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by kongolongo 5y ago
It's probably more geared towards the gaming market then. 1440p/27 inch is a sweet spot for gaming because you can actually drive that resolution at a decently high fps. Even the latest (if you can get your hands on then) gfx card
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by kongolongo 5y ago
I think if you're going to support anything - crypto or otherwise, you should start with some level of skepticism, if it can overcome that initial skepticism then maybe it is worth believing in, otherwise remain skeptical imo.
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by kongolongo 5y ago
>the iPhone was AT&T exclusive for a long time at the beginning. I think that was a very different time though. Smartphones were just becoming popular. A lot of other upcoming smartphones also had carrier exclusives at that time (Ver
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by kongolongo 5y ago
>Moreover, as a citizen of the US that has paid for the R&D of those vaccines through my tax dollars, I have a right to see the results of that research. This shouldn't be a controversial opinion. (it certainly wasn't when
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by kongolongo 5y ago
This is the better world though. Would you rather have a dating app with no users or so many that they can't possibly fully investigate every false-positive?
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by kongolongo 5y ago
There isn't a single war without innocent civilian casualties caused by every side. At least this is under the guise of accidental, some nations do it on purpose.
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by kongolongo 5y ago
The most powerful military in the world doesn't mean it can identify citizen from enemy combatants 100% of time. A lot of this is kinda meaningless to discuss without some sort of comparison to what other militaries false-positive rate
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by kongolongo 5y ago
ElectroBOOM's exchange with a retired MIT professor (it was over whether or not KVL always holds) was also very polite, respectful, and entertaining and yet surprisingly the professor who must have received and exchanged feedback befor
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by kongolongo 5y ago
I ended up buying this model as well, but if I were to do it again I'd heavily consider the Sony equivalent just because of the AndroidTV support. WebOS isn't necessarily bad, but lot of native apps on LG don't seem to get th
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by kongolongo 5y ago
You could easily argue they both did and do. Raw materials (see Cobalt mining in DRC as example) for semiconductors are tracible to mines throughout central Africa and South America that use child slave labor. Visa/Mastercard uses comp
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by kongolongo 5y ago
>BTW I am deeply surprised that there has never been a cloud hypervisor doomsday vulnerability that has brought down AWS or some other huge provider. Back when virtualization in the cloud got big I would have bet serious money that this
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by kongolongo 5y ago
I'd consider those more software engineering/management books than computer science in the like theoretical and fundamental sense - not to say that they aren't great books though.
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by kongolongo 5y ago
>The problem with Student Loan forgiveness is it would typically help the highest paid Americans. Most people with 100k plus in loans also make very good money. That's very true. People often don't realize that blanket loan for
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by kongolongo 5y ago
>which got me into a different social group and even though I continued to find some trouble, I did not continue to find ever worse kinds of trouble I think that was the most impactful part. I'm curious what you think though. If you
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by kongolongo 5y ago
It's interesting you say that because South Korea had scandals where unlicensed nurses, office managers, and receptionists were performing surgery, not to say it isn't difficult to perform surgery, but I think it was doable at all
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by kongolongo 5y ago
I think there can be truth to both. Consider the fact that it may seem easy to you because it's almost second nature in a sense where you're unaware consciously of how much it would take an average person to learn what you're
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by kongolongo 5y ago
That's a good point! It seems very hard to weigh the cost/benefits of something like this especially when the evidence for the possible health costs are so difficult to collect. Think of all of the possible confounding factors tha
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by kongolongo 5y ago
There's a lot of problems societally that happen when you go below replacement rate that are probably not being accounted for in that simulation. For example, the age proportionality can become massively fucked with populations that ha
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by kongolongo 5y ago
>But it seems like most of our problems are caused by overpopulation. That's too broad of a generalization and not true globally, some countries problems are exactly because of underpopulation. The problem isn't homogeneous thr
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by kongolongo 5y ago
That's interesting because those ingredients are "physical" sunscreens which have been gaining popularity in some part because of concerns over health and environmental impacts of many chemical sunscreens (significant absorpt
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by kongolongo 5y ago
You're right it definitely doesn't fit neatly under any current anti-trust laws. I think the justification for why something like exclusive dealing agreements in monopolistic conditions is unfair could definitely be applied to why
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by kongolongo 5y ago
That's true, but I think there's a solid case for why this type of practice is anti-competitive and unfair. Let's say I own a restaurant and instead of improving my food or service I go to my competitor's food suppliers
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by kongolongo 5y ago
Does this not fall under "unreasonably constraining competition" section of anti-trust laws? I'm only familiar with the US anti-trust debates (and even then, not too familiar) is there a German equivalent that should be preve
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by kongolongo 5y ago
While that's true often these types of weak observational studies are needed in order to fund more robust randomized and controlled studies which tend to be far more expensive and need some even low-quality evidence to justify. In this
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by kongolongo 5y ago
The limitations of prospective observational studies will generally be the same regardless of the topic, there are few controls, a lack of randomization, and mechanisms of action are only proposed and not directly tested for (in this case t
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by kongolongo 5y ago
I didn't say discretion means policy can be ignored, it's part of the interpretation of policy. Whether or not a policy is applicable for specific circumstances is part of discretion. It explains why policy is not universally appl
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by kongolongo 5y ago
Policy also has to be flexible when it comes to things with as many complexities as medication. Coming up with a universal standard for approval is extremely difficult. There can be issues both if it's too rigid or too lax. The role of
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by kongolongo 5y ago
Policy has to be interpreted and enforced by people and that isn't always going to be consistent even with the same person let alone the fact that's its never the same person or group of people overseeing every decision.
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by kongolongo 5y ago
What do you think of fields like medicine or biology where preprints can become a source of misinformation. For example a lot of conspiracy around unproven treatments for covid, vaccine efficacy, and vaccine safety directly source preprints
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by kongolongo 5y ago
Associated with sure, but at what exposure levels? Can we expect all microplastics to have this affect? What if the lower fertility rates are tolerable compared to the benefits of plastic use overall? From your first source: >Data are st

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