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by thu2111 5y ago
Marine le Pen doesn't give a shit what language the EU uses, that claim is a distraction. Her and others like her think France needs to care about the EU a whole lot less, and the EU should be much less important in France, so she&#x27
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by thu2111 5y ago
Please do. Perhaps after a few more years of articles like the one this thread is originally about, you'll look at it in a new light. The sort of "scientists" who inhabit our universities have no monopoly on the truth, as the
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by thu2111 5y ago
No not really. Deep Mind is almost all cutting edge agent-oriented reinforcement learning, hence the nature of the claim they're making. The impact on Google's business from AI has come almost exclusively from other kinds of ML, o
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I think the idea is that attendants are much easier to train and thus replace quickly than drivers are. All they have to do normally is push a button saying "it's safe", more or less. Perhaps very rarely they'd need to g
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But their response was to ban him, which means the response consistent with the rules applied to other people would have yielded no ban.
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I've looked at a lot of COVID related research papers over the last year, which is exactly why I don't take them seriously anymore. The quality is extremely low and they routinely do things that aren't scientifically valid wi
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by thu2111 5y ago
Surely the many efforts being made to reduce dependence on foreign fossil fuels all fall into the bucket of nuclear, fracking and small amounts of windmills/solar, but those can't make up the difference any time soon due to interm
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by thu2111 5y ago
It's a reasonable sounding argument but I don't find it totally convincing. Firstly, a big deal is made about the need for PEDs. The justification given is vague - essentially that the regulator would require them, because it&#x27
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by thu2111 5y ago
A poll by a news website that relies on self-diagnoses? Really? I was expecting at least a scientific study. Come on, you could try harder than that - it's easy to find peer reviewed published scientific studies that conclude masks &qu
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Your point about Brexit is totally wrong. Support for it hasn't changed much since before the vote: it still has majority support, and nobody ever claimed you could "eat" sovereignty but seeing as nobody in the UK is starving
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But "peer reviewed evidence" is frequently either wrong, or irrelevant (e.g. lab studies without external validity), or both. The whole discussion here is that scientists have been engaged in political manipulations since the star
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The internet is full of them but my favourite source is just the raw data. Look at case graphs for different regions. Look at the dates when mask mandates were added and removed. There should be very sharp, inorganic looking drops and spike
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That doesn't make sense. It's never cheaper to rewrite a product from scratch yourself unless the pricing is truly messed up. People justify writing and giving away open source code in all sorts of ways but not that it's chea
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The dictionary is the authority for what words mean. If someone genuinely wants to "explain" power dynamics they would do so in ways designed to communicate clearly and illuminate. If they want to manipulate and confuse they would
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by thu2111 5y ago
No, this is the problem. Fauci and others in public health have confused everyone with their lies so badly now they're being defended. There was never a mask crisis. Masks don't work, they have never worked, this had been known fo
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by thu2111 5y ago
I don't think anyone is claiming anyone wanted it to escape, only that it was very likely, they know it was likely, that's why it had been banned but Fauci overrode the ban then started constantly lying about it and many other t
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by thu2111 5y ago
And I certainly don't see the conflict of interest - what was Fauci gaining? His continued role? Yes. Obviously you don't put an arsonist in charge of fighting fires, so if this information had come out early last year then he w
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by thu2111 5y ago
According to Wade's article it's actually even murkier than that. Only Fauci or one other person could have actually overridden the ban to keep the money flowing and prevent oversight of it: The moratorium, referred to officially
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by thu2111 5y ago
That's an interesting take on language. If you said many cats were blue, given that cats are never blue I'd certainly feel you were justified in saying many were if 10% of them were. I tend to interpret many as a relative term, me
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by thu2111 5y ago
I just quoted from the article. Are you seeing a different web page to me? The 5th paragraph says: The Oversight Board said the initial decision to permanently suspend Mr Trump was "indeterminate and standardless", and that the c
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by thu2111 5y ago
Anyone confused by my post should use a dictionary to refresh their memory of what this very basic and simple word means, not some random academic papers.
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They're clearly not the same because Damore said nothing anywhere near as offensive as this. He said, paraphrased, that there are fewer women in tech than men because they are less interested in it. He backed it up with a whole pile of
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by thu2111 5y ago
But this is all very consistent. Most people noticed many years ago that the people who most loudly claim to be fighting racism are always huge racists themselves. This is so common, and so obvious, the only reason it's attracting atte
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by thu2111 5y ago
However, I don’t think Trump’s ban has much to do with that. He simply broke the rules. Facebook's oversight board disagrees. They ruled that Trump's ban was "indeterminate and standardless", and that the correct respo
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by thu2111 5y ago
How is 4000 civil servants / 10% of the entire workforce earning more than the PM not many of them? What threshold of the workforce would need such compensation to be considered many, in your view?
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by thu2111 5y ago
Seasonality isn't really understood at all by epidemiologists, so it's probably best to confine discussion of it to the places where it's clearly visible, which is mostly the northern hemisphere indeed.
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He means the discussion of the article. The change is due to new EU legislation, links are provided elsewhere in the (whole) thread.
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It's definitely not in Google's interest to require an action as awkward and engagement-killing as ID verification. They work very hard to not take such drastic steps. Such requirements are being driven by governments who don&#x
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Well maybe. But the YouTube "protocol" keeps changing. The problems yt-dl has are related to trying to keep up with the protocol's enormous surface area and, as we can see here, sometimes changes have to be made quickly in re
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by thu2111 5y ago
You can already restrict YouTube on any sort of computing device you might give kids. Parental controls are built in to Android and iOS. There's no need for every website to duplicate that. However, there's a great "need&quot

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