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by xvedejas 6y ago
I'll conjecture that languages will invariably end up with a more neutral option, even when such options seem required. Sometimes it is useful to the speaker to be ambiguous, whether it is to understate something, imply something, or j
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I don't see why I would trust grammatically-required self-assessments of expertise any more than I already do when someone tags one of those phrases (not much).
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Users, not abusers
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I'll answer the part of your question nobody else has: Yes, this legislator (Scott Wiener) gets a lot of public support. He won a closely contested election by two percentage points in 2016 against another Democrat to enter the state s
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Consider for your analysis: if you're walking in the same neighborhood, even for many many walks, those walks' risks will actually be quite correlated. So it's not like the probabilities combine the same way they would for in
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Yes, towers are expensive, but building them doesn't make the existing SFHs more expensive. Maybe tower building and rising home prices both coincide with certain economic trends, post hoc ergo propter hoc.
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Maybe ternaries aren't easier to read, but they make the surrounding code easier to read because they duck out of the way? Devoting several lines to what is a very quick if/else expression could be distracting I suppose. Playing d
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by xvedejas 6y ago
I sincerely doubt that building towers lead to an increase in costs in the existing housing stock, unless something very strange is afoot.
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I think you can avoid the virus without barricading yourself inside, if you understand its mechanisms correctly. There's a big difference in behavior between someone who mistakenly thinks the virus is primarily spread by surfaces, and
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You don't own this comment section, and I'm not making it harder for you to post by sharing my thoughts. The internet is big enough for the two of us.
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Consider adding to your list the normalization of pseudoscience for profit, especially practices like Chiropractic that are allowed to masquerade as a legitimate profession. A lot of lobbying had to happen to make this our reality. https:&
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I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with. Chiropractic is a scam and I'm sorry that it has such an impact on the poor. I'd call this an obvious systemic societal problem that we do this. Car wreck injuries should be met
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Massage may still feel worthwhile to the majority of people if it were also customary to drink a poison beforehand that makes 1% of customers deathly ill and just makes the other 99% feel a little weird. Most people will report "wow, t
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No, they harm people because of what they don't know and don't understand. Get it.
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The actions that chiropractors use that end up injuring people were not mistakes. They're an intended part of the practice. Since it's not an evidence-based profession, that doesn't matter to them. It's not like someone
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by xvedejas 6y ago
Choosing Chiropractic over evidence-based science is a bit like saying gambling on slots is a good way to make steady income. There are good slot machines and bad slot machines, just like there are good jobs and bad jobs; find the correct o
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by xvedejas 6y ago
I just want to underscore: Chiropractic is a pseudoscience and injures more people than it helps. I have heard too many stories of injuries and paralysis. It's a huge shame that our society allows these frauds to practice and advertize
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LVT isn't sufficient to fund UBI, it's necessary to make sure UBI doesn't have additional distortionary effects. Property taxes are really not a good comparison for LVT, since they tax property improvements too much and the l
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The real thing UBI must be paired with is a Land Value Tax. This helps prevent landlords from extracting the wealth, since their land-based monopoly won't give them profits; it gets recycled back into state programs (like UBI).
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By "mirror image", do you mean very identical looking, or do they also have different handedness or something? I could go 50/50 on this being some term for twins I haven't heard before.
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Well, this is kind of the goal right? When a group of people isn't obviously less-represented, then they won't be targets of D&I hiring. Call me an optimist but maybe by 2030, or 2040, the racial makeup of tech companies will
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by xvedejas 6y ago
I'm curious how real estate development is pushing out clubs. Here in San Francisco I feel like it's the opposite. Rents are too high and there are not enough spaces to open new clubs anyway. And lack of new development means youn
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Some governments manage to be less violent than others. I'm not sure that that affects the degree to which lobbying works.
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It's apparently already happened in California! Did you see the huge unemployment spike around March 2020?
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I hope it's clear I'm mocking the crudeness of conflating area and worth? Take up your issues with the article author.
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The Mercator projection is the only 2D map projection where: - North is always up - Angles are correct If that's your criteria for correctness, then Mercator is the most correct map projection. If you want a map that shows cor
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It will be a strong argument when there's more evidence. Do we have any example of significantly stronger viral adaptation in the presence of a vaccine that successfully stimulates the immune system? Even a full course of the less-effe
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The first dose prevents hospitalization. Right now, for every second dose we give, that's a decision to deny someone a life-saving dose in favor of someone already protected. What a strange prioritization to make. The bright side is th
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I understood the "close to the speed of light" really meant something much much smaller than 0.1c, since on cosmological timescales the difference between the first radio signals and domination from an alien civilization could be
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How does one define a coordinate system on such a grid? I considered making a game with the same kind of grid (five squares meet at each corner) but I just couldn't figure out how to individually address each cell in a way which allows

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