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by rob_c 5y ago
> i.e., people and publications that don't understand the difference between correlation and causation. Amen!
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by rob_c 5y ago
But then at a broader social level you end up with sportX or "newspaperY" calling the shots for those who seek to be led rather than those who seek to enquire. And no matter your political persuasion we can see the numbers on th
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by rob_c 5y ago
Excuses are exactly that. This wasnt an organised militia seeking to overthrow the US oligarchy it was opportunist idiots with bad policing...
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by rob_c 5y ago
And now we hit the difficult question, is every degree really worth the value people pay for it?
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by rob_c 5y ago
Expert physics tends to be more, can we build it smaller out of weird goo it make it 1000x faster to explore the limits of our theoretical models... I could quote Sheldon Cooper all day long that engineers are the workmen of science.
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by rob_c 5y ago
It's the inference that it sucks more to be a coder on average than asking "do you want fries with that?". I'm a little suspicious. It still looks closer to there is some great personal demand, or philosophical divide fo
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by rob_c 5y ago
Unfortunately staying at home forever does more than zero. But that's just not a reasonable option. Not to repeat this as infinitum but R0 is a useful number to inform. It's not something you should be seeking to directly change.
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by rob_c 5y ago
Improved ventilation as manditory, targeted vaccines, isolation for at risk groups. Careful proper monitoring for at risk groups combined with low grade random monitoring of the wider population. Importantly EDUCATION around basic h&s a
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by rob_c 5y ago
seriously, 2 years in with 90%+ of the population vaccinated and mandatory masks and Omicron spreads like wildfire in the UK and you are claiming a) the vaccines stop the spread or b) that masks work. are you ignoring reality or somehow goi
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by rob_c 5y ago
open source is a great code license scheme, but a horrible business model. Shame it's not worked out for him, but when it's voluntary most businesses hear "free tool"
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by rob_c 5y ago
...and are still pointless after n minutes in setting y without ventilation. Please lets just move on from mandate nonsense that clearly 2 years in is not working. I know this will get downvoted with a load of 'flatten the curve'
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by rob_c 5y ago
A very worthwhile investment before the prices go up even more due to sit and demand.
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by rob_c 5y ago
You make strong arguments, but unfortunately covid didn't happen in a political vacuum and western responses became tied up in anti-trump and anti-brexit rhetoric both sides of the pond. But I do wish people a) understood stats and b)
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by rob_c 5y ago
Can we please stop linking to such long winded crazy ramblings? If this came from certain other news outlets it would have been dropped as spam
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by rob_c 5y ago
Can't talk about this yet still in various countries. And frankly other countries have denied this and just label deaths such as this as "excess non covid deaths" which is horribly disingenuous and insulting... How long until
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by rob_c 5y ago
`Complexity is not a sign of intelligence; simplify.` couldn't agree more...
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by rob_c 5y ago
Can't speak for author but I use mbsync to keep an old Gmail account but self host the emails from my own server where everything is encrypted at rest. It syncing the emails to one place allows me to manage the 6 accounts most of which
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by rob_c 5y ago
Mbsync with the mailu project works really well for me, is recommend investigating it
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by rob_c 5y ago
Been using this daily. It's much better.
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by rob_c 5y ago
All are alcoholic? Either that's extremely bad or they just really like to have a drink and you're not a fan of drinking. From the UK that sounds like normal hanging out with people who have been able to drink for 2 years, it&#x27
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by rob_c 5y ago
Yeah, fear sells unfortunately
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by rob_c 5y ago
I think it also highlights the problems with hysteria around science and within the public perception of science. To the public there is always either: a) a single hero scientist who is infallible (which is just maddeningly broken) b) the
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by rob_c 5y ago
I've heard that a few times. I wonder what the stats on the effectiveness of that are (the military tends to be great for record keeping)
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by rob_c 5y ago
You mean someone can die from turning themselves into a nervous wreck?... Someone phone Hollywood I've got a plot idea!
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by rob_c 5y ago
it's asif one generation got used to the good times about 50 years ago in data...
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by rob_c 5y ago
Yes, but you don't find identified and certified accounts discussing technical details exclusively and exhaustively there...
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by rob_c 5y ago
I didn't say these platforms are never used. In this context I don't regard the public as an entity where you have a meaningful engagement on a topic. An individual yes, but the public as a whole is broadcast to. Hate to break it
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by rob_c 5y ago
Serious people on serious topics, journals, peer reviewed publications, non anonymous blogs, large email threads... Almost anything other than a) social media and b) anonymous platforms
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by rob_c 5y ago
More simply, I don't think people tend to remain infected (and infectious) for a whole year (not saying they can't just that this seems a farcical assumption) Yeah I agree with the going undetected too unless they're potentia
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by rob_c 5y ago
And the reason not all of these spread fast is obviously that one mutation (or combination) impacts the spread rate more than the 30+other mutations in isolation... Although after enough conversations I've found this too needs spelling

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