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by jlebar 5y ago
> they will have to start practice serious self-censorship or get banned from FAANG-land, isolating them from friends, family and potential love interests. You mean, there could be consequences for our words and actions?
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by jlebar 5y ago
Sure, absolutely. The point the author is making is that since you're more likely to get an antibody response with the vaccine, you're getting a benefit from the vaccine that there's a decent chance you won't get from
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by jlebar 5y ago
> How about referencing scientific sources rather than opinion pieces from political news sites. The dude is a MD PhD who's been on NPR, NYT, etc. He's literally a scientist who is a source -- a scientific source. But sure, we
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by jlebar 5y ago
It's ironic (or maybe not?) that the comments section here is filled with exactly the kind of anti-vax misinformation that YouTube is trying to take down. To respond to one point I keep reading in here over and over: Getting and recov
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by jlebar 5y ago
A compelling theory! If only it were so simple. In practice it doesn't actually work out that way. 1/3 of people who get covid have no antibodies at all, whereas everyone (who is not immunocompromised) who gets the vaccine dev
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by jlebar 5y ago
> If you believe vaccines have no potential negative effect beyond 1 week, you'll have to give a serious thought as to why you believe Covid can have long term effects. I mean, covid can kill you, which is kind of a long-term negati
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by jlebar 5y ago
It's not true that people get stronger immunity by catching covid. 1/3 of people get no antibodies at all, as compared to 100% of non-immunocompromised people who get vaccinated. https://thehill.com/opinion/h
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by jlebar 5y ago
> Months ago he was insisting that the people who had contracted COVID-19 and who had antibodies in their system may not need the vaccine. Now, we have a number of studies coming out to support that. But months ago that was "anti-va
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by jlebar 5y ago
Others have recommended Mozart's Requiem if you like music with singing. If you haven't heard Robert Levin's completion, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=457pvjOo9Hw , I think it takes the cake. For a neo
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by jlebar 5y ago
Haha thanks. Not my pun, I just saw it somewhere on the internet!
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by jlebar 5y ago
My mind was also blown when I got to demo this a few years ago. You sit down and you forget that there's technology happening. The person is there, in front of you. I don't know how else to describe it. The testimonials in the v
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by jlebar 5y ago
I guess I should have been more clear. I think the argument "all consumption of food kills animals, therefore no food is truly vegetarian/vegan, therefore there's no moral distinction between quote-unquote vegan food and fact
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by jlebar 5y ago
"If Materialism is true, the United States is likely conscious." http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconsci...
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by jlebar 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by jlebar 5y ago
> Ask yourself if that's a possibility, and if you think that there is a zero probability of anyone maliciously weaponizing accusations of sexual misconduct. As a straight, white man: False accusations of sexual assault are extremel
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by jlebar 6y ago
@dang: Bad headline. Tweet says it will hide the number of dislikes , but you'll still be able to dislike a video.
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by jlebar 6y ago
The tweet is clear that you can still downvote videos to tune the algorithm. Dislikes just won't be shown.
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by jlebar 6y ago
> If this is fairly standard practice, then an afternoon birthday surgery would be an emergency situation and, hence, more deadly. TFA says they're only counting emergency surgeries, to avoid exactly this bias.
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by jlebar 6y ago
> I don't think reducing crashes is anything but a marketing ploy For what it's worth, I wouldn't be working at Waymo if I didn't believe self-driving cars are very likely to save lives. > In general, it's my
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by jlebar 6y ago
> the Turing test, in the "standard" interpretation (rather than Turing's original formulation) Goalposts: moved! This is exactly my point.
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by jlebar 6y ago
Since the article calls out Waymo engineers: I'm a software engineer at Waymo, speaking for myself. I agree with the premise of the article. Humans are remarkably good at driving, and making a computer better will be hard. Where I may
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by jlebar 6y ago
>>[Linus has] also made a lot of people's lives worse. > Utter bullshit and baseless allegation. Why would you say such a thing without providing any shred of evidence? Are you actually saying, without irony, that it's bu
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by jlebar 6y ago
I recall I left Mozilla before the same-sex marriage fight, but I'm familiar with it. Just as I wouldn't call Brendan or gerv a psycho-sadist, I also wouldn't call the people who called for their resignations names, nor group
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by jlebar 6y ago
I would be extremely surprised if Bazel were 4m faster than cmake+ninja with the same build config. If this really is a correct result, I bet the ninja people would want to hear about it. (And, kudos to the Bazel folks!) But I think it&#x
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by jlebar 6y ago
> This whole CoC thing is sadly fraught with virtue signaling psycho-sadists who enjoy playing tribunal. > > The people who actually cared about fostering inclusive human communities got bullied out of positions of power long ago,
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by jlebar 6y ago
My favorite (not actually horrible) switch statement trick: Instead of string x; switch (y) { case 0: x = "foo"; break; case 1: x = "bar"; break; } try an IIFE! string x = [&] { case(y) {
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by jlebar 6y ago
So you're saying, (WLOG) women who happen to disagree with the prevailing (male) viewpoint are better off in offices which disallow discussion of politics. Because by telling everyone that they can't talk about political issues
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by jlebar 6y ago
> they are better off in a place where they're not allowed to advocate for their own rights (inside and outside the workplace)? Sorry, I think I was unclear. I meant, discussing inside the workplace issues that are relevant to thei
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by jlebar 6y ago
So for example, you're saying that in workplaces where women are in the minority, they are better off in a place where they're not allowed to advocate for their own rights (inside and outside the workplace)? Wouldn't they be
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by jlebar 6y ago
OK, and where should we draw the line? If LGBTQ benefits are an acceptable topic, is it acceptable to talk about same-sex marriage? Is it acceptable to advocate for pro-LGBTQ policies more broadly? If not, why not? It's all part of

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