jberryman

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by jberryman 6y ago
Well, the Republican legislature apparently discussed with the whitehouse about ignoring the popular vote and appointing electors for Trump (and was willing to talk about this on record) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine&
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by jberryman 6y ago
And stop closing polling places in urban (Black) neighborhoods, etc, etc
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by jberryman 6y ago
> they control the schools Let's get specific with this one. What's one thing that is taught in schools that you object to?
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by jberryman 6y ago
OT: but do you have any favorite books on ecology you can recommend to an interested lay-person?
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by jberryman 6y ago
I think the idea is to suppress numbers via lockdown to the point where contact tracing, along with ubiquitous testing, can detect and squash any local outbreaks before they spread widely, and people can live somewhat normally. Afaict that
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by jberryman 6y ago
I assume they probably don't care about how a random scummy startup works; they want no part in it, including the rigmarole for opting out (if one exists).
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by jberryman 6y ago
> The restaurant can opt out of this I was at the bar of a local restaurant when some delivery driver (not sure if GH) came in to pick up an order. The (super busy) server said "we told you we don't want to participate in this.
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by jberryman 6y ago
If google assistant or whatever worked like a person of average intelligence that I could talk to and get to do stuff for me, that would be incredible. I've been on a roadtrip and your examples made me realize how much of a time/a
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by jberryman 6y ago
The point is if the two groups behave differently wrt risk then the trial is probably ruined. Maybe you're assuming the vaccine will be 100% effective; experts I've heard are saying to expect something like the flu shot.
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by jberryman 6y ago
The most recent OTM had a segment about the way conservative groups have been following the Russian playbook, creating fake local news sites, taking advantage of underemployed journalists to seed real content as cover for disinformation art
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by jberryman 6y ago
> doesn't pretend the world is a pure function. At a first approximation, Haskell pretends the world is a piece of state, not a pure function.
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by jberryman 6y ago
But bots and spam and russian memes are already deeply engaging to people. I'm sure it will only get worse, though obviously some people will opt out.
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by jberryman 6y ago
I'd be really interested in hearing about how that goes
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by jberryman 6y ago
Sorry, what is "Hy"?
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by jberryman 6y ago
Are there any particular technologies that have helped you with your wrist issues?
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by jberryman 6y ago
> Maybe if you are lifting the entire city. This would be a really cool element in a sci-fi world
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by jberryman 6y ago
I think this is right, but it's still IMO basically a natural language semantics issue. For instance in haskell (which has a pretty advanced static type system), I would still probably be satisfied with: -- A float between 0 and 1,
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by jberryman 6y ago
I guess this is like "mammal" vs "mammalia".
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by jberryman 6y ago
I thought I would like using an ereader to read PDFs but the touch screen (on this kobo) actually really bothered me; I always felt like I had to be very careful where I put my fingers and was always accidentally turning pages. Do you find
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by jberryman 6y ago
The FAQ about how the VA app works is an interesting read. I do wish it was open source though, so I could really advocate for it even for my friends who are very privacy conscious or wary of tech.
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by jberryman 6y ago
Apparently the first state to release an app based on Apple and Google's API: https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/appl...
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Virginia's New Covid tracking app, COVIDWISE(vdh.virginia.gov)
3 points by jberryman 6y ago|3 comments
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by jberryman 6y ago
The history of the automobile is another such example. Brief summary: it turns out the invention of the car didn't really save anyone time, it just enabled sprawl. The purpose of technology (in the POSIWID sense) is to concentrate weal
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by jberryman 6y ago
Someone I was close to was a former Seventh Day Adventist and I remember riding in a car with their father listening to an audio book retelling of the story of the beginnings of the religion, which consisted of a series of wild predictions
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by jberryman 6y ago
Given the USA's total failure at the presumably easier task of wide-scale testing, the notion that we could manufacture and distribute a novel vaccine in this time frame seems completely impossible. Maybe other countries could have suc
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by jberryman 6y ago
This is certainly the case. I don't have a link, but one study suggested 80% of cases were from "super-spreading" events, with one person infecting many others.
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by jberryman 6y ago
> creating a massive government bureaucracy Huh? This whole program was put together and executed in a matter of days, and mostly via the bureaucracy of the IRS as I understand it. The point of a UBI is in part that it is explicitly not
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Soundscapes of Surveillance – Richmond, VA(audible-rva.org)
2 points by jberryman 6y ago|0 comments
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by jberryman 6y ago
I agree with that impression, and actually find it really puzzling that disarming police isn't a central message. I think it's very likely that if the police on George Floyd had been unarmed that eventually the bystanders would ha
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by jberryman 6y ago
One answer is that: police don't do what you think they do, police are not effective at what you imagine their job to be, and police are not trusted to be effective (so much crime goes unreported): https://www.pewresearch.or

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