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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Both statements as written are true: vaccines do kill people and vaccines do save lives. If you insert the implicit “all”, then both are false: not all vaccines save lives and not all vaccines kill people. But your knowledge of medicine is
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
GPS of your phone and the audio from your phone? How is that not personal data?
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That’s not at all how you’re taught to handle emergencies. From health emergencies to shootings to computer system crashes to pandemics — doing things without a reason to believe they’ll improve the situation is dangerous. You can and many
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Really? Experts have a worse track record than open debate and the COVID censorship was directed at even experts who didn’t adhere to political choices — so to my eyes, you’re saying that you’d give in to authoritarian impulses and do worse
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You’re removing people who were correct before the WHO revised their position.
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I think RNA (in particular, ribozymes) does those things. But DNA is effectively separation of concerns: RNA systems evolved to RNA mediated systems with DNA as more inert and reliable storage and enzymes as more effective catalysts. Or so
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
That one is easy because it’s directly refuted by lived experience — eg: There’s mountains outside my window, so… not flat. Do you have evidence that it’s flat? — what do you even mean by “flat” when I can see ripples in it?
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I don’t do the second, so I can’t answer. But to answer the first, I’ve heard directly from party strategists that they look for people who vote, but not in a particular race. They can’t identify them directly, but a higher ballot submitted
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Because you didn’t address the substance of their point: What you’re arguing for is only single-round optimal, but multi-round suboptimal — much like defection in the Prisoners Dilemma is defeated by trust strategies the Iterated Prisoners
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Accused of genocide by a state in which a political party regularly lead chants and songs about murdering an ethnic minority. I’m sure it’s not a sign of bias how often, eg, the UN writes reports on Israel versus murdered Christians in Afri
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I’ve seen more errors from “pubilshed” strings than difficulties updating an enum. The rest of it is arguing about what constitutes valid states, eg, commit messages when the user deletes or wrong-schema datagrams being partially utilized.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
So? You’re only using one deck at a time; so you only need to generate 1 bit randomly 226 times — then use that deck.
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But extrapolation can fail. Eg, people often say any amount of radiation is bad, but there’s evidence that isn’t true. If you’re going to make a similar claim about alcohol, you should justify it. “Persistent consumption above some threshol
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I’d argue the opposite: One of the worst parts of humanity is that we’re bad to those close to us in the name of far away, nebulous benefits.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
This is often dishonest though: You haven’t proven that your point of view is any more coherent, just attacked theirs while refusing to engage about your own — which is the behavior they’re responding to with aggression.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I think it’s more subtle: Imagine that you’re trying to access an API, which for some reason fails. “Let it crash” isn’t an argument against handling the timeout, but rather that you should only retry a few, bounded times rather than (eg) e
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
The same group in society has been lamenting “too many Jews” in higher education for generations — and has several Supreme Court cases against their discrimination. Quotas to DIE have all been ruled to, in practice, amount to illegal discri
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
So… they took away Ublock Origin (and other “strong adblocking”) for the reason I said…?
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Google banned ad blockers from Chrome by claiming it secured non-technical users.
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Preventing Jews from entering the campus and threatening them are not protected by the 1st Amendment — that’s why UCLA settled the lawsuit for millions, because they had a duty to stop those acts. https://www.theguardian.com&#x2F
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
Marxism equipped with “critical theories”, typically focused on tribal grievance narratives rather than class struggle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Marxism That answers your sibling reply as well, as it’s clear w
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
No, eg, liberal capitalist Americans oppose Marxism — and the adoption of neo-Marxist ideas has collapsed movie and game sales because their ideology is widely unpopular. That’s a trope by Marxists to attempt to normalize alt-left ideology
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
I’m still having trouble finding the gap between fascism and socialism, when reading their manifesto. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_Manifesto > That doesn't mean that anti-Marxists are all Nazis, or vic
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Or that rhetoric like yours is common, so LLMs conflate unrelated ideas — such as opposition to neo-Marxist philosophy and Nazism.
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This is a false dichotomy. There’s a third option besides unlimited H1Bs, etc and completely restricted market — which is preferencing US natives. And this problem isn’t reserved to CS grads — but represents 2/3rds of prospective middl
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
There have been more women than men in college for 40 years — and this is already a problem, because women don’t date down.
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Similar to how we talk about the Wage Gap but not the Death Gap, ie, that men do an order of magnitude more dying in the workplace.
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I was curious how densely you needed drones — 1 per 5 or 6 sq km. A level that a force might accidentally have that many. Assumptions: - 5 drones per vehicle to achieve a neutralization - 50 vehicles breaking through the line - total of 250
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by zmgsabst 1y ago
> A model based on fitting to observations would have happened in the other order. We’d already had models which said that certain quantities were conserved in a system — and entanglement says that is true of certain systems with multipl
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Most of that is measured corrections, not a theoretical model. Entanglement is just a statistical effect in our measurements — we can’t say what is happening or why that occurs. We can calculate that effect because we’ve fitted models, but

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