murgindrag

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by murgindrag 5y ago
.... a long list of counterexamples?
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by murgindrag 5y ago
How do you know? Stating an unsourced claim confidently doesn't make it true. Historically, plenty of societies had kids who didn't spend much time around their peers, aside from family. It's not uncommon for a family to be m
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by murgindrag 5y ago
This is dumb. The requisite amount of clothing varies country-by-country. There are countries -- such as some Arab countries -- were people are almost entirely covered, including veils for women. There are countries in Europe where nudity i
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Five out of six people report being happy playing Russian Roulette.
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I do have a list, but it's not one I'm planning to go public with. As far as I can tell, no measures exist: * It's perfectly legal for most government employees to lie. * Academics can lie so long as they don't engage in
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by murgindrag 5y ago
This is the first action in this mess that improved my trust in github. To date, they've felt spineless. If this is a permanent thing, neutral, honest, and used without prejudice, you can count my trust restored. Funding legal aid seem
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by murgindrag 5y ago
95% of whiteboard apps I've used have unreasonable latency. I'm not talking about network latency, but in the browser, on my end. If the drawing is 300ms behind the cursor, handwriting is wonky. Microsoft got this right in their e
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I think the standards in the law are pretty clear: "Beyond the shadow of a doubt" for criminal law, and a "preponderance of evidence" for civil law. Most of the instances I've seen that I really care about fall very
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I think intentional lying is special, and should be an exception to censorship. I don't feel okay censoring things I disagree with, even strongly (e.g. hate speech, taboo topics, sexual moores, and whatnot), but on intentional falsehoo
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Not according to Google: https://cloud.google.com/products/ https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace But it's a moot point in either case, if you want long-term support. * Intern
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by murgindrag 5y ago
My family is on Google Apps free edition. Google has been doing it's best to make my life miserable. It recently killed Google Voice in the free edition, so my younger child can no longer get a phone number. With zero warning. I'v
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I never used it, seriously or otherwise, but I appreciated having it there: 1) Universal torrent support is prerequisite to broad adoption. Having S3 be part of that network is nice. 2) It gives a fallback to exploding costs if something I
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I think the bigger problem is exponentials, rates of change, and control systems. Right now, we lock down when numbers get high, and open up when numbers get low. There's about a month lag between actions and hopsitalizations, so we ac
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by murgindrag 5y ago
> Oh my... it is not overselling. It is dealing with people like children they are. People reverted to the point where you can't have merit-based discussion about vaccines in public, and so simplifying the message is IMO the right s
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I feel like the goal posts are moving with lightening speed. Whenever I read a sentence like "The goal was never to eradicate COVID from being annoying—it was to eradicate it from being a killer." Those same experts, a year ago, w
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I'm not quite sure I see the difference. You pass a law: - Requiring vaccinations, or a $800 fine - Permitting private venues to verify vaccination status by looking at vaccine cards (e.g. employers, concerts, etc.) - Make it a crime t
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I like vitamin D since we have a clear mechanism-of-action specifically for COVID19: - We adapt skin color based on latitude to maintain vitamin D levels and prevent sunburns at different levels of sun exposure. - At this point, we have inc
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I think it's a better example of random chance. We had a series of diseases. We didn't heed that as a warning. One eventually (and predictably) slipped out.
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I think it depends on how it's done. I'd like to see this implemented with roughly the same systems which make me wear a bicycle helmet, a seatbelt, or have turn signals, which I don't find so scary. In these systems, you hav
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by murgindrag 5y ago
> If only covid were 'only' as contagious as the cold, we probably would have beaten it already Nope. When numbers go down, we relax. When hospitals fill up, we lock down. It doesn't matter how contagious COVID is. It will
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by murgindrag 5y ago
They did control for race. And no, controlling for socio-economic attributes does not fulfill the role "approximated via race." Statistically, racial differences tend to include: - Cultural differences, including preferences for f
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Preliminary evidence: Yes. https://s3.amazonaws.com/media2.fairhealth.org/whitepaper/as...
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by murgindrag 5y ago
My follow-up question is how damage accumulates. We're on-track for COVID19 becoming a thing, where we'll catch mutations over and over and over.
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by murgindrag 5y ago
> But, as shown by the coronavirus, the costs of stopping (or, more realistically, delaying) them are huge If we all wore $2 N95-equivalent masks, spread out 6 feet whenever convenient, did outside whatever can be done outside, and recei
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by murgindrag 5y ago
One person I know is suffering from serious balance problems post-COVID. It's just not consistent with the "It's all in their minds theory," or "it's the same as stress from isolation" theory. There's
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by murgindrag 5y ago
That's sort of what I realized the first time I got into a power struggle, and learned all the ways people can try to frame you for things, slander you about things, and otherwise set you up. Knowledge is power. Knowledge asymmetry pla
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by murgindrag 5y ago
The Oracle approach is: - Good terms with proprietary lock-in. - Milk that cow for all it's worth. It's more nuanced than that -- I gave an oversimplified model -- but I've never seen anyone come out ahead doing business with
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by murgindrag 5y ago
No, I think you overestimate the financial resources of about half of the people in the US. Being able to afford $90/year for each web service is definitely a marker of class. That's even more true globally. And yes, Netflix is ha
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Not-for-profit funding is misaligned. There's nearly infinite not-for-profit funding available. There's a free market of not-for-profits competing for that funding. The ones who win are the ones who do what's needed to win, n
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I think I will take strong precautions forever, if needed. I think COVID19 spread because, at every point, people said "It can't be that bad," and it turned out it was. Our response was characterized by wishful thinking. Peop

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