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by nuerow 5y ago
> Thorium reactors remain an insufficiently explored option here. I'm no expert in nuclear power, but it's my understanding that Thorium reactors aren't that much safer due to the higher gamma radiation emissions, and Thor
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> Like the crazy idea that this virus warranted exceptional, catastrophic measures. Do you understand you're downplaying the severity of one of the deadliest pandemics in history? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1
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> So this is the same Slack that wrote a love letter [0] to Microsoft about competing with them and now they are crying to the EU to investigate them over Teams because they failed. Slack filed a complaint with EU antitrust regulators re
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> Becoming a 10x developer means that you have a set of skills that work well together in an end to end process from going to initial requirements to fully fledged architecture and/or code. The problem with that definition is that i
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> Kotlin is strictly worse if you value language features above all else. In that, there are several (several!) features it doesn't have. Could you please elaborate on that? It was my understanding that Kotlin did everything that Ja
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> (...) but it's not a decisive factor for the region (and businessess) to develop and prosper. That really depends on what definition you personally choose for "decisive", "develop", and "prosper". The
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> Trading cards are ponzi schemes too. From an entertainment point of view, they are created for the purpose of being fun to trade. No, not really. You're confusing the concept of intrinsic vs perceived value, and completely ignorin
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> People like Bitcoin's provable global ledger and this is where the value lies. The value is not burned, it's embedded into this ledger. Aren't you just stating that Bitcoin has absolutely no intrinsic value?
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> Boeing's initial response to the 737MAX crashes comes to mind as well. Truth be told, Boeing's response to the 737MAX crashes was to blame people working for other organizations, thus the blame would not fall within neither B
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> A very nice thing about Monte Carlo simulation is that at the end your distribution of results are all within the feasible range. I guess Monte Carlo helps provide conservative estimates behind a façade of rigour, but the truth of the
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> I'm so glad to see that they framed this in terms of a bug in a tool designed to prevent human error, rather than simply blaming it on human error. Wouldn't human error reflect extremely poorly on the company though? I mean,
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> How do I verify it when I don't have it and he doesn't provide it? You didn't even bothered to look, did you? https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
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> Comparisons, analogies, and metaphors are useful tools (...) Whataboutism is neither. It's a logical fallacy employed to avoid discussing the problem or address issues by trying to distract and deflect the attention to irrelevant
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> The issue is a) to what degree this is systematic and a part of company function and b) proportionality. The federal court already concluded that the racism problem at Tesla was widespread and systematic, and was aided by the company&#
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> I think a lot of people are choosing to ignore that a lot of companies have done things in the past that were not illegal at the time of action. (...) The definition of what represents good and evil does not come from what's passe
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> Walmart is (...) Whataboutism advances no discussion. Either Facebook's problems are discussed based on Facebook's circumstances and decisions and consequences, or we're better off not posting any message at all.
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> He doesn't present the data (...) If that's what you're going with then you only need to verify the data to either refute or verify his claim. Everything else is just noise at this point.
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> This is authoritarian hyperbole. No, not really. Just because you managed to put together a business model and get an investor to trust you with some cash that does not mean you have a greenlight from society to act as racist and as se
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> One should never build a factory in racist California , I hope they move all operations to Texas for good. I'm not sure if you're trolling, but the problem isn't really about the state the factory is in, but about the co
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> A bunch of you here are clearly concerned about the financial impact of the fine on Tesla’s bottom line, but maybe you should consider they could’ve gotten the house straight instead. Well, shareholders who voiced concerns regarding sy
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> It wasn't a personal attack. Either way, spinning the debate to try to focus it on the messenger instead of the message is not a productive or honest way to debate a subject. We should try our best to keep the signal/noise ra
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> I have a plan: You and me both get hired there, then you yell racist stuff at me, then I sue the company, then we split the $137M. Tesla's case was tad more serious than one employee shouting random racist remarks at another emplo
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> I question his impartiality on making statements such as this. There is a very good way to verify the claims: check the data. Dragging in questions regarding antibody test policies, stock portfolios, and potential conflicts of interest
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> An article which describes the results of a study.. Presenting your own editorialized conclusions is not the same as providing a primary source. The proof is that you've tried to pass off a study on the quantification of the real
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> Sounds like the BMJ dont trust this chap and are questioning his financial interests. The article you mentioned only refers to stock portfolio and potential conflicts of interest regarding policy decisions on performing antibody tests.
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> That’s fallacious. There are loads of professors spewing bullshit, No, not really. The fallacious bit is blindly and outright dismissing any statement, along with attacking and accusing anything a researcher says as being "spewing
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> That is not true. Here is a typical study purportedly showing evidence for long COVID: You've said "study" but you're quoting an article from The Guardian. Also, it seems you even failed to read your source. Your ar
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> Oh he's got the "authority thing sorted out" eh? Yes, he's no rando posting stuff on his Facebook page, nor is he a rapper or media personality. He's an expert from a reputable university that made solid contri
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> That's not a scientific answer. Physical symptoms of stress include: I feel you inadvertently tried to misrepresent the symptoms of long Covid. Please check wikipedia's article on long Covid for an objective and we'll so
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> Some guy says it's overblown and this is ranking on HN? The guy quoted for said statement is a professor of medicine of a reputable university, so he does have the authority thing sorted out. Also, I feel the quote means something

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