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by tclancy 5mo ago
Must have been their sales pitch.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
^ was a dumb joke about what a control group might be, not me being anti-vax.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Kind of pointless to inject a bunch of corpses anyway.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
One thing I can't figure out from the content or the graphs (where I can read the legends with my 1975 eyes) is whether this adjusts for overall mortality rate, which is to say, is any of this effect due to the fact people are more and
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by tclancy 5mo ago
For sure. I grew up in Southern New England, so Irish v Italian was a “steel sharpens steel” sort of thing.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
I feel like the real story is Jony Ive’s deep love for the Subaru SVX on display here.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Ah, the old moral failing! It’s not that there are flaws in the system that could be improved, it’s the poor people who are sinful. Got it!
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by tclancy 5mo ago
“Do you want Johny Stinking Foreigner coming to this country, stealing your job while collecting welfare and raping your daughters or would you like how America used to be when there were no immigrants?” The problem at this point (and not j
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by tclancy 5mo ago
It is less amusing how many of our brethren think the Landed Gentry got there by merit and deserve to live in their castles untroubled by the rabble.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Because it’s the standard playbook for dealing with even the slightest suggestion of fairer taxation. Trot out an old dude in a suit from a Foundation, make sure to avoid anyone knowing exactly what that foundation does or who funds it and
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by tclancy 5mo ago
>Most people when they earn income save some of it. Therefore it is wealth taxed. This is one of those “check your privilege” moments and one where it is best to look at the median and not just the average when talking about household we
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by tclancy 5mo ago
We had a party and everything. If you meet the Buddha on the road ...
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Oh sorry, the pull quote does seem nonsensical by itself. It's well down in the conclusion of the article which, while written for the semi-layperson, is very heavy on the data science. Essentially it means what we currently think of (
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by tclancy 5mo ago
(The author is complimenting us on our ability to recognize sarcasm in the wild, don't ruin it)
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by tclancy 5mo ago
But why gloat? What are you winning? Even if there were prizes here (spoiler: all the loot boxes are empty in this game), do you perceive yourself better off because of this? >now Canadians will get a taste of their own medicine courtesy
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by tclancy 5mo ago
This is truly trolling escaping the Internet. It's by no means the first instance; "The future is already here—it's just not very evenly distributed". The best time to have started taking this seriously was probably Octo
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Your comment makes me think of this recent post, https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/the-basket-and-the-booza , from an always wonderful blog which looks at why Australia has far more independent stores left compared to E
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by tclancy 5mo ago
I don’t think you’re reclaiming “peg”. Lost cause.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
No, the artifacts stayed where they were found. Different concept.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Does feel immodest.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Yeah, it's even worse because the Johnathan Swift reference makes clear just how I Am Very Smart this dude is.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Understood. What I was trying to say but elided pretty well is I think it's now become something else. Almost its own in-between format that provides a fair bit of marking for clarity with a level of security and the ability to extend
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Sorry, I think this got confused because you can only reply so deep. I meant conspiracy theory folks should have the burden of proof. If you're saying that's completely naive in the current climate, I agree. I am only arguing that
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Because giving every maniac an equal voice and hearing them out is asymmetric. They have the burden of proof to have said “my perfectly validated facts I’ve learned in two decades as a scientist” or whatever if they wanted to provide that c
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Public companies want only one thing, and it’s disgusting. But seriously, they would gladly connect three people and leave everyone else out if it were most profitable. The fact freedom, such as it still is, is unevenly distributed is no ex
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Ooh, if there is a market for someone to be the Stephen A Smith here, I am waiting by the phone. I AM WAITING BY THE PHONE I mean.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
“Claude, today you will be speaking ex cathedra …” Actually I may try that as a prompt. Last week I was having git commit messages all be in iambic tetrameter to see if anyone noticed but it annoyed me to death after the first two. Now to l
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Meet me in the cereal aisle.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Johnny Blue Skies told me so.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
That doesn’t track at all. Markdown was created as a simpler way to mark up text than HTML. They are both ways of encoding a document that provide ways to convey intention. HTML is no one’s end goal.

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