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by xkapastel 6y ago
> It should be stunningly obvious > it should be equally obvious Clearly it is not obvious, considering most people have never spent a significant amount of time thinking about how infectious diseases work. > What's that? Do I
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by xkapastel 6y ago
I don't think that's true, WIC is the one with restrictions like that. You can buy any food with food stamps. Certainly there is no restriction on any kind of milk.
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by xkapastel 6y ago
So uh, as someone stuck on Android 8 forever, what am I supposed to do? Just get a new phone?
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by xkapastel 6y ago
I live in NYC and they still do not give us plastic bags anymore. Was this ban really "reversed"? I've been using reusable bags for the whole pandemic, and a quick google tells me the enforcement has been postponed, not that
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by xkapastel 7y ago
I'm seeing three different things in this article: "sunlight", "high temperature", and "humidity". They seem to be conflating all three of those. It's difficult to tell what the actual claim is. I wis
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by xkapastel 7y ago
> As many have pointed out, there is no evidence that the virus now plaguing the world was engineered; scientists largely agree it came from animals. But that is not the same as saying it didn’t come from the lab, which spent years testi
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by xkapastel 7y ago
Thank you. Off-topic, but: > Reduced by 99% > Reduced page load from original size of 2.4 MB to 26.7 kB. This is absolutely incredible. The web is really a disaster these days.
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by xkapastel 7y ago
> I find that the appeal of programming languages, their strength, fades away in the face of pure mathematics anyway. The appeal and strength of a programming language is its ability to be executed, something that pure mathematics does n
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by xkapastel 7y ago
Of course it can. You can do pretty much anything you like with software as long as you have the vision. A plugin/extension architecture can certainly make modifying a compiler easy. What makes you think it can't?
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by xkapastel 7y ago
> As a model for computation, P systems offer the attractive possibility of solving NP-complete problems in less-than exponential time. Some P system variants are known to be capable of solving the SAT (boolean satisfiability) problem in
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by xkapastel 7y ago
Did Fox News actually dump Laura Ingraham? I've never heard about this. She still seems to be on TV.
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by xkapastel 7y ago
> All logic is really just intuitionistic logic. > All logic is really just linear logic. Who has said these?
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by xkapastel 7y ago
Any barrier in front of your mouth and nose will protect you from droplets[0], as well as protecting other people from your own droplets. [0]: https://medium.com/@Cancerwarrior/covid-19-why-we-should-all...
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by xkapastel 7y ago
Aerosol is not any more likely to get out than not wearing anything. And a bad mask prevents droplets from getting in as well.
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by xkapastel 7y ago
This has me very worried. Today I went out for groceries, and when I returned, put the groceries down, took off my shoes/sweater/pants and went to go wash my hands, I realized my cat is absolutely compelled to go over and sniff an
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by xkapastel 7y ago
Is this actually a real study? Why don't they link to the paper? Mindlab International calls itself a "neuromarketing" group...this reads more like an advertisement than a report on a real scientific study.
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by xkapastel 7y ago
Masks do protect the wearer! And you do not need an N95 mask to do this. Even a simple homemade mask offers some degree of protection. This[0] was a good explanation of both of these ideas. tldr: There is reason to believe that large drople
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by xkapastel 7y ago
The virus is generally contained within a much larger droplet that is expelled when a person speaks, coughs, or sneezes. So the 120nm number is not necessarily relevant.
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by xkapastel 7y ago
Masks do protect the wearer! And you do not need an N95 mask to do this. Even a simple homemade mask offers some degree of protection. This[0] was a good explanation of both of these ideas. tldr: There is reason to believe that large drop
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by xkapastel 7y ago
OO is definitely not based on anything like set theory or finite state machines. OO has no formal backing, but it's often integrated with basic type theory in languages like Java and C#.
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by xkapastel 7y ago
Sometimes I have a hard time believing that this gender stuff is really happening. That there are really people who want to divorce the words "man" and "woman" from a person's sex, and instead make them about person
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by xkapastel 7y ago
Stallman did not defend Epstein. This is clickbait that misquotes him. "Presented as entirely willing [to Minsky, a person who is not Epstein]" is not the same thing as saying "Epstein's victims were entirely willing.&qu
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by xkapastel 7y ago
What is wrong about it is that Epstein is running a child sex trafficking ring. It's not clear what Minsky knew.
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by xkapastel 7y ago
The hypothetical is used to argue that the phrase "sexual assault" has the wrong connotations, not that it was "totally fine". It's you who keeps adding this "totally fine" part. The biggest problem I can
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by xkapastel 7y ago
Do you think it's more plausible that she'd present as being in distress?
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by xkapastel 7y ago
Not grammar, the connotations of the phrase "sexual assault". I don't think it's a cop out, I think it's clearly literally the case.
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by xkapastel 7y ago
I didn't read this as RMS minimizing sex trafficking or defending rapists. I read it as him making an inappropriate argument about semantics in entirely the wrong place. These are very different things, and it seems like many people, i
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by xkapastel 7y ago
I saw some allegations in https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2019/09/01/jdg-and-the-fp-commun... All of this stuff is really mild. If this is the best they've got then I don't think John DeGoes did an
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by xkapastel 7y ago
> This was an early factor in third-wave feminism accepting gender identity, which is why almost all millenial and gen-Z feminists accept trans and intersex people and why TERFs tend to be older I don't see why this story would lead
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by xkapastel 7y ago
What makes you think Flutter is in any way similar to Flash?

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