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by zamfi 5y ago
> Incognito, like it or not, evokes the expectation that the browser is doing something to frustrate monitoring by other parties. And it does this: cookies are not shared or stored past the session, etc. The issue is that some tracking
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by zamfi 5y ago
I mean, it’s still logarithmic. What’s a constant among friends?
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by zamfi 5y ago
Not to nit, but Richter is also not just log_10: a single point increase is ~32x more energy. This is due to the relationship between energy and shaking amplitude: > The energy release of an earthquake,[27] which closely correlates to
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by zamfi 5y ago
> Astroid impact proponents present their view as rock solid but the reality is there are holes in the evidence […] I…really thought this was going to be a joke post based on this sentence!
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by zamfi 5y ago
First off, I was just framing the parent’s post in the modern usage of “exception that proves the rule” and not making any claims myself, so perhaps reconsider who’s making unfounded assumptions here. > You have no idea what other people
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by zamfi 5y ago
I think the intent behind the modern usage of "the exception that proves the rule" is that: a) the rule is a heuristic, not a hard-and-fast rule, and b) the notability of exceptions suggests that the heuristic is pretty good. In
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by zamfi 5y ago
The short answer to your question is that it takes time to mount an antibody response. Vaccines do one big thing: they "teach" the adaptive immune system how to produce antibodies for the virus, and in the process the body produce
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by zamfi 5y ago
Every article that leads with this kind of stat is guilty of lying by omission. The typical immune response produces 10,000-100,000 times more antibodies than “necessary” to fight an infection. If delta needs 8x more antibodies, then, wel
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by zamfi 5y ago
Hmm. Are the biologists not aware of the Law of Truly Large Numbers? [0] That would be concerning indeed… [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_truly_large_numbers
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by zamfi 5y ago
> 17 million people 10 million houses Wait, you’re making it sound like this is an obvious case of not enough supply — which could potentially be solved by building more homes! — but in fact, it’s the total opposite: the average Dutch ho
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by zamfi 5y ago
This is fantastic, thank you for sharing. I used to wonder where my penchant for writing “Dear Administrator” letters came from, and reading your post reminded me that as a high schooler I was encouraged to write these by basically every st
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by zamfi 5y ago
For most healthy people, salt is not problematic, your kidneys do a great job of maintaining your blood salinity. However, if you have kidney disease, or if you have genetic mutations that cause you to retain salt (as is, apparently, common
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by zamfi 5y ago
> Now imagine they're judging you for something you can't change, instead of for your clothing. Most people don’t need to imagine.
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by zamfi 5y ago
Hmm, where did you get that number from? [0] says: > Higher education spending accounted for 18% of the state budget in 1976–77, but by 2016–17 higher education funding had fallen to 12% of the budget. These funding cuts have been felt m
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by zamfi 5y ago
Obviously I can't speak to your own personal experience, but I've done a surprising amount of biking on streets that have added bikes lanes, and my experience is that the bike lanes tend to improve my subjective experience of bi
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by zamfi 5y ago
I loved his book, but it's worth noting Catmull was pretty unapologetic for his role in the high tech employee wage-fixing scandal...
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by zamfi 5y ago
> So you have young people in their 20s with no sense of purpose. Why not LARP on twitter and pretend you're saving the world by trying to ruin the lives of people you don't agree with? I’m not sure if you’re suggesting this, b
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by zamfi 5y ago
That’s only true if the Christianity itself is fungible — would Constantine have found any other set of teachings followed by the same group equally useful?
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by zamfi 5y ago
I don’t have the answer, but I suspect one piece of it is that the “code” part and the “logic” part can both be challenging. Exposing just the logic part (and hiding the code) like Airtable does can make things easier, but it’s definitely n
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by zamfi 5y ago
(2014) Today, writing actual code is the programming of last resort. Software like Airtable and other no-code tools would handle these examples without the need for some poor inexperienced programmer to write code from scratch using a bespo
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by zamfi 5y ago
Legally mandatory. Because too many people (often kids!) have been killed or injured by inattentive drivers who back up without looking behind their cars.
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by zamfi 5y ago
Reading this list, it almost seems like these were created by looking up each individual word in a thesaurus, which of course destroys much of the meaning. E.g., Signal -> flag To -> to Noise -> clamor …and… Data -&g
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by zamfi 5y ago
> in my personal experience, laziness is absolutely a thing. As an example, many friends in college would go party or hang out far more often than I did. Its not that I didn't like hanging out, its that I valued the long term payout
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by zamfi 5y ago
> You leave an extension cord more then once out overnight, it will get stolen; the copper in it is worth a dollar or two. I can't imagine how fast a $200 charging cable with $10 of scrap copper in it wouldn't get swiped. It&#x
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by zamfi 5y ago
I'm not really sure how to respond to this. The phrase "equality of outcome" only means "everyone must have exactly the same success/income/wealth/accolades/etc" when taken to an untenable extr
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by zamfi 5y ago
I read your entire post, which is absolutely pointing out the slippery slope. And sure, many others have slipped down this slope. What I am saying is that your proposed dystopia is not the inevitable result of considering equality of outc
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by zamfi 5y ago
Biology and chemistry exist as disciplines because, even though the laws of physics theoretically explain everything about the universe, it is completely intractable to use them to do so — and it turns out we can construct explanations of t
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by zamfi 5y ago
I’d caution you to recognize that the slippery-slope argument you are making requires an engineer’s adherence to an extremely strong definition of “equality of outcome”. The ADA requires only “reasonable accommodation” which is why you can
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by zamfi 5y ago
> Hard work, intelligence, willpower, perseverance are, at the root, all genetic. Environmental factors may influence these traits, but how you react to environmental factors is also genetic...unless you believe in religious concepts suc
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by zamfi 5y ago
…in just one given week, though. And that week was not so bad; in January we had case rates many multiples higher. But maybe if you count infections per second, instead of per week, you can get a number so close to 100% not dead that it’s a

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