panda-giddiness

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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
> How is that the most reasonable approach? The reasonable approach is to be overly cautious. A false sense of security is worse than no security at all.
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> I am not 100% committed to that being an impossibility, but I have yet to see any evidence to make me question the final outcome of the 2020 US election. It's impossible to be 100% certain about anything. Scientists often quote a
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
> I'm almost a free speech absolutist, but I also really hate all the crazy, conspiratorial thinking that is so common these days. It puts me odds with myself. I can't say I'm sad when crazy and dangerous ideas are remove
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
Were Youtube truly acting in bad faith, the correct response would be for the government to intervene (either by lawsuit or legislation). But of course, the government should respond to actual harms, not hypothetical harms.
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
> Edit: A lot of the responses here seem to be unaware of Texas’ lawsuit and the ramifications. I expect the conspiracy claims to be separated out from the genuine concerns if the Supreme Court chooses to hear that suit. I'm not sur
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
> What's tricky about it? ... The public has to search through garbage to find the truth. "The public" is not some perfectly rational collection of human beings. Rather, it's droves of people susceptible to propaganda
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
> The fact that this won't sail through congress in a week (it'll never even come up for a vote in the senate) really illustrates how out of touch legislators are with voters. There is a single person blocking this vote. I&#x27
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
> I don't see what's wrong with having internet trash bins. At least the trash is in a know location, it doesn't spill everywhere. You're presenting a false dichotomy. The options aren't (1) whack-a-mole or (2) t
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
This is actually an excellent, unsettled legal question. On the one hand, the Constitution provides almost no restrictions on pardons. On the other hand, there's a strong argument for precluding self-pardons based on the principle that
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
Boldly asserting that we already pay "enough" subsidizing other utilities is lazy. Why are "road, water, power, etc" subsidies fine but internet subsidies not? They all fall within the same category: essential services t
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
Supposedly the 5G variant of the Pixel 4a will have a larger screen [1]. [1] https://9to5google.com/2020/07/10/pixel-4a-4a-5g-pixel-5-exp...
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
> To the larger point, scientists are not programmers. I mean, sort of. Some research is essentially just programming; other research can get by with nothing but excel. Regardless, it's unreasonable to ask most scientists to be expe
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
> Today [some subset of] people saying we messed up the lock down cheered a mob which just [destroyed some property]. There's no need to be hyperbolic; it's possible to have a nuanced view on both of these issues. When you pres
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
> you are one who does not believe in the power of self-agency because perhaps you've already relinquished yours? It's hard for my response to be anything other than rolling my eyes. I'm a grad student. If my advisor deman
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
Presumably these invasive measures were instituted after the pandemic. Employees didn't agree to these measures when they accepted their jobs, so of course they have a right to be upset with their employers now. If these measures are u
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
There's a long history of mathematicians working on general relativity; in fact, for decades general relativity was mostly the purview of mathematics, not physics, due to (1) the difficulty in finding exact solutions to the Einstein fi
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by panda-giddiness 6y ago
Right, and this is exactly why reddit bans doxxing. The original reddit poster was correct that there was a single individual buying most of these domains; however, other than purchasing the domains, there was no evidence that the individua
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by panda-giddiness 7y ago
Evidence suggests that's not the case, however. Consider the neutrinos, which also are observed to come in three generations. Cosmological evidence suggests that the sum of the three masses is ~1 eV. Detector experiments suggest that t
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by panda-giddiness 7y ago
The numerator is underestimated in a way separate from testing. People don't die immediately after they're diagnosed. They die some time after, during which the number of cases increases. Since the naive CFR is just the total numb
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by panda-giddiness 7y ago
> More testing will prove this out by increasing the denominator by 10x. Source? You're ignoring the fact that the number of deaths lags behind the number of people infected, which means the numerator is also being underestimated. A
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by panda-giddiness 7y ago
> It looks like to me just a comfort pill for the public. They basically acknowledged that they can't handle the crisis already. So what they gonna do? Well, they could do what every other developed country is doing: implement socia
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by panda-giddiness 7y ago
> Physics will make more progress and faster than ever before, when it finally embraces that everything is a wave... Physicists have already embraced this position: it's called quantum field theory. The degrees of freedom in QFT are