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by pmiller2 6y ago
It's not particularly odd once you realize that, historically, higher standards of living, higher levels of education, and giving women options other than having children have been the dominant factors in reducing population growth rat
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Well, it should make them uncomfortable, but more for the fact that those children and grandchildren need a fucking world to live in. I actually posted the same thing about empowering women in another comment here. Call me imperialist if y
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by pmiller2 6y ago
No, not really. I remember it being dead simple when I was there.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Globally raise standards of living, promote education, and empower women so that they don't feel the need to have zillions of kids. This would likely have to be done via wealth transfer from developed nations to less developed nations
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by pmiller2 6y ago
> Probably more than that we can't sustain population growth like we have over the last century And that's a problem how? Fuck taboos when the continuation of global civilization depends on it. It's not like we've g
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by pmiller2 6y ago
That’s not true. If we could even just scale back global consumption of resources to 1960 levels, we’d be able to have a sustainable global civilization with enough of a buffer that we wouldn’t have to impose a hard cap on individual consum
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Sounds good to me. Edit: Oh, surprise. Nobody is interested in a serious discussion centered on lowering global population.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
At my school, about 10 years ago, any student who was either a CS major or taking any CS class got free access to full versions of pretty much every MS product except enterprise versions. That’s full versions of Windows, .Net, SQL Server, O
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by pmiller2 6y ago
That's exactly the problem QMC methods solve. By choosing a sequence of sample points of low discrepancy, you make sure to sample the entire space as evenly as possible.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Would somebody like to explain how a job is a "free association" for people who may not be able to cover a $400 expense without borrowing money? Or are we just interested in hitting that down arrow hard enough to make it all go a
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Somehow, "leverage" bothers me a lot less than "utilize." I guess it's because "leverage" has connotations beyond what "utilize" carries, i.e. it doesn't mean literally the same thing as
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by pmiller2 6y ago
It's not "free" speech when the audience is being coerced into hearing it. Before you say it, yes, the workers are being coerced. The implicit threat is that they will lose their jobs if they don't listen to the employe
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Communism, as described by Marx, is actually very democratic, just FYI.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Why would you use the Monte Carlo method when the quasi-Monte Carlo method converges so much more quickly? I admit, I am a little biased, because I worked on some QMC stuff in grad school, but it works really, really well in practice. htt
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Oh, God. Whenever anyone says they'll "reach out," or they want me to do so, rather than "contact," "call," "email," "Slack," "message," etc. someone, that is the absolute
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You're being obtuse. You know as well as anyone that it doesn't matter if the homeless man in the park heckles Senators. That's the difference; Amazon has real power behind their words.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Sounds to me more like someone who thoroughly enjoys the taste of boot leather.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Yes, and there are a lot of people trapped in the land of "can't afford the insurance, but also don't qualify for subsidies."
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by pmiller2 6y ago
So? How's their quality of life?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Are you claiming that Nature publishes "bad science?" Less snark, more substance. Or, at least change up your insults. They bore me.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
No, I did not "appeal to authority." I showed you where the Mayo Clinic documented that COVID is not spread by water. You can believe them or not, but they are considered a reliable source of medical information, so, the burden
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by pmiller2 6y ago
> The virus that causes COVID-19 hasn't been detected in drinking water. Water treatment facilities have processes to filter and disinfect water before it goes into your home. [...] > There's no evidence that the virus that
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Tell that to the to editorial board of the 33rd highest impact factor journal in the world: https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php I suggest you read more closely. There are multiple references to interventions at the s
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Incorrect regarding US states: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01009-0
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by pmiller2 6y ago
They appear to be saying that left-wing populists are less harmful than right wing politicians.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Re: lockdowns > The shock of the second wave is changing people’s behaviour. Governors and mayors are now tightening restrictions and people are obeying them more. From March 22nd a nightly curfew in Bahia begins at 6pm rather than 10pm.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
The article is also not "left wing," either. It's nonpartisan in tone.
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Maybe they're upvoted by other bots as well?
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Too late: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxitec#Field_trials
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by pmiller2 6y ago
This is a huge step forward! > Critics of reforming qualified immunity say the doctrine gives officers the discretion to make split-second decisions when their lives could be at risk. I don't see how eliminating QI impairs this abil

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