regardless of whether or not the assertion that the "primary factor is they know how", the underlying cause is distress and hopelessness. I'm frustrated a bit by how di
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by derbOac 3y ago
I was listening to an interview program several months ago about suicide in veterinarians and they spent quite a bit of time talking — not all of the time, or even most of the time, but more than I thought — about takeovers of vet clinics b
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by derbOac 3y ago
100 questions would be a lot, yes, unless you had very large samples, which isn't unheard of in today's age. I suspect it would work better to combine the items somehow. Alternatively, you might be able to somehow use a subset of
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by derbOac 3y ago
This was interesting to me but mostly because of a question I thought it was going to focus on, which is how should we interpret these tests when a human takes it? I wasn't sure that the phenomena they discussed was as relevant to the
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by derbOac 3y ago
Playing games with my family, I've often wondered if there's something similar with dice.
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by derbOac 3y ago
I wish these types of fallacies, related to ignoring base rates and equating likelihoods with posteriors, were more widely appreciated. However, a big problem in practice — and a reason why these fallacies exist aside from simple ignorance
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by derbOac 3y ago
I do survey research, and there's ways of addressing the concerns the author raises with survey techniques. It's still interesting and they're right that these types of things (rare, taboo) are sometimes actually best studied
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by derbOac 3y ago
I think I found those more insightful in some ways than the linked paper.
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by derbOac 3y ago
I think they mischaracterize evolutionary theory and overstate the gap, if any, with physics. But I think there's some kernels of useful insight, like this: "The more complex a given object, the less likely an identical copy can e
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Russia plans to try to block VPN services in 2024(reuters.com)
15 points by derbOac 3y ago|3 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
Strong static typing is better when used well, but worse when it's used poorly. That last part is the catch, and I've seen plenty of people think they're using it well when they're actually using it very, very, very poor

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