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by ta8645 6y ago
This is why abusing the trust of the public in the pursuit of punishing or shaming political rivals is so corrosive. Many people have simply stopped listening to the politicians of the opposite stripe and the main-stream media as authorita
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> For a long time the global warming skeptics argued that the only alternative was to shut down modern civilization and let billions starve. Some did for sure, and I agree that they were wrong. But that instinct to imagine the worst was
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What things? and where can you see them? And are you sure you can see them with enough clarity to truly judge the proper statistical relevance? For instance polls say that people who watch the nightly news believe that violent crime is ge
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> Nothing has changed at all, really. That's exactly right. So we're equally vulnerable to corrupted science as all the people before us who fell victim to the examples listed above.
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I don't really have a strong opinion, other than I do think the response to it is disproportionate. But to answer your question directly, I don't know a single person who has gotten sick, or even a friend of a friend. Although I
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Why does anything have to be abrupt? Perhaps Sars was a test run to get everything in place re the data, policy, and propaganda required to make it work? How exactly do you personally verify the veracity of the data and methods used? Why
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Yes, you're right and I wish your thoughtful approach was the norm. But what I see is mob like behaviour where "the science" is presented as irrefutable fact with heaps of scorn piled on anyone who dares question the orthodo
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Yes, we're kind of at the mercy of free-market competition to keep things honest. But that mechanism didn't work in any of the cases cited above. So I just don't understand why so few people are skeptical, given the history
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That's an interesting thought. But there are many examples in history where one group of rich people profited while others suffered -- it's not like they're all one cohesive group. Like in this article, any rich person who
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I'm not sure if you meant that sarcastically? The very point of the examples given above is that "the science" isn't a fixed beacon of shining truth. It is an idealized process overseen by flawed and biased humans with
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And 50 years from now, what will the story be about say Corona virus, or global warming? Why are we so sure that this time everything is on the up and up? For instance Big pharma stands to make billions of dollars on the back of Corona, s
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Everyone believes they are being rational. Failing to recognize that and calling oneself a rationalist is often just code for "my values and priorities are more important than those others put forth".
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And these are the people who are supposed to protect us from "disinformation"? The fact that the NYT can publish an article like this with a straight face just proves why we need freedom of speech as much as ever. Our once-trust
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> if their motive was to sow discord and distrust in our most historically credible institutions. Those very institutions are doing exactly that to themselves. It's easy to ignore if they mostly comport with your own worldview. But
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And roving cities assigning tickets for illegal parking and all manner of other infractions.
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I feel a bit dumb having to ask this, but how do you turn on the dark mode?
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You're right. I'm also amazed how the Magic Unicorn hypothesis seems to not exist amongst the modern, smart tech world. It's hard to imagine why they ignore us.
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Do we have any reason at all to trust that any of the vaccines currently being rolled out deal with this new strain? There was surely no way to include testing for this in any of the trials. Doesn't this at least raise the spectre th
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That ignores the reality of reproduction with a woman giving birth to a child of only one male. There is very little reason for one man to raise the child of another man in such a situation where multiple new partners are available without
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Why?
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You do still need a single system call (io_uring_submit) to submit each batch of entries in the submission queue. Edit: actually no it's not required in all cases. Thanks for the correction.
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I have the opposite feeling of not having control over my thoughts, they seem to bubble up into my consciousness as if by magic. My best ideas and most deeply felt epiphanies have always felt like gifts to me rather than as personal accompl
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There are three major differences at least. Hardware performance has come a long way. Eventually every phone will be capable of running WebAssembly without the user needing to install or configure anything. And there are no license fees n
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Seems like WebAssembly would allow for success where it previously failed.
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It's really not clear why it appears without comment on the same page. My impression is that as a first step you would use BCPL to bring up a C compiler that targets a new machine, and then use it to port UNIX onto the new machine.
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Lots of people get Covid, and there's nothing wrong with wearing a mask in hopes of avoiding it. But as the example you cited, most people recover fully (even if they're old and fat like him). And very very many people test posi
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If you just shut down your brain and start casting aspersions when confronted with skepticism you'll continue to act in blind defence of the dominant narrative. You are smart enough to do better than that.
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Sir, you are actually proving him to be accurate in his description of cult like behavior. The proper reaction when you run out of arguments should not be to lash out. Instead it should be to reexamine your position.
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He shows that areas in the world that didn't follow our mandates are now doing just as well as we are. So how many lives did we actually save, and how many did we just unjustifiably take credit for saving? And more importantly how ma
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He doesn't deny the existence or unfortunate loss of life that results from the virus. As he demonstrates in the video, it's our response that has made things worse by adding to the death and misery, instead of reducing it.

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