marricks

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by marricks 5y ago
If it did get lowered to affect normal people it'd only be from the efforts of rich people to poison the well against the taxes.
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by marricks 5y ago
It's actually true if you interpret it as an abusive family. Boundaries aren't respected, always put company's interest above yours, if there's a culture problem (say harassment) it's actually the victim's prob
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by marricks 5y ago
I saw a post on NIH studies showing possible benefits and people dismissing it because it wasn't a preponderance of evidence. Totally valid to dismiss a selected sample but made me realize there was more of a basis for its usage than,
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by marricks 5y ago
And the Falcon rockets are already approved and working now right? So they have a viable way to launch them anyways, it's not like their hands are tied.
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by marricks 5y ago
I'm sorry but better energy storage and electric cars for the middle class isn't going save us. It's not progress, it's a distraction along the way to ecological collapse.
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by marricks 5y ago
I disdain the owners of both but Bezos (fairly) seems to get a bit more ire here. The Verge’s piece elaborated that SpaceX hasn’t decided between two configurations and want approval for both even though they will only choose one, so everyo
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by marricks 5y ago
Substantial how? Apple doesn’t sell ads and I’m pretty sure that antithetical to their business model, if they did their advantage in other ways (privacy which sucks anyways) would dry up.
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by marricks 5y ago
It always is! (in a good and bad way)
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by marricks 5y ago
I think there's am R0 for initial strain and then ranges for the other variants. I thought it was in Wikipedia but either it's been edited out or I saw it elsewhere. What I recall (so huge grain of salt here) was R0 at 2.3 for ini
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by marricks 5y ago
I'm not sure "only twice as bad" paints an accurate picture. - Herd immunity is much harder. Calculated as 1 - 1/r0 where r0 is defined in relation to transmissibility. So if r0 = 3 that's ~66% need to be immune to
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by marricks 5y ago
Sure, but you can't discount all the US jobs created for defense industry and mercenary corps /s
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by marricks 5y ago
Here I’m referring specifically, and only, to Afghanistan. Sorry if that wasn’t clear. If our intentions were ever fully or even mostly pure anywhere else that’s a whole different can of worms.
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by marricks 5y ago
Perhaps the US’ intentions were never good and they were never capable of “liberating” anyone there. It really seems like no matter when they pulled out this would have happened.
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by marricks 5y ago
I think the tragedy of 9/11 is distinctly different from this one. That one was covered non stop by media networks and lead to titanic shifts in the US and to US foreign policy. Comparing emotional states between now and then seems pre
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by marricks 5y ago
Life expectancy has already lowered quite a bit from the pandemic we can't put a lid on, and when (if) that settles down cataclysmic climate change will continue its work. Sorry but the future seems quite bleak.
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by marricks 5y ago
Keeping plants in your house reduces CO2 levels and removes pollutants, perhaps try that. - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32170619/ - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/p
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by marricks 5y ago
Great reason for them to be broken up in to a thousand tiny pieces. No company should get this large (including Google, Apple, Microsoft...)
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by marricks 5y ago
Isn't Apple going to start auto scanning the text in your images too for searching/easy copying? How many years until the hash of text in your images is compared to a database of... god knows what. Sensitive information? Dangerous
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by marricks 5y ago
Are you lumping in the workers of Blizzard with the "masses" of gamers saying actions by either wont have a consequence? That's what it reads like. I think ultimately the workers staging a walk out or even stopping work would
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by marricks 5y ago
I have an iPhone and don’t use the Gmail app. For a year or two I got a pathetic email from google saying “email is better with the gmail app!” Pretty sure google was sad I don’t have any of their apps on my phone Point of the story is sayi
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by marricks 5y ago
> The lack of openness is transparency is precisely what causes "the masses" to distrust experts about these issues. That's complete bullshit. What's causing the distrust is lobbying by some of the largest industries
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by marricks 5y ago
Well anyone in that Ken Burns doc wouldn’t have immediate family or friends listening to it, and not to mention it’d obviously not be an original voice recording.
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by marricks 5y ago
That was a bitter read. Most terrifyingly to me is those odds of 1/1000 (which only get worse) aren't even the most terrifying prospect for the region: "There are two possible sources of this extreme jump in peak temperatures
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by marricks 5y ago
The pacific northwest doesn't look like Texas though. Our birds, mammals, forests, I don't think any of it could withstand that heat regularly. What we're talking about is one biome being changed out for another if this becom
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by marricks 5y ago
Living through a heat dome was terrifying… seeing birds pant and plants die a couple days after the extreme heat. I hope this spurs everyone to take climate change more seriously but I won’t hold my breath.
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by marricks 5y ago
US’s culture has a lot of focus on one’s self and the steps one should take to get themselves better. Little focus on how awful systems or companies cough like Google cough are the one’s with the issues, not us.
567.
by marricks 5y ago
“Falling 16% per decade since 1988” I wonder why! Maybe tied to the phase out of leaded gasoline around the same time??
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by marricks 5y ago
> Clearly that is the choice that most interests them. I think our discussion won’t be productive as you don’t want to consider what conditions the market plays in forcing people’s choices.
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by marricks 5y ago
Wouldn't argue against it being pithy, and I don't dream we'd all unite to save the planet. What I do dream and hope for is we have less of a united force destroying the planet and a larger disunited force trying to actually
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by marricks 5y ago
Not sure what your point is, many of the most intelligent and capable people in the western world are working at Google and Facebook designing the best algorithms to make people click on ads. I imagine it's not because it's the mo

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