murgindrag

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by murgindrag 5y ago
I'd like to disagree, but I can't. What I can say is: 1) I know enough about molecular biology to tell you the vaccine is safe. You pick up novel stuff all the time. In abstract, we don't know a pebble in your backyard doesn&
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Your numbers are way off, as is your moral compass. I hope I never meet you, or anyone like you. To use your driving analogy, the way I respond to your message is if someone told me they drove around drunk and high, without headlights, and
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I don't think OP's logic requires side effects of vaccines to be anywhere close to COVID19 causalities. It's a personal decision. Without vaccines, at present, my risk of COVID19 would be marginal at best: - I live in an area
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I don't take issue with your conclusions, but I do with your arguments. I think precision and correctness are important, since a lot of vaccine skepticism comes from people making incorrect arguments. > 1. I don't trust authori
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I empathize with most of what you wrote, but there are two errors: "I also know what to expect from a respiratory virus, because I've had those a number of times." No one whom I know who has had COVID describes it like any no
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by murgindrag 5y ago
> 1) Did that 1957-58 vaccine use existing tech? My understanding is that other RNA vaccines and therapies were already under FDA trials with ~10 year time-frames since the method is new. Our scientific knowledge in 1957 was limited at b
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Having been through an FDA process in a prior startup (although far from central at it; my role was at the outskirts), I can say the FDA is not ridiculously over-conservative. We did human pilots in another country, which was less bureaucra
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Anecdotally, my experience is that the main reason is distrust of authority. It's usually warranted distrust too. Authorities aren't trustworthy. To answer your question: (1) Most vaccines don't have 10+ year trials. A year i
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by murgindrag 5y ago
That's part of the solution. Another part is to somehow change incentive and organizational structures. MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and similar schools made their reputations decades if not over a century ago, and the current people and st
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by murgindrag 5y ago
.... or the next best explanation: - If I know nothing, I'm likely to defer to authority - If I know a little, I know enough to at least distrust questionable authorities The declining trust makes sense, with the replication crisis, gr
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I think the idea is to set it high enough that not too many people will look, but low enough that after a few decades of inflation (or a few weeks of hyperinflation), it will cover most reasonable transactions, beyond buying a burger.
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by murgindrag 5y ago
That's my experience too. As a student, I didn't really buy the "piracy increases sales" studies, since I went from buying one thing a year to zero. Clearly, sales were lost. As an adult, I can casually swipe my credit c
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I want a linter where I can exclude specific things in some kind of configuration. Having linter hash tags in files is: - Ugly and makes for less readable code. - Doesn't apply the same exception in similar situations. If I made an exc
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by murgindrag 5y ago
GCP is nearly useless for any sort of regulated work. Privacy, compliance, and stability aren't GCP's strong suite (by 'compliance', I mean several types, but to the greatest extent, being able to count on an API you use
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I feel like there's an uncanny valley. If you know a little bit of math, there's no benefit. If you know enough math to jump to e.g. medical imaging, robotics, controls, simulators, image processing, ML, or similar, there's a
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I've used them all the time in my career, but: 1. I did learn them well, and so I did use Laplace quite often in EE. 2. I jumped careers not into IT, but into tracks which leveraged both programming and a mathematical skill set. I&#x27
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by murgindrag 5y ago
> There's a slant towards standardised EE-specific solutions for PDEs, but it's still much more abstract and mathematical than any field of CS, apart from maybe cryptography and data science. Here's the thing, though: PDEs
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by murgindrag 5y ago
An EE degree IS awesome. It gives a generalizable mathematical foundation which applies in just about any other field of work. It gives a huge competitive edge. For example: * Circuits are physical implementations of differential equations,
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by murgindrag 5y ago
There are plenty of errors in this, and you're confusing the four prongs, but I'll run with it for now, since it's good enough. If I am doing code autocomplete, and copying three lines out of your program, those three lines a
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by murgindrag 5y ago
>> Are you laundering 5 lines of code? Probably fair use. >The amount of copying does not matter for a copyright claim. This is incorrect. The amount of material used is the third factor in a fair use test. There are other ways it
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I'm okay with where it stands. Where it stands: We have a new technology. We don't really understand it. There aren't well-defined ethical or legal bounds. We're figuring them out, blumbering along as we go. People are t
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by murgindrag 5y ago
It's more complex. Are you laundering 5 lines of code? Probably fair use. Are you laundering Windows? Clearly not okay. Are you trying to launder, or is it unintentional? Etc. There's a line somewhere, but it's somewhere, not
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by murgindrag 5y ago
It's very different. Law looks at intent. Napster was an easy litigation mostly because of intent. There was a document trail a mile long that the primary goal of Napster was to facilitate copyright infringement, although on paper, it
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by murgindrag 5y ago
If you have a legal argument, please make it. If you're going to make random, incorrect, unsubstantiated statements, this might not be the best forum for it. I'm not going to engage in a flame war here. I clearly laid out referenc
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Wrong. What do you think the 'P' in GPL stands for? Regardless: 1) You don't need a license to look at things. Copyrights reserve very specific rights: Reproduction, creating derivative works, distribution (limited to first s
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by murgindrag 5y ago
I care, but I don't deny the reality we have an enforcement issue. That's not just GPL. That's most businesses, schools, and many individuals. I would guess 0.1% of GPL violations have as much as a legal demand letter, let al
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by murgindrag 5y ago
It can be wiggled around. For example, if I ship a robot which can paint a famous painting, but not the painting itself, I would argue the copyright violation happens by the user of the robot when it paints the painting, not by the maker of
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by murgindrag 5y ago
FYI: Big companies which aren't Facebook can have energy, excitement, and sense-of-common-purpose. It's less common than in the sixties, when companies like HP were like families, but companies like that still do exist.
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Indeed. And Clinton, let me ask you. What was your opinion of Anant? Did he seem honest? Did he seem to care about the not-for-profit mission? Did the employees respect him? Or did he seem like a sleazy used car salesman? If Anant were a hi
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by murgindrag 5y ago
Everyone at edX who helped define the future of education left about a half-decade ago. A third of the staff, including everyone who cared about learning, poor people, open, or much of anything else. edX was overmonetized. If you want to se

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