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by odyssey7 2y ago
> Critics say the 30- to 40-year cleanup target set by the government and TEPCO for Fukushima Daiichi is overly optimistic. Wow. By the time they finish the cleanup, we could be running profitable fusion power plants, have humans living
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Ah, that’s a shame. So neither Python, JavaScript, nor Rust have fully adopted proper TCO across their communities. Whichever one gets there, I think that would be a strong point in favor of it being taught in university instruction, since
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by odyssey7 2y ago
That's useful background information. In ECMAScript 2015, it's referred to as "proper tail calls," rather than TCO, indicating that this is important in the language's design, rather than a mere performance optimiza
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This is analogous to the Apple Maps launch failure. Except that Apple competes to make the best smartphone, and an iPhone was still valuable without Apple Maps. What happens to Google if it stops being able to compete in search?
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> This trick is called tail-call optimization (TCO) [2]. Scheme has been doing it since the 1970s - indeed, since Scheme encourages programmers to write recursive algorithms, TCO is at the core of the language. More modern languages are
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by odyssey7 2y ago
I assume you mean “the government.” The number of people (not) involved makes no difference. The government should be accountable to its constituents. Refusing to tell us the truth about St. Louis makes that impossible. It should tell us th
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by odyssey7 2y ago
The government should tell us the truth about St. Louis.
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Begging the question fallacy. If a government agency doesn’t use vaccines as a vector for some ulterior purpose, then it’s nothing like the other time when it used vaccines for some ulterior purpose?
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Straw-man fallacy. Obviously you wouldn’t have to be Pfizer to poison someone’s vaccine dose as part of an experiment.
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If there is no longer anything to hide then government officials should be open and candid about what happened to begin to restore trust. In theory they work to serve us.
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Consider the perspective of a person whose loved ones died because the US Government sabotaged their health. They might know more about how the world works than you imagine. “not a person worth convincing” — Not worth convincing them to pro
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There is a deep regulatory involvement in developing vaccines and there is a long supply chain from manufacturing a dose to delivering it into the body of a patient. The regulators exist because we can’t trust the private companies. Who reg
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They also note that the government has been and will continue to be in charge of decontaminating the affected areas of St. Louis. This would entail the destruction of physical evidence of what happened.
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Maybe. They conspicuously refer to the radiation in what sounds like official language. Expanding the compensation for the harms of WWII-era toxic waste to people in St. Louis, rather than to include the people in St. Louis who were experim
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Surely we can agree that researchers should be required to obtain informed consent from test subjects before dusting them with known radioactive toxins?
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Would you endorse secretly spiking a stranger’s drink with uranium? To make this scenario more comparable, you would need to randomize the amount of uranium because you would need to be unsure of the effect of the dose. You would also need
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This sounds like Donald Trump. We do lots of things! Some say the best things! Are some of them bad? Well, when you do a lot of things, some of them don’t turn out so good. If you don’t draw the line at mass murder then I don’t know where
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Extrapolation: Odds of correct answer within n attempts = 1 - (1/2)^n Nice, that’s exponentially good!
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It’s a peculiar contortion that AI has made wapo’s losses, suddenly, a bigger problem than they had been over the past decade. Context: wapo hasn’t been a viable company for a while. It’s Bezos’ apparent-charity project which also effects a
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This isn’t an engineering problem where you can just hit some metric. Trust gets earned informally on person-by-person terms over a long period of time. People in St. Louis died / were killed at the direction of the US Army. Frankly, i
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Red herring. Abusing your citizens is bad. If the government wants to be trusted it should make itself trustworthy.
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Admittedly, I couldn't find a precise source used by the dissertation stating that "biological simulants" other zinc cadmium sulfide were sprayed specifically on St. Louis. One of the references isn't available online. I
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The official story was that the aerosols were "biological simulants." If the official story could have gotten away with zinc cadmium sulfide, it would have. Page 69: "The St. Louis study may have involved far more than biolog
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The aerosols being dispersed were biological and chemical weapons. If the responsible government officials underestimated the risks, it was because they had no evidence that it would be harmless to spray their experimental biological and ch
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If I were dying of cancer, odds are good that I would have ended up in the control group for not being especially proactive about visiting the hot springs. The authors of [2] explain this limitation themselves: "Some study limitations
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It was a straw poll. A sampling bias is that none of the people who had died of cancer responded.
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Good news: you might not need to add a radon tank to the hot tub you already own. The control group for [2] was people who did not do any hot spring bathing at all during an average week, so their methodology does not explore the significan
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From the timeline on page 253: 1944 - Army Medical Corps authorize Rochester to study polonium exposure on humans (Moss, et al, 196) April 10, 1945 - The first human plutonium injection occurs in Oak Ridge; three others were “approved” for
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"Through this case study, the author explores how a large number of participants inside an organization will willingly participate in organizational acts that are harmful to others, and how large numbers of outsiders, who may or may no
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The supply of used AI chips could be flooded in a year or two if companies that can’t really use them are buying them today.

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