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by vannevar 5y ago
While this is certainly terrible, it's extremely rare when compared with ordinary foreclosures by private lenders. Mortgage holders don't return the homeowner the difference if the property is later sold for more than the balance
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by vannevar 5y ago
It's possible that the field is a good proxy for underlying coherence in a redundant neural subnet that may be harder to measure directly. The field itself may or may not play a causal role---that would depend on whether the field coul
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by vannevar 5y ago
Right, though I think I'd maybe use the term "values" rather than "virtues." The underlying message of these movies is that everyone---women included---should be judged by masculine standards (plus a traditional not
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by vannevar 5y ago
Perhaps, if the CDC had lied. But they did not. Most of the distrust came from a) the policy shifts, which while justifiable based on emerging information, confused and disturbed people, and b) politically-motivated criticism from right-win
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by vannevar 5y ago
If you listen to the interviews with the CDC officials, they generally did communicate it like that. But people often hear what they want to hear, and if they've heard a lot of skepticism about the CDC from trusted political leaders,
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by vannevar 5y ago
Ha, yep---got on a rant and forgot where I started. :-)
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by vannevar 5y ago
Yeah, I feel like most of the overdesigned cars in the past decade or so have come from Japan. Notably Toyota, which in my opinion has produced some of the worst car designs of the past twenty years. The pinched grill that started with thei
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by vannevar 5y ago
Yes, but this works both ways---the truth also spreads faster over faster networks. It's always been true that rumor (or disinformation) spreads faster than truth. It always will be true, because rumor is easier to generate than truth.
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by vannevar 5y ago
It's worth noting that society existed for thousands of years without photography, audio recording, or videography. As you allude to, society is held together via trust networks, and these are independent of the prevailing media.
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by vannevar 5y ago
We're continuously ingesting plastics and various carcinogens from our food, air and water. I think the contribution from our stainless steel cookware is probably negligible by comparison.
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by vannevar 5y ago
>Enameled cast iron (or enameled anything) is a fine choice, it comes with its own limitations culinarily (and advantages) but it isn't going leach anything into your food. Has this been verified in practice? Is enamel always pure,
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by vannevar 5y ago
In terms of public policy in an emergency situation, "trust the science" means "trust the science based on best evidence available right now." Even in ideal circumstances the science is rarely certain, and this is doubly
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by vannevar 5y ago
Truly the least China can do, given the massive financial support they are providing to Putin to facilitate his war effort.
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by vannevar 5y ago
Yes. It makes sense if you assume a sexual reproduction system where one sex is the prime mover and the other applies filtering. Men need to be attracted at a distance in order to motivate them to approach strangers, hence they are more sti
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by vannevar 5y ago
>KCXL has no ties to Russia and is against the country’s conflict with Ukraine, Schartel told us Wednesday. But he needs the money, and he’d lose his business if he pulled the plug on Radio Sputnik. If your business cannot survive withou
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by vannevar 5y ago
Are their life conditions improved by having homeless people all over the place? There's a price to pay for living in an organized civil society, because people have learned the hard way that having an organized, civil society is bette
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by vannevar 5y ago
>Like implicit in this line of reasoning is a bit of a sense that like, there's a "true", base set of desires that we all have that would exist completely independently of any kind of outside influence... This is a good po
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by vannevar 5y ago
Yes, I'd bet that outside the office, the vast majority of "computer use" between say, 1998 and 2013 was for email and web browsing. That functionality moved to the smart phone, leaving mostly gamers and the computer literate
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by vannevar 5y ago
I wonder how they assemble those groups. I'm guessing there is some significant selection bias in the process.
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by vannevar 5y ago
People don't wear seat belts because they've thought to themselves, "I could be injured and therefore less capable if I don't wear a seat belt." They wear a seat belt because they (very rationally) fear death or ser
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by vannevar 5y ago
> But after two years of accruing data, the superiority of natural immunity over vaccinated immunity is clear. Equally clear is the superiority of getting both to either by itself. Throw in the administrative difficulty of establishing j
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by vannevar 5y ago
I think the basic problem here is that you attach strong negative connotations to the word "fear". But fear is useful to us, as in the seatbelt example: > Why would we be afraid of a moot scenario? If you have and use a seat be
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by vannevar 5y ago
> Which is still an extremely low risk, affecting a relatively small part of the population. You're looking at it through the individual lens again. The chances of an individual winning the lottery in any year are near zero, but the
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by vannevar 5y ago
My 'system' is talking about incremental risks, whether they are across time or across individuals. The point is that these incremental risks are not great in themselves, but when accumulated, they become substantial. If climate c
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by vannevar 5y ago
Similarly, the individual chance of getting cancer by smoking a cigarette doesn't warrant fear. But if you apply this logic to cigarette after cigarette, you may end up in a PSA talking through a hole in your throat and telling everyon
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by vannevar 5y ago
The difference is that terrorism in the US is a miniscule threat in reality, killing a handful of people a year, whereas the virus is one of the top causes of death over the past two years. Not all fears are unjustified. Climate change alre
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by vannevar 5y ago
You're talking about getting infected after vaccination. I'm talking about vaccination vs infection as a path to immunity. You can also get infected after getting infected, so it's a wash there.
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by vannevar 5y ago
I have natural immunity too. Got it by being vaccinated, instead of taking the much larger risk of being infected. Aside from the higher risk from the disease, there's the risk of infecting others. An infected person can infect others
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by vannevar 5y ago
Your reading of the author's intent is generous, but since neither of us can read minds, we'll just have to disagree about intent here. It's clear from the rest of the linked study, however, that Fauci and Walensky did not
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by vannevar 5y ago
Is there some reason that a filesystem couldn't be written to permit multiple paths to the same file without the clunkiness of sym links?

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