jMyles

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by jMyles 4y ago
> Why is this considered good / normal / expected, but s/men/blacks/g and s/women/whites/g ...because the former holds true across correlations (and is difficult to confound anyway, since the group
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by jMyles 4y ago
...yet we seem to be coalescing on agreement that it is at least "a" (if not "the") lazy user interface. Lazy user interfaces are difficult to create and have value. That doesn't mean they supplant motivated user i
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by jMyles 4y ago
> Police seem to not give a shit anymore. If we listen to our less privileged friends and neighbors, we hear _very_ clearly that the police have never given a shit. Rape and sexual assault have been rampant throughout much of US history
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> billions of years of sexual selection > fertile attractive woman wearing the shortest shorts possible ...so she's wearing more clothing than she did for 99% of the time period in question - that's the observation you'
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by jMyles 4y ago
Just remember: Professional police, as a concept, had to be shoehorned into the Western legal system. It's not the default mode. It was introduced in this form as a way to subsidize the capture of fugitive slaves, because slavery was
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by jMyles 4y ago
> Normals don't want to build an app How did it become acceptable to use such vile "us and them" language in polite conversation?
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by jMyles 4y ago
Sorry if I was unclear: I didn't mean to suggest that this is PR for PR's sake, because of a belief that all PR is good. She probably correctly believes that a) layoffs will increase short-term valuation, and that her vile charact
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by jMyles 4y ago
Hanlon's Razor and all that, but this reads as intentional to me. She wanted attention; she got attention. Specifically, she wanted people to know about items that she believes will increase her company's valuation, and she found
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by jMyles 4y ago
Yeah I think he was regarded as competent as far as institute directors go (which of course isn't saying much). But it's not his competence that is at issue here, so much as his moral compass, and his lacking commitment to contin
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by jMyles 4y ago
What a ridiculous presumption. Is there anything resembling evidence that the current system of incarceration selects the "kinds of people" to whom you refer, rather than arbitrarily from the population, weighted by money and mela
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by jMyles 4y ago
The statement that he retweeted, that you seem to be taking as discrediting, strikes me as entirely plausible. The actors in question have tarnished their otherwise somewhat respectable careers over this, and indeed it has been a public hea
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by jMyles 4y ago
I don't know what you remarks you are referring to here, but Jay's insight on vaccines has been measured, reasonable, and, as evidence goes, accurate. He hasn't been a detractor with regard to mRNA in particular, and encoura
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by jMyles 4y ago
(I'm unable to edit, so I want to add this note: polio is not eradicated, and the discussion surrounding its purported eradication seems, to me, to have a whiff of racism or even colonialism. Although outbreaks happen and gain media n
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by jMyles 4y ago
> How does it do so? Vaccines appeared to be effective at eradicating polio and smallpox Totally - and that's why it's important work. But eradication of a specific pathogen is orthogonal to overcoming the threat of antimicrobi
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by jMyles 4y ago
Oh yes, I agree. But what it doesn't do is stop the accelerating treadmill of antimicrobial resistance. There are many other bacteria (and, for that matter, other infectious pathogens) that will happily step up to fill the evolutionar
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by jMyles 4y ago
Anti-microbial stewardship is, by far - very far, the most important imperative in medicine (including animal husbandry) right now. It's absolutely alarming that a dubious story about viral exposure at a wet market can gain so much und
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by jMyles 4y ago
It's hard to say, because it's such a different operation and different scale. LGA has two 7,000 foot runways, and no CBP (meaning very few long-haul flights are landing there), as well as all the perimeter rules and curfews... l
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by jMyles 4y ago
The phenomenon I'm describing as palpable at JFK ATC is not dependent on volume or vocal intensity (both of which are clearly palpable in the recording you've linked). Sp. leaving aside whether or not it's more "subdued&
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by jMyles 4y ago
I want to offer a bit of a different perspective than the one I'm seeing in other comments which (totally reasonably) wonder if a) JFK is too busy or needs some safety upgrades and b) whether voice contact with ATC is the best way to r
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There seems to be a sockpuppet constituency desperately trying to sell "yes" as an answer to this question. It's hard to see how the endgame of this nonsense is anything but total thought control (couched with semantic distin
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by jMyles 4y ago
> You must admit at 3:30 AM after a night at a bar, a cab would be preferable to the subway. ?? The wee hours after a night out is one of my favorite times to ride the subway. More surreal, smaller crowds - feels like a movie. I suppose
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by jMyles 4y ago
You might even say that's the whole purpose, historically and economically, of prisons in the first place.
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by jMyles 4y ago
I love Ashland. The lithia water is some of my favorite water I've ever encountered. I have occasionally wondered: is it possible to buy land there with a well that produces that amazing water? I have looked around the area of emmig
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by jMyles 4y ago
It seems to me that modifying the world so that the oppressive policy becomes irrelevant is always preferable. And when that's not possible, heck yeah, stand up to power with truth in hand.
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Whatever else does or doesn't amount to justice in this world, it's simply untenable to have a system of 'laws' which are so complex that highly educated and specialized attorneys require five years of research and delib
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by jMyles 4y ago
What's worse? Having a record that is completely public? Or one which is only accessible to known bad actors (FAANG and the US State, for example).
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by jMyles 4y ago
In case my sarcasm fell short of the obviousness for which I had aimed: I do not work for a bike lobby, nor do I have any direct interest in the outcomes of these policies except extending the life of my kiddo and his friends. I have no spe
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by jMyles 4y ago
Take your pick among credible urban planning organizations whose suggestions are more fleshed out than mine, but I'm happy to suggest some of the greatest hits: * Stop widening roads * Curb extensions * Circles * Dive
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by jMyles 4y ago
> Considering way more people use crosswalks than walk across the middle of the street It is impossible to find good data on this, so I don't understand why you're using a tone of certainty in this assertion. Anecdotally, I fi
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by jMyles 4y ago
> I don't think a think of the children rhetoric is justified by the data. I'm not a proponent of "think of the children", but I also think that urban areas in the United States are largely designed in ways that put t

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