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811.
by ouid 6y ago
This site doesn't load without enabling javascript, and is a nightmare with javascript enabled.
812.
by ouid 6y ago
Do you know what the actual compliance rates are? That does not seem like a problem with mask wearing, but rather a problem with the idea that it can be mandated.
813.
by ouid 6y ago
there are 6 balls drawn in the example, which would drop that number down to .26%, which would be once every 400 years. I didn't check the rest of your math though.
814.
by ouid 6y ago
Well, not more than you could want...
815.
by ouid 6y ago
No, I'm throwing out the one that is impossible to do.
816.
by ouid 6y ago
If that was the point, then why was the other bit included in such obvious service to the "point"?
817.
by ouid 6y ago
Of covid or the vaccine? Vaccine side effects are, generally speaking, either immediate, or are a problem with the immunological response that they elicit. I would say that these scenarios have not been fully evaluated, but the risk of othe
818.
by ouid 6y ago
I will honestly say that, for small class sizes, the difference is not that noticeable. Sure, office hours are much more awkward to set up, but the study groups are actually more active on discord than they were when everyone was trying t
819.
by ouid 6y ago
The main problem is that receiving a credential and receiving an education are very different things that we do at the same time out of tradition and convenience. When testing was easy, it made sense to lump it in with teaching, but now tha
820.
by ouid 6y ago
why is Qe1+ compelling? It pushes the king to greater safety and activates the rook. If the correct move is e3, then I think that the problem with a 4000 rated puzzle is that the prior is so strong that players feel like they can ignore the
821.
by ouid 6y ago
not playing chess because someone might be cheating is like not living in a house because someone might rob it. You can't make this argument in the absence of the numbers.
822.
by ouid 6y ago
What on earth are you talking about? The parent comment is not underestimating Mesoamerica, the parent comment is underestimating the rate at which people eat random plants.
823.
by ouid 6y ago
Churches lose membership and therefore money when schools teach critical thinking effectively. Given the power of the church over the last thousand years, it is unsurprising that progress in education has been so stymied.
824.
by ouid 6y ago
Why do you believe the last thing you said?
825.
by ouid 6y ago
The claim towards the end: "'he discriminated against me' is about as subjective as 'he was a jerk to me'" is proof that the author wrote this in bad faith. His entire argument rests on this claim, and yet he o
826.
by ouid 6y ago
It's understandable that they would think that new garfield strips aren't being drawn.
827.
by ouid 6y ago
I'm not excluding it, I just don't buy the argument.
828.
by ouid 6y ago
I'm not sure I buy the argument that smoke plumes 1 and 2 have different fuels. The color change is fairly continuous, and smoke color changes continuously with the availability of oxygen.
829.
by ouid 6y ago
Google values its monopoly status pretty highly. I don't think you're playing out this scenario far enough in your head.
830.
by ouid 6y ago
Perfect competition between laborers would lead to equal pay for equal work...
831.
by ouid 6y ago
Viper is pretty defensive and grindy. I think Carlsen is a much better comparison.
832.
by ouid 6y ago
alright, but a rule requiring social transitioning before medically transitioning would have neither of those effects, so to argue that it would out people is disingenuous. I do not agree with that rule as a law, for the record, but it does
833.
by ouid 6y ago
What on earth does it mean to "out" a trans person? The whole point of transitioning is to be perceived differently. I can't hide my trans status from my parents or a school that I attended pre-transition. This is a totally d
834.
by ouid 6y ago
if you have 10x leverage, your insurance against black swan events is to try to go 10x bankrupt.
835.
by ouid 6y ago
Really? What do you imagine to be receiving from an asteroid that cannot more easily be obtained from the earth?
836.
by ouid 6y ago
I would say English. No one thinks its a beautiful language, but everyone can speak it, and there's a whole bunch of people that can only speak it.
837.
by ouid 6y ago
So, for one, the public definitely has an interest in how you spend your money. That's why it's illegal to buy things like people. Two, public money is private money. That's what taxes are.
838.
by ouid 6y ago
The diamond princess is a truly terrible place to try to get an estimate for R_0. A cruise ship outbreak is likely to be A) many times more infectious, and B) the countermeasures applied are likely to be many times more intense. For instanc
839.
by ouid 6y ago
Initially, deaths had a doubling time of 3 days, and the infectious period for covid is weeks. I haven't seen a reasonable calculation of R_0 that was less than 3.5.
840.
by ouid 6y ago
I think this is the wrong hypothesis about why cars are more dangerous right now. I am a much worse driver right now than I was a year ago because it has been a year since I have driven consistently. It's like riding a bike, in that yo

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