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by yters 6y ago
I don't know why someone would intentionally destroy vaccines.
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by yters 6y ago
What if the universe itself is alive, just on a vastly longer timescale than normal organic life? It contains all other life, after all.
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by yters 6y ago
I wonder if it could have been modified to provide more protection for the elderly. In theory, herd immunity will be a safer outcome for the elderly.
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by yters 6y ago
Strong opposition in the west may because it was a western lab originally?
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by yters 6y ago
The net psychic cost of lockdowns might be more than if we'd taken the Swedish herd immunity route. We don't have a good way to account for such non tangible costs.
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by yters 6y ago
Maybe the libertarian I talk to is not representative, but he thinks even military and police are not valid government functions, since they necessitate taxes, which necessitate levying monies from people with an underlying threat of force.
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by yters 6y ago
I was doing a lot of cardio training for an ironman and had really low body fat, but still borderline overweight according to BMI.
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by yters 6y ago
But as long as you have government you need funds, which means tax, which means threat of force.
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by yters 6y ago
The irony of the BMI is the more I workout to stay in the healthy range, the more difficult it is to stay in the healthy range. Best bet is to sit around not eating anything to be 'healthy' according to BMI.
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by yters 6y ago
I read a story in the recent past about a 30 some year old constant gamer who lived in his parents' house who shot and killed his mother for messing with his gaming console. There is some anecdata for you.
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by yters 6y ago
Otoh there are studies carried out by Stanford, iirc, demonstrating the opposite. I guess the studies that support the conclusion I like are the correct studies.
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by yters 6y ago
Well, there is just about zero government regulation of personal morality.
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by yters 6y ago
Is government guaranteeing safety a necessary tenet of libertarianism? I thought security would be privatized on the open market.
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by yters 6y ago
Totally this. Games programming seems the only field where all my years of comp sci and eng training actually matter.
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by yters 6y ago
Well, I for one encounter this fallacy constantly and discussion would be a net boost if all participants recognized and avoided said fallacy.
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by yters 6y ago
I wonder if people just are not as good at being stimulation free and alone with their thoughts.
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by yters 6y ago
Exactly, having a professional do it not only is more expensive, but can be more time consuming and annoying.
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by yters 6y ago
Yes, very odd for a religion based on the premise their founder is literally God incarnate, could work miracles, levitated into the sky, walked through walls, said his followers will do even greater things, and can secure his followers eter
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by yters 6y ago
Yes, this is the reason. I read through plenty of philosophy and such, and Catholicism was the best synthesis as well as claiming to be historically and empirically demonstrable. Previously I was protestant and then maybe atheist, and I al
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by yters 6y ago
Right, definitely valid. But I could have spent that 20 hrs playing a video game, which has the same sort of feedbacks, but doesn't teach me a useful skill. If I reinterpret the installation as a meditative time of carefully learning
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by yters 6y ago
Yes, also try. We hired a nanny in the mornings to help care for the kids.
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by yters 6y ago
As an introvert, so level of becoming an extrovert has helped me. E.g. dating and the getting married, learning to dance and weight lifting, which helped with the dating and getting married. Also, Toastmasters got me comfortable speaking
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by yters 6y ago
I disagree. I spent 20 hours installing a remote start on my wife’s minivan for $150 when it would have cost $400 to have professionals do it in 3 hours. My time was well spent.
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by yters 6y ago
Response to the paper arguing many ML models are very underspecified?
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by yters 6y ago
If that is your preference, I think you are living in the wrong country.
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by yters 6y ago
Fiberglass is really fast and cheap, and you can throw together a simple mold with wood. Hard to see 3d printing competing in the space of just making useful boats.
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by yters 6y ago
I agree. I am working on a devops team that has assembled a half decent CI/CD infrastructure for widespread use at our company of 600 devs and thousands of apps. We are on our second iteration, which is even leaner and more invisible
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by yters 6y ago
I’ve wondered whether these good engineers are really a net benefit. They crank out something spiffy, move your big systems to it, and then disappear to work on the next hotness, leaving an already burdened tech team to support yet one mor
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by yters 6y ago
No I am not arguing for a trade school approach. My impression from 4 years of undergrad and 4 years of graduate studies is the material in my classes could be much better focused around the key questions that created the topic in the firs
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by yters 6y ago
Comp Eng PhD here. The fields can indeed be dramatically compressed. Lots of trivia obscure the main points in each comp sci topic.

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