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by pryce 8y ago
A significant amount of medical academia is definitely concerned with upstream causes, especially since a great deal of overall mortality these days is from cancers and heart disease, where impeding the upstream causes can have a large affe
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I do think that's a very important problem, and yes I agree it is more than likely the US Government was responsible for that. In cases like that I think the government should be dutybound to make its actions public. It's possible
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> What I'm asking is if we as a public really want our payment processors to be making these moral judgements? If this action was completely unprompted, sure, but I think we're talking about payment processors choosing not to a
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Deciding 'whether to do business with someone or not' is one of the kinds of freedoms capitalism is supposed to protect. Outside of a standard set of specific reasons for which it is agreed to be illegal to refuse business (race,
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The new restrictions also restrict shotguns with detachable magazines that can hold over a specific number of rounds, but I retract my statement as I have not been able to establish exactly which model of shotgun the perpetrator used.
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All of the firearms he used were banned.
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He wanted a the political left and right to fight over gun control. He didn't get that, at least not in NZ.
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This white supremacist, terrorist massacre in NZ was livestreamed, I'm not aware of that ever happening before. What to do with this footage is in some sense uncharted territory. The video is a graphic video of a massacre and simultane
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Linking to C-16 is not explaining how “his arguments against C-16” are “transphobia”. Of course it isn't, but it allows me to know what you are and aren't already familiar with, so I can know whether I need to first explain that p
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There is no compelled speech in the bill, see the full text. If you have the misapprehension that there was, would that be something you got from Jordan Peterson?
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I'm glad my comments are useful to someone. On the 'reality' of mental illnesses, if I can be a little less serious, I do still recognise (as did my favourite professor) that it is still a very odd position to be in, to say
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I've described the content of and linked to the full text of C-16 elsewhere in this thread. Have you read it before? > You’ve done no such thing. I don't mean to say my description is comprehensive, I mean that people objectin
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That might be a bit more convincing if it was some gigantic tome of a proposal that was only relevant to trans people in some tangental aspect. Instead, this 1-page bill is entirely about trans people , and adding them to a long list of g
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Do you notice that your reply here is so lacking in substance that you could copy and paste it on just about any argument on any topic? In this thread, I've mentioned Peterson's works. I've described the content of Peterson&#
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My point was not a claim that there is no such thing as spirituality or value in intuition, or even past lives, something I don't pretend to know. My point was: that the terms "rational & scientifically grounded" are feat
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I've worked in Clinical Psychology and one of my consultants kept a copy of a demented new-age 'channelling spirits' book "Seth Speaks" by Jane Roberts [1] on her desk and was adamant that I read it. My point is tha
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I'm yet to be convinced that the adjective "intellectual" in "Intellectual DarkWeb" holds up to any scrutiny either. I think history shows we should be suspicious of movements that claim the intellectual high-groun
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I've been involved in treating patients with florid mental illness, and among people with that experience there really isn't any question that most of these illnesses must exist with some kind of underlying pathology. There are ma
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I feel like this misses another important prong of the article, which is: that failing to find a "statistically significant" correlation (according to some given significance test) is often mistakenly interpreted even by scientist
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> Raising threshold will not just reduce probability of false positive result, but also will raise probability of false negative. And this article emphasises that huge numbers of scientists and their audiences cannot correctly interpret
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In my country she has received a significant amount of acclaim for her handling of this tragedy, for acknowledging and centering the fact that this attack was targeted at the Muslim community; and she rapidly made clear that our country&#x2
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It's probably been a long while since you've gone back to it, but The "Worse is Better" chapter in this book seems to show rather amazing foresight; it basically predicts the situation you describe regarding Unix being &
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For anyone interested in learning more about Richter, there is a particularly good documentary called "Richter, the enigma" from 1998.
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I have always wondered about the fire safety of these events, gathering large numbers of people in spaces not originally intended for that and with (I imagine) unusual constraints on planning mass exits. Do you happen to know whether the fi
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The 'drug war' has always been intended to treat black and white users differently (and consequently the drugs they tend to reach for differently, not the other way around as many people assume); in many ways that was the whole po
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It's amazing that we anticipate having to revoke malicious CAs as a crucial part of a security model, yet we have basically no plan to ensure that we don't accept a competent-but-malicious CA into the fold in the first place.
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by pryce 8y ago
That claim isn't a bold assessment of the medical literature at all, it's actually widely held to by the medical organizations responsible for HIV treatment and prevention. Here [1] is for instance an article referencing this clai
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HIV transmissibility relates to whether someone has been on HAART therapy and in compliance with that therapy long enough so that their measured viral load as been assessed and has dropped below a particular threshold. Transmissibility also
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> were exterminated or expelled, or otherwise prevented from being allowed to breed.
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That doesn't equate to "relative purity" at all. The number of ancestors someone has 66 generations in the past (approx 2000 years) is enormous. We can get around this by making value judgements that say "only the direct

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