whymauri

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by whymauri 6y ago
Right, but aren't we (Florida) still doing worse than other states with similar testing policieS?
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by whymauri 6y ago
Right - but the question asked was not "Are we going to have a Civil War?" it was "Are we one tweet away?" which I interpret as "Could one tweet conceivably start a Civil War?" Conceivably: yes. Likely: no.
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by whymauri 6y ago
Perhaps the right tweet might do it. Trump has incited violence, explicitly and in subtext, before. So it's not a matter of a simple call-to-arms, like in the past, but then I'm not sure what would be the tipping point.
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by whymauri 6y ago
Zero repercussions? Nick Cannon lost his job and board position, and rightfully so [0]. Do not misconstrue the consequences - people will be fired or blacklisted for these anti-Semitic comments, and that's frankly a good thing. [0] ht
695.
by whymauri 6y ago
I'm guessing they have target specificity concerns. I'm no spike protein expert, but the concern would be that spike-targeting ligands can bind to other off-target sites, leading to unexpected and unwanted side effects. What they
696.
by whymauri 6y ago
A personal newsletter/blog is not reporting and I don't think the intention is to pretend it's reporting.
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by whymauri 6y ago
Chores and trash sprint tasks moved to Jira backlog. The toast your robot put in the microwave for 4.nannannan minutes is now on fire. In the distance: sirens.
698.
by whymauri 6y ago
I think Zoom has proven that they have exceptionally good product vision. I'm not sure Dropbox has over the past few years.
699.
by whymauri 6y ago
I zoomed in and think it's a brown top with brown shorts. You can see the armhole.
700.
by whymauri 6y ago
It's not a log scale, though? It's just slightly unfortunate that the small curvature of the plot is hard to see.
701.
by whymauri 6y ago
They have masters degrees from Stanford. I agree it's a bizarre accredidation since they have a few years of industry experience otherwise, which is, IMO, more relevant.
702.
by whymauri 6y ago
I agree, it's just that for many Americans, including white Americans from disadvantaged groups, tracing national heritage is hard. Need and class-based considerations make sense to me, though. I think that starts getting on the right
703.
by whymauri 6y ago
While I agree with your first sentence, separation by national heritage is impossible for many demographics in the U.S., including both white and black Americans. But yeah, I think abstracting 60% of the world population as a monolithic &qu
704.
by whymauri 6y ago
Because Palantir inherently works with third-party organizations, you're able to take every conceivable response and say: "So just working with entities you don’t like, then?" Not really sure if this will be fruitful, honestl
705.
by whymauri 6y ago
>What exactly do you think makes the company despicable, apart from them working with some entities you don’t like? I mean, this is certainly enough for me. The Gotham system and who Palantir decides to provide it to borders on dystopian
706.
by whymauri 6y ago
All the Lord of the Rings inspired startups give me the heebie jeebies. Anduril literally translates to "Flame of the West."
707.
by whymauri 6y ago
>It’s great that Harvard started their free tuition program, but for most students it costs $60-70k/year. I think that's not quite right? "About 55% of Harvard students receive need-based scholarship aid with average grant
708.
by whymauri 6y ago
I agree Harvard grads will be significantly better off in a job market than peers at lesser-known schools. However, one point of bitterness is that the value of attending Harvard next year is almost surely less than attending last year. Des
709.
by whymauri 6y ago
The U.N. guidelines for genocide extend beyond suppression of birth. You typically have to meet several of the guidelines, "with intent to destroy," for the UN to classify policy as genocidal. You can find them here: https:/
710.
by whymauri 6y ago
Black Americans have never been fully independent from racially-based socioeconomic discrimination in the United States. You've also conveniently ignored GP's additional condition: racial discrimination. The Prison Industrial Comp
711.
by whymauri 6y ago
Or - get this - he genuinely believes that and isn't playing some three-dimensional career chess contrivance.
712.
by whymauri 6y ago
I didn't get one either.
713.
by whymauri 6y ago
Yeah, I think you've hit the nail on the head better than I did.
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by whymauri 6y ago
>The great argument I wanted to make is that if there is a finite supply of a drug, only enough for 20% of the sick, selecting which 20% gets it doesn't cause more people to die. This is what is done in patient outcome rankings for
715.
by whymauri 6y ago
Yea, I'll try to find a citation. I recall it from a class I took on Bioethics two years ago with Robin Scheffler.
716.
by whymauri 6y ago
Fortunately, it's possible millions will not die in this case because remdisivir is most likely a quality-of-life therapeutic for people in the recovery phase. Your intuition is real though and my existential terror is that a real vi
717.
by whymauri 6y ago
Yes, ML research and engineering is my job. I actually lean more into the research side of our R&D function, so this isn't coming from a place of disdain for researchers. I'm not advocating that purely theoretical work of ever
718.
by whymauri 6y ago
The space bar doesn't even pause on our HTPC. No clue how to fix it. Works on normal YouTube, lol.
719.
by whymauri 6y ago
The distinction is fundamentally pointless because the lines are blurred and highly subjective. I'll repeat it again: >For the sake of ethical R&D, it's counter-productive to build a hierarchy of investment into the problem
720.
by whymauri 6y ago
Emotional cues, yes. Acute health or distress, to an extent, yes. Personality, aptitude, criminality, intelligence, empathy, etcetera... that's almost surely pseudoscience.

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