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by newen 6y ago
It's very difficult to wear an N95; it's really constrictive and uncomformtable. You can't expect civilians to wear N95 masks all the time and you need to weigh the comfort of a mask against its effectiveness.
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by newen 6y ago
You need to look at this from his limited historical point of view instead of doing this 20/20 hindsight armchair moralizing.
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by newen 6y ago
You could... I guess language designers generally avoid those types of optimizations since it can bring about unexpected results. As in, if syntactically the code is using one order of operations and semantically the code is using another o
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by newen 6y ago
It's just objectively impossible to have neutral politics discussion in reddit because of the upvote system. Not to mention mods in almost every subreddit are (naturally) biased and heavy handed.
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by newen 6y ago
There are reasons why companies manage to do tons of illegal things. A lot of executives would have a good amount of their wealth in company stocks, for example. This has no reason to be an exception.
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by newen 6y ago
Let's say there's a global mutable variable M (doesn't have to global, can be x1.M = M, x2.M = M, for example, but easier to think with global) which is used by and modified when f(x) or g(y) runs. Then, the order of operatio
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by newen 6y ago
I find type information for functions incredibly useful. I get so lost in Python code once it get past a certain size even after years of Python programming experience because of the its lack of ability to put a useful amount of structure i
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by newen 6y ago
Assuming the US average includes drunk drivers, sleepy drivers, inexperienced drivers, speeding drivers, etc, etc. and under hugely varying environmental conditions.
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by newen 6y ago
Yep, probably the main reason why they want to sell it to a US based company.
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by newen 6y ago
Yes, police unions need to be heavily regulated since they have so much power both politically and in terms of what kind of levers they can pull. For example, there was a story about Minnesota police slowing down their responses to areas in
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by newen 6y ago
His point was they are all unions... It doesn't matter what you call a union. It's still a union.
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by newen 6y ago
> But in the public sector, there is: the ballot box, i.e. all democratic policy ever. Collective decision-making takes place in the legislature. Do not like this argument. I know you acknowledge it later but there are so many problems w
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by newen 6y ago
Growth where? If you "pay out" returns from the nation's wealth to its own citizens, the wealth still stays inside the nation and wealth growth still happens.
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by newen 6y ago
$2000 per month is with wealth right now. It will be more than affordable in the future since the country will have more wealth in the future. Pretty much everything in current economics relies on wealth growth (pension funds, 401ks, etc),
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by newen 6y ago
American households own $98 trillion in net worth. Averages to about $340,000 per person. And this is just household wealth. So yes there is enough money out there.
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by newen 6y ago
Not if you don’t understand it.
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by newen 6y ago
You could have said the same thing about food back in the early 20th century. I dislike adulterated food just as much as anybody but in practice I don't care enough grow my own food even though I could afford it.
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by newen 6y ago
This is why there are regulatory bodies and people's entire career devoted to this. The government can create regulatory bodies to answer these questions and then regulate companies.
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by newen 6y ago
If they are hiking prices up this much because of convenience, then they really shouldn't complain when people take a little bit of extra effort to go to the nearest big store.
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by newen 6y ago
Hopefully, they waive the gym fees lol.
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by newen 6y ago
In India, it's something of a fashion and women choose it because its convenient, etc.
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by newen 6y ago
Ah, that makes a lot more sense.
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by newen 6y ago
This is ignoring the stereotype of the recent college grad or someone with just a couple of years experience who thinks they know everything. I see everywhere at my work. When you take into account that 90% of software developers of all age
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by newen 6y ago
True. Many thousands of people have security clearances in the US. The penalty for breaking security clearance is harsh and many have done so but still, there have to be tons of secrets kept by the state. Not a big stretch to imagine compan
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by newen 6y ago
There’s a trick you can do on the internet that involves the words sci and hub and doi.
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by newen 6y ago
> All cases I know are from people who made enormous contributions to their respective fields before they could enrol in a PhD program. This is highly dependent on the field and the particular group you work with. Most PhD students I kno
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by newen 6y ago
Yes, I get that. But actually designing experiments that measures the latter case using mice is extremely difficult and probably impossible. Especially because you are designing these experiments in order to see how these cures might work o
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by newen 6y ago
I imagine that would make it harder to compare against how it could potentially work for humans. Humans have many medications that they can take to fix side effects that might arise from this, including side effects that can result in death
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by newen 6y ago
The objects are shrinking because of the Big Chill. Makes sense.
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by newen 6y ago
Tyranny of the majority can happen and so allowing minority populations to protest is part of democracy.

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