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by jamesrcole 5y ago
The tweet says “Please keep speculation to yourself”. Whether you think it’s appropriate or not, asking if anyone knows what happened is not the same as asking for speculation.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
What if they’re sandboxed in some fashion? There’s zoos and jails and they’re reasonably effective at “keeping them in”.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
How easily avoidable was the error? If it was caused by gross negligence then it’d be fair to criticize those at fault. We don’t know, but you seem to be assuming it wasn’t as the result of negligence.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
Kathrine Jebsen Moore wrote three excellent, eye-opening articles about the knitting wars: https://quillette.com/2019/02/17/a-witch-hunt-on-instagram/ https://quillette.com/2019/06&#
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
Sure. james followed by a full stop, then cole. At Gmail.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
I think they probably mean that, if there’s lots of cases, then there’s (in principle) lots of available information to study, regarding whatever mechanisms are behind the long covid effects we’ve seen so far .
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> there is no way to refute or evaluate philosophy. That is not true at all. Much philosophy throughout history has been shown to be incorrect by later science, for example.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
The other person (at the top of this sub-thread) did say "Both of these points considered, I disagree entirely with the premise. There can be value to dense, even perhaps enigmatic writing. I would say that the greatest works of Englis
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
The essay is titled "Write Simply". It's about why you should try to write simply, rather than being a how-to. I think that's reasonable. It may be very difficult to precisely define what "simple" means, and
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
I think the essay is clearly about _non-fiction_ writing. It's arguing about how best to communicate ideas (he uses the term 'ideas' several times). Sure, fiction can be trying to communicate things, and sometimes even idea
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> On the web, where each individual piece of writing is not meant to last as long, the writing style has become more casual. Consider the difference between your average Medium article versus your average academic research paper. I wou
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> I think there are two sources of confirmation bias here: [...] 2. On the web, where each individual piece of writing is not meant to last as long, the writing style has become more casual. Consider the difference between your average
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
"Good news" doesn't have to mean "the overall trends are good". Something good can happen among a trend of bad things, and acknowledging the good thing doesn't mean denying the bad things.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> Downvotes without replies again. Looking at that comment it might be because it just asserts “there are far more side-effects w/mRNA than traditional vaccines” without any explanation or sources.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
I think the point is that a greater amount of more-granular and empirical data could provide the basis for learning more about "the human condition".
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> You can contact support by... It sounds like they've already contacted support. They said "Google support is refusing to let us know what happened" and "no one is providing us any answers or providing support&quot
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
it's not being scared of that time after you've died, it's being scared of no longer being able to exist.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
The person said "who cares?". This is an issue about people who are still alive and their attitude towards death. What you're saying doesn't apply.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> concerns about hormones are there chickens anywhere that are given hormones? As far as I have been able to determine, this is a myth, and the reason they grow quickly is selective breeding. For example, in Australia https://
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
It doesn’t need to. But obviously there are people who want it to be at least fairly well used. The value of such a thing has a lot to do with how many people use it and how much content there is. You need users to give incentive for people
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> The ecosystem is vibrant, healthy, and will keep growing. I'm in favour of it, and hope it does well. But at the same time, constant growth itself doesn't mean that much. There's a big difference between slow constant
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
You can argue there is a distinction to be made, but you can’t argue that it isn’t a form of censorship.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
There’s the Before film trilogy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_trilogy Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013)
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> This is starting to make increasingly more sense even though Apple making a car seemed laughable a few years ago. Which, for what it's worth, is an illustration of how our intuitions about future likelihoods aren't very goo
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> The 11" Macbook Air solved the laptop form factor. That's weirdly-specific. Some people would prefer a larger screen size, for example. > Could there be some refinements to my 2015 MBA ? I upgraded from a 2015 (I think)
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
I switched from Vim to Emacs (specifically, Spacemacs) 1-2 years ago. So much time and effort to configure it and deal with its quirks. (I like Emacs and plan to stick with it longer, but I still think it has a number of issues).
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
You reply implied I had said things I didn’t.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
That is my understanding as well.
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
> Common sense does not mean uninformed. Informed does not mean correct. Correct doesn’t mean right. You’re view is very black/white. Don't put strawman words into my mouth. You know I said "There's plenty of eviden
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by jamesrcole 6y ago
There's plenty of evidence that "common sense" is often wrong. If "common sense" is correct, it should be easy to provide a solid argument, backed up with data, that shows the "common sense" view is correc

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