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Tell me you’re an SDE1 without telling me you’re an SDE1

This guy is not the creator of mRNA vaccines, he’s just a guy who did something slightly related with mRNA forty years ago, and is now trying to ride the wave to money. I think it’s fair to say the vaccine was rushed, but that’s because we have been having the second largest pandemic of the century. More Americans are dead from this than died in WW2.

I didn’t downvote you. I do wish we had a longer trial period, and I don’t like taking something that hasn’t been through the full duration trials. Here is what convinced me:

- we now have more than a billion vaccinations done globally, with no mass surge of negative side effects.

- virtually every politician in every party has gotten vaccinated. Including most of the people telling you not to get vaccinated.

- the vaccine produces way fewer antibody targets than the actual virus, so I would expect that if there was a long term negative effect from the spike produced by the vaccine, we would get that or worse from the virus.

- the virus is really contagious and seems to be mutating toward being more contagious over time.

- thus, you’re probably going to get it, which means one way or the other you’re probably going to make a lot of antibodies to spike protein no matter how you slice it.

It’s not a grey area, it devalues the degree for everyone and betrays you as a fundamentally dishonest and low value person.

Oh for fucks sake. This is what, Amazon’s third chance at the trough? At what point is it cheating?

Disclosure: long MSFT.

This is super cool, so I immediately attempted to try it out.

Unfortunately, the Python package seriate is broken due to an upgrade in its dependency ortools. The update was so long ago a functional version is not available on pypi anymore.

Does anyone have a better way to do this?

“Not that the authorities will tell you” -> editorial in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.

You cannot make this shit up.

Sic semper tyrannis.

Didn’t even have the guts to be a tyrant. Just an evil toady.

This is bad comedy. A 210-line-of-Python outlier remover is not a research advancement, it’s part of a grad student’s util file. Really reflects badly on everyone involved. It is partially explained that the work is published in Ergonomics, vs any computational conference - this reminds strongly of the “Tai’s Model” scandal.

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscover...

People have been doing submillimeter 3d scanning for a decade at least.

Software has bugs, in related news water is wet.

Thank you.

That is an interesting proposal. I do have one autoimmune disease, that from reading the entire body of research literature is not known to cause a large majority of my symptoms. But I do hear that autoimmune diseases travel in herds… will look into it. Thank you!

Yes, definitely. I will email you after work today. I have also been evaluated for a pheo with negative results - the sudden panic attacks out of nowhere seem to trigger this diagnostic pathway.

I will try to reduce dietary tyrannies - that is a good idea.

That is a very interesting idea. The migraines do seem to be getting better with time, which would track that… but it’s been years!

No wheezing. I’ve had a full allergic workup and am negative to everything. No medicine to address the panic attacks - I have a beta blocker for if things get really bad but I try to avoid taking it and have only taken maybe three in the last two years.

I actually am getting ready to move back to where I lived before I got sick on the off chance that that helps.

No sleep apnea, tried that one. No ME/CFS investigation done yet. Immunological seems very plausible. Dysautonomia seems like potentially a good fit.

My feet are fine, so it can’t be SFSN, right?

I’d love a recommendation for helpful neurologists. Will send email. Thank you!

In my case, it is a combination of persistence, a small number of excellent specialists who believe me, and willingness to spend tens of thousands of dollars.

Yes, and that’s not it. Unfortunately my constellation of symptoms does not seem to match any single entity. I have basically resigned myself to thinking that I may have an unusual genetic immunological or neurological defect. Think (this list is not exclusive or constant, and I go through multi-month cycles of subsets of these symptoms - all of them new onset since getting sick): - assorted chest and abdominal pain - thoracic spine pain - migraine - panic attacks, and strong palpable sensations of anxiety - sleep disturbances - blurry vision - one-sided facial numbness and pain - tachycardia - fatigue - nausea - difficulty concentrating - muscle fasciculations

Some days I feel great, some days I’m virtually incapacitated. Hundreds of tests and years of specialists later we have found an assortment of minor things but nothing that really explains it. I’ve even entertained the idea that it’s all psychological but years of therapy have given me techniques to control the panic attacks, but not stop the physical sensations that kick them off.

This rings true.

I have something wrong with me. I’ve spent many years of my life trying to figure out what it is. But never fully have - it’s sick, but it seems like most doctors operate under “you have symptoms, I order a few tests, they were negative, guess we’ll never know, fuck off lol”.

It sucks. I hope these families make progress.

I really can’t understand this reasoning. Google is part of the reason broadband is bad in the US, because they tried to fix it by competing with the telecoms? This like saying, a person has a gun pointed at your head, it’s really your fault if they shoot you when you try to get away.

1.5 degrees C is 2.7 degrees F - the only thing you missed is that this is a difference, not an absolute temperature. Suppose C to F is 1.8*c+32=f. Take two values for c, x and y. Then:

(1.8x+32)-(1.8y+32)=1.8(x-y)

I used to play competitive multiplayer games, including one game that was about controlling resource points. It could get very intense, but it taught me an extremely important lesson: if you spend all your time playing defense, no matter how well you play it, you are going to lose. It may feel like you’re winning when you hold the line, but you are losing. Sometimes you have to look for opportunities to slip past the obvious fight and make strategic attacks elsewhere.

Secondly, from World of Warcraft raiding: a good player is nothing without a good team. But a team needs a certain density of good players to be good.

Finally, kind of a meta-lesson: one day, while playing the resource point control game, I found myself getting very angry. I was worked up, red faced, yelling. And I had this moment where I realized - I don’t have to feel this way. Nothing is forcing me to. So I put it down, uninstalled it, and never played those types of games again.

You know what I find gross and ableist? Using people like me as a tool to argue against the development of treatments that could help us. That is what you’re doing. You are so concerned with the suffering of animals that you are discarding the suffering of humans. You don’t have any evidence the other way either, you are exactly as guilty as the person you are responding to. Except you are arguing against performing research that can help people.

Hi, not using a throwaway so you know I’m sincere. As someone with a serious and currently incurable disability, I would support testing on one hundred billion non-human primates if it gave me a 5% chance of a cure.

I’m sure you’ll find people who don’t feel that way. But I can’t overstate enough how horrible it is to go from being a functional adult with all the joys and sorrows that brings to being a much less functional person in pain every day. That is reality for millions of people. I don’t feel that what GP did was gross. I think it reflects reality for people who suffer on a daily basis, and whose loved ones do.

I learned from my best colleagues: success is about trust. Nothing pays better dividends than being humble, being right a lot, and doing good work. This builds allies and allies build careers.

I learned from my worst colleagues: don’t assume that anyone will protect you from toxic or abusive people. You must be willing to protect yourself. When people come for you and your project, either be willing to throw down (metaphorically) or be willing to walk. Bad people often don’t have bad careers, and there is no justice.

I like this piece, even though it’s pushing a message.

I think about this a lot. Every day I go to work. The men and women I work with don’t look like the sleek 23-year-old product managers that adorn the promotional material, or the immaculately groomed Real Business Leaders, or the space alien Zuckerberg types. Far from being a monoculture of bro-y white men, there is a vast diversity of backgrounds - national, cultural, and person. I wish the media would show it more. The people who work at these companies are just people, with all their good and bad. They are not The Enemy; they are just white collar professionals struggling to get by like all the dentists and accountants and process engineers. Sure, some of them get lucky and rich, and some of them leverage themselves to the hilt to buy property here. But for most of them, a decent house is out of reach too. The real enemy is the gerontocracy.

What happened in the 1990s in Britain?

What you are saying is dangerous. We had a serious set of exactly these transmission events in Britain only a few decades ago. Clearly the risk is not infinitesimal.

It’s very important that we never take a stand for the principles that make America a shining city on the hill for hundreds of millions of people, and instead cravenly cowtow to dictators and refuse to recognize genocide when it’s politically convenient.

If your first response to us doing something that is so clearly an ethical duty is “what’s in it for me?”, you should really think about what kind of a person you are.

It sounds very nice to be a decamillionaire.

Do you live in Silicon Valley? Nice homes cannot be chosen close to work. All homes in the South Bay that aren’t literally falling down are multi-million-dollar. I personally know people who bought a $2.5m home with a rat infestation.