bjoyx

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by bjoyx 3y ago
No.
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by bjoyx 3y ago
It's Mastercard in Japan https://www.costco.co.jp/GlobalCard
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by bjoyx 5y ago
Have GMO advocates scientifically backed up their safety claims? The burden of proof lies on the side deploying self-replicating novel agents into the environment.
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by bjoyx 5y ago
Unscientific propaganda. The best scientific evidence we have suggests moderate consumption of alcohol protects the heart. From the Harvard School of Public Health: > More than 100 prospective studies show an inverse association between
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by bjoyx 5y ago
You are feeding a political movement that supports allowing a man, dishonest or not, to be jailed for protecting his sources, which will set a precedent that inhibits ALL genuine journalistic investigation.
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by bjoyx 5y ago
Source protection is when journalists (including heads of international organizations engaged in journalism) protect the sources of their information that enables said journalism. A "journalistic courtesy" that people like you wou
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by bjoyx 5y ago
False dichotomy. They could also show 3rd party timer and flight widgets in the search results.
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by bjoyx 6y ago
1. They should have stockpiled masks in advance of this epidemic 2. People can make their own masks at home
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by bjoyx 6y ago
If we can’t trust epidemiologists to protect us from an epidemic why should we trust radio wave scientists to protect us from radio waves?
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by bjoyx 6y ago
My point is that so-called "fact checking" here was incorrect. > Dr. Ho Pak-leung, a microbiologist and director of the Centre for Infection at the University of Hong Kong, described the video in the misleading post as “fake ne
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by bjoyx 6y ago
This was "fact checked" weeks ago as false (lol) https://factcheck.afp.com/novel-coronavirus-health-experts-w...
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by bjoyx 7y ago
Earlier measurements are likely to be biased downward: https://www.academia.edu/41743064/Systemic_Risk_of_Pandemic_...
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by bjoyx 7y ago
Higher than 2.0 "The mean estimate of R0 for the 2019-nCoV ranges from 3.30 (95%CI: 2.73-3.96) to 5.47 (95%CI: 4.16-7.10), and significantly larger than 1. Our findings indicate the potential of 2019-nCoV to cause outbreaks." htt
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by bjoyx 9y ago
This link has a paywall with no way to get around it (clicking "web" and going through Google doesn't work)
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by bjoyx 9y ago
> Terrorism is closer to the threat posed by crush deaths from vending machines This is a fallacy. In the case of terrorism "past performance is not an indicator of future results". An attack with e.g. a biological weapon could
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by bjoyx 13y ago
Remember Minority Report? What happens when "big data" applied to the dragnet flags you as dangerous because of a false positive. Let's start by comparing patterns in the data of known terrorists to everyone else and put the
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by bjoyx 13y ago
Translation: "I’m not making this speech because I want to moralise or scaremonger" -> "I’m making this speech because I want to moralise and scaremonger"
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The Black Swan ...of Absence of Secrecy
1 points by bjoyx 13y ago|0 comments
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by bjoyx 14y ago
How about a reverse signal: will she still love you without the ring?
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by bjoyx 14y ago
Stephen Wolfram