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by rajin444 5y ago
> But it definitely means getting things more right than you, most of the time. So trust them, even if as new information develops, the advice will shift You're advocating giving up all agency and placing 100% trust in a person. The
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sorry for the comparison! I was trying to highlight that risk levels are individual, not to say that one’s risk from Covid is that of being caught in a volcano. Blanket numbers (5 million have died) are almost useless when trying to assess
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Can you quantify OPs risk from omicron? Saying “it’s the best we have” is technically true but intellectually dishonest. Volcano insurance is also the “best we have” to protect vs volcanic activity and many people don’t have it.
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That’s why I mentioned lives and cultures in Africa. African immigrant lives in x city are gonna be different than in Africa.
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Are you saying Africans and (black, which I assume you mean but I’m trying to be charitable) people in your city are basically the same? I imagine the lives and cultures in Africa are vastly different than whatever city you’re in.
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That’s weird - I had to go off weed during a highly stressful period of my life. It temporarily made me forget about how stressful things were but then it all came crashing back after it wore off. I didn’t have time to process the stress so
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Pass a law that requires companies to pay black market value for bug bounties. It’s also unethical for big corporations to exploit the US oligarchy to get these fixes for free.
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This is great in theory if each individual has the ability to arrive at the same conclusion as the “debunkers”. They don’t, so they fallback to trust, and that’s when it all breaks down. The most important thing to combat misinformation is
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On a higher level the issue is not one sided and focusing solely on one side is what the CRT brouhaha is all about. It’s an ideology not an attempt at portraying reality. There is no human group in history that holds the moral high ground.
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Anything democratic devolves to oligarchy. A monarchy with an effective ruler selection process is probably best. There’s a reason most successful companies have a single CEO with absolute power - and they degrade once this is no longer tru
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How do you reconcile this with the human race existing for so long? I guess you could make the argument global travel has changed things, but I’m not sure.
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It's shutting out a tiny elderly subset for the benefit of all vs shutting down all for the benefit of a tiny elderly subset. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but your ethical concern should be 2 sided.
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What dictates your ability to learn if it's not genetics? I suppose if you believe in a higher power that might work.
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You should focus on handling specific occurrences of racism as opposed to looking at a high level numbers and drawing conclusions from them. The latter is subjective and can be abused endlessly.
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What’s the correct wealth for white and black families? If you say “I don’t know, but it needs to be closer” that’s just in group preference - which is fine, but don’t present that statistic as evidence of anything but a disparity. You need
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I would desperately love for somebody to tell me #4 and how they got there. Most modern (western) social narratives hinge on looking at high level distribution by sex/race/etc and declaring there’s an issue. Nobody is verifying th
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> When I lived there a while back the shock to me was the “What nationality are you?” Why do they feel the need to ask that question? Are issues with people of specific nationality more prevalent?
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That’s not a great example. There’s plenty of fat successful Dota players - xinq most recently (and historical as well).
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> and the work is the same either way I think I that’s the issue. Not all doctors are the same. I’ve been to many that just gave me a surface level amount of thought and sent me on my way. I’ve been to others that took time to really dig
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How often are hospitals overwhelmed? What does “overwhelmed” mean - 95% capacity? Excess beds but not enough nurses? Turning patients away? Operating at max capacity? What qualifies as “so many excess deaths”? The Hong Kong flu was per capi
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Is there an objective way to measure code quality? We barely understand the systems we’re writing code for - I don’t see how you could objectively judge the code to manage those systems without fully understanding the systems first. You cou
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Overloading the meaning of native language features is not the most beginner friendly. It’s a quirk you just have to remember. Compared to an explicit method name it is much less intuitive.
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https://www.wkrn.com/news/professor-loses-weight-on-junk-foo... Anecdotally I’ve done the same. I lost 20 lbs or so eating fast food regularly. I’m able to get to around 12-14% BF like this pretty easy. It might be har
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That's not a fair comparison. Most covid deaths are from those already past the average life expectancy. There's a very good chance they were going to die soon anyways. Not to mention you have to account for cancer patient + covid
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I'm not familiar with Italy, but NY was sending elderly patients back to nursing homes when they had covid. https://apnews.com/article/new-york-andrew-cuomo-us-news-cor...
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I think it’s a good example for people who haven’t seen it before.
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Are there any examples of sticking to your principles by standing up for socially and morally reprehensible groups? My initial impression is this is just another group pushing left leaning elite American values as "integrity". Thi
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I’m a “senior” with about 8 years of experience in the US. I recently switched jobs to go fully remote. It took me about 2.5 weeks to get a new job with less responsibility and more pay. I was getting more interest from companies than I cou
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> There's indisputable evidence that the vaccination is impacting R > Ofcourse we can't tell anything with certainty in this domain Which one is it? I'm sorry - there are issues with nearly all the links and data you&#x
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GP was referring to a limited subset of data that gives an incorrect picture of what the R0 is. I was trying to point out why that data is the wrong set to draw a meaningful number from. I’m not sure what you’re trying to point out, sorry!

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