tryonenow

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by tryonenow 5y ago
The modern argument is that SAT and ACT tests discriminate against minorities. The reasoning is that minorities score lower because of socioeconomic factors.
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by tryonenow 5y ago
>“Well, that didn’t come to pass in 1984, but if we’re not careful that could come to pass in 2024.” I refuse to participate in social media because the tech is already here, and at this rate it's only a matter of time before our go
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by tryonenow 5y ago
It is critically important in a political climate where one side is using the spectre of white supremacy as a political cudgel. When a complicit media makes a consistent effort to paint a false picture. This censorship is not an isolated in
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by tryonenow 5y ago
>Yes, in some ways. A new study shows Twitter users post even more misinformation after other users correct them. I can't help but feel like the academics studying this "problem" are blinded by hubris. Even the byline is e
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by tryonenow 5y ago
What does free speech entail when a literal handful of unelected people control the modern public square?
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by tryonenow 5y ago
There are understated psychological consequences to casual sex, particularly for females. Only in my 30s did I begin to understand the damage that my ostensibly harmless casual relations caused to many past partners, particularly those who
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by tryonenow 5y ago
But a larger nucleus would be unlikely to produce the same spectral signature even with the same charge. The energy transitions would be different, especially with different orbital shells and subtle quantum effects.
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by tryonenow 5y ago
The high cycle counts of the PCR tests in the US make all official numbers suspect. Particularly in combination with implicit political pressure against the previous administration, and an overzealous press. The entire system - academic, me
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by tryonenow 5y ago
>How did this article get through peer review? Like the author, the journal’s reviewers and editors seemed to have been glamoured by the shine, tech fetishism, and naive empiricism of even the most poorly executed digital methods — witho
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by tryonenow 5y ago
>Surgical masks with particle collection efficiencies around ~50% cannot prevent the release of millions of particles per person and their inhalation by others (green dots in Fig. 1, B and D). In other words, the human-emitted respirator
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by tryonenow 5y ago
I'm completely surprised by the negative reaction to my comment. I think people are misinterpreting my use of the word hacker, and I don't even mean to imply that God exists - only that the universe is intricately clever and wheth
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by tryonenow 5y ago
>Frameshifting almost never happens in our cells. It would lead to dysfunctional cellular proteins; however, certain viruses, such as coronaviruses and HIV, depend on a frameshifting event to regulate levels of viral proteins. For exampl
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by tryonenow 5y ago
Typical generic, infantilizing dating advice, about as effective as telling unattractive people to just "be themselves". Dating norms exist. They vary from culture to culture and over time. The natures of norms and humans are such
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by tryonenow 5y ago
The interview effectively explains why climate science by its nature cannot be considered settled. We are measuring a tiny fraction of a chaotic, oscillatory time series with component frequencies spanning many orders of magnitude, up to eo
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by tryonenow 5y ago
And how do you measure the mid to long term risk of a novel mRNA technology which is effectively in trial now, under emergency approval, when vaccines typically take years of safety evaluations? Particularly considering that there are prepr
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by tryonenow 5y ago
It's hard for me to believe that there is still no way to get your genes sequenced anonymously. There has to be a big enough market for a startup to do so without storing and selling "anonymised" data, right? Is it really tha
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by tryonenow 5y ago
You don't need to be religious to recognize that there is occasional wisdom in the bible.
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by tryonenow 5y ago
Actually I think the real reason is that PG&E has ≈100 year old power lines with components that are well past their service life and regularly arc/fail causing fires. But there doesn't appear to be any accountability for thei
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by tryonenow 5y ago
This is a common and disingenuous misconstrual of the argument. It isn't about feeling entitled to sex, it's about making access to sex more evenly distributed across society, for both genders. Not because of entitlement, but beca
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by tryonenow 5y ago
I really take offense to the notion that simply for criticizing the feminist movement or acknowledging the romantic power dynamic, I "resent women". Nor have I implied that "this one thing gives women all of the power".
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by tryonenow 5y ago
The problem with the definition of equality within the modern feminist movement is that it does not make allowance for the social power that females intrinsically have over men. In particular it completely ignores that, as in the vast major
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by tryonenow 5y ago
>This is basically a red flag for any relationship. If the only thing making or allowing a person to be happy in life is their partner then something is wrong. Mental health is no joke and not being able to enjoy life is usually a sympto
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by tryonenow 5y ago
They didn't really indicate why the end is sealed with a fluid as opposed to something physical. I suspect it's because flowing ink with a solid stopper would create a vacuum and quickly cease to function. A stopper is fluid and s
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by tryonenow 5y ago
So the fact that all information is biased is an excuse to force your own ideological bias into every communication? This is as much of a fallacy as the common "everything is political" refrain. It's nothing but a dangerous r
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by tryonenow 5y ago
>Actually that's exactly the problem of systemic racism. Racism is at the level of the system and not the individual (though there are still individual racists out there for sure). This is a neat explanatory theory but it is only on
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by tryonenow 5y ago
>The approach could one day eliminate the need for arduous physics-based calculations, instead relying on computer vision and machine learning to generate estimates in real time. This is pretty fresh tech, but industry is already using i
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by tryonenow 5y ago
That's not the application. ML accelerated modeling allows for instantaneous iteration. It dramatically speeds up creative engineering and scientific work. You take the final product and run it through a classical simulator as a final
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by tryonenow 5y ago
AWS GPU compute is pretty cheap if you don't need their newest beefiest rigs.
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by tryonenow 5y ago
>Have you read a single page of any IPCC report or any major climate science publication? As a matter of fact I have, though not in a few years. The papers and the commentary are both far less certain in their assertions than you would e
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by tryonenow 5y ago
In my day to day work, if you showed me a noisy graph of a periodic signal measured over some 1/10th to 1/10000th of a typical cycle period, I would tell you that you don't have nearly enough data to establish a trend. Especi

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