thisiscorrect

Somehow these arguments about cultural appropriation only ever go one way. I've never heard anyone claim that it's cultural appropriation when non-Westerners adopt -- and benefit from -- various Western schools of thought. I've never felt the urge to gate-keep, say, the germ theory of disease from non-Westerners. What right do I have to do that? What right does the author have to gate-keep Buddhism? Why do people do this? Is it insecurity?

> and you're out here in 2022 unironically saying "It's a gay man's disease", seriously?

I'm out here unironically showing you data on the CDC's website: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/estimates/riskbehaviors.html. Anal intercourse is far likelier (18x the risk from vaginal interourse per encounter) to result in HIV transmission from an infected partner. Internal tearing is likelier and hence contact of other fluids with one's blood stream.

In Africa, HIV is especially prevalent in South Africa, which happens to have a practice called "dry sex" [1] which also leads to similar internal tearing for the receptive partner.

Behavior that involves having these sorts of risky sexual encounters with multiple partners only compounds the likelihood that one will contract HIV. Not all groups engage in these behaviors with equal likelihood.

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

The comparison to HIV is apt. At its peak, in the late 80s and early 90s, everyone was taught to dread this disease. Officials acted as though everyone was equally at risk of contracting it. That was incorrect, and pretending otherwise helped noone.

Presumably the ones going YOLO are the ones who have "had multiple sexual encounters at a bathhouse"?

570 ps is 0.57 ns.

The link you included seems to have nothing to do with our claim that Google is using data from their office apps for advertising. It looks like it was about people explicitly granting vetted third-party apps access to the content of their email. What's the connection?

I'm not making the trip. It sounds like you're saying users are moving files to the the wrong folders on their computers and the desktop tool respects that. What should the software do differently?

Which of Google's productivity apps collect your data for ads? Can you provide some proof?

From your first link: "While SARS-CoV-1 probably persists as a potential zoonotic threat in its original animal reservoir, human-to-human transmission of this virus may be considered eradicated because no human case has been documented since four minor, brief, subsequent outbreaks in 2004."

This is the same effect in play for SARS-CoV-2. It also persists in animals. It's a matter of time and chance before it reemerges.

Yes. But it was also a fool's errand before omicron. Has there ever been a recorded instance of eliminating a respiratory infection before?

It probably does. Where do you find one of those free countries, though?

> Your suggestion means convincing them to change it so that most of them will not get reelected and will lose all power. That can never happen, human nature.

That can happen, and has happened throughout history. It tends to be a bloody ordeal though.

It's interesting to consider the group psychology aspect. During the 2020 summer protests, many also said that the huge crowds were not spreading covid. Maybe this is similar. When there is a larger issue people are focusing on, concerns about covid get pushed to the backburner. The real test will come when the Ukraine-Russia war subsides.

The summer of 2020 included a number of radical opinion shifts among politicians. Or maybe, since we can't know a person's mind and what opinions they'd previously quietly believed, more like radical shifts in publicly stated position.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations might be relevant to your interests.

What indication is there that any new restrictions are being placed on a user's content? The blog post from Google only mentions the change of sending email notifications to users.

It will be interesting to see if this pill could be used as prophylaxis too, instead of only after the onset of symptoms. Might help with the need to recognize symptoms fairly early on.

Harvard is a hedge fund with a university attached for tax-exempt status.

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/269456/20211216/google-wo... makes it sound like they're adding a feature to review when files are restricted. That's very different.

My intuition for aerodynamics must not be as good as yours. But looking at https://caradvise.com/blog/2019/08/17/most-popular-cars-in-t... and https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g36005989/best-selling-car... is interesting. In particular, the way the headlights sit on the front of the car seems to have changed a lot. Cars in the 90s look to have lights that pointed straight ahead. That seems to have evolved over time to a more streamlined position and orientation.

Could that be explained by improved aerodynamics of cars now compared to then? Has that been studied?

The author apparently expect the Singularity to happen Real Soon Now. I guess our children will be living to 2500.

"To fully grasp and plan for climate impacts under any scenario, researchers and policymakers must look well beyond the 2100 benchmark. Unless CO2 emissions drop significantly, global warming by 2500 will make the Amazon barren, the American Midwest tropical, and India too hot to live in, according to a team of international scientists.

'We need to envision the Earth our children and grandchildren may face, and what we can do now to make it just and liveable for them,' says Christopher Lyon, a Postdoctoral Researcher under the supervision of Professor Elena Bennett at McGill University."

I thought guitars typically get a French polish which does use shellac.

"[M]arginalized groups have often armed themselves when they feel the state is unwilling or unable to protect them."

An example of this is calling to reduce policing, which probably would have the biggest (and very negative) impact in high crime areas. I believe gun sales increased rapidly starting last summer.

The NY Times spread some misinformation that Russia had offered a bounty to the Taliban for killing American soldiers [1].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/remember-...

And now $85 billion worth of American military arms as well.

Wasn't the lethality of Marek's disease for poultry driven by immune escape from vaccination?

TLA+ as a formal language for specifying systems is quite good. But the quasi-official toolchain for working with it [1] including TLC and the sanitizer are not well maintained. They were pretty resistant to outside contributions when I tried. I have hope that a better toolchain for working with the TLA+ language can come along. The underpinning language is well designed. Lamport is no slouch.

[1] https://github.com/tlaplus/tlaplus

The rub is that there are a lot of people on Earth. And, early evidence _might_ suggest that the vaccines that are available lose effectiveness sooner than originally thought. For example, [1] shows evidence of diminished effectiveness after 146 days.

Back to "Our data show that anti-disease vaccines that do not prevent transmission can create conditions that promote the emergence of pathogen strains that cause more severe disease in unvaccinated hosts." and whether that implies that "for anyone who did not get the vaccine to get it." This sounds like a strategy that hinges on everyone on Earth getting vaccines and frequent-enough booster shots. What if that's unachievable though? The logistics for that would be unprecedented. What are the consequences of trying but failing to do it?

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.03.21261496v...

The likelihood of wiping out (as in, totally eradicating) a respiratory infection seems really low. Are there any examples of that happening in the past?