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IAmEveryone··on Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
It no longer does this because now your comment is the only result for the query. Before, it could not find a single result, said as much, and gave you the wikipedia page that included the age. What's wrong with that, again?
IAmEveryone··on Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
Could you all stop misusing the word "censoring" like that? It's almost worse than the way it's usually misused.

Also, at least for me, Google does exactly what you describe at the right approach.

IAmEveryone··on Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
Google corrects spelling in the way you mention, but removes quotes only if there are zero results for the search with quotes. Example, finding one result; https://www.google.de/search?q=%22but+when+therefore+is+an+a...

Getting this wrong is probably why people think we need more than definitive assertions from people operating from subjective impression.

Changing a letter in the query, it says, right at the top:

    Showing results for "but when therefore is an adverb"
    No results found for "but when therefore is tan adverb"
IAmEveryone··on Strengthening our efforts against the spread of non-consensual intimate images
Posting on OF does imply consent to be seen naked. But since it doesn’t come with a license allowing redistribution, reposting those photos is never allowed. No gray area whatsoever.
IAmEveryone··on Strengthening our efforts against the spread of non-consensual intimate images
A perceptual hash is immune against the sort of manipulation you mention. One method I’ve implemented myself is recording changes in brightness along a path in the image. Inverting colors would work, but also make the image somewhat worthless. Flipping would also work, but is usually protected against by adding the flipped hash as well.
IAmEveryone··on Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
This is about attempts (!) in young (!) women (!). That’s so specific, it’s suffering from multiple-endpoint problems: look at 50 subgroups and some are always going to show some seemingly drastic change.

Here, the reporting of this factoid almost certainly means there was no significant change in actual suicides, or in attempted suicides of the population at large. So both may well be true.

IAmEveryone··on Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
> I too saw people taking pills and becoming "robots" in the methaphoric sense.

No, you didn’t. That sort of effect does happen with antipsychotics. The effects of antidepressants are as different from those as Aspirin.

IAmEveryone··on Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
That’s just a bunch of kitchen psychology not even on the level of 19th century Freudian psychoanalysis.

You’re starting from a very specific worldview—the puritanical tradition where those upholding a certain set of virtues (industriousness, tolerance to pain, etc) will be richly rewarded (on earth or later) and, conversely, any suffering can be traced back to individual faults.

That mindset cannot survive contact with even trace amounts of actual data where, time and time again, medication does make a difference, although that difference remains frustratingly smaller than for other diseases. But it isn’t ‘numbing” of “fake” any more than antibiotics are.

You seem to believe antidepressants are like uppers or downers where you chuck a handful and ten minutes later you feel a wave of happiness roll over you. Here’s a secret: take a few of those pills and you will feel… absolutely nothing. Anti-depressants do not produce a “high” in any sense of the word. Changes in mood take months to appear and are usually not even recognized by the patient. It’s their friends who tend to notice it first.

IAmEveryone··on Copyright / Trademark Your Sperm?
No.

Copyright notices are neither necessary nor sufficient to establish copyright. Your example also does not qualify for copyright because, frankly, it isn’t very creative.

If you manage to change the actual functioning of the organism, you can potentially get it protected with a patent. See Monsanto for examples. Human life, however, is considered somewhat sacrosanct by Catholics, liberals, and everyone in between. I believe there’s some UN treaty banning patents on human life.

IAmEveryone··on Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green text bubble
Proof it and sell it to the NYT, they’d love to see their competitor go down in flames. Or to Google, because Apple’s reputation would also suffer.

That opportunity also exists for any insider with actual knowledge. None of them coming forward is a pretty good indication it’s bullshit.

And who, exactly, is the seller here? Is it the publishing company? In that case they would seem to be underreporting their income, which is a crime. Trump could have ended the NYT if he had managed to substantiate the charge.

Or is it individual reporters? In that case, the publisher is the largest single victim of this dynamic, since they aren’t getting any cash but carry all the risk. They would have an interest to stop it and obviously a rather good position to do so.

IAmEveryone··on I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control
I believe it's hard to appreciate the frustration and costs that closing schools causes, at least for children to be too young to be left without supervision.

I can't think of any other measure that gets even close. The effects of restaurant closures can be mitigated by throwing money at the problem. If you have to stay home and take care of children, your career will suffer even if you are compensated for lost income.

There really isn't an easy solution to it. Maybe getting creative on the local level would help: taking turns among a (small) group of parents, or hiring a single person to take care of maybe 5 or 6 kids. Maybe getting the older children to watch the younger ones, etc. But everything comes with its own drawbacks, usually by reintroducing pathways to spread.

One measure that seems to be missing, and that I cannot find fault with right now, is changing structures to keep classes fixed, possibly with only a single teacher (per week?). For younger children, it's quite possible for, say an English teacher to also teach biology. Having fixed classes is also common in many countries. It means you can't accomodate electives, of course.

IAmEveryone··on I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control
Well... Most Asian countries seem to only fail your definition because the situation there was mostly okay 18 months ago, so they didn't have room to improve.
IAmEveryone··on Autistic people challenge preconceived ideas about rationality
A perfectly acceptable term outside some circles is, by definition, not acceptable, at least not “perfectly”.

And the (undisputed) fact that Asperger was quite the Nazi should, just by itself, disqualify the term. OPs comment linking the dual terms to the similar binary classification into useful/useless human beings goes even further by showing that usage of the term doesn’t just glorify someone who doesn’t deserve it, but shows how that practice derives from and continues the namesake’s hateful ideology.

IAmEveryone··on Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
It also took 13 years from the first splitting of the atom to Hiroshima.
IAmEveryone··on Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
Is “ making renewables profitable” the new talking point? I’m glad for the change because I got tired reading about all these dams China had apparently built in areas not connected to their grid.
IAmEveryone··on Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations
It’s had, what, 13 years? And it’s still a solution in search of a problem.
IAmEveryone··on What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)
Your username is incorrect.
IAmEveryone··on Sources: OpenSea Eyes $13B Valuation
It's a surprise because they aren't mining gold. They are mining CO2, with cute little certificates you can leave behind to prove to your grandchildren that Gramps was part of the problem.
IAmEveryone··on Germany rejects EU’s climate-friendly plan, calling nuclear power ‘dangerous’
Also: the last time nuclear was anywhere near competitive costs was 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_energy#/medi.... Today, it's easily 5x as expensive as wind or solar.

(note: "levelized" costs are total costs divided by total real-world production, so it's already adjusted for "the time the sun doesn't shine" etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_energy

IAmEveryone··on ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory
Google Streetview of the location: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.4504667,13.4327515,3a,75y,22...

It's as close as one can get, with about 200m missing because, I guess, the driver decided nobody would care about the rest of this godforsaken industrial area. Or they got a call at exactly that moment that Google would stop gathering photos to spite the criticism of data protection advocates that was annoying them at the time.

IAmEveryone··on Old CSS, New CSS (2020)
Even after reading the Wikipedia article to find out who "Peppermint Patty" is, I don't quite understand the reference but get the impression that it may be slightly disrespectful?
IAmEveryone··on Old CSS, New CSS (2020)
I realize the "in the horizon" is hedging for this reply, but I just had to mention that there was about a decade in-between where Dreamweaver was absolete and yet React / Vue / Angular were just random (non-)words.
IAmEveryone··on Old CSS, New CSS (2020)
PHP came out in 1995, the same year as CSS.
IAmEveryone··on Carolina Gold was once the most popular rice grown in America (2019)
There's even a Rice University.
IAmEveryone··on Machine-Learning media bias
“Illegal” is plainly wrong in the vast majority of cases you’re probably thinking of. At least for most people who crossed the US?Mexican border in the last two years, they have pending applications for asylum since the those courts are completely flooded.

So “asylum seekers” or “refugee” would be better, since I agree that they are not undocumented, either.

IAmEveryone··on Machine-Learning media bias
It’s a projection of the NLP’s vectors into 2D space. Remember the illustrations for the king - man = queen example for word embedding? They also often used a 2D space. You can sometimes, but rarely Intuit a sense for these dimensions, but they don’t come with any natural definition or unit.
IAmEveryone··on Machine-Learning media bias
But…. They picked up some signal, and the examples they give are both correlated with each other, and with our intuition? So what “is” that signal, and if it correlates well with the left-right dimension, what does it matter if it’s not exactly the same, or not causal in any direction?

All I can think of is that using this data to judge biases could be defeated by a simple search-and-replace if anyone wanted to. But I doubt publishers cate enough about obscure papers calling them conservative to change their language. (If they do stop calling all foreigners “illegal aliens”, that’s would actually be quite the feat for a lowly department of semantics)

IAmEveryone··on Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
I believe part of the difficulty was the lull in infections before delta, plus the effectiveness of school closures. If nobody is getting sick, you cannot say anything about effectiveness.

I don’t know if they want proof of effectiveness again, or are specifically looking at risk (which would not be impacted by the above).

If guess the risk of death is so low among children, you need far more data to exclude a risk from vaccination at that (small) magnitude. Think of helmets, and how they are exactly as comfortable to wear in a car as they are on a motorcycle.

IAmEveryone··on Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
You can’t discount COVID deaths by using yearly flu deaths, but then only extrapolating to 8 months. Think of the other four months as “low-activity flu-months” and should be obvious why. You are intuitively mixing an attempt to estimate risk per year and risk per infection, I believe.

I’m also not entirely sure how good surveillance is for the flu? I could imagine it being recorded as “pneumonia” or “respiratory arrest”, especially when it affects poorer people, or those not admitted to hospitals.

(please not that the two issues above would pull any conclusion into opposite directions, then reflect on the relative amounts of hate and love, respectively, before deciding that I must be wrong because disagree)

IAmEveryone··on Vaccine experts: Covid-19 booster shots aren't needed now
Your frustration could be lessened by being less wrong.

This very article is titled “experts say booster shots not needed”. Less frustrated people are statistically more likely to get that this means the essential benefits of vaccination have not (or not yet) deteriorated significantly.

As to with data from all age groups, they do so for both the value and the comparison. If you feel the need to split each population into subgroups, you would need continue doing so once you find, for example, what differs from the 20-year old that died vs the one that didn’t. In the end, each person would have their own group, because they all differ. But try doing any comparisons, then.

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