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by rajin444 5y ago
Is it harder, or just different? I'm not sure how to objectively compare the two.
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> Other significant causes of death (including suicide, influenza, road traffic accidents) appear to be down. Can you source your other claims? At least one seems to be wrong. Traffic deaths seem to be up: https://www.usatoday
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by rajin444 5y ago
I imagine it's a mix of: a) people are different. some people can grind more than others b) passion makes the grind easy. people passionate about a project can go harder longer, but expecting everyone to be passionate about their job i
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by rajin444 5y ago
Excluding massive biological changes (we're not going to start carrying more water or drastically increasing bone density), you gain weight by adding muscle or fat. Adding muscle is generally healthy (not in the case of heart disease,
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by rajin444 5y ago
> And if there are fewer deaths from flu, and fewer from suicide [1], then excess mortality itself is under-reported and Covid killed even more than we thought. The majority of covid deaths are those that on average had very few months l
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by rajin444 6y ago
> Also I don't know how anyone can take BMI by itself seriously. BMI is very useful if you're looking at large data sets. BMI for individuals is not very useful. I'm not sure of the efficacy of BMI for ~1200 data points.
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by rajin444 6y ago
> If you cut the politics then something else will keep our primordial animal minds busy. I think it's fairly easy to make the argument that our minds are especially tuned to tribalism. Not only that, but what comes out of discussio
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> I don't think we take software reliability seriously enough, most of our focus is on speed of release, ever quicker cycles and it being OK to break things. This is extremely domain dependent, and should be handled as such. And in
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by rajin444 6y ago
That's a statement that applies to nearly every society ever. What's the point of saying it? The post you're replying to is talking about a unique distinction in how 2 societies maintained power.
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by rajin444 6y ago
How do you know you wouldn't have ended up where you are without a mentor? There's no control here. AFAIK twin studies provide the best insight we can get within ethical means.
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> Did they? Or was the chance they'd come in contact with Covid at that point very low and those masks would be of much better use at hospitals where the chance of coming into contact with Covid was very high? At least, that was wha
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by rajin444 6y ago
How does authorities being wrong / changing their recommendations factor in to what your consider a rational option? If you were a high risk individual back in January 2020 who ignored their advice and quarantined + wore a mask (an eff
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It would be much better if they stated they have sole discretion of who can use their site while adhering to the law. No other justifications needed. People get upset when these policies are put in place but selectively applied. Companies t
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by rajin444 6y ago
Yeah, you might end up with class solidarity and move past racial divisions.
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by rajin444 6y ago
There's a reason you don't talk about politics and religion in polite company. You should not be judged for your worldview if it differs from somebody else. The personal should not be political.
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by rajin444 6y ago
Will you adjust your priors after seeing death rates between California and Florida are roughly the same?
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by rajin444 6y ago
I agree! I think trying to apply a high level value will result in more discrimination, however. i.e, if we see X group of society under/overrepresented by Y%, we do not have enough understanding to draw any meaningful conclusions from
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by rajin444 6y ago
> It seems like some highly quantitative fields which have traditionally been male-dominated (CS, physics) may very well be practicing some sort of entry discrimination Maybe I misread, but I interpreted this follow up statement as &quot
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by rajin444 6y ago
How do you know 50% is the correct amount of women at all levels?
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> Once it compiles, it works (usually). How does Rust help prevent logic bugs? I thought tests helped prevent logic bugs. Or does the author mean "works" in that it runs where an interpreted language would not (i.e, syntax erro
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by rajin444 6y ago
I agree, and we're starting to get heavily in to epistemology here, but modern sciences do not have the ability to construct properly controlled studies, and "harder" sciences do not have enough understanding of the underlyin
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by rajin444 6y ago
What makes you feel certain of this? I may be wrong, but a majority of human history seems to point to (roughly) "spanking is ok, anything more is not". Children do not understand logic the same as adults.
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by rajin444 6y ago
Isn' that how you end up with a leaky vaccine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%27s_disease While it seems rare, it also seems like a much deadlier outcome.
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by rajin444 6y ago
> You can see for yourself both in terms of rate per population and total(!) prison population: Right, but the US has many differences that could factor in to those numbers being different. How do you determine the signals from the noise
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Focusing on instances of discrimination makes perfect sense - there's a lot of those throughout history. I can't say incarceration rates are applied unevenly because I don't know what the correct answer is, but I see people s
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by rajin444 6y ago
Sorry! I was trying to be neutral in my wording - personally I want it to be less. And I like you response - stopping specific instances of discrimination are how I believe we should approach this problem. However, in your other post you po
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by rajin444 6y ago
How do you know what the correct rates of incarceration in the US should be? I've struggled with this question and I'm curious as to how others have arrived on a number. Saying "less" or "more" seems like a way