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by post_below 6y ago
After reading the post article (which was interesting), that tweet fits his MO, which seems to be "convert words into money without particular concern for quality or value". I doubt he actually believes the two things are comparab
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I see that it was sloppy of me to use the term ethics so loosely.
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Maybe a little off topic... Ethics thought experiments are interesting and sometimes fun and you can't deny the value of getting people thinking about choices and behavior. But it's always seemed to me that they, along with ethics
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Sure, but biological inclination is the best available explanation to the degree that I'm not sure it has any competition at this point. Asking for proof is useful, but it's a token exercise if you don't have an alternative e
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You make a great point, there's a big temptation to commit narrative fallacy when trying to explain narrative fallacy. So we should look for empirical evidence. At the same time brains are complicated, psychology is complicated, geneti
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If you're selling to Target they can certainly hurt your sales with unfavorable placement, but the impact isn't really comparable to the buy box on Amazon, the overwhelming majority of sales are buy box clicks. A direct comparison
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> and then de-listed the original thing from their store While they don't delist items, their algo favors products they sell directly to the extent that Amazon will get the buy box over a third party seller even when that seller i
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The author wasn't claiming that react and co are bad for development. Rather that they are great for particular use cases and inferior to other options for other use cases. I think that's undeniably true. You hinted at something t
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I was surprised to see this at the top of HN, but at least your response is at the top of the comments. His points about censorship were as flawed as those about privacy... The YouTube video he mentioned was blatant misinformation which co
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Why not? It doesn't matter if he's... Elon Musk. What he's accomplished in fields he wasn't trained in is significant. I think that makes OPs point just fine.
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The mutual fund isn't what I was referring to. Trump's lawyer has already been paid at least 1.2 million (likely much more) for pharma access to Trump. Which they "never received" but still paid the full amount over time
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That 600mg part of the study ended at 6 days. The potential total dose in a future that didn't happen seems irrelevant.
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Only if we're willing to assume that Trump's lawyer was doing things entirely on his own behalf. Which seems like an unreasonable leap to make given the copious evidence that he's acted to provide plausible deniability for T
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I haven't looked farther than the linked article, but assuming their reporting is accurate: > However, higher dose use of chloroquine (600 milligrams as opposed to 450 milligrams) was stopped after just six days, after 11 of patien
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Small trial finds hydroxychloroquine is not effective for treating coronavirus(news.yahoo.com)
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"In vitro" It seems like a promising treatment, but in vitro effectiveness often doesn't translate to actual effectiveness. I'm not saying they shouldn't use it, in an emergency sometimes experimental therapies make
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"We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately. And that's where the FDA has been so great. They've gone through the approval process - it's been approved."
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A bit more info: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/man-dies-after-in... Also happening in Nigeria: https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/23/headlines/two_nigeria... Note
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It's nice to hear this mentioned. Just Windows by itself is a privacy nightmare. It's always amazed me that it isn't talked about alongside other companies and software with privacy issues.
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Their outbreaks started earlier. If we get off easy it will be because warmer temperatures or mutation play a part. Delayed testing, a disbanded pandemic response team, a president in denial for the first part of the outbreak, people not go
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Nothing about Barr is altruistically motivated.
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I think this is tinfoil hat free territory. Barr has been public about his feelings on encryption and this proposed law (unless it's been changed in the last month) specifically gives the attorney general effective carte blanche author
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Both of those statements are factually correct.
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After seeing this I reread the post you're replying to. I don't see the pretention. Pretentious: adjective. characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-impor
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by post_below 7y ago
One thing that small (token if you like) changes do is influence the cultural conversation. They keep the idea that trying to be responsible custodians is important at the forefront. This influences people's decisions and behavior. New
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We do know a lot about it, though, much more, I'm assuming, than we did when the previous poster was a grad student. We know about different types of inflammation and the cellular processes involved, we know how it turns on and off, we
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> there’s a significant impact through environment Yes environment is a better term (it includes diet, medically speaking). Modern life isn't something we're well suited for from an evolutionary standpoint. > We rarely talk
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This topic is interesting to me for a few reasons... Cognitive impairment has long been associated with inflammation in older adults: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3390758/ As well as the gener
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Good points, I agree that it seems unlikely that Amazon has lost sight of the long term thinking that is largely responsible for making them Amazon. And it is indeed an arms race, like everything that happens on the internet at scale where
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Well put. It's definitely a signal vs noise type issue, all other aspects of the problem are secondary. They can make a dent in the problem short term with more manual review but as the spammers evolve better automation, if all Amazon

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