jjcon

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by jjcon 4y ago
Quit being so hostile, if you are not interested in discussion I would recommend not spending time on discussion boards. You first spoke as if it was an absolute certainty ("This is basic evolutionary theory") and now are saying,
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by jjcon 4y ago
So it is 100% certainty then? Not just very unlikely? The quantification of certainty among experts is what I am wondering
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by jjcon 4y ago
This is what I was getting at - almost nothing in my scientific field is 100% and I find that true of most things. Thus my question- how sure are we. If we are at six sigma levels great, but I find that at odds with the little I do know.
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by jjcon 4y ago
Are you saying that because the number of possible signatures is so vast and the vaccines so specific, even if they get slightly broader it isn’t going to make things worse because in the grand scale of things we aren’t really walling too m
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by jjcon 4y ago
Where did I deny Covid? I simply asked if stronger vaccines could lead to stronger viruses and make things worse than they already are
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by jjcon 4y ago
I actually asked ‘how sure are we’ - you’re right though, just saying - learn more about it - isn’t exactly helpful. If it is as ‘basic’ as you say maybe you could explain it rather than just appeal to authority.
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by jjcon 4y ago
How are we sure it is a dead end and how sure are we? It sounds as if this would put extraordinary selective pressures on the virus, if we are wrong I’d fear we would just make things worse
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by jjcon 4y ago
Just in my non-expert head - a live vaccine is using the virus as it already exists to confer immunity - not trying to code against a ton of hypothetical variants which could select for more radical variants
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by jjcon 4y ago
But it is always going to continue to spread won’t it? A vaccine may slow it down which is good but my fear is that long term non-live vaccines like this could just make things worse when used with such a volatile virus.
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by jjcon 4y ago
Can anyone with more knowledge on this topic than me (I’m no expert) assuage my fears: by giving human populations such artificial resistances (non-live vaccines) we run the risk of selecting for viruses that are even harder for even our ow
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by jjcon 4y ago
I'm not sure how facebook is a monopoly on really any level (see tiktok, twitter, youtube, snapchat, etc etc). Visa Mastercard duopoly also has 10x the barriers of entry that social media has.
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by jjcon 4y ago
So you couldn’t find any precedent I take it. That article proves exactly my point: > emojis can raise potentially complex and serious legal issues, including novel and complicated questions about intellectual property > copyright mi
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by jjcon 4y ago
Can you show precedent that emojis are even copyrightable? Maybe you have no idea what you’re talking about
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by jjcon 4y ago
At what point does it become telegrams IP? The smiley face predates Apple by decades
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by jjcon 4y ago
> 20/20 subjects Nice
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by jjcon 4y ago
Oh that makes sense, inflation being first deriv is what I wasn’t catching. Thank you.
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by jjcon 4y ago
Right, which is why they probably shouldn’t be double or triple counting subscribers.
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by jjcon 4y ago
Influence? Amazon and Bezos control a huge portion of retail, the internet (aws), the entertainment industry (prime, MGM), gaming (twitch), Washington post… I could go on… they are hugely more influential than anything meta is doing.
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by jjcon 4y ago
Would that be third derivative or just second? My brain doesn’t want to parse that
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by jjcon 4y ago
And yet Amazon which is 300% bigger can buy iRobot with no issues. I’m so confused by the weird random things the EU and US block wrt to mergers and yet they don’t block massive obvious ones it seems.
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by jjcon 4y ago
Exactly - I’m not claiming a specific timeframe for AI to be helpful in this area - just pointing out that the claim that it is, ‘just fancy pattern matching’ isn’t limiting to its utility and that in theory it should be able to contribute
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by jjcon 4y ago
If it can give better outcomes wouldn’t it be more unethical not to use it? We should certainly be aware of feedback loops but we can’t let perfection be the enemy of good
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by jjcon 4y ago
> ML (AI) is, at least right now, fancy pattern matching. Nothing more. I mean, every problem can be boiled down to some sort of 'fancy pattern matching', the question is really how fancy/sophisticated the solver and how l
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by jjcon 4y ago
Buzzword soup aside I think we all understand what they are asking and it is an interesting question. Will we be able to model (through any computation via any computing means) biological processes at a deeper level to accurately determine
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by jjcon 4y ago
Understood - just worth noting the comparison to the original release msrp I think. It’s not quite as bed if that is kept in mind
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by jjcon 4y ago
Worth noting that this really only equates to a $50 increase on the base model compared to release since it was originally released as a 64GB set and now only 128GB is sold.
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by jjcon 4y ago
Everyone in my family has a quest 2 - we go VR mini golfing and VR fishing together all the time. It is a great way to keep connected with friends and family that live far away.
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by jjcon 4y ago
As a lefty my response is - “and yet Texas is growing and California is shrinking” Texas seem really good at making places people like to live (lower property crime, lower taxes, fewer homeless, lower income inequality at least compared to
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by jjcon 4y ago
I love mpv - it works much better on my Linux laptop than vlc for some reason, (I think wayland related).
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by jjcon 4y ago
Because those events specifically are not connected to authoritarianism - and more generally military might is not is not authoritarian at least not directly. We’re talking how governments govern, not their ability to project power. EG - No

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