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I could not agree with you more, this book was when I learned how to let things slide some times and just push forward. I would just keep reading without conscious interpretation. Once I got into the general feel of the book, the story started falling into line with out me really trying.

This statement is just not true, public health has been a field for a long time and includes so many actors (let alone name dropping several people who are often included in conspiracy theories):

"For the first time in history medical treatment, protocols are not being formulated based on the experience of the physicians treating the largest number of patients successfully, but rather individuals and bureaucracies that have never treated a single patient—including Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, EcoHealth Alliance, the CDC, WHO, state public health officers and hospital administrators.[23,38]"

The phrase "this so-called “pandemic” "

There is not scientific consensus around how useful certain protocols being put in place, there absolutely has been research showing that many things like masking and social distancing have helped and saying there is no evidence is lying. "The draconian measures established to contain this contrived “pandemic” have never been shown to be successful, such as masking the public, lockdowns, and social distancing. A number of carefully done studies during previous flu seasons demonstrated that masks, of any kind, had never prevented the spread of the virus among the public."

Again, those are just some of the issues. I agree my statement did not really give information but from start to finish this article in the best case just adds to the noise with no useful information, in the worst case is causing harm due to blatantly false information being spread.

This article has so many red flags but I would just start with it being an editorial on an open journal[0] from a questionable retired neurosurgeon[1]

[0] https://surgicalneurologyint.com/surgicalint-articles/covid-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Blaylock

"We carry out Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) on 216 squeezed modes entangled with three-dimensional connectivity5, using a time-multiplexed and photon-number-resolving architecture. On average, it would take more than 9,000 years for the best available algorithms and supercomputers to produce, using exact methods, a single sample from the programmed distribution, whereas Borealis requires only 36 μs."

This is so absurdly trying to make a contentious issue out of a minor change. They are removing the required sonnet writing in an assessment and changing it to an assessment based on a thematic criteria. This is all in a class for creative writing and is giving more freedom. They are not sidelining sonnets all together, they are giving students in a creative writing course the flexibility to be creative.

That was a different black hole that is further away. This black hole is much closer in the center of our galaxy. So now we have pictures of 2 black holes to compare!

Not really related to the thread but I worked at a think-tank in DC that had such an issue with people never taking time off they started giving sabbatic pay. After your first year you started accruing both regular vacation time and sabbatic vacation time which was 1.5X your normal pay to encourage you to take time off.

Here is the actual report below, it says the flow chart is actually from a DHS report

https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8202/final

edit: you can see that if you look at the bottom of the imgur picture as well

I really like the way the handle their change log on github:https://github.com/algorithmsbooks/optimization

It's interesting just to go through their comments.

They were formed in 2020 [https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-study-o...] and seem to have a few reports doing the same thing. They start with an actual specific analysis and then expand dramatically.

Worth a read through just to see some examples of cadaver dogs being problematic.

https://www.science.org/content/article/should-dog-s-sniff-b...

The title was way too long. Full title is: Trust in scientific information mediates associations between conservatism and coronavirus responses in the U.S., but few other nations. The last sentence in the abstract alone was a interesting point to read more into their paper:

"These associations suggest not only that relationships between conservatism and compliance are not universal, but localized to particular countries where conservatism is more strongly related to trust in scientific information about the coronavirus pandemic."

Just as a note, the majority of states give voting rights back right away or after awhile.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-...

That's just not accurate (from the exec summary in the cited paper):

"Face coverings can be effective in contributing to reducing transmission of COVID-19 in public and community settings. This is informed by a range of research, including randomised control trials, contact tracing studies, and observational studies – assessed most recently by UKHSA, described in a review conducted in November 2021."

The article itself is referencing whether school transmission is impacted.

It isn't exactly ignore, they just all have to be ratified by the Senate. Otherwise it is just the executive branch making an agreement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_Clause

Huh interesting, I was the exact opposite, I really liked Inside Out but thought Coco was entertaining/ok but obviously everyone enjoys different things! Have you seen The Book of Life? Came out some years before Coco and had similar themes (not exactly the same).

If you are talking about for profit benefit corporations (B-Corps), they can IPO. They are essentially just C-Corps with non-financial tracking metrics written into the bylaws.

A lot of lasers require a pump laser, it seems their argument is that this can be useful for low cost production in something like the telcom world.

There is hardware, it isn't imaginary. It just isn't very robust or extensive yet.

Yea there is an annual march around the country (in legal states) with it as well. I think there is an organization out there that actually tries to help defend anyone who is actually cited too.

Their PR piece:https://hai.stanford.edu/news/how-bodies-get-smarts-simulati...

and a TechCrunch piece:https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/06/simulated-ai-creatures-dem...

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Had to change the title a little since it was too long: Lynk demos global satellite connection for ordinary phones and prepares for commercial launch

Their website: https://lynk.world/

It is an open access paper which is nice: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25738-6

Some interesting findings that would be useful to see explored in other platforms and with different methodologies.

Yea it is pretty common in US universities, coaches are also often the highest paid in the state.

https://moneywise.com/managing-money/employment/the-10-highe...

Your link is not to the article, it is about a cookie warning.

The article is:https://www.science.org/content/article/costs-balloon-u-s-pa...

Admins may be able to change it.

Wow that twitter thread summary is not what the Urban article is about. Urban's piece is around the concept that research needs to be contextualized appropriately and if it is social research should probably include the communities being researched.

https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/equitable-research-requires...

Ah you got this in as I was also typing it, well done! Deleting mine now.

Just to make my comment less useless here is the github: https://github.com/seq-lang/seq

Yea this data purchasing is a pretty extensive problem, used at all levels. I like EFF and think they do good work. Hopefully they, and other organizations, can help figure this out.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/secret-service-o...

[1]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/military-intelli...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/how-your-digital...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/cbp-does-end-run...

[4]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/one-company-want...

[5] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/fede...

[6] https://www.vox.com/recode/22565926/police-law-enforcement-d...

[7] https://www.businessinsider.com/police-buying-hacked-data-by...

[8] https://futurism.com/the-byte/cops-buying-social-media-locat...

A thread on the same topic, different source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28237274