patcon

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   by patcon 5y ago

   :/
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   by patcon 5y ago

   > What is the reason that we can thank for prion diseases not being much more common? We kinda take this for granted, but it may be the case that our deeply-rooted psychological disgust and aversion to eating human flesh is a product of
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   by patcon 5y ago

   Generally, Public Lab builds and 3d print plans are worth your time. Everything they list is well-considered and well-maintained. When the stodgy old magazine The Economist wrote a "Punk Science" article about DIY science, they ac
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   by patcon 5y ago

   > I don't understand why they protect the past exams with a password As someone who administered the National Biology Competition in Canada and supported profs in administering the largest first-year biology course in Canada, I can
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   by patcon 5y ago

   Ack. I've used PubMed for over a decade (since it was taught as the de facto way to search the science literature in my Canadian university) and it never occurred to me that it was a US federal government website :facepalm:
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   by patcon 5y ago

   Ad the highest possible compliment, this is like Bret Victor quality!
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   by patcon 5y ago

   Nice! I can't be the only one who went looking and spent way to much time trying to acquaint myself with c++ :) Here's there I ended up: https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/363505e806feebb7ceb1f9ed..
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   by patcon 5y ago

   Agree. And who learns from failure is sometimes important too. Sometimes a project is the same old failure that has happened a 1000 times, and is otherwise owed condemnation as forseeable, but if a NEW class of person/org is getting
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   by patcon 5y ago

   Thanks for replying :) > Plus, the "truth is in the middle" thing motivates actors on all sides to make up extreme lies. No, this is not what the research points to. Rather, having people confidently (and NOT weakly) holding mi
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    by patcon 5y ago

    > Middle between truth and lie is a lie. It sounds like you're perhaps assuming the "middle" is a point in rational space. But maybe "middle" is best conceived as a point in possibility space -- it's the pos
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    by patcon 5y ago

    > Very much of what Telegram has done security wise is very well thought out and has improved over time Though I'm certainly not a cryptography expert, I used to work on Tails OS and some Tor-related projects, and I feel I know wher
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    by patcon 5y ago

    Thanks! That's a fresh angle for me. But isn't COVID novel in the damage it poses to microvascular systems (importantly brain and lungs), compared to other viruses? E.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic
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    by patcon 5y ago

    I really appreciate the response. I will admit to having a lot of fear about how the cultural swells are cresting right now, and I'm hanging my hopes on some sort of rediscovery of repair/mercy/forgiveness/mutability. I
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    by patcon 5y ago

    Even ignoring deaths, "long COVID" is still a very real unknown: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/04/harvard-medic... As I understand, we don't know much about whether omicron h
15. 675.▲
    by patcon 5y ago

    Could you imagine any conceivable situation where redemption or mercy is acceptable? And if the victim finds it appropriate to offer, how do you feel then?
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    by patcon 5y ago

    https://archive.md/gbtbX
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    by patcon 5y ago

    https://archive.md/WSYZg
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    by patcon 5y ago

    https://archive.md/WSYZg :)
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    by patcon 5y ago

    If the claim made it seem that trolls somehow totally disappear, then it was def mis-articulated. Trolls get minimized. For instance, there's currently a small troll group of 3 participants in the viz (out of 100 total participants), f
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    by patcon 5y ago

    Good point :) I'm glad to be reminded of that framing: a/b testing is just evolutionary selection within the same company-shaped container, but it's happening in the larger ecology even if you're not trying to run it.
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    by patcon 5y ago

    I really appreciate this critique. And I'm grateful for your cynicism. So long as that cynicism isn't used as a reason not to take tenuous steps toward something different from the status quo. With that said: > How much value d
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    by patcon 5y ago

    As an open source contributor, I submitted the code in 2020 that made it easier to get running with Polis. I find it quite frustrating that you're slandering the project with weird speculations and confusing factual accounts 3 years la
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    by patcon 5y ago

    (This is an outside project contributor speaking.) > it looks like the only way to log in is through Twitter or Facebook true :( > Are there any plans for a more general OAuth implementation? Some tickets open, but hasn't moved i
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    by patcon 5y ago

    This is a great question. I've been using Polis for maybe 5 years. The "pass" is a catch-all for many things[1], including "rejecting a premise". It's non-obvious in the current interface, but there's room
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    by patcon 5y ago

    If anyone is interested in a visual walk-through of Polis' emergent dynamics, using a live example discussion from the UK, a few of us fans of the tool created a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVJE6GXqzs
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    by patcon 5y ago

    I hear what you're saying. However, i loved being tapped and then helping people. it was my very favourite distraction, and assuming i was actually helping them with work, I felt zero guilt about losing my focus. it's very persona
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    by patcon 5y ago

    I also think it's neat. My read of it was that they were saying it like "hardening at the surface", e.g., https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/materials-science/surfa... Though technically oxidizati
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    by patcon 5y ago

    Applied widely, this criticism also disqualifies many projects and teams from being deemed trustworthy: not only the Tor Project[0] but anything written by the Guardian Project team[1], or the folks who build Secure Scuttlebutt[2], or even
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    by patcon 5y ago

    I believe you're right. > less than ideal solution Worth mentioning: For us lucky tech people it's maybe nbd, but those added logistics would be a high burden for people with a few more financial to time barriers (for whom unex
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    by patcon 5y ago

    Agreed. Yes, some animals will handle it, and we'll hold them up as examples. But the crash in diversity from all those who don't is tragic. The genetic diversity that is the bounty of millions of years of iteration and "lear