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by ebg13 7y ago
> Or, to put it more bluntly, a modern ethics committee would have rejected the idea of installing sewers You get to choose whether to be in the business of installing sewers. Saying that it's ok to force people into medical exper
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by ebg13 7y ago
We can accomplish many great things if we knowingly discard ethics for the sake of efficiency, yes.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> and they're the only company making high end ARM chips That's, if you'll pardon the pun, an Apples to Oranges comparison. Apple isn't making "high end ARM chips" either if your comparator is powerful ser
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by ebg13 7y ago
> I wonder if this is the reason my MBP would get sluggish while kernel_task uses a surprising amount of CPU? This happens to me as well while charging if the battery is below ~50%. Start recharging above 50 and it doesn't happen.
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by ebg13 7y ago
It says storage, not streaming. I think you're making an unsupported assumption about the nature of the service being offered.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> I hadn't heard about the neurological SARS-CoV is known to be neuroinvasive. > physiological Lung tissue scarring can cause difficulty breathing for years, for one thing.
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by ebg13 7y ago
What are you going to do, work on your back?
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by ebg13 7y ago
> It may take sacrificing the normal living room/TV/kitchen/common area Because the best way to avoid losing your mind is to completely eliminate the only relaxation space in your home, yes?
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by ebg13 7y ago
This is well and good, but our apartment which is great to live in is not large enough for two work spaces. Nor can we afford to lose the space for as many monitors. And it's not like we can suddenly move in the middle of pandemic quar
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by ebg13 7y ago
> I'm sorry but if you think the NSA is the shadiest You're right about the detail (probably) and also very wrong to be focusing on that particular detail instead of interpreting it as just barely mild hyperbole. You've
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by ebg13 7y ago
That may depend on some specific knowledge of the code, which is of course why they were asking for it.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Kerckhoff's principle applies That's true and yet unhelpful because all software has errors, some obvious, some not.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> You named a hypothesis but the experiment doesn't test that hypothesis does it? This paper doesn't claim to be an experiment to test that hypothesis. That's all you. This paper claims to be a data record highlighting a
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by ebg13 7y ago
"...and therefore they have a strong undeclared interest in making it look like smoking inversely correlates with infection." Citation needed.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Its all about 1 hospital for a few weeks in one part of France. We already have similar results from hospitals all over China. This is gravy. Read the "smoking history" section of Table 1. https://www.nejm.org&#x
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by ebg13 7y ago
This has nothing to do with "accept the vital importance of chemicals" and everything to do with the fact that we record smoker status when patients enter hospitals and HOLY COW, LOOK, A TREND IN THE DATA. > Now tobacco smoke
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by ebg13 7y ago
I can't help but feel like the author sounds excessively credulous. I had to stop reading after he wrote "I could tell something big was up and there simply wasn’t time to debate the merits of handing over my source code to the NS
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by ebg13 7y ago
The cutaway view of the shifter shows what look like plastic gears. Is that typical?
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by ebg13 7y ago
> but isn't there truth to it? NO. THERE IS NOT. Less than 50% of COVID deaths are over 75 years old. That means that more than 50% are under 75. A full quarter of deaths are below 64. These are not people dying anyway. These are
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by ebg13 7y ago
> If you prefer “print x” to “print(x)” you’re... ...wrong, and probably also mythical. There's no excuse for having it as a language directive rather than a function call. I don't believe that any human who's spent even
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Many people dislike Python 3 syntax Which aspects?
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Do you think I’m wrong or do you just not like what I’m saying? Por qué no los dos?
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by ebg13 7y ago
> For example, see the "Karen" meme, which besides its horrible sexism, specifically focuses on white women. "Angry black woman" was a trope looooooooooong before Karen hit your screen. If you only care about meanne
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by ebg13 7y ago
The problem with this retort is that of course it is okay to be white, and the details of such a campaign are what make all the difference. But the person who isn't already with you on this will just ask "how is it not ok to be wh
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by ebg13 7y ago
I think that the problem with this as a steering wheel for discussion is that sometimes what you just said is extremely accurate but also sometimes both happen at the same time, for and against some figure by their defenders vs their offend
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by ebg13 7y ago
It would have been nice if they'd included the original letter and not just the first paragraph of it.
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by ebg13 7y ago
I cannot. To the best of my knowledge nothing like that exists. Everything I've seen of people "studying" it have cohorts of like 4 people or show no effect.
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by ebg13 7y ago
The headline says "glowing like e-readers" not "communicate like e-readers".
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Have anyone here experienced Would you not rather know whether any randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled trial with meaningful group size had ever demonstrated a positive effect?
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by ebg13 7y ago
> I have no desire to further discuss this with you I'll just talk to myself then, because, while I understand you feeling hurt by my comment, I did not attack a strawman. > Making somebody crash in a dumb car is pretty hard..

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