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by holonomically 5y ago
Given that there is a highly virulent novel virus, the odds are stacked against the anti-vaxxers because if you believe that you can somehow avoid getting infected then you are not calculating probabilities properly and so you are underesti
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by holonomically 5y ago
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/odds+are+stacked+agains... The odds are stacked against them as in they are less likely to survive if they contract the virus without being vaccinated. Outward appearance of health are u
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by holonomically 5y ago
Which specific drugs and therapies are you talking about? I followed the development of the vaccine and it was clear from day 1 that this was the safest vaccine that scientists had ever managed to develop. It's really a marvel of biolo
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by holonomically 5y ago
The point is that even for healthy individuals the odds are stacked against them if they catch the actual virus instead of getting the vaccine and prepping their immune system ahead of time. [1] 1: https://www.theguardian.com&#x2
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by holonomically 5y ago
I guess that makes sense but the side-effects seem overblown in my opinion. Even with being susceptible to the side-effects it is very unlikely that catching the virus unwittingly is going to be better. I haven't found any studies on c
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by holonomically 5y ago
Seems very irrational but I agree it explains the logic of the people who are hopeful they are somehow immune to getting sick from an endemic virus.
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by holonomically 5y ago
I really don't get how you inferred all that from what I said. A social safety net and better education programs are better for everyone, including the people in whatever country happens to be implementing those programs and policies.
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Being otherwise healthy is no guarantee that you are not genetically susceptible to cytokine storm reaction to the virus. The vaccine preps the immune system to avoid over-reacting, whether you are otherwise healthy or not does not really m
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by holonomically 5y ago
The virus is endemic so we're already in the certain scenario. That's why I don't understand the logic of people that refuse vaccination. You can either take 40 pills for 5 days or you can get vaccinated and avoid the hassle
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by holonomically 5y ago
What exactly in what I said is not sensible?
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> A full course, which needs to start within five days of the appearance of symptoms, consists of forty pills—four capsules taken twice a day, for five days. I don't understand the logic involved here. Why would anyone be willing to
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by holonomically 5y ago
Really nice tutorial on Coq's theorem proving facilities. It even covers Ltac which is rare for these kinds of tutorials.
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Then it's better to address those problems directly instead of scare monger about declining birth rates because the world has plenty of people and will continue to have more for the foreseeable future.
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This is a fundamental problem with any system that metaphorically eats its own tail. The problem is that the model facebook/meta and google use as businesses is at odds with elevating truthful information above clickbait and ragebait.
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by holonomically 5y ago
Moderators try to reduce inflammatory content. You might disagree with this and they sometimes might err on the side of caution more than necessary but given your tone in this post they have been correct so far.
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by holonomically 5y ago
Good points. I'll elaborate what I meant by sensible immigration policies. Sensible immigration policies includes a better social safety net and education programs to allow people to immigrate even if at the moment they don't have
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Plenty of people thought it would work. It feels like the right thing to do so people assume that because it feels right then it must be the right answer but the global output of CO2 is 51 gigatons / year and increasing. Any approach t
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If you don't believe the company will be successful then you're admitting the options are worthless. The whole point of stock options is to align incentives but if you don't think the company will be successful then it doesn&
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by holonomically 5y ago
The virus is endemic. It is now circulating in the deer population and other animals. It's become another endemic disease like the flu. [1][2] 1: https://news.llu.edu/health-wellness/covid-19-here-stay-what... 2:
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Planting trees “doesn't make any sense” in the fight against climate change(dezeen.com)
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Related (The Fields of Electronics: Understanding Electronics Using Basic Physics): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/0471433934 . That book uses fields to explain electricity exactly as in this
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The world is expected to have ~11B people by the year 2100. There are plenty of people even if some countries have declining birth rates. [1] Better immigration policies solve any problems that nations with declining birth rates might have
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Type Theory and Formal Proof: An Introduction(maa.org)
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by holonomically 5y ago
No, it's not possible no matter how much money you have. Communication networks in all nations are owned by their respective governments and some government mandated monopolies.
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You can disagree disrespectfully as well, I don't really mind.
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How exactly does he define the words he uses in this essay? We can start with "ruling class". Does anyone know what that means or how he defines it? Is this the same as what Marx defines in his theory of economics as the bourgeois
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I don't see how that makes a difference. Even if the models were 100x the size it's not like the same argument couldn't be carried through. There is no theoretical reason to believe increasing the number of parameters does an
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Yuval Noah Harari on Vipassana Meditation(youtube.com)
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Ya, it's troublesome. It's even worse on social media because there is no way to broach the conspiratorial filter bubbles so people just keep reinforcing conspiracy theories that make no sense to any sane person. Looks like it&#x2
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That should be enough information for someone to make sense of what tools you're using. Most software engineers are familiar with sqlite so that won't be an issue. If you can outline in some detail the features you want then a com

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