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by xracy 3y ago
Do you think they got to that point without trying to "reach across the aisle" and talk to these folks? I promise you I didn't come to similar conclusions without having hundreds of conversations with people I disagreed with.
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by xracy 3y ago
ah yes, "traffic enforcement fixes traffic" That's why there exists no traffic in all of the places with traffic police. It's not at all like it's a positive feedback loop where one person messing up parking causes
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by xracy 3y ago
> Ads showing traffic jams could actually help promote large cars. This is high on the list of BS claims I have seen. If it were true, why wouldn't car companies use it to sell cars?
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by xracy 3y ago
The difference between Elon and Swift, is the scale to which they are able to use capitalism for their means. I think Elon is scarier for that reason. (Not absolving Swift of that, though).
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by xracy 3y ago
I would guess climate models are a chaos-theory-style thing, and that sensitivity to initial conditions would make predicting in either direction of time difficult/impossible.
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by xracy 3y ago
This has to be the most disappointing band-aid they possibly could've trotted out to the American Public. And by "Band-aid", I mean, "Piece of scotch tape they're slapping on a gaping wound and saying it's &#x2
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by xracy 3y ago
I think I watched it at 2x speed, and it was only 30m. I'm gonna say it's worth the hour, and I think you might be falling into the trap of media communication about science. If something is worth communicating to a lay-person, it
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by xracy 3y ago
Are we actually going to compare the momentum of a bike in a vacuum? I will give you 20kg for a bike even, because the weight of the bike is so negligible. 100kg * 24km/h = 2400 kgkm/h vs a car If we cross-reference this with a li
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by xracy 3y ago
I have never seen this from cyclists towards pedestrians. I've seen resentment towards drivers almost hitting them... This feels like a very driver's view of cyclists, and not a cyclists view. But ultimately, I think cyclists are
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by xracy 3y ago
Why is this article the one that makes you say that? Nothing about this is particularly political to me... but it's definitely a good thing to report, cause this is otherwise fucked up.
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by xracy 3y ago
It's funny to me the number of people who agree that billionaires should have a significant amount of their money taken from them, but then hem and haw about exactly how we should take their money from them. "We have to make up ru
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by xracy 3y ago
The thing here that confuses me is that the DoE is definitely the gov't agency I most associate with Health. \s Why are we giving so much wait to the organization that says "Energy" in the name over one that says "Health
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by xracy 3y ago
Ad hominem attacks are famously the first resort of people who are correct about everything.
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by xracy 3y ago
> We also haven't proven it wasn't a lab leak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#P... Your second point is better taken.
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by xracy 3y ago
You're misrepresenting my argument at the top. My argument here is "We don't know that this was created in a lab, and it's unreasonable to assume it was when we have evidence that it wasn't created in a lab."
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by xracy 3y ago
There's literally an alternative proposed leak method that is the current consensus (market) that is more believable than the lab-leak theory.
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by xracy 3y ago
I have certainly not heard of any new evidence that would change my view that it was not caused by a lab-leak yet. My impression is that the market animal to human jump was still the prevailing theory.
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by xracy 3y ago
> I think avoiding many if not most gain-of-function experiments is a reasonable lesson to learn from this pandemic. Help me out, I don't see the thread of logic from your previous points...
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by xracy 3y ago
citation needed
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by xracy 3y ago
I get that there are a lot of arm-chair experts who think this was a lab-leak. But we're making many large jumps here from: Was this created in a lab? Was this leaked from a lab? Is there something inherently dangerous about studying v
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by xracy 3y ago
Something seems funny to me about this bill. The article seems to state: > the legislation has more Republican co-sponsors than Democratic backers at the moment, raising questions about just how many Democrats might sign on. And I can&#x
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by xracy 3y ago
I find people are much more likely to over key on their first-hand accounts than to rightly consider how small their sample-size is. So in terms of common "mistakes" I see, I think yours is the larger. "First hand accounts&qu
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by xracy 3y ago
Everyone here's pretending like they don't understand that for a while the US military was a source of genuinely impressive technological innovations (RADAR, internet, etc). Whereas nowadays, I'm mostly aware of military cont
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by xracy 3y ago
I guess power-draw and clock speed is how we're going to be getting around Moore's law ending for a while... Doesn't feel like the right way forward. Would be cool to do more with less by switching off of x86 optimizations.
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by xracy 3y ago
This feels like a logical extension from "monocultures are bad." Like, I get they're useful for us, but we seem to be relearning again and again that the further you get from monoculture the better ecosystems do... And it&#x2
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by xracy 3y ago
I did a business plan competition at one point in College. And I didn't do well, and I realized later the reason I lost, was I was focusing too much on the product, and not enough on the business plan. The group that won third place be
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by xracy 3y ago
There are interests that different generations tend to vote for, that have led to noticeable quality of life changes for future demographics. Politicians have an outsized share of the blame, but they do respond to the people who actually
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by xracy 3y ago
Everyone knows that the only way to solve freeway traffic is to add another lane of traffic \s.
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I can't figure this out, but there seems to be some monied interests in people returning to work because of corporate real estate... That part makes sense to me, the part I don't understand is why every other corporation seems to
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by xracy 3y ago
> What I never see in any of these articles about justices getting favors or gifts or this and that is any link that influenced the outcome of a case. You'd think that would be readily apparent because the opinions and views of thes

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