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by timr 1y ago
> I said a movie was bad because I don’t enjoy being lectured about science by actors, many (if not most) of whom have only the most tenuous grasp of science. I wasn’t being “disingenuous”. I meant every word. I not only said it, I repe
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by timr 1y ago
I’m not “discounting prior behavior”, I’m just not getting exorcised over shutdown of a website, particularly when the explanation is likely to be incompetence. Be real: do you honestly believe that this website was influencing any marginal
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by timr 1y ago
I said a movie was bad because I don’t enjoy being lectured about science by actors, many (if not most) of whom have only the most tenuous grasp of science. I wasn’t being “disingenuous”. I meant every word. It’s fine if you think I’m a sno
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by timr 1y ago
So? There’s more to a movie than being right. It wasn’t a documentary, and even if it were a documentary, a dreadful, preachy, insipid movie that is technically right is still bad. (I say “technically right”, because let’s not forget that t
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by timr 1y ago
> I only pasted a direct quote from an article you urged everyone to read. Mea culpa, I missed the line because it was at stranded at the bottom of a bunch of blocked ads. About the only thing I can say is that "NASA" and &quot
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by timr 1y ago
I’m not assuming anything - this is why I used words like “probably” and “mostly” - but let’s just say that I’ve known my share of actors, and I’m willing to take the odds.
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by timr 1y ago
> It's from your source. It's the very last sentence in the article as of right now. Sorry, what? I don't have any affiliation with ABC. Someone else posted the link. NPR has the same basic comments [2]: > All five edit
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by timr 1y ago
> No you said it’s probably a dns configuration, I said that barring better information, you can't rule it out. Still true. > posted some pointless name server addresses They're government servers, is the point. And don&#x27
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by timr 1y ago
Yeah, try reading a better source [1]: > NASA will now take over, Victoria LaCivita, communications director at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told ABC News. "All preexisting reports will be hosted on the N
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by timr 1y ago
If they already fired the staff of the agency , it's actually pretty believable that the dedicated website would get shut down. Talk about burying the lede.
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by timr 1y ago
No, they literally said "we're moving it to NASA". I'm not arguing that the overall fact pattern is good here. I'm saying this article is stupid and lazy.
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by timr 1y ago
> “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which coordinated the information in the assessments, did not respond to repeated inquiries” Except they did , as I found an NPR article with official comment, and there's a l
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by timr 1y ago
I'm not being hopelessly naive. It's certainly possible that they took it down with the explicit intention of hiding information on the internet, but that would also be pretty stupid, since various articles have found the reports
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by timr 1y ago
That's a better article than the link, since they actually bothered to get answers to the question from definitive sources. NPR also linked directly to the NOAA copy of the report, lending credence to the "sloppy relocation"
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by timr 1y ago
I don't know, it's a good question. I don't have the IP addresses cached. NPR notes that the report is here [1], so if someone is trying to hide it, they're not doing a particularly good job. [1] https://repos
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by timr 1y ago
Yes, mites are arachnids, but this point is pedantic. Miticides don't work by counting legs and body segments. Consider Amitraz [1]. It is both an insecticide and a miticide, and the method of action is on the central nervous system.
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by timr 1y ago
A few things: a) African honey bees aren't domesticated populations, challenging your overall point. b) A 3 mile separation is not substantial (though I grant you that if most of the bees in any given cluster are introduced, then it mi
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by timr 1y ago
That's cool, in a "better living through chemistry", 1950s man-in-a-white-labcoat sort of way. But when it comes to this stuff, I tend to be a bit like Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park: they're so focused on whether they co
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by timr 1y ago
You might be right that the physical distribution plays a role, but the partial selective pressure of insecticide is like a resistance-generating machine -- as anyone who has tried to kill cockroaches will tell you. Regardless, I think we b
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by timr 1y ago
Well that’s easy: stop using miticide. The resistance genes are not spreading due to physical transport, they’re spreading because of evolutionary selection.
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by timr 1y ago
OK, just for the sake of argument, I grant you all of this. How did it slow the research paper described in this article? Secondary question, equally important: Had the research been done however more quickly, what difference would it h
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by timr 1y ago
Untended wild hives are probably also more genetically diverse, and therefore more robust to parasites and viruses.
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by timr 1y ago
Varoa mites are incredibly hard to control. Back in undergrad I worked in a fruit fly lab, and we would periodically have outbreaks, despite being about the most isolated, sterile population of insects you can imagine. I doubt that there&#x
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by timr 1y ago
And yet, if you read between the lines, the funding cut had next to no impact on what is reported here. The third-party organization still did the work, it's not stated how the work was slowed (if at all), and the case that speeding
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by timr 1y ago
So great. We have not one, but two different ways of saying "use text search to find tools". This field, I swear...it's the PPAP [1] of engineering. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfuiB52K7X8 I have a
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by timr 1y ago
>I don't think that's true. OK, well...maybe I should spend my days writing long blogposts about the next ten things that I know I have to implement, then, and I'll be an AI thought-leader too. Certainly more lucrative tha
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by timr 1y ago
I get what you're saying, but the parent is correct -- most of this stuff is pretty obvious if you spend even an hour thinking about the problem. For example, while the specifics of the prompts you're highlighting are unique to Co
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by timr 1y ago
Good illustration of the comment about true fluency being able to play with the language. English takes this to pro level, of course.
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by timr 1y ago
> It is funny that at the start literally everyone is interesting, even the most boring conversations. I was more of a blank slate and more likeable too. Yes! I've found the same thing. > That's gone away Also noticing this

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