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by native_samples 4y ago
They do not have time. Only realistic alternative is nukes (takes many years to build) or an LNG import terminal (started already, takes years to build). All the alternatives to depending on Russian imports require enormously complex constr
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by native_samples 4y ago
Almost certainly they'd searched for that doctor to get directions?
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by native_samples 4y ago
And that's why I said "nobody thinks that", indeed. Nonetheless, you seem to be fluent. Lots of people around the world speak some English but aren't fluent, don't get dubbing or subtitles into their own language fo
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by native_samples 4y ago
The current situation is not in any way desperate. All claims that a desperate crisis exists are based on the assumption of feedback loops that do not yet show up in any actual data and in fact many temperature datasets e.g. from satell
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by native_samples 4y ago
You originally claimed "Look at Brexit, it has caused economic harm". A direct causal assertion. Now you've switched to "various organizations claim it will cause harm" which is a very different thing. "you la
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by native_samples 4y ago
Used Jira at the last company. Use YouTrack now. YouTrack is better, hands down. Much faster UI, more keyboardable, better integrated into the IDE, integrating it with CI and mailboxes is easy. Caveats: new job is small so it's a small
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by native_samples 4y ago
Latest versions of YouTrack come with a knowledge base and pretty flexible workflows support. I'm curious why YouTrack never seems to be listed as a Jira+Confluence competitor, given the similar target markets.
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by native_samples 4y ago
Yes. Google's first decade was notorious for their terrible products. That's why nobody used anything made by Google before 2016. Ye gods. What has become of that once great organization when this is the best response you can co
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by native_samples 4y ago
That supports my point, no? The paragraph you cited boils down to "there is an association between being less sick and not getting Alzheimer's (i.e. being less sick" + "there seems to be an association between literally
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by native_samples 4y ago
In the UK people vote for parties and not individuals almost all of the time, so the whip system is there to ensure people get what they actually voted for. A good example of where this disastrously failed is just after Brexit where a lot o
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by native_samples 4y ago
The polls said the same for the British population before the referendum process started. The population changed its mind before the vote. Actually, you have to be careful with polls. Polling showed a very clear and strong majority of the B
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by native_samples 4y ago
The problem with this argument is as follows: 1. National governments do not have control. That implies that for each government, they could ensure the outcome they wanted, which is impossible in a shared legal system. In the era of the vet
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by native_samples 4y ago
Only a small minority of people actually think continent sized governments are a good idea, especially in Europe. Most people think this is self-evidently a bad idea, which is why the EU leaderships are never willing to let people actually
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by native_samples 4y ago
Having once been a heavy user of emacs and then switched to IDEA, I'm not sure emacs actually is more extensible. The IDEA API is enormous and very powerful. Plugins don't seem particularly limited in what they can do.
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by native_samples 4y ago
It could be reasonable but like I said, it's a massive stretch. Flu vaccines are not designed to stop Alzheimer's. There is no argued or known biological pathway through which that might happen. Alzheimer's experts have not
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by native_samples 4y ago
We're talking about epidemiology though. Their papers routinely contain major, grievous errors that anyone can spot in five minutes. There might well be subtle errors too but it doesn't matter when the field is overrun with papers
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by native_samples 4y ago
It's not facetious. It's quite the stretch to say that if you assume literally any injection could cure any disease, it's OK to describe any found correlation as a "link". This sort of intellectual looseness is not
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by native_samples 4y ago
If they're going to claim causality for vaccines->less Alzheimers then yes, they need pretty close to 100% confidence for that because this is the sort of thing that gets translated into mandatory government policies. What they have
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by native_samples 4y ago
"The vaccine is known to be safe and with few side effects" The COVID vaccines are also "known" to be safe and with few side effects, by the sort of public health people who like to make such claims. That doesn't
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by native_samples 4y ago
The quote isn't offhand, it's directly and explicitly making claims of causality, e.g. talking about the "effect" and saying the vaccination "reduces the risk". Yes the paper says differently. So what? We'
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by native_samples 4y ago
That's a curious inversion of cause/effect. You're suggesting people have latched onto this movie specifically and are trying to "claim" it as non woke even though it's not? There are plenty of movies that do w
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by native_samples 4y ago
Wouldn't that be an oil company? I think his point is that with liquid fuels you have more decentralisation and buffering of energy.
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by native_samples 4y ago
Nobody thinks that, but: 1. English is an unusually compact language. If you watch dubbed movies you will notice that the characters often have to talk extremely fast compared to the original and much dialogue is rephrased to be simpler. Th
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by native_samples 4y ago
That's why the new Top Gun is such a monster at the box office. It's a "woke zero" movie in which you believe the characters are actually competent because you watch them train. They're believable and you want them
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by native_samples 4y ago
It's such an underrated movie. I watch it at least once a year. Watching it with your kids must bea lot of fun.
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by native_samples 4y ago
I remember many years ago, Google internally knew that one of the only signals obtainable from CVs was the negative signal from number of certs. I don't think this knowledge was actually used for anything, it was just a correlation, bu
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by native_samples 4y ago
"it’d be a career making move if you could prove something that juicy!" That's absurd. We know the grant that funded the WIV lab work was signed off by Fauci during a time when GoF research was banned in the USA. If you pro
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by native_samples 4y ago
If you've read Gates' own book on the pandemic, you'll see he would not be open to the contents of Viral.
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by native_samples 4y ago
"Nobody is helped if China leaves the WHO" Are you sure? Is the goal of the WHO to generate accurate health advice, or to accumulate memberships?
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by native_samples 4y ago
COVID vaccines never affected other people because they don't reduce transmission, and even if they did, the point of a vaccine is individual protection. If you think it works then it didn't matter what other people choose. And th

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