twomoretime

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by twomoretime 6y ago
You don't need a politicized liberal arts department to teach engineers to write. We would be just as well served if we went back to learning classics, for example. I was disappointed to go through college having touched nothing older
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Would you rather be obese or dead? Point is there will be more than enough cases to overwhelm hospitals if the virus spreads in earnest. In this respect our population is potentially more vulnerable than, say, much of Europe or parts of Asi
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by twomoretime 6y ago
> with fairly well understood vulnerabilities to various parts of the population. I don't think the virus is as well understood as you believe, which is why opening back up now may be premature. Regardless, the riskiest pre-existing
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Sounds like you're up against some real communists. Westerners don't understand the psychology.
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>The vast amount of product information available to consumers through online search renders most advertising obsolete as a tool for conveying product informatio First line is untrue. Beyond computer parts there's generally very lit
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by twomoretime 6y ago
In short I'd say you need to understand the underlying mathematics to intuitively understand the operations that underpinn the algorithms. And since this is quantum mechanics...there's no real ELI5 version that can give you any us
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by twomoretime 6y ago
From a physics perspective I bet you have two things happening: 1. These molecules are moving around a lot . The kinetic energy of molecules at room or body temperature gives them impressive velocity relative to their scale, and they'
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by twomoretime 6y ago
I'm going to buck the trend here and say that if intelligence is approximately normally distributed, there will always be some proportion of the population that doesn't meet the minimum in the necessary dimensions. The point is no
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by twomoretime 6y ago
After decades of increasingly rebellious movements, it seems like the last few have been rebellion for the sake of rebellion - progress for the sake of progress. Perhaps this is the pendulum swinging back.
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Do you believe the regulations are sufficient for protecting people from FB? Do you believe that FB is operating in good faith and not finding alternative means by which to gather and exercise the soft power that comes with hosting a privat
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by twomoretime 6y ago
A huge proportion of capable autodidacts are coders. Especially those who go through grad school for STEM - the skill is invaluable. So don't be so surprised, these aren't necessarily junior level devs at FAANG spouting off.
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by twomoretime 6y ago
I'm the one who brought up the EU. The purpose was as a size comparison. Look at the differences in covid "stage" between different EU states - that difference is primarily a function of geography - the time it takes for the
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>How do you feel to find yourself as the subject of such rhetoric I'm the son of immigrants and if anyone implied that most of the immigrants from my third world country of origin were, let's say, underachievers, I wouldn'
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by twomoretime 6y ago
This isn't about defensiveness. You state that, collectively, the US is still in stage one, and then go on to say that this is evidence for a poor response and that it's early to recommend returns to work. This is invalid, because
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>Objectivity does not require blinding oneself to context. That's not context. The fact that he acts like a child does not justify exaggeration or sensationalism. And the press has undeniably been antagonistic going back to electi
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>The United States hasn't even passed the first stage of Corona yet (in SF, daily number of deaths is still rising). It is too early to mandate come backs. Considering multiple states are larger than many European countries, I don&#
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by twomoretime 6y ago
I didn't say he spoke appropriately. I said the topic was appropriate. Most of the flak is from people claiming he is putting others in danger (asinine claim that denies adults agency by the way) by bringing up a potential treatment. B
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by twomoretime 6y ago
Telling your populous, at a time when you are holding daily updates, there there is a promising drug or vaccine that scientists are researching, is an appropriate step towards maintaining some degree of hope. We cannot be liable for the 1&#
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by twomoretime 6y ago
The small studies were flawed too. We are witnessing incompetence across the board. The treatment in the "good" studies that, let's be real, most people are gunning for because they go against the president's tweet, they
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by twomoretime 6y ago
I'm speaking collectively to all the people saying that Trump shouldn't have discussed the topic at all. I.E. censorship.
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by twomoretime 6y ago
This is a good take. I'm genuinely sorry you're being downvoted. Anything remotely positive about Trump is just destroyed and it's absolutely ridiculous. There's no objectivity - people online interpret everything he doe
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>We already have a sizeable population of bleach-drinkers in the US, and he just encouraged them to mainline it Discussing potential treatments with, as he said, "medical personnel", is nowhere near advising people to drink ble
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>similar to the IFR arrived at by other studies using very different methods With the wild range of IFR from so many studies, you could trivially cherry pick supporting studies for a bunch of different numbers, especially if you throw in
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by twomoretime 6y ago
>Animal Crossing serves up unexpected consolation by offering surrogate habits—a structured, if fictional, alternative to normal life I think this speaks to the sorry state of our society when the majority of Americans are apparently una
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by twomoretime 6y ago
So when it's convenient, we look to Trump as an example? It's terrifying to watch so many people argue back and forth so adamantly defending their sides, meanwhile almost no one even brings up the possibility that they both screwe
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by twomoretime 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_American_... Vastly understates the influence, but it's a great start. Edit: the partisan downvoting has been particularly bad as of late. I was asked for sources
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by twomoretime 6y ago
If one had strong reasons to suspect a mechanism by which a vaccine could actually be deadly or fatal, but this mechanism had not been verified explicitly in literature, would they be ethically obligated to warn participants in advance?
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It's the same force that has been influencing academia for some time now.
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The US political system only works if some critical mass of politicians are operating in good faith. I skimmed the article and searched for "pork" to no results, so I assume there was no mention of what I'd say is the real pr
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They're humans. This beats any animal model study for worst case infection scenario. The data would be invaluable.

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