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by vharuck 6y ago
In my opinion, the rapid test's greatest value is using it to screen asymptomatic people in a regular (daily or weekly) process. For example, a school would test a random sample of students each day. This could help catch any stealth
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by vharuck 6y ago
Totally on board with #1. An indirect fund from donations is a good way to divorce fundraising from behavior (click-bait won't attract many charitable donations). In fact, I'm beginning to think non-profits are a good way to fun
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by vharuck 6y ago
I'm with you for preventing companies from using their size to force very unfair contracts. But I have to say, in this situation, a fairer contract would probably still let Amazon drop Parler. > Was Parler filled with hate and bull
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by vharuck 6y ago
We have to distinguish between those who are untouchable because of circumstances beyond their control (lineage, birthplace, disabilities) and those who are pariahs because of their behavior (criminals, militant anarchists, that mean old gu
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by vharuck 6y ago
If there was a law preventing businesses from refusing service to a group of people, then the government is effectively requiring those businesses to associate with those people. Association is protected as free speech, so that's gove
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by vharuck 6y ago
In the case of Tuesday's attack on the Capitol, the crowd thought they were unheard because a group of Republicans and right-wing conspiracy nuts have told them so. They were being heard for the last four years, with a Republican Pres
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by vharuck 6y ago
I somewhat agree, but for maybe a different reason. I think racism probably is a major root cause, but think it's intellectually lazy because identifying it doesn't help much. Racial disparities exist in virtually every important
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by vharuck 6y ago
Section 230 was used to defend a public library from a lawsuit after a kid used its computers to look at porn. It protects hobby websites where members share knitting tips. It protects Hacker News. Repealing it would be disastrous.
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by vharuck 6y ago
Specifically, the report stated there could be no accusation that any sitting President committed a crime because it would be unfair. Mueller knew the Justice Department would not charge a sitting President, meaning the President would&#x2
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by vharuck 6y ago
>A large part of software engineering consists in finding the right abstractions to think about a problem, and when one leaks that badly, it's generally and indication that one is thinking about the problem wrong. Any law about cont
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by vharuck 6y ago
>It costs maybe $100/year and takes a couple of hours for an inexperienced user to set up a Wordpress blog with manually-moderated comments. It would also cost however much a lawyer charges for helping to moderate every submission.
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by vharuck 6y ago
The security risk is also less of a problem in a mostly rational society, which is what we have had for a long time. You'll get lone wolves, but finding a group of people so angry with a politician they're willing to conspire to
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by vharuck 6y ago
They erected a gallows. Not the kind of party I'd want to attend. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/noose-hung-outside-capitol...
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by vharuck 6y ago
When I worked at Lowe's, we had pickup trucks to rent and offered delivery (with or without installation) for larger items.
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by vharuck 6y ago
This reasoning means nobody can ever be held responsible, because "What if it's me?" I like to assume the majority of people are good. So even when I support the right thing, I don't have to worry about turned tables.
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Even the example code for Groundhog is not written in idiomatic R which does not inspire confidence. Not to mention the given example for irreproducibility in base R looks at code that would be a bug in the script for 3.6. It's on
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by vharuck 6y ago
Usually, yes. However, it is possible for a package to have code that only runs when it is installed. If you just copy-paste, it won't be run.
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by vharuck 6y ago
This argument seems elitist. R is more than just technically Turing complete. It's definitely a specialized language. It's not the go-to for managing servers or anything with a lot of I/O, but it has those capabilities beca
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by vharuck 6y ago
>when he literally incited the mob to attack ? I said "incited a mob to literally attack." He went up on stage, told them the presidency was being stolen, and urged them to march to the Capitol. They then marched to the Capit
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by vharuck 6y ago
A sitting president ignoring election results and inciting a mob to literally attack the Federal government in an attempt to subvert the Constitution is a very pressing issue. It's hard to solve big problems with a government that cea
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by vharuck 6y ago
Show me the politician inciting the Summer's arsonists to destruction. There are always people taking advantage of or inciting chaos to do reckless things. They need to be tried and, if found guilty, punished. Even if they're th
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Every piece of software has terms and conditions, so seeking those out seems like a low bar. I consider this evidence against Uber's case. For example, I recently set up a new smart TV and Google Home sound system for my parents
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by vharuck 6y ago
Sarcasm doesn't work very well on the internet. Even when it's obvious, it rarely improves the discussion.
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by vharuck 6y ago
>it omits anything related to the FDA, or Operation Warp Speed. For an article that purports to describe the year of the virus, this is a huge gap. The FDA is addressed in the article, mostly when talking about the botched tests in Febru
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by vharuck 6y ago
I remember skipping college classes to play World of Warcraft. Then my graphics card crapped out. So I skipped classes reading psychology books I got from the library. Turns out, my problems were depression and social anxiety, not video
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by vharuck 6y ago
I'm going to continue learning Japanese. Focusing more on reading instead of just flash cards. I've also set a five-year goal to get a creative work published. The first two years will be dedicated to reading more good works and
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by vharuck 6y ago
I've been hooked on Noita these days. A pixel-based physics simulator, like Powder Toy from long ago, with spellcasting and a ton of secrets. One run, I can focus on incrementally improving a wand that shoots a simple bolt like a mac
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by vharuck 6y ago
I've come to see affirmative action's value for the future. Hiring was not free from bias in the past. Even if that's no longer true, the existing lack of physicists in a community means less people from that community will
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by vharuck 6y ago
In the old days, the rectangles didn't even glow. In fact, they even stained our fingers black sometimes.
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by vharuck 6y ago
As with most articles on controversial topics, it's not just what it says but that it might not fairly or at all represent the counter argument. I won't get into this specific debate, both because I'm not an expert and don&#

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