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by unishark 6y ago
That's rather extreme. If he always predicts gloom and doom sometimes he will be right. Especially within the last 15 years. Wasn't he predicting the last financial crash for a couple years before it happened?
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by unishark 6y ago
Filling up is winning. The population will stop growing soon enough and it becomes a zero-sum game.
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by unishark 6y ago
You mean at the beginning of a pandemic and a series of antitrust investigations, with stocks widely considered to be at extremes relative to fundamentals in tech history? Looking at some price curve and trusting it because of a trend in hi
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by unishark 6y ago
Then just have places like San Diego always win because they have nature on their side? But really I think the taxes here would technically count as within-state commerce, as they would be taxing a resident business if it is built.
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by unishark 6y ago
> More often than not, it's a sucker's deal: the person who's taking real risk, including the possibility of losing all income and health coverage, perhaps jeopardizing mortgages and such in the process, is not getting a c
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by unishark 6y ago
A 50 percent chance is a lot better than 13.9 percent. And the average clearance rate for murder is around 60. Given that police prioritize some crimes over others, one should be careful in using the stats for things they don't place a
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by unishark 6y ago
We don't have life all figured out in modern society either. Especially when it comes to dying (without it just being the end of a period of despair and depression), but also I'd say dealing with risk and difficulty generally. Eas
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by unishark 6y ago
Let's face it, the average student won't do anything on their own till the night before the exam, which is a recipe for failure in any class that can't be memorized in an evening or two. If school was tailored towards the mos
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by unishark 6y ago
I don't know what you mean by stealing. In college you are generally supposed to devote twice as many hours outside of class as in class. It's probably stated in your student handbook. That is why 12 to 16 credit hours is called &
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by unishark 6y ago
> Instead textbook writers seem to have this adversarial approach against readers, thinking they’ll “cheat themselves” if they look up solutions or attempt to verify their work. I agree that worked problems make a text much more valuabl
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by unishark 6y ago
A lot of bashing over a vague third-hand quote without a source. In the very next paragraph they say: > The company offered the defense access under tightly controlled conditions outlined in a non-disclosure agreement, which included acc
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by unishark 6y ago
The same goes for a cause we'd consider purely environmental, such as an illness caused by an infection. There will still be lots of associated genes with small effect determining how resilient a person is to the infection. Twins share
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by unishark 6y ago
"performance improvements and bug fixes". I just looked at the messages for the last ten or so updates on my phone and the last three were worthless like the above, but the rest were relatively detailed and informative. I imagine
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by unishark 6y ago
> After all, it’s never “our” news we mistrust, it’s the other guys! You imply this is some kind of hypocrisy or other character flaw, but this will always be true when there's uncertainty. If someone holds the same prior beliefs as
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by unishark 6y ago
According to the first hits on google, roughly half of Portugal's hospitals are private.
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by unishark 6y ago
Someone views a glass as half empty, I point out it can be viewed as half full. Your someone-is-wrong-on-the-internet counter is that, no, it is half empty? Thanks for the contribution.
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by unishark 6y ago
The American part seems to be that our penny-pinching private insurance companies finally provide a benefit in protecting us from being committed forever? Because plenty countries have private hospitals who can keep billing the govt as long
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by unishark 6y ago
Different in some ways, of course, same in others. Ultimately I'm just seeing the same news with one side one-upping the other. They weren't even the first armed group to try and defy the government in the last year, though perhap
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by unishark 6y ago
There were nationwide protests against the election result in 2016. They blocked the highways here in california. People also disrupted confirmation hearings back then.
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by unishark 6y ago
> 10 or 15 years ago people looked at web 1.0, saw many good communities and valuable conversations and said "we need to protect free speech". > Today people looks at Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/Reddit, see misma
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by unishark 6y ago
A "moral right" would be easy to enforce. Everyone just thinks less of people who mix politics and business.
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by unishark 6y ago
> She could have reported it privately, but she chose to use her platform that included her social status ... to be a narc instead. Reporting it privately is still "narcing", isn't it? You're saying she'd have be
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by unishark 6y ago
> If the headline had said "designing hardware circuits", that would be another story entirely. It almost does though. The name of the project has "circuit" in it (I guess because of Arduino applications or something
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by unishark 6y ago
The government pays bounties to whistleblowers who expose grant fraud under the False Claims act, along with big fines for the perpetrators. Not sure how much it extends to research fraud itself, but it certainly seems like something they s
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by unishark 6y ago
> Research output is reliable where it is actively relied on by engineers -- and not elsewhere. I'd word it this way: if the person producing the output is not responsible for it really working, it almost certainly won't. Even
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by unishark 6y ago
If it works for you. Eye doctors offer that situation as an option with contacts, with one for near and one for far. It's called "monovision".
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by unishark 6y ago
Orthokeratology does both in developing children, according to a couple studies referred to in their link.
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by unishark 6y ago
Don't miss the "a lot of it" part while you're at it. Because I wasn't actually thinking about fully maintaining travel restrictions either, apart from things like the better air filtering, and required masks. Thoug
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by unishark 6y ago
More likely you are incorrectly supposing that when I refer to social distancing I mean lockdowns.
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by unishark 6y ago
> * Herd immunity numbers assume no ongoing vaccination -- they more or less say, "If life went back to normal, would the virus slow down or speed up?" I'd say ongoing vaccination (after herd immunity is reached) is irrele

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