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by native_samples 4y ago
No, I understood, my reply was meant as a disagreement. You're defining "extremist" as someone who ignores evidence that counters their beliefs, but that isn't what the word means, is it? Or rather I've never seen s
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by native_samples 4y ago
Common story. Some of the people who fled Russia to the west to avoid supporting the war got totally screwed. When they arrived their credit cards and bank access stopped working so they couldn't pay for anywhere to live, they cannot g
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by native_samples 4y ago
"I was referring to the phenomenon of people denying what is obvious and beyond scientific dispute." The problem is that this is the religious position, not the other one. If you go investigate this properly you'll find the
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by native_samples 4y ago
"This may in turn cause massive disruptions to human societies." The word "may" is doing a lot of work here. Lots of things may cause massive disruptions to human society. One thing we can say with certainty: the mit
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by native_samples 4y ago
"The only way the graph doesn’t tell us anything about heat is if we intentionally separate it from any context or larger system of knowledge." That's nonsense. Temperature isn't a direct function of CO2 in the atmosph
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by native_samples 4y ago
I'm sorry to hear that you know people who died of COVID. I don't think anyone I've ever met later died of COVID, and that's true of most of my friends too, as far as I know. It's just very rare, which is why they c
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by native_samples 4y ago
"Virtually never" is not falsifiable by anecdote. The statistics on this are clear.
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by native_samples 4y ago
The citation for most of the claims is the vaccine trial reports themselves. As for not affecting transmission, I'm on my phone so can't give you links right now but just search Google Scholar and you'll find them. It's
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by native_samples 4y ago
"They absolutely are effective at reducing the risk of death or serious illness" Actually, possibly not :( This breaks down into two separate questions: 1. Are they effective at reducing risk of death / serious illness now.
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by native_samples 4y ago
Correct! Curious to see how long this story remains unflagged, because flagging of any posts showing errors in official COVID claims tend to get killed very quickly here. Here are even more popular-but-unpopular opinions (facts). We did not
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by native_samples 4y ago
I wasn't actually talking about the training, I was talking about the concept of unconscious bias. So, keep reading. The implicit association test is what it's all based on but it doesn't have any test/retest reliability
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by native_samples 4y ago
Of course they can. They could ask you how long it took you to paint, they could ask to see your studio, etc.
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by native_samples 4y ago
Unconscious bias isn't real. The studies that claimed it existed don't replicate and were methodologically ridiculous to begin with.
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by native_samples 4y ago
They've done a lot of good stuff with Java.
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by native_samples 4y ago
Tip: if you go to https://news.ycombinator.com/active instead of the front page you can see stories that were flagged. This is how I read HN because the number of interesting, relevant and useful stories that get flagged fo
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by native_samples 4y ago
Researchers pretty regularly do meta-studies and call it research so that seems a poor basis on which to dismiss the article.
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by native_samples 4y ago
No, safepoints are added to your code by the JVM automatically. When bytecode is being interpreted, every bytecode instruction has a safepoint after it. In compiled code polls are scattered thoughout the code, for example on method entries
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by native_samples 4y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-... Then summing the 18-65 buckets (working age).
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by native_samples 4y ago
The JVM guys are working on that with Loom, and, because of its multi-language nature, that can be brought across to many other languages too. Including, oddly, Rust, because Rust compiles with LLVM and GraalVM has a Truffle interpreter for
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by native_samples 4y ago
This feels like a common pattern. Languages like Rust and Go seem to pick up a lot of users from the world of dynamic languages, who then incorrectly associate the productivity gains of static typing with the specific language they picked.
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by native_samples 4y ago
For 3: a. The official number is ~254,000 (in the USA) which is certainly a major over-estimate. True number is certainly far less. b. Employees who died or retired don't count as resigned.
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by native_samples 4y ago
Er, why? Most of the churn isn't to do with JS as a language.
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by native_samples 4y ago
"This is how science is meant to work." It's really not. You seem to be talking about COVID science in general, but this specific WHO debate is something else. Regardless of which way you slice things, it's colossal
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by native_samples 4y ago
If that were true it'd be visible in the data but it's not. Masks did nothing yet a vocal minority forced everyone else to wear them and refused to accept the evidence it was pointless and harmful.
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by native_samples 4y ago
"It's only unfalsifiable if you ignore a person's previous experience and accomplishments, refusing to acknowledge anything other than your own interview as an accurate gauge of the person's skills." Which is ofte
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by native_samples 4y ago
After they were hired, and we were talking about interview design, and they were proposing questions harder than mine? Seems reasonable to mention if they had to prep then. Later I also pushed back on proposals for things like homework, but
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by native_samples 4y ago
I've done hundreds of interviews and that is only very rarely a problem. Normally candidates aren't nervous, but just can't program. They don't have the knowledge, they're flummoxed by basic errors from their comp
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by native_samples 4y ago
By "demonstrating their skills" I meant demonstrate to what extent they have skills, not that they were all very skilled or could do the work. They were nonetheless able to prove what they did know. I've done hundreds of in
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by native_samples 4y ago
Yes, that's absolutely a good point worth repeating - Google is obviously under no obligation to publish anything or make any demos available. They can keep their research entirely proprietary if they want. There is maybe a question of
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by native_samples 4y ago
Google claims to have a new DALL-E like model that does much better in precise instruction, due to using text models in different ways: https://imagen.research.google/ Unfortunately the impact of Imagen will be low like all

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