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by lovecg 5y ago
Not to mention the problems you run into with banning something every peer of theirs is using. That goes a long way towards making your kid a social outcast (and why in practice would be as easy to enforce as making them wear something unfa
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by lovecg 5y ago
“Coronavirus disease-causing virus”
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by lovecg 5y ago
Beliefs about abortion are not split along gender lines. This is mostly a religious vs. non-religious issue, not a male vs. female issue.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Continuous load is very different from a sudden 0 to 100 increase.
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by lovecg 5y ago
The Skynet is here. Who knew it would come for us with outrage causing memes and not metal robots.
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by lovecg 5y ago
It seems trivial to you, but only because _you know to trust the message and what’s written in the wiki already_. The hardest thing about documentation is establishing this chain of trust. By coming to you and getting a verbal confirmation
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by lovecg 5y ago
It’s simple really. “All X are Y” where X is an immutable characteristic and Y is something negative = hate speech. “Covid vaccines contain 5G microchips” is misinformation. Do you have any examples of what you’re alluding to?
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by lovecg 5y ago
Wait are you seriously saying masks, lockdowns, etc. during spikes _forever_? “The covid season is upon us, let’s stock up on masks, pull kids out of school, and cancel our overseas trip”? For the foreseeable future?
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by lovecg 5y ago
Stocks vs. flows. The idea is that masks reduce the flow into a reservoir (like inside air of a building), and not just direct transmission. In your example double masking might reduce your personal intake from a large reservoir (refilled b
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by lovecg 5y ago
I encourage you to read through https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by lovecg 5y ago
Yeah he lied because he had to, and he lied later about herd immunity too. Whether it was good policy or not, I can’t assume anything he says is based on fact alone.
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by lovecg 5y ago
He lied about the required levels to reach herd immunity too. Ends justify the means I guess? But it’s hard to take him at face value about anything anymore. “In the pandemic’s early days, Dr. Fauci tended to cite the same 60 to 70 percent
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by lovecg 5y ago
…why? You mean the context doesn’t matter at all?
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by lovecg 5y ago
Hint: lax border enforcement combined with draconian immigration law creates opportunities for wage arbitrage.
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by lovecg 5y ago
I have a hard time understanding what you mean about Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Leader_of_Iran Seems like a dictatorship to me.
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by lovecg 5y ago
How is the US constitutional system remotely relevant in this discussion?
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by lovecg 5y ago
It can work both ways though. A single person can also invent a scalable way to sequester CO2 for example.
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by lovecg 5y ago
It’s kind of hard to discern from the article, so is fat good and was unfairly blamed? Or fat and sugar are both bad, but they emphasized the fat part?
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by lovecg 5y ago
> because the quality of life has deteriorated so much The data does show a net outflow but says nothing about the reason. I’m willing to believe the quality of life has something to do with it, but would be interesting to see the breakd
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by lovecg 5y ago
Unvaccinated people strain the hospital system; the restrictions and lockdowns are a response to that. Sure we could just not do anything and start triaging (deciding who gets to go to the hospital and who gets to die), but it’s not correct
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by lovecg 5y ago
Why did you omit the first part of the quote? “If the public health professionals … tell me to take I will absolutely take it. But if Donald Trump tells us to take it, I’m not taking it.” I think this is a reasonable message of caution when
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by lovecg 5y ago
I personally don’t have an issue with this decision if they also opt out of any (btw also experimental, not approved) treatments for Covid in case they do get it. You know, to be consistent. Will keep the hospitals from becoming overcrowded
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by lovecg 5y ago
Sharing as a person who has on occasion been sad and lonely. Much like the difference between reading and writing, it’s very much possible to be skilled at understanding a social situation while at the same time having no clue how to respon
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by lovecg 5y ago
Yeah this is correct and I was oversimplifying. Though that begs the question of how that equation balances out - where does (a lot of energy) comes from? The products on the right side sit at a lower energy level (they hold together “tight
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by lovecg 5y ago
A pedantic point, but hydrocarbons don’t actually “store energy”. The energy from the combustion actually comes from the oxygen! We just don’t think of it as the “fuel” since it’s so abundant. A better intuition is this: plants, etc. used e
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by lovecg 5y ago
Good point! Assuming that the asteroid sees Earth as a disk that it can hit anywhere uniformly at random and also that I can still do calculus in my head, looks like the expected radius away from the circumference is only 1/3 R?
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by lovecg 5y ago
They’re empty now, but presumably they would not have been pre-drought, delaying the point when the current shortage begins.
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by lovecg 5y ago
If I read the IPCC report correctly, the extreme heatwaves will increase in likelihood while the extreme “cold waves” will actually decrease. So it’s not clear if this will become more common.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Exactly. This (strict enforcement of terms and conditions and locking down user data) was the desired outcome of the actions taken, and will probably result in fewer leaks down the road which is fine with me. I’m actually glad they seem to
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by lovecg 5y ago
The postmortem was a great read too: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.69...

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