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by notabee 5y ago
Yes. https://www.pnas.org/content/118/29/e2020104118
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by notabee 5y ago
*sowing Also, you're bringing up the textual source of the term, not its general connotation. The connotation is when an abuser, cheater, or otherwise harm causing individual decides to try to rewrite history or attack the competence o
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by notabee 5y ago
I think it has always been this way. Organizations lose coherance and agility the bigger and older they get, whether they're corporations, governments, or any other organization. Some manage to last much longer than others, though.
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by notabee 5y ago
Sealioning is to good faith questioning as DDoS is to genuine web traffic.
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by notabee 5y ago
So my hypothesis is that groups of experts, or expert-adjacent, that are used to dealing with the public pelting them with questions and then ignoring them anyways, will be prone to shooting down smart, good faith questions too. Here's
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by notabee 5y ago
You don't have to take it from me, you can hear it from ERCOT via many sources. Texas’ power grid was “seconds and minutes” away from a catastrophic failure that could have left Texans in the dark for months, officials with the entity
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by notabee 5y ago
I would like to submit Texas' recent near grid collapse due to cold weather as exhibit A to prove that knowing about a potential problem for over a decade does not mean that a bunch of disparate private entities will do their due dilig
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by notabee 6y ago
This can definitely be a burden, though on the flip side of the coin if the team is constantly churning due to cooking under a performance magnifying glass all the time, you still end up with lots of newbies who only just get up to speed en
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by notabee 6y ago
I guarantee you that the people at the top of companies understand well that good paying positions are popularity contests. It's the people who just have a strong need to feel that merit matters that they can typically gull into workin
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by notabee 6y ago
Local government. Must have extremely high tolerance for absolute idiocy, your expectations will need some mad limbo dancing skills.
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by notabee 6y ago
This applies to similar problems in government as well. Some people care, some just kick the can to whoever is unfortunate enough to inherit the problem in 5-10 years. If you get a few of the latter people in political power, often the best
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by notabee 6y ago
Let's not forget to add aortic dissection risk to this. In the experimental setup, all it took was exposure to Cipro and elevated blood pressure in the lab animals. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PM
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by notabee 6y ago
And here we come full circle. Let the s̶y̶s̶a̶d̶m̶i̶n̶ devops handle it.
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by notabee 6y ago
Digital slumlords?
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by notabee 6y ago
We are burning the equivalent carbon of millions and millions of years of plant growth, trapped in fossil. Our current available plant mass, even if we cover every square inch of the earth with vegetation, cannot absorb millions of years of
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by notabee 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis#The_gra...
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by notabee 6y ago
That's not universally true. The immune system is far more complex than that. Two examples: 1. 28 year olds, who were exposed to a prior influenza pandemic during an early age window, disproportionately died during the 1918 pandemic.
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by notabee 6y ago
Many applications do not refresh their DNS with every connection either. Take for example an Apache reverse proxy that's reusing long lived connections. So updating DNS may still require restarting/reloading many upstream services
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by notabee 6y ago
There's a pretty good Kurzgesagt video about this.[1] Broadly speaking, there are no known existing plans that don't have massive unknowns or potential adverse consequences. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSu5s
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by notabee 6y ago
Seconding this experience. Western medicine is bad in general at treating chronic conditions that aren't immediately life threatening, but you would really think that general doctors would be more aware of autoimmune issues considering
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by notabee 6y ago
The Soviets almost built their own internet before the U.S. It was ironically killed by the bureaucrats that it would have largely made redundant. https://strelkamag.com/en/article/what-happened-to-the-sovie...
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by notabee 6y ago
Symbols retain power for a long time. That's why we're not seeing a swastika revival in interior design or anything like that, even in places where the Nazis did not exist. Another good example is the U.S. confederate flag, which
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by notabee 6y ago
I feel like this is a good starting point. It's bikesheds all the way down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
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by notabee 6y ago
Most providers also don't allow ISIS on their platforms. Another known terror-sponsoring organization. For a long time now. And yet I don't see people tying themselves into free speech knots over ISIS getting deplatformed. I wonde
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by notabee 6y ago
Also, there is this standard. It's senseless to allow unlimited extension of a particular freedom to implode the system that provides those freedoms in the first place. Also related to the paradox of tolerance concept. https:/&#x
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by notabee 6y ago
Severe enough "symptoms" can turn into comorbidities and are diseases unto themselves. Sometimes worse that the initial disease. If you get a rash from poison ivy, itching is a symptom. If you scratch all your flesh off because it
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by notabee 6y ago
Capitol police != DC Metro police.
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by notabee 6y ago
From: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/fascism-1 * strident, often exclusionary nationalism - ("America First") check. * fixation with national decline (real or perceived) and threa
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by notabee 6y ago
I think the other side of the coin is that we're moving away from people hiding incompetence through bravado, scapegoating, and what gets neglected when people engage in the game of pretend called "we're all grown ups here&qu
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by notabee 6y ago
Science itself involves climbing many wrong ladders to verify that they are indeed wrong. Some things you can't know beforehand. Not everything needs that level of dedication, but also, how confident are you that said ladder is wrong u

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