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by timr 3mo ago
I guess if you’re so completely committed to left-wing ideology that you’re willing to overlook ridiculous factual inaccuracies, it’s…fine. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-worst-magazine-in-am... I explicitly c
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by timr 3mo ago
> In medicine, observational evidence is actually better and far more ethical than the RCT. (Which simply dooms the terminally ill to fake treatment.) This is just nonsense. First, everyone in a trial is informed of the situation. It&#x2
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by timr 3mo ago
Do you mean that you don't believe that humans learning a language have the problem the parent described? Because I do, and everyone I've ever met while learning does as well. Do you mean that you don't believe the problem ex
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by timr 3mo ago
> One thing I've never seen discussed on this topic (possible I just missed it, I only read popular accounts) is whether speaking multiple languages is a proxy for higher sociability / stronger social ties. Yes. This is exactly
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by timr 3mo ago
No, that’s called pharmaceutical development. That’s the business. We don’t generally fund Merck’s R&D with federal money. You’ll note the following critical detail from the article: > That will impact 22 projects being led by major
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by timr 3mo ago
…Which hasn’t changed. Also, for the record: very few (no?) vaccines are “mandated” by the federal government. Recommendations are made, and state and local governments do this, mainly through school districts. Various agencies and the mili
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The facts are true. Blaming Trump is the innovation. For the record, I don’t care who gets blamed. I just think it’s a hilarious twist of partisan rhetoric.
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by timr 3mo ago
No. Pharmaceutical companies love vaccines. They’re relatively easy to make, they’re indemnified against harms, they cannot be generic , and they are wildly profitable. And on top of all of that, they often get mandated by schools, ensur
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> Trump one had a sane cabinet that largely controlled his wilder impulses. This is absurdly revisionist. The first administration’s cabinet/staff was a reality show and a merry go round of people like Anthony Scaramucci and Ryan Zi
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Your understanding is incorrect. All research is unprofitable, by definition. Vaccines are wildly profitable.
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Well, I have to say that this is the most innovative leap of partisan politics I’ve seen so far this year! Most left-wing critics are still struggling with admitting that Anthony Fauci really did provide funding to EcoHealth, despite ample
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You’re splitting hairs.
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This administration literally fast-tracked the original covid vaccines for approval. Say what you will about the Covid vaccine or Kennedy’s specific motivations (which I disagree with), but choosing to cut government funding for development
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by timr 3mo ago
It’s not a universal win, but grok outperforms on 2 of the metrics, and is close on a third. Image editing: banana 1308, grok 1329 Image generation: banana 1251, grok 1174 (grok loses, but is close) Cost: banana 3.4 cents, grok 2 cents Grok
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by timr 3mo ago
It's sort of amazing that Grok's image model beats Nano Banana on nearly every one of the metrics they chose to highlight.
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by timr 4mo ago
> You called them out for being slow; turns out they weren't. You called them out for un-merging your work; turns out they didn't. I said they were slower than me . I didn't "call anyone out" for un-merging my P
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by timr 4mo ago
> Thanks for litigating every layer of a bug I fixed 27 minutes after your comment, more than a year ago. Erm, OK. I don't think that's even close to what I did, but I guess people can read for themselves. Again, this was not t
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by timr 4mo ago
I don't remember every interaction I had with you folks, but that wasn't the only one. Also, the same PR was reverted a bit later, IIRC -- I think I made a mistake in my PR or it wasn't compatible with some other use case, so
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by timr 4mo ago
> There valuations are always based on expectations of huge growth, not current value. They're primarily a function of fund size. Everything else that can be fudged is fudged in order to make it look sane. Funds make their money b
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by timr 4mo ago
Similar experience. I tried using this library about a year ago, but the Rails integration was really rough at the time, and things like persisting the conversation to the database required essentially bespoke code. Also, tool use, schemas,
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I repeated my advice in both replies. You do you, man.
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> I feel like there’s some kind of miscommunication, and I can’t bridge it, which is driving me a little crazy. I genuinely don’t understand why it’s bad that I wrote something for people who don’t want to depend on fluently reading kana
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by timr 4mo ago
Speaking of defensive…you’re on every comment thread here, arguing with anyone who disagrees with you, even a little. I didn’t say you were “wrong” — I said that your approach isn’t going to work well for most people as they learn, because
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by timr 4mo ago
> Wow, there is a lot of negative gatekeeping on learning Japanese in this thread. I recommend people chill out. Any discussion of Japanese here brings out a lot of extremely defensive nerds. I don't know why this happens more wit
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A small 1 bedroom apartment in Manhattan, today, costs a bit under $1 million, on average.
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Maybe. We’ll see. I just know the reality is not a mass efflux of Americans to China. That’s idiotic.
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> That we can say across the board that good research must have easy-to-control experimentation and guarantee novelty? That is not my point , but it is a true statement, yes [1]. Science without controls is not science. Science without
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> How much is this actually happening? It isn't. At least, not in the way being portrayed. The people going back to China were already from China , and the people returning to Europe are largely from there as well. The dirty little
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> Realistically yes, science and academia are loaded with "waste” Yes! > The problem is that we don't know ex ante which questions fall into that category No! You’re acting like we have no idea what might happen if we make
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by timr 4mo ago
It wasn’t a “theory” (at least no more than any other scientific fact), and telling me that someone found a relationship between two things doesn’t tell me that someone proved the relationship was causal. But sure, let’s say I accept your (

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