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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
Somehow these arguments about cultural appropriation only ever go one way. I've never heard anyone claim that it's cultural appropriation when non-Westerners adopt -- and benefit from -- various Western schools of thought. I'
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
> and you're out here in 2022 unironically saying "It's a gay man's disease", seriously? I'm out here unironically showing you data on the CDC's website: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/ris
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
The comparison to HIV is apt. At its peak, in the late 80s and early 90s, everyone was taught to dread this disease. Officials acted as though everyone was equally at risk of contracting it. That was incorrect, and pretending otherwise help
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
Presumably the ones going YOLO are the ones who have "had multiple sexual encounters at a bathhouse"?
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
570 ps is 0.57 ns.
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SEC Closes in on Rules That Could Reshape How Stock Market Operates(wsj.com)
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
The link you included seems to have nothing to do with our claim that Google is using data from their office apps for advertising. It looks like it was about people explicitly granting vetted third-party apps access to the content of their
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
I'm not making the trip. It sounds like you're saying users are moving files to the the wrong folders on their computers and the desktop tool respects that. What should the software do differently?
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
Which of Google's productivity apps collect your data for ads? Can you provide some proof?
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
From your first link: "While SARS-CoV-1 probably persists as a potential zoonotic threat in its original animal reservoir, human-to-human transmission of this virus may be considered eradicated because no human case has been documented
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
Yes. But it was also a fool's errand before omicron. Has there ever been a recorded instance of eliminating a respiratory infection before?
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
It probably does. Where do you find one of those free countries, though?
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
> Your suggestion means convincing them to change it so that most of them will not get reelected and will lose all power. That can never happen, human nature. That can happen, and has happened throughout history. It tends to be a bloody
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
It's interesting to consider the group psychology aspect. During the 2020 summer protests, many also said that the huge crowds were not spreading covid. Maybe this is similar. When there is a larger issue people are focusing on, concer
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
The summer of 2020 included a number of radical opinion shifts among politicians. Or maybe, since we can't know a person's mind and what opinions they'd previously quietly believed, more like radical shifts in publicly stated
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations might be relevant to your interests.
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
What indication is there that any new restrictions are being placed on a user's content? The blog post from Google only mentions the change of sending email notifications to users.
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
It will be interesting to see if this pill could be used as prophylaxis too, instead of only after the onset of symptoms. Might help with the need to recognize symptoms fairly early on.
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
Harvard is a hedge fund with a university attached for tax-exempt status.
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/269456/20211216/google-wo... makes it sound like they're adding a feature to review when files are restricted. That's very different.
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
My intuition for aerodynamics must not be as good as yours. But looking at https://caradvise.com/blog/2019/08/17/most-popular-cars-in-t... and https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g3600
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
Could that be explained by improved aerodynamics of cars now compared to then? Has that been studied?
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
The author apparently expect the Singularity to happen Real Soon Now. I guess our children will be living to 2500. "To fully grasp and plan for climate impacts under any scenario, researchers and policymakers must look well beyond the
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
I thought guitars typically get a French polish which does use shellac.
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
"[M]arginalized groups have often armed themselves when they feel the state is unwilling or unable to protect them." An example of this is calling to reduce policing, which probably would have the biggest (and very negative) impac
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
The NY Times spread some misinformation that Russia had offered a bounty to the Taliban for killing American soldiers [1]. [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/remember-...
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
And now $85 billion worth of American military arms as well.
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Microsoft Delays Full Headquarters Reopening to Undetermined Future Date(wsj.com)
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
Wasn't the lethality of Marek's disease for poultry driven by immune escape from vaccination?
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by thisiscorrect 5y ago
TLA+ as a formal language for specifying systems is quite good. But the quasi-official toolchain for working with it [1] including TLC and the sanitizer are not well maintained. They were pretty resistant to outside contributions when I tri

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