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by vik0 3y ago
What actual value did 23andMe and similar services offer in the first place? Quenching someone's curiosity about where their ancestors are from? Do we even know how accurate it is at doing that?
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by vik0 3y ago
Just use a temporary email from some temporary email generator like https://temp-mail.org/ (use an AdBlock, I'm sure the site is littered with ads, but I wouldn't know cause I use uBlock)
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by vik0 3y ago
How do these people live with themselves? What did they think before doing this? Do they think at all?
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by vik0 3y ago
>but rather that the empirical evidence for masking, especially vs. the new strains, is quite weak https://medium.com/incerto/the-masks-masquerade-7de897b517b7
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by vik0 3y ago
>Tons of journalism just ends up being dead wrong, misinformed, or missing a ton of key context FIFY
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by vik0 3y ago
I think your wife is right lol
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by vik0 3y ago
I don't get how so many people like coffee. I've tried it maybe a handful of times in my life, getting the type that my friends said is great, and I've always found it to be reminiscent of dirty water, that is, water that has
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by vik0 3y ago
What's the (first) 2003 car? You've got me really wondering
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by vik0 3y ago
>But in tracing the history of wrongness, wrestling with all the fashions of thinking, you learn to think with precision So...Falsifiability?
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by vik0 3y ago
Self diagnoses (and diagnoses over the internet) are pretty harmful in a society where many people think they have every mental/physical disorder just because they have a few (of the many) symptoms associated with one (or many) disorde
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by vik0 3y ago
If you think Apple cares more about you and your privacy than Google, I have a bridge to sell you. Sure, it probably does deny Google some data, but you really think Apple doesn't collect data for itself? It's the world's mos
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by vik0 3y ago
Pedophilia is being attracted to persons under the age of 13, which isn't legal anywhere in Europe It is in the Middle East, but their (Islamic) culture doesn't consider it as pedophilia, and (some) men in their 20s and 30s get ma
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by vik0 3y ago
Off topic but i just want to share that yesterday I was traveling, and in a residential area (a village) that nobody has stepped a foot in in 30 years, I was caught "speeding". I was going 75 in a 40kph zone. I don't get why
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by vik0 3y ago
My apologies, you are correct on the first point. >He talks about how we can even better model uncertainties. Where does he say this? What chapter? Thanks in advance. edit: were you alluding to his barbel strategy?
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by vik0 3y ago
Yes, I am aware of that In the Black Swan he talks about his endeavor with the stock market and how lucky he got by chance, and not by using some pseudo scientific formulas and whatnot to "predict" how his stocks would do. He also
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by vik0 3y ago
Ever since I read The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, I can't take anything related to the stock market seriously (among other things as well, but this post is related to the stock ma
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by vik0 3y ago
Whatever happens, I just pray that Kosovo's population doesn't decide to come to my country again and not leave when the war is over, again ( if a war was to happen). I'm from (North) Macedonia.
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by vik0 3y ago
uBlock can become decently complicated too if you enable "I'm an advanced user" in the settings menu I think it can be made to do the same things as uMatrix with advanced mode (I use medium mode on uBlock) - or am I wrong on