mjfl

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by mjfl 5y ago
How evil are you, and your past deeds?
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by mjfl 5y ago
that's not too far back, relative to the discovery of Cas9 gene editing...
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by mjfl 5y ago
These comments are basically equating Peertube to Gab, but I have to disagree with that comparison. Gab is a website, Peertube is software , and these are different things. Peertube doesn't need to be profitable to stay alive, it just
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by mjfl 5y ago
but it increases the vapor pressure of water everywhere.
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by mjfl 5y ago
warmer climates lead to much wetter climates. invariably.
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by mjfl 5y ago
There is also potential for it being false flag operations in order to justify more militaristic responses.
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by mjfl 5y ago
Eh. My PHD sucks but it's better than a real job.
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by mjfl 5y ago
what's the best black scholes tutorial?
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by mjfl 5y ago
I read his book "Zero to One" and I felt like it did learn good things from it, for example that "competition is for losers". Before I thought capitalism was all about competition, but maybe I was a rube in not knowing t
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by mjfl 5y ago
How much of this math is deep work and how much of it is it the conjuring of obscure objects that haven't had much study and proving trivial things about them?
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by mjfl 5y ago
> Facebook is betting the farm on the metaverse stuff and it's an odd bet.
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by mjfl 5y ago
because math doesn't do experiments.
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by mjfl 5y ago
Huxley seems to be more right in the long term, since Orwellian oppression is very visible, people work to fix it and eventually do. Not so for Huxly-an dystopia.
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by mjfl 5y ago
> Even nerds do not want to run their own servers at this point. Even organizations building software full time do not want to run their own servers at this point. If there’s one thing I hope we’ve learned about the world, it’s that peop
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by mjfl 5y ago
I also thought that agreeing with the item that was something like "it is wise to break the law to achieve your goals" is more of a sign of stupidity than 'darkness'.
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by mjfl 5y ago
OMG a personality test! I love these in Cosmo!
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by mjfl 5y ago
I don't get a severe fever from flu shots.
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by mjfl 5y ago
Calculus: Having campus-wide COVID surveillance running (before any alternative testing options had sprung up) is more important than preventing ANY RISK of someone experiencing stigma for having had COVID. I think this calculus holds up an
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by mjfl 5y ago
This is going to be disagreeable, but as someone who was blocked from starting a COVID surveillance program at my uni due to the IRB constraints on "human subjects" - would need to buy special, expensive software in order to preve
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by mjfl 5y ago
Plagiarism is certainly bad, but there is something strange about blowing the whistle this hard on a lowly graduate student. There is something pathological about whoever made this website, and shared this link.
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by mjfl 5y ago
> I really have a hard time even beginning to agree on any description of it or really any part of California as a "progressive utopia". I think the label is tongue in cheek. You would agree that San Francisco has the most &quo
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by mjfl 5y ago
youtubers / streamers keep making the mistake of thinking reporters are there friend and letting them observe their lives.
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by mjfl 5y ago
the science says that one vaccination is still sufficient to prevent severe disease, and that it is uncertain that additional boosters will reduce transmission on a country wide basis- things will still spread among the unvaccinated, boost
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by mjfl 5y ago
I've been looking for a job where I'd only have to work 3 days per week. Then my life would be only 3/7 work and 4/7 rest, which would be great for my work life balance. I also prefer a bay area salary, because of my hig
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by mjfl 5y ago
Aren’t unions why the USA has no auto industry?
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by mjfl 5y ago
If they didn't allow you to start your own website/service or become independent then they did not change your career.
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by mjfl 5y ago
The people smart enough to conduct investigations into this know that the only outcomes will be harsher restrictions on lab research stateside without much consequences for China, and thus they are unmotivated.
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by mjfl 5y ago
Interviewer: "Why aren't you depressed?" Psychedelic microdoser: "Because I'm a balloon."
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by mjfl 5y ago
> Eight years ago, former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers described the growth experienced in the years preceding the global financial crisis (GFC) as an illusion I’ve always found it strange that our most valuable companies in the p
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by mjfl 5y ago
You are projecting.

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