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by djaque 6y ago
Great article! I'm almost done with a PhD in physics and statistical physocs is still the hardest thing for me to wrap my mind around. Even more so than quantum and relativity. There's something about how unintuitive math becom
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by djaque 6y ago
What do you mean by "genetic data"?
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by djaque 6y ago
That's really exciting. It reminds me of PrEP which is a pill you take that can prevent you from contracting HIV with like 99% success rate. It's really a game changer since there isn't an HIV vaccine. I also don't wan
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by djaque 6y ago
From what I understand, ground based astronomy is still really important. Not everyone can afford to spend millions to get a new satellite into orbit. Plus once it's up there you are stuck for decades. You can't make changes or
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by djaque 6y ago
Please don't do this here.
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by djaque 6y ago
Hahaha. Yeah, but probably an order of magnitude less power consumption though.
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by djaque 6y ago
> why and why now Playing the devils advocate, it could be a bone to throw to the small government crowd and the "why now" is because it's the middle of an election and they want to drum up support for their campaign. Howe
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by djaque 6y ago
> Both relatives recounted days... The plural of anecdote is not data. Do you have anything solid to back up your claim that it is the postal union slowing down the mail service as a political move? That's a bold statement and requ
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by djaque 6y ago
Sure, let me make it here: better watch out for those Democrats encouraging traditionally poorly represented groups to get out and have their voices heard. /s It doesn't really have the same ring, does it.
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by djaque 6y ago
There doesn't need to be. I feel like we're failing to recognize that this is a soft solution, not a tech solution. The signature is there so that you go to jail for felony fraud if you forge it. Then with simple detection sche
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by djaque 6y ago
I don't think any scheme that requires people to be willing to commit felony fraud en masse is very likely. They would need to open other people's mail, forge their signature (on my ballot it clearly states that you will go to ja
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by djaque 6y ago
At a 50% success rate you go away to federal jail for a couple of years. How many people are willing to throw away their lives for a few extra votes? That doesn't make sense to me.
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by djaque 6y ago
1 in 10 voters didn't commit fraud. The article is very explicit about that.
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by djaque 6y ago
The reason these votes were thrown out was because of (1) user error (2) signature difficulties (3) "other" of which a tiny amount is going to be fraud. Ballots getting sent to the wrong place isn't the problem here. For thi
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by djaque 6y ago
Plus we're talking about "signature experts" as if there's a solid science there. From what I understand, it's a bit of a cargo cult where you just package up "do they look similar" in the trimmings of ha
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by djaque 6y ago
The article explicitly says that this wasn't 10% fraud. Please leave your political views at the door.
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by djaque 6y ago
I'm also terrified. I thought voting and literally the core of our democracy would be off limits to the current administration, but here we are. Our elections are being undermined to the best of the president's ability. The new
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by djaque 6y ago
It really is scary how open the current administration is about attacking the postal system before a historic mail in election. I sent my ballot application in the other day and it is already taking an extra two days compared to what I am
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by djaque 6y ago
Another story could be that if the system is working for you, you're probably getting dental, can afford skincare, can splurge on the nice barber, etc.
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by djaque 6y ago
Eight minutes and fourty six seconds. There is no excuse for holding your knee on a person's neck for eight minutes and fourty six seconds. There is no excuse for doing it after he says that he can't breathe. There is no excuse
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by djaque 6y ago
"Identify this public servant" isn't against the law. I for one want strong third party oversight of our police from the public and from journalists. Police should be identifiable and although they didn't phrase it ver
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by djaque 6y ago
> It'd _literally_ fix the post office's solvency problem. Oh, also firing the asshole running it would be another stellar move. Exactly, and I'm also scared at how open the current administration is about trying to break
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by djaque 6y ago
Firstly, Remdesivir isn't a vaccine. Second, there is no magic cure. I just took another look at controlled trials of OH-Chloroquine and the latest science says its effects on patient outcomes are small when they exist at all.
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by djaque 6y ago
You're falling for a strawman. Spend some time looking at the nuanced proposals for policing reform that go by the name "defund the police" and I am guessing that you agree with them a lot more than you think you do.
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by djaque 6y ago
What experiments? None of the proposals for policing reform have been implemented. The only thing we've seen are the police refusing to respond to calls and do their job in a political move. Nobody asked for that and none of the ser
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by djaque 6y ago
That's the point... Nobody is seriously considering getting rid of the police. Calling it that is a fearmongering technique from the political right. Biden doesn't even support the defund the police movement [1] which is the real
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by djaque 6y ago
> I really hate that in typical US manner this issue gets pushed to the extreme so in the end a reasonable discussion can’t be had That's kind of the intention. It's easy to argue against "Abolish the police! Anarchy for
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by djaque 6y ago
> The occasional misbehaviour of police officers is a small price to pay compared to the oppression and privation wrought by widespread crime. What's the going conversion rate on that? How many thefts should we expect the police to
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by djaque 6y ago
Sometimes it feels like the culture of American policing and criminal justice is so broken that we just need to start over from scratch.
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by djaque 6y ago
Accountability is not a bad thing and anyone who wields the power of the state needs to be easily identified by journalists, etc.

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