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by porpoise 6y ago
The closest equivalent is probably the War on Terror, insofar as both purport to be a reaction to actual terrorist attacks and to be aimed at preventing future terrorism. We may then compare them in terms of (crudely) total actual suffering
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by porpoise 6y ago
> China could have locked down travel from China that might have helped. See [1] and [2] for fact checks on this point. [1] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/trumps-flawed-china-travel... [2] https:/&#x2F
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by porpoise 6y ago
If by "inept, pathetic handling of the pandemic" you mean the cover-up or data fudging accusations, I highly recommend the four part series in Quillette that examines the merit of these charges: https://quillette.com&#x
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by porpoise 6y ago
posted this in another thread: ━━━━━━━━ Important context (see esp the tweet at the bottom) https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1333563577324761091 (Mirror: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/133
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by porpoise 6y ago
Important context (see esp the tweet at the bottom) https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1333563577324761091 (Mirror: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1333563577324761091.html )
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by porpoise 6y ago
In some cases the problem can be somewhat mitigated if the search is incremental (and fast), as it basically allows you to refine your regex in real time and help train the correct intuition. For example, you can type out "foo" at
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TheBrain 12 Beta(thebrain.com)
2 points by porpoise 6y ago|0 comments
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by porpoise 6y ago
To add to the point about "very general tool", it's even possible to hack Zotero so as to give Word/GoogleDoc some rudimentary dynamic content or Roam-like features. Just define a custom citation format (but mentally pre
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by porpoise 6y ago
I think it's still possible to go against conventional narrative on HN and get upvoted, but one needs to word one's comments with an extraordinary amount of extra care, completely stripped of sarcasm or confrontational tone, remai
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by porpoise 6y ago
On the one hand, a new SSD a year sounds extreme. On the other hand, how many years does each of us have left? Ten? twenty? Thirty? Forty? Few of us can easily imagine ourselves still alive and productive in forty years. So much of what we
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by porpoise 6y ago
The same feedback is also implied by the mainstream consensus of depression as resulting from "chemical imbalance", and more prosaically from sentiments like "I can't control whom I find attractive" etc. Personally
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by porpoise 6y ago
I strongly recommend giving that Twitter thread a look (click the "see more tweets" to expand it), where author also explains why he had to write so many words. By "mental gymnastics" I assume you mean "needlessly d
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by porpoise 6y ago
What do you have in mind by "telling everyone they have the virus under control"? I don't recall any such communication from China. If you mean the cover-up or data fudging accusations, I highly recommend the four part series
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by porpoise 6y ago
It's interesting to consider what disciplines it makes sense to imagine being "completed" one day. Physics definitely yes. But imagining a "complete chemistry" one day is harder (revealing chemistry is as much an ar
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Is Depression a Disease?(schaler.net)
2 points by porpoise 6y ago|0 comments
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by porpoise 6y ago
The cause of culture war, as with all wars, is at bottom boredom, and the cure is to find intrinsically motivating pursuits that engage you so much that you look upon the culture warrior the same way you look upon those who spend all day pl
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by porpoise 6y ago
Ctrl+F for "quora", only one occurrence. Man, HN's ability to stay on topic has drastically improved!
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by porpoise 6y ago
You mean "substitute that other language for English"? ;)
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by porpoise 6y ago
Very much agreed. One of the smartest people I know, a Frenchman called Phillippe Lemoine, published 50k words in Quillette [1] on China's role in the COVID pandemic, comprehensively addressing the cover-up charges, accusations of data
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by porpoise 6y ago
The mental habit of seeing connections?
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by porpoise 6y ago
Because we are the only two in this thread who are in on the conspiracy. Heh
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by porpoise 6y ago
It could be a coded message intended for certain people, now you ruined it
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The China Syndrome Series(quillette.com)
1 points by porpoise 6y ago|0 comments
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by porpoise 6y ago
are you saying that dang doesn't have an alert that is triggered when a match of \bdang\b is found? I've seen more than once people "invoke" dang by simply drooping his name and then voila! he instantly appeared.
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by porpoise 6y ago
but dang unflags when it's not flagged for good reasons. And I would think he's awake now.
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by porpoise 6y ago
Where does it say that?
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by porpoise 6y ago
dang, can you comment on why this was flagged?