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by krona 5y ago
> Britain’s imperial past and present provide a perfectly adequate explanation for the UK’s relative prosperity. And the relative prosperity of countries that were colonised? Is this an argument in favour of colonisation?
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by krona 5y ago
The Kalman filter is but one example of estimating unknown variable (the target location, heading, speed) using a joint probability distribution of multiple sensor inputs with different characteristics.
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by krona 5y ago
An ancient and hereditary monarchy devoid of political power is the easiest way of providing an apolitical head of state. In the terms of the UK, the monarchy is interwoven with the national identity; it is its link to its past in human for
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by krona 5y ago
Stealing implies someone being deprived of something. I don't condone pirating but the argument isn't invalidated merely because it 'justifies' the act itself.
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by krona 5y ago
It's the least risky asset on the time horizon that they're operating on.
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by krona 5y ago
There is no requirement for integer arithmetic in WebGL 1; all numbers are essentially floats, even if the attribute is not float. Integer support is GLSL ES 3.0 (the shader language) i.e. WebGL2.
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by krona 5y ago
Oppression complex? How about orthodox privilege?
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by krona 5y ago
> you need cooperation Sure. > You can't just have Joe Sixpack decided to not quarantine himself or not wear masks. So, cooperation, via coercion? Got it. I guess the ends justify the means.
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by krona 5y ago
Assuming the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 behaves like SARS-CoV-1 might be a sensible working hypothesis?
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by krona 5y ago
The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language. No such institution exists for the English language.
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by krona 5y ago
If you use it, then it is a word. If other people don't understand you, then that's your problem.
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by krona 5y ago
I think you've missed the point of English, which is a collection of languages that evolved over time. Unlike e.g. French, there is no definitive, latest version of the language decreed from above. The dictionary is post-hoc, and long
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by krona 5y ago
A news report with the words "Experts say.." is noise. A case documented in a journal in a trial (e.g. DANMASK-19, or any of the dozens of other trials) is not an unreasonable standard of evidence in order to better determine what
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by krona 5y ago
AFAIK there still isn't a single documented case of outdoor transmission of the virus, anywhere in the world.
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by krona 5y ago
Male/Female gaze/attention experiments in infants has been reproduced many times. Some scientists say the differences aren't big enough to make a difference (lets say, in behaviour), but I'd argue we have no idea what a
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by krona 5y ago
Point taken, but to be clear: bias doesn't imply racism, no matter how hard you might want it to.
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by krona 5y ago
> I don't see how someone doing a public service should arbitrarily come under such scrutiny. It doesn't seem arbitrary to me. The service provided exists in many EU countries, and therefore must eventually be harmonised. T
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by krona 5y ago
Yes because poor science is never jumped on by the media for general consumption.
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by krona 5y ago
The nutritional composition of today's vegetables in the average supermarket bare little resplendence to the variety of food consumed decades ago in the Mediterranean. I wonder if the study could account for this unfortunate fact. Anyo
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by krona 5y ago
> How many years would make you feel comfortable? Five? 10? 50? How long do you plan on living? To give a vaccine to say, an 8 year old child, with no health concerns and excellent natural immunity to a disease (better than say, for se
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by krona 5y ago
We don't know what the long term effects of either the virus or the vaccine are on a human. Hell we can't possibly even have data on what the long term effects are on humans. It doesn't matter how many people have been expose
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by krona 5y ago
Cell culture technology has been in use for decades around the world for many other vaccines, going back 35 years at least (e.g. rabies/polio). Genetic/DNA vaccines are new.
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by krona 6y ago
There were entirely separate supply chains. The one for the EU failed because the EU demanded it was in the EU (because 'solidarity') and the yields weren't sufficient. Then the EU demanded doses to be supplied from other sup
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by krona 6y ago
Informed consent, a cornerstone of medical ethics, has very little to do with the fact that we can't prove treatment will not be detrimental in all cases. Or perhaps you prioritise the group above the individual in all cases and th
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by krona 6y ago
If the employee works in a similar area within the company then there is no defense against copyright infringement in IBMs commercial product(s). Every IBM software engineer knows this and is inculcated annually. IBM basically doesn'
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by krona 6y ago
I don't see how that is enforceable except in circumstances where the creative content of your work is in some way related to what the company is involved in (which can be expensive for a large for a multinational corp., admittedly) Fo
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by krona 6y ago
If your service suddenly becomes synonymous with an armed uprising Did parler have particular features enabling these so called 'armed uprisings', beyond what e.g. Facebook also offers to its users for free?
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by krona 6y ago
This aligns with my experience working at IBM. I knew Vodafone was a big customer, but I found the extent of that relationship peculiar; in presentations given by senior engineers it came across that IBM seemed to running the core parts of
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by krona 6y ago
It's also interesting that given the predicted prevalence of CVT/PVT blood clots and their (current) confidence intervals (p.13), it may eventually be the case that the mRNA vaccines are just as likely to cause blood clots when co
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Blood clot risk higher in Covid-19 patients vs. vaccine(osf.io)
2 points by krona 6y ago|2 comments

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