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by thfuran 8mo ago
It's not even meaningfully similar, let alone exactly that way.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
What?
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by thfuran 8mo ago
It seems extremely unlikely that you’d end up with a lot of those but no smaller detectable errors.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
You have it backwards. If it weren’t true, clickbait wouldn’t be a problem.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
I’m not sure what you mean. Not clickbait is the better alternative.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
“The most terrifying thing you’ve ever heard”. You can even stick with that one as long as your subjects are monotonically scary.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
Some of them are notoriously spaghetti-shaped, and that’s hard to isolate and replace.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
>give the real time results of that analysis to the government without issue. Presumably they’re not doing this for free.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
It doesn’t kill 13% of people infected, only about 1%. Just look at the number of cases reported compared to the number of deaths. That paper was reporting 13% mortality rate among those admitted to the hospital, not among all those infecte
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by thfuran 8mo ago
That’s 12.9% of hospital inpatients . All estimates I’ve seen for infection fatality rate — that is, mortality rate among all those infected — place it around 1–2%
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by thfuran 8mo ago
And the government needs to be restricted from buying data it wouldn’t be permitted to collect itself.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
Oh, mostly just the hospitals, the insurers, the medical device manufacturers, the pharmacy benefits managers, the pharmaceutical companies, the group purchasing organizations, and the clearinghouses. Everyone who can take a bigger cut if t
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by thfuran 8mo ago
It was too contagious and not nearly virulent enough to be an ideal bioweapon.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
>Yes our president has only needlessly murdered two innocent US citizens so far Over a million people in the US died of COVID. It's impossible to know exactly how many of them would've lived if the pandemic started under a pres
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by thfuran 8mo ago
*preposterously slow
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by thfuran 8mo ago
Are the compelling claims from experts in foo or xyz? Is the disdain?
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by thfuran 8mo ago
Any competent doctor is aware that patients are likely to misdescribe things. If you walk in and say your appendix hurts, they absolutely should try to clarify that rather than just assuming you have appendicitis.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
And it's all preposterously even when it's working.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
>Companies will be happy to have a way to press down the budget of a cost center, but the delta won’t make or break that many businesses. Software companies spend a huge amount of money on having software written. Why would significantly
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by thfuran 8mo ago
Right. They do it at a rate approximately proportional to the fourth power of the per-axle weight of the vehicles driving by. So really only the heaviest vehicles matter much at all.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
This is coming from an insane demand spike, not some nefarious plot by the RAM manufacturers.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
Rendered bacon fat does not taste the same as rendered suet, since flavor from the curing and smoking comes along.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
By that logic, it may actually be pretty common for rabbits to swallow the sun. We just haven't seen it happen because we're in the wrong universe and would've died it it happened in ours.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
If you think humans are going to delegate reasoning and responsibility to something, shouldn’t you also be concerned about the sorts of recommendations that thing is going to make?
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by thfuran 8mo ago
And have Dubai make a few new islands out of diamonds?
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by thfuran 8mo ago
I don’t think SUV vs car makes a meaningful difference when e.g. delivery vans and garbage trucks exist.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
Even if global greenhouse gas emissions immediately and permanently stop, climate change won’t. We have many years of further warming ahead of us due to the greenhouse gases already dumped into the atmosphere.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
Or at least a decade behind, which should be surprising given that it hasn’t been actively developed in about a decade.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
Why would you assume Musk is acting in good faith? That’s very much not his thing.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
Even if they weren’t going to be held to a higher standard for widespread acceptance, tens of thousands of people a year in the us die due to humans driving badly. Why would we not try to do better than that?

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