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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
> Leaders have also said they will kill Jews anywhere in the world, btw I'm curious, is your claim that one of the current leaders of Hamas said this? If so I'd love to read the quote. > If Israel doesn't take out Hamas
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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
As a random bystander I find your comments extremely hard to comprehend. It's not really the vocabulary, although it could do to be less lofty. I think part of it is sentences like this: > Can you be curious about whether this appro
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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
I'm curious if pressure from the US ever mounts enough to end this war. Currently we're supporting Israel just like we always have and are just making some empty statements to signal to the more left-leaning segment of the Democra
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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
> These are completely rejected in the Palestinian street, but unfortunately they are officially and internationally recognized by the United Nations and supported by the United States of America. To me a smoking gun here is that Biden&#
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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
You mean legally part of Israel from Israel’s perspective, right? AFAIK neither the west bank nor the gaza strip are recognized as legitimate territories of Israel under international law but I admittedly know very little about internationa
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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
> In development at least, most of the times I hear this, the "availability" is only needed for random unplanned meetings from useless managers that can't actually plan or work asynchronously. Really? Because it's pre
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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
> it seems like the holy grail to the config files dilemma is to just hard-code desired settings in the source code That is…not remotely the holy grail. You’re really throwing out the baby with the bathwater on that one. User-configurabl
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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
As a shareholder I’m not at all sure of that. I’d rather take the guaranteed profit of the $10B per year. Even at Apple’s insane levels of free cash flow, $10B is still enough to really move the needle.
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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
I suspect that they know that the average user won't actually change it back. Just like how, IIRC, Apple Maps is (or at least was as a few years ago) the most commonly used mapping software purely due to the reach of iphone's user
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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
It seems that way to you because you're mired in it. But to someone who isn't, such policy doesn't have a tangible impact on their life, or more accurately it doesn't seem to. In much the same way that the impact of ov
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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
(Not GP) Thank you, that made it click for me!
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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
The purpose of evidence is to provide support for a claim. However in colloquial speech we generally speak of someone having "evidence" of something when they have absolute proof.
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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
This isn’t quite true because their racial admission bias was far stronger than that needed to make up for all the nepotism (legacy donor athlete etc) admitees.
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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
The article says as such: > My biggest problem with SF was simply not feeling physically safe while walking down the street or sitting in a train. SF has a pretty low violent crime rate, at least by US standards, so I wasn’t worried abou
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by __blockcipher__ 3y ago
Your comments in this thread seem to me to be heavily laden with the cognitive distortion of catastrophizing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion#Magnifica... > Catastrophizing – Giving greater weight
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
"For all we know" is an expression that conveys a lack of knowledge/certainty, so they're using the phrase in a way that makes perfect sense.
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
> They made a bet that people wouldn't need their money back right now. It's the constant risk in fractional reserve banking. Meh. Fractional reserve banking is not without risks, but I don't see any mention from you of t
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
> No banking investment is safe if there is a run on the bank This isn't true. Runs can only happen when a bank has insufficient liquidity. Such as when it holds long-dated bonds that it purchased at historical rock-bottom low inter
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
To be clear, I imagine that it’s not that the reservoir is literally “intentionally” storing different strains but just that viruses are more accurately thought of as “quasispecies swarms”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
Here’s another example: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blm-terrorist-rosenberg/ > In the absence of a single, universally-agreed definition of "terrorism," it is a matter of subjective determinatio
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
IIRC the maggots need to directly eat the dead tissue, so they are basically directly on the wound. The maggots themselves are covered with a dressing so you can't see them, but my understanding is they can be somewhat felt. On the &qu
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
Maggot wound dressings are incredibly effective at debridement of necrotic tissue. There's other approaches that can be taken (using enzymes, etc), but the maggots work great. Notably maggot therapy is only indicated for wounds that ha
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
The best method for healing burn wounds (also cuts, abrasions, lacerations, and the like) is outlined in these slides: https://www.emilio-moriguchi.or.jp/disease/doc/moist_eng.pdf ^ Seriously these slides are incr
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
It was also in this weird spot where they wanted to use it for PR but simultaneously wanted to shove it beneath the floorboards so people won’t mass adopt it.
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
We all know how those “ethics committees” go, right? It’d immediately turn into another culture war type issue where very blatant favoritism is shown to certain charities and blatant hostility to others.
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
If your “less cynical” (I’d say “more naive” :P) take is true, then where’s their concurrent announcement that they’re donating .5% of sales (or at least .5* * % of revenue that was amazon-smiled since not everyone used it) to a smaller set
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
The line you quoted: > Those receiving weekly injections of semaglutide lost, on average, 14.9% of their body weight after 16 months of treatment; those who received a placebo lost 2.4% on average. Doesn't really have anything to do
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
The correct answer is because it's become very taboo, particularly in academic circles, to make any statement that implies that it's not good to be fat. So articles like these always must include at least one generic quote about h
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
Neither Rogan nor Fridman are really "right wing", but of the two Fridman is certainly not. We're talking about a guy who spearheaded the "masks 4 all" push back at the beginning of COVID. If we're assigning ar
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by __blockcipher__ 4y ago
> The problem is the massive leaps of logic being made by people who have (quite wrongly, based on available evidence) become convinced that the vaccines are a greater threat to healthy people than the virus is. That may be true overall

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