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by rriepe 7y ago
Let them be. If we didn't have prescriptivists, everything would literally mean nothing.
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by rriepe 7y ago
Interesting. (That's another one that tends to mean the opposite)
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by rriepe 7y ago
I don't think this is right. Getting sick significantly more or less can be a drawback at the individual level. Your hypothetical self-isolating people would be more sickly. Most of the work humanity does against a given pathogen is
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by rriepe 7y ago
I had this too around the same timeframe. I have a condition which lets me "feel" ferritin spikes and it was the biggest one of my life. It took me 4 weeks too and then another 4 weeks to get over the ferritin feeling. I dismissed
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by rriepe 7y ago
This meme in the media is the real negligence. This is the biggest blurred distinction they've used to sensationalize headlines. It's like digging up a graveyard and using it as proof that humans can survive for 300 years undergro
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by rriepe 7y ago
What is he allowed to complain about first?
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by rriepe 7y ago
This whole thing is interesting to me because denial is inherently a form of critical thought. Whereas to simply agree with whatever authorities are around you don't need to think critically at all. Any group of "deniers" is
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by rriepe 7y ago
I see this sentiment a lot. It seems really obvious to me that no, science is actually about consensus now. If you disagree, you're shunned and labeled "dangerous." Maybe this is in conflict with what science should be. B
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by rriepe 7y ago
It's an explore/exploit thing. You need rewards from both. Your job focuses too much on "exploit" so you end up seeking "explore" rewards from side projects. You explore an idea, but after you select it, you&#x
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by rriepe 7y ago
After Twitter's "fleets" this feels like a stroke of genius.
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by rriepe 7y ago
I believe the incident you're referring to was actually an apartment building outbreak, not a study. As an event it seemed to confirm the airborne/atomized/fecal-oral spread early on. Somebody got someone in another part of
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by rriepe 7y ago
After this huge list and today's farce of pretending to drop a call to avoid talking about China, I think we can safely ignore the WHO from here on out. They're either in China's pocket or don't know their head from a ho
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by rriepe 7y ago
No. You wouldn't want people slipping on stage.
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by rriepe 7y ago
It's a good analogy because fit and lucky are hard to tell apart in evolution too.
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by rriepe 7y ago
They were unfit because a giant asteroid is as much a part of the environment as anything else.
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by rriepe 7y ago
OP is talking about how it got to millions in the first place, a hypothesized peak between two human populations who were suppressing it.
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by rriepe 7y ago
Just to be clear, I don't subscribe to it. But I have noticed that pretty much any time anyone has a good idea, their next idea is to force everyone to do it.
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by rriepe 7y ago
I agree but it's also the most compelling fantasy in human history.
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by rriepe 7y ago
> No reason it will now. You can't think of anything different now?
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by rriepe 7y ago
What's the conspiracy?
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by rriepe 7y ago
The idea that Trump wants the vaccine only for the United States is completely insane . It is beyond stupid.
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by rriepe 7y ago
Moving too fast and not being careful could be what gave us Covid-19. If it comes out that it was a product of SARS/MERS research then the tone of these "move fast" conversations will certainly change.
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by rriepe 7y ago
There's a visualization here: https://twitter.com/JeromeRoos/status/1236729011889418246
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by rriepe 7y ago
Personally, I've given up on begging the question. It just means "raises" now. The descriptivists always win in the end.
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by rriepe 7y ago
What moral argument is there if it's ineffective?
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by rriepe 7y ago
I think it means "individual" most of the time.
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by rriepe 7y ago
Yeah but the moral argument for torture boils down entirely to whether or not it works, aside from a few sadists who think of it as revenge or a deterrent.
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by rriepe 7y ago
The concrete felt too on-the-nose to me. The OP's gears are better laid out to illustrate the concept, and they let you think about what happens with the last gear instead of demonstrating it so... concretely.
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by rriepe 7y ago
I think this is missing the point. Shooting people works at what it sets out to do. Torture doesn't. Despite this, they're both portrayed as effective in getting their intended outcomes. The problem isn't portraying torture,
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by rriepe 7y ago
It's ad copy for the several-hundred-dollar products at the bottom.

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