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by tic_tac 7y ago
At least one company in South Korea, Seegene, has produced many tests and it is this aggressive private sector production that is largely reasonable for South Korea's effective testing. There is also a large demand for Seegene's t
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by tic_tac 7y ago
Assuming the WHO stash has not already been depleted due to the global spike in cases, the number of WHO tests available to the US is probably insufficient to be helpful for its over 300 million people. Incentivizing the private sector to c
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by tic_tac 7y ago
Is 79°F hot? Alive is just a word. It means different things to different people and any formal definition will necessarily be arbitrary.
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Honeywell Has Built the Most Powerful Supercomputer in the World(inverse.com)
4 points by tic_tac 7y ago|0 comments
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by tic_tac 7y ago
This should be its own post on HN! Great story.
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by tic_tac 7y ago
So if there is superdeterminism, meaning positions are absolutely determined, either there is minimum scale in the universe (discrete universe) or somehow the universe computes with infinities. Both are absurd concepts! When probing the ult
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by tic_tac 7y ago
This is a snide and irrelevant comment.
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by tic_tac 7y ago
But ratios only express rational numbers, if we had to express location in a 3D continuum it's almost guaranteed that it would be represented by an irrational number.
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by tic_tac 7y ago
It is extremely frightening, and it's important that we continue to fight for freedom of expression on all platforms. Unfortunately so many have an innate bias against the US that any criticism of it is considered fair game regardless
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by tic_tac 7y ago
I understand that if we posit a super-Turing machine in which arbitrary positions on a continuum can be maximally expressed as finite values what I am saying does not logically follow. However, I would argue that such a super-Turing machine
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by tic_tac 7y ago
It's not a matter of computability though, it's a matter of exact precision not being physically possible in a continuum.
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by tic_tac 7y ago
If superdeterminism is true, it appears to imply that the universe is discrete at the smallest scales. Were the universe continuous, 'definite' position would be impossible, meaning that certainty itself would be impossible. Every
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by tic_tac 7y ago
The comment I replied to was saying that the lack of testing was indeed a political issue with one side at fault.
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by tic_tac 7y ago
You can't just conjure the necessary tests up from nothing. Japan has also had problems with testing. No one is trying to "deny testing". It is a work in progress and is indeed ramping up.
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In the Nature–Nurture War, Nature Wins(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
2 points by tic_tac 7y ago|0 comments
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by tic_tac 7y ago
I think there are a lot of Americans writing anti-Trump comments on Reddit, but I think the numbers are boosted by non Americans doing the same thing. It artificially inflates the number of anti Trump posters.
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by tic_tac 7y ago
There are two extreme paths we can take. The first is that we do nothing, the other is that we completely lock down our society like China. While the first option would be unwise, the second would also be unwise. A complete shutdown for a d
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by tic_tac 7y ago
Agreed, Reddit is cancer. Reactionary hive mind internet at its worst. One of the biggest problems with Reddit is that Americans go on boards like /r/politics or in this case /r/Coronavirus, see extreme hostility towards
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by tic_tac 7y ago
Creativity can really only happen when the mind isn't doing anything in particular. Only then can it wander, and only in wandering can it arrive at novel combinations or alterations of ideas.
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by tic_tac 7y ago
Education signals that you are "better" than those with worse education. Smarter, harder working, etc. We need to create better options for students. We can do this by refocusing education on learning practical skills for real wor
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by tic_tac 7y ago
The point of UBI is not to fund people's vanity adventures in education. It's to support people who would otherwise be starving or homeless without a job. Regarding "sickness", the severity is important to know. If UBI e
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by tic_tac 7y ago
US military dominance is an ever present defense for nations around the world who would otherwise be harrassed or attacked by aggressive neighbors. US military involvement in the Middle East doesn't change that. Of course you can argue
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by tic_tac 7y ago
I suppose you think we should not defend ourselves?
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by tic_tac 7y ago
It has an impact if singular events (of which there are millions each day) can severely affect social cohesion and stability. Regardless of what you call it, the inevitability of emotionally triggering events each of which has the potential
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by tic_tac 7y ago
But Google's, influence on society comes from its ability to control all the information you see - if you use Google for all searches - over an extended period of time. Crucially, we are exposed to political advertising from many diffe
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by tic_tac 7y ago
The idea that targeted political advertising is unreasonably effective to the point of constituting mind control is ridiculous. It assumes people have no independent agency. While advertising can be effective it's definitely not mind c
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by tic_tac 7y ago
I don't think people who drive cars are "pro-car" in the sense your thinking of. They simply use cars because it's convenient for them, and in general public transport doesn't make much sense in their communities so
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Birth of a Virus(regiehammblog.wordpress.com)
2 points by tic_tac 7y ago|0 comments
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by tic_tac 7y ago
Which is enabled by cars, so it's really a non issue. People who fetishize public transportation fail to see that there are many community types in which cars make perfect sense. In big cities congestion is obviously an issue, but in s
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by tic_tac 7y ago
It's a bit of a tired trope that we always have to mention "racism, etc" when taking about things like small towns, as if it's an established fact when it's really more a prejudiced assumption about how people from

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