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by ponow 4y ago
> Our medical system is a "no-miss" culture that has extreme life altering penalties for physicians that give medical care that leads to harm. That is the problem. We expect physicians to be faultless, but they're not. I
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by ponow 4y ago
But the nasty water itself, which was claimed to be the source of the problem, is not. It's the rawness of the insides of the meat.
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by ponow 4y ago
Hilarious. I think the criterion is that you have to change your pronunciation if someone claims you have power: a kind of punching up / revenge.
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by ponow 4y ago
Oh, are you the type to slip in a mention of your recent bread-run to Paris, keeping the "s" silent?
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by ponow 4y ago
Umm, it's boiling water, not luke warm water. You can boil still pond scum and then drink it. Please floss after.
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by ponow 4y ago
That's a policy choice, one which is non-obvious and requires serious justification. Why should people be incentivized to spend their money, morally? The mandatory inflation basically is saying, "spend your money or we'll s
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by ponow 4y ago
It's either that or bend over.
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by ponow 4y ago
I don't doubt that people are affected / persuaded by speech. But their physical actions are their own responsibility. My mother always used to tell me, "don't jump off the CN tower just because someone told you."
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by ponow 4y ago
A world where we can guarantee no non-voluntary _physical_ violence is a better home for rational thought and human flourishing than today's or even a world in which we could somehow prevent speech that might lead to suicide. I can&#x
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by ponow 4y ago
No, Popper there goes beyond that: he requires that people argue rationally and not tell followers to ignore rational arguments. That's too high a bar, IMO. The problem is the followers' use of violence. Initiating "preven
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by ponow 4y ago
In that ref., Popper fallaciously suggested that to allow tolerance is to allow violence, which is, I dare say to that great master, utter bull. Speech is not violence. The person who commits the first violent act, even if "incited&q
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by ponow 4y ago
> Doubtful they'd get in a fist fight or physically attack. Yep, instead of some temporary physical pain, they'd much rather you being permanently unemployed, destitute, and friendless. So much more pleasant.
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by ponow 4y ago
In almost all of these health discussion, assertions generally involve an implicit "on average". So, no, it's not like a mathematical proof, which requires a single counter-example to dismantle. E.g., men are taller than wom
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by ponow 4y ago
So who should be held responsible for their decision then? Who gets to decide?
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by ponow 4y ago
emacs FTW.
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by ponow 4y ago
emacs ftw
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by ponow 4y ago
> it is incoherent for people to say that certain racial groups being over-represented doesn't mean the system isn't fair, blacks suddenly being hired is evidence the system isn't fair Incorrect, for these aren't the
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by ponow 4y ago
No it isn't.
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by ponow 4y ago
The choice is in how to think about and respond to external conditions, not in denying the existence of external conditions.
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by ponow 4y ago
> I don't think that it should be Why is it your choice to make? When you hire someone, you're hiring everything they bring to the table. You might be wrong in your interpretation, but it's what you've got. So perh
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by ponow 4y ago
So, with your reasoning, what's the correct response today to the Holocaust?
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by ponow 4y ago
You would be cancelled for that view. The correct view is that people of good standing should only admit and hire from a few groups until there is parity. Extra points if you want overrepresentation, to compensate for past imbalances. Ex
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by ponow 4y ago
Representation is a significant goal post move past equality of opportunity. Typically what is meant is that unequal representation is evidence of discrimination. Academia has bent over backwards for a long time now to attempt to admit
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by ponow 4y ago
> the cure for discrimination is at the very minimum adequate public funding for primary and secondary education _everywhere_ So how does increasing the funding of poor white students advance Kendi's "anti-racist" program,
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by ponow 4y ago
What would it take to have "natural pricing"? Short of radical proposals like going back to the gold standard or switching to crypto, what way could the Fed operate that would allow "natural pricing"? What if the Fed t
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by ponow 4y ago
I doubt hat wearing is physically harmful, but it does warm your head, and that's one of the claims against Bluetooth headsets. I find that a non-danger. But it may not be the only one, e.g., voltage-gated calcium channels. I haven&
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by ponow 4y ago
I'm still not convinced that Bluetooth earbuds are safe, and yes, I'm aware they don't produce ionizing radiation. No one here is concerned about having them in your ear canal for hours every day for years is essentially no
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by ponow 4y ago
Then if we throw a logarithm in there we should be seeking zero-centered intervals, I'm thinking, as opposed to non-negative intervals containing 1 (no effect). Any why normal distributions are even part of such discussions of ratios
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by ponow 4y ago
The fact that the confidence intervals for the excess risks aren't roughly symmetric around zero, but rather biased to mostly positive, is worrying. Most of the probability is for positive excess risk. If it were just noise, wouldn
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by ponow 4y ago
> similar to how, in scalping, it’s the original seller’s fault for not charging what the market will bear Absolutely. Unfortunately, people hate scalpers, irrationally if you take a broad view.

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