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by rajin444 5y ago
You're looking at presented cases and hospitalizations - a fraction of a fraction of total covid infections. There's no way this accurately reflects R0 (assuming that's what you're talking about - sorry if I'm wrong
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Can your body fully process those calories? I know nuts are calorie dense but you don’t get the full caloric value.
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Yep, giving the middle class one less opportunity to play the same game as the rich.
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> If you know the code works then there is no benefit of running it. If you need to execute it it is only because you don't know if it works correctly People make mistakes. You have to run the code. Do you submit PR's without r
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LC is too easily gamed and I’ve been burned by candidates that did great on those style questions. Your comparison is actually perfect - elite colleges pass on bright students all the time and often just filter for those willing to play the
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Testing code as you go along is not experimentation. It saves time by allowing you to verify your assumptions are correct in a controlled way. You can sit there and plan all you want until you think you understand it, but you never actually
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To be fair the life expectancy and infant mortality affect one another. If you survived through infancy you would end up living a decent amount of time. I’m sure our lives are more comfortable now but I’m not sure everyone is happier.
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This seems like a much simpler solution. The "heavy task queue" would process tasks that could simply be retried until they're done. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the article, but having "Job tasks" both insert an
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This isn't really a metaphor or an analogy. Modern scientific leaders and religious leaders both act as liaisons between the public and knowledge. Scientists tend to produce a lot more useful knowledge, but the issues faced by both are
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How do you know you can trust dude working on COVID research? It’s impossible for an individual to verify everything. Trust doesn’t scale. If somebody could solve this society would be a lot better off.
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by rajin444 5y ago
You're probably overestimating covid risk (there are other polls similar to this one - this is the most recent): https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimat... The media's addiction
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Cool article, but shouldn’t Amazon be providing this kind of info? Surely they have this data internally.
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Probably not a popular opinion, but if climate crisis is even on your radar you’re likely the type of person that society needs to reproduce. I’m not sure if there’s a term for this ironic situation but it feels like there should be.
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That’s what I’m doing. Previously worked at a stable mid size company and I wanted to try a startup. The comp and other benefits were already pretty far above my stable company, so if I get anything from the equity it’s a bonus. I feel a li
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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=50886 It wasn’t just here - the CDC and potentially others (I haven’t looked that hard) changed their definitions as well. I’ve got no issue with making terms more correct, but
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I don't think "we've always mandated vaccines" is a good argument. Applying the label of "vaccine" to something does not guarantee anything. Especially when the definition was changed in the past year.
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The average person lacks the resources and intellect to accurately assess covid vaccines. They have to rely on trust. Can you provide a trustworthy source on whether or not an individual should get the vaccine? I think I get what you’re try
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The fact checking websites are the media.
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I can’t think of a single major news outlet that is trustworthy. They still provide some value, but you need a heavy dose of skepticism.
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I have a high level of skepticism for anyone who is a reddit moderator. This is purely speculative and anecdotal, but the ones I've known are not generally healthy, stable people.
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Free speech is only a right as far as the constitution guarantees (which is limited). Personally I’d like US culture to fully embrace the value of free speech, but support for it generally depends on if your favorite political party is in p
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> significantly reduces their risk I don't see how this statement is true without considering prior infection.
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Unfortunately vaccine efficacy is something almost nobody can verify on their own so trust is required. The real question is: why do you trust people that they don't?
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I don't think it's repressed because it's dangerous or immoral. Constant casual sex devalues a monogamous relationship. Many in our culture still place a lot of value on a monogamous relationship, so you see it reflected in m
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by rajin444 5y ago
That’s a valid point. How did you decide which rate crossed the line? A defined rate is needed to enforce this fairly. To get ahead of this, I’m probably going to respond we should focus on combatting obesity over anything you can propose.
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To extend it to covid, the vaccine doesn’t fully prevent transmission either. It reduces it (likely, I don’t think we’ve seen a robust study in this department), but since it’s not enough to reach herd immunity this point is moot The argume
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This is not a good use of the paradox of tolerance. There was no threat of the ruby mailing lists being taken over by sexists using violence. Popper was talking about groups like the Nazis coming to power. When overwhelming violence is near
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Yeah, that’s a very good point! I imagine if civil engineers could change physics, they’d lockdown what you’re allowed to change for critical systems. And like you said, systems that don’t need the 9s can experiment and learn.
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To make the comparison fair, in that world civil engineers would also have the ability to change the laws of physics.
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The issues you describe apply to any grouping of people. Tribes have their own truths. Look at how popular those "we believe science is real" signs are. You could remove religion and we'd still have the same issues. I don&#x2

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