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by jjk166 5mo ago
You don't need to prove the opposite of someone's claim to argue their evidence fails to demonstrate their claim is true.
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But the risk of dying by having your entire body break down in uncontrollable bleeding is substantially less than 100%, and I for one would like to keep it that way.
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by jjk166 5mo ago
> Is there some small gene change that we're specifically worried about here Yes. A single gene change allows for airborne Ebola transmission. This gene change has occurred in the Reston strain, which luckily does not cause symptom
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by jjk166 5mo ago
Pretty sure that would just reinforce my point...
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Are the jobs going away because of AI being applied or is AI being applied because those jobs are going away? You see lots of life jackets being worn as a ship is sinking; doesn't mean people putting on the life jackets made the ship s
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by jjk166 5mo ago
The stock market isn't the economy. Note that stock prices are denominated in dollars. If the dollar price of a stock doubles, but in the same time period the value of the dollar halves, then the stock's value hasn't gone up
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by jjk166 5mo ago
That's the narrative. In reality, you don't need a list of every user to find a handful of witnesses. This is very clearly a power play - the feds can't make their case so they're making distributing the app a major PR h
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by jjk166 5mo ago
> Your height is as biological a thing as anything else, but it's tied to your environment in the same sense as hair color. And you wouldn't draw a distinction between the person who is short because of poor diet and the person
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by jjk166 5mo ago
> OK, but check this out: Say I redefine “hair color” to mean “hair color except ignoring epigenetic and embryonic stuff and pretending that no one ever goes gray or dyes their hair et cetera”. Now, hair color is 100% heritable. Amazing,
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by jjk166 5mo ago
While the administration's estimate is absurd, even $1.2 Trillion seems rather low. For comparison the Sentinel ICBM program, replacing the current Minuteman III missiles, which are just one prong of the nuclear triad, with a missile w
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by jjk166 5mo ago
Improving phages is dramatically easier - you can just modify an existing one, either through direct engineering or by evolution, rather than having to find a brand new chemical that conveniently does what you want without serious negative
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by jjk166 5mo ago
Is it reasonable to expect any call going through a computer to be off the record, even without AI? Recordings were always discoverable, the only difference is that a paralegal doesn't need to manually go through every recording to det
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by jjk166 5mo ago
I imagine the long term solution to antibiotic resistance are engineered bacteriophages, either to directly attack the bacteria or to insert genes that make the bacteria susceptible to specific agents. Beyond not having to continuously deve
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by jjk166 5mo ago
I'm partial to concentrated ethanol.
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I doubt the sampling rate is anywhere near what you would need to make out dialog in a sound recording. You might be able to tell who is speaking though if you had a voice profile.
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Tell me you're not an engineer without saying you're not an engineer.
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> But they could have included an error factor in the designing process. They almost certainly did. But that error factor is a guess based on limited testing. You never know your true variability until you're building at scale. Wate
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And if engineers were all knowing that is how it would work. Unfortunately the real world is complex and there are limits to how variability can be constrained.
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by jjk166 5mo ago
It's worth noting that crack formation is affected by more than just the design - variation in material and manufacturing steps could also contribute. A more robust design can potentially compensate for material or process variability,
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> Most research indicates that child support programs tend to just support people that already planned to have children. I mean that's the point. We don't want people who have no interest in being parents to become parents for
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by jjk166 5mo ago
I don't know if you've seen the USA in the past few decades but there's no culture of maintaining things at a community level here either. We've got infrastructure crumbling all over the place.
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by jjk166 5mo ago
Note that while it is not a vaccince, there is an injectable birth control, and immunocontraceptives which would actually be vaccines are in development. Further there have been well documented cases where people were sterilized against the
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by jjk166 6mo ago
Assuming that apocalyptic event is something which would impact the elites, is reliably predictable by the elites, escapable by flying, and has a window of opportunity where everyone will be trying to escape at the same time. In reality, lo
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by jjk166 6mo ago
> Well connected people probably have access to the kind of insider information that would allow them to escape the hot zone with hours, even days of advance. Which would not result in them scrambling to get airborne all at once, and thu
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> Most rich people work in cities. People with private plane wealth aren't going into work near a potential nuclear strike target when nuclear war is imminent.
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by jjk166 6mo ago
Okay but that wouldn't produce the signal "all of the planes have suddenly taken off at the same time." No one who knows Manhattan's going to be nuked on Tuesday is going to be in Manhattan on Tuesday counting on their p
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by jjk166 6mo ago
> we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. I would bet on the exact opposite. Unless you're within a few hundred meters of ground zero you're better
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People do have limits, and doing both is inherently harder than doing one. Every ounce of effort spent working on something that isn't the problem takes away from the effort to actually address the problem.
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Are we up in arms about gun manufacturers selling guns to the police because police sometimes misuse them?
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There's nothing particularly special about the debt being larger than GDP. GDP is not income and debt is paid over time. For context, China has a Government Debt to GDP ratio of 96%, the UK is at 94%, France at 116%, Japan is at 263%.

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