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by snet0 5y ago
I think this is naïve. Taking Sandy Hook as the example, do you think Alex Jones' discussion on Rogan increased or decreased its spread? It's very easy to pick up new conspiracies for a conspiracy-minded person. It's very har
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by snet0 5y ago
How is it an example of a perverse incentive? If we don't reward inventors who make genuinely useful things, there's no incentive.
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by snet0 5y ago
Alternatively uh... Don't commit crimes?
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by snet0 5y ago
> How can a regular person actually know if articles are "truth" or "paid for truth" Reading the article might help.
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by snet0 5y ago
Based on the pigeonhole principle alone, it will always be the case that collisions exist. The size of the digest is very likely smaller than the size of any given image.
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by snet0 5y ago
If you're outside the event horizon, your experience is the same as that of being next to any object of equal mass of the black hole, located at its centre. Just don't go in!
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by snet0 5y ago
Harder than making a Dyson sphere around a black hole?
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by snet0 5y ago
I didn't compare them. I took the argument I understood was being made, pulled it out of the specific context, and put it in an imagined context that I thought pointed to a flaw in the argument.
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by snet0 5y ago
Do you know much about the MMR vaccine autism scandal? I make no assumption that you do, just curious. This was a case where the (obviously from the start) bad science was propagated, primarily through mainstream media, leading to basically
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by snet0 5y ago
I hope it's not rude for me to point out that that is a very direct question.
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by snet0 5y ago
It's almost as if there are differences of opinions... You are free to not use YouTube, just as I am free to use it. As is everyone else in this thread. You are free to vote with your wallet, not with mine.
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by snet0 5y ago
I have no idea what this argument is. If BikeVideos4U.com deletes a video of someone crashing into a moving train and dying, does that imply their site is no longer about bikes? You can be an entertainment service and still regulate the con
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by snet0 5y ago
Your description doesn't sound like it's feedback based on game-state, though.
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by snet0 5y ago
I think it's very simple: if you'd describe its usage as a "skill", it's probably fine. Obvious "navigating this cheat menu UI takes some practice" cases aside. If a professional team uses data analysis an
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by snet0 5y ago
This is akin to saying "if you practice with a cheat so you can see through walls, it'll train you to know where players are likely to be standing". No, it's cheating. It provides an unfair advantage by replacing a ski
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by snet0 5y ago
It's so strange to me that the brain could be so damaged as to lead to facial paralysis and deafness, as well as seizures, but still function well-enough for the person to complete their doctorate. Did he just get unlucky, and receive
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by snet0 5y ago
Forcing changes to the spec/implementing non-spec features is one of many possible negatives of browser oligarchy, though. When I said the negatives are often theoretical, I was referring to the other arguments that are commonly raised
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by snet0 5y ago
I was surprised to read that this is actually a totally valid HTTP/1.1 application, according to the RFC. The only thing you need is the status line (http version, status code, status message, CRLF) and then the message body. Things
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by snet0 5y ago
That's what I was going to say. If nondescript variable names and poor use of whitespace is obfuscation, a few of my friends could submit code they write every day.
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by snet0 5y ago
The argument that Google basically decides what a browser looks like is interesting. The negatives are often theoretical, "what if they just built ads into the engine" or privacy-oriented "they slurp your data". I pretty
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by snet0 5y ago
>colossal harm to society at large Oh please. The native browser on a popular phone not being standards-compliant is not causing colossal harm to literally anything. You may make a compelling argument that it's a bad thing, but to d
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by snet0 5y ago
A small independent team would probably struggle to build an SUV, too. This is not an argument on its own, why is it important?
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by snet0 5y ago
I imagine you're kidding, but that's literally the point of the title. Of course X looks like X, but there are different contextual implications for what "drowning" refers to here. The fact the title takes the form &quot
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by snet0 5y ago
The vaccine isn't expected to prevent all-cause mortality, though. People will die no matter whether they're vaccinated or not, the question is a) will they die because of covid and b) will they die because of the vaccine. Your st
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by snet0 5y ago
Usually because the pop-description is, as usual, misleading. People find data covering "several orders of magnitude" and just assume by some cosmic fact that Benford's law should apply, despite the mechanics being their data
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by snet0 5y ago
When did medical science become a plebian democracy? I don't expect to be consulted about the material they make the seat-belt in my car out of. It's politicised because calling it anti-science would bruise some egos. This is not
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by snet0 5y ago
"Evidence" doesn't just mean "a study exists that supports this claim", though. It'd be nice if that was the case, but the quality of studies does actually matter. Do we have "evidence" that the MMR v
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by snet0 5y ago
And don't think that those studies that you got sent by the article supporting a claim are the only studies concerning that claim. Nobody will link you the study that discredits them, but it will often exist.
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by snet0 5y ago
That's a wonderful quote. I've only read Mere Christianity by CS Lewis, would you recommend reading the book you quoted?
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by snet0 5y ago
Can you describe the process you are suggesting? "After receiving a phone call concerning an active shooter situation, the force sent round a single officer, just to double-check. The officer was among the 7 killed by the gunman."

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