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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
They hire (i.e. elect) the people that hire the people that decide who hires them.
Comment · 5 years ago
that's kinda that point... you dont get any data from China.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
The title doesn't overstate the claim, its simply false. The statement "most surgeries to relieve pain are ineffective" and "most surgeries are ineffective" are completely different largely unrelated statements.
Comment · 6 years ago
This makes no sense. China constructed the largest fence in the world to achieve what you say they achieve, then you say constructing a fence is showing weakness. This is utter nonsense.

"The US needs to recognize they're behind the game and behave like adults" okay so who is the adults? China? Then this IS behaving like adults as I outlined.

Comment · 6 years ago
The only caveat i'll add is Apple is providing ad software that doesn't trigger the double verification. This can be seen either as a push to force people to respect privacy(as their software does), or a push to control a larger share of the ad market (as the foxes here i'm sure believe)
Comment · 6 years ago
As someone who had issues with this before, can second this is the best advice. As well as running it by someone else to see if they're picking up on the narrative you're trying to convey.
Comment · 6 years ago
There's a racial difference between jurors in my mind because there's a racial difference between jurors in reality lol. Pretending otherwise is foolish, lawyers literally pick their juries based on this obvious fact.

"Why should black people be judged by black people only?" Is a racist strawman argument. I am saying black people should not be judged by white people exclusively, as can happy if every jury is majority white.

Comment · 6 years ago
I mean, yeah. There have been a lot of revolutions in world history. They did not exist _solely_ to rubber stamp the laws of the rich.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'd say you're also born with energy if you're born with time.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yeah its a trade off, as the article mentions, against alienating a minority voting bloc in juries. In the US most relevantly black vs white jurors.

Juries will generally be majority white meaning the opinion of the black jurors would be discounted often.

Neither solution is ideal, and this topic interests me greatly, it seems very similar to the questions of fairness and bias in statistics / ML.

Comment · 6 years ago
I am not a vegetarian but I grew up with two sisters who were, meaning i was served fake meat a lot.

I agree it can be quite good! Spicy fake Italian sausages were a favorite I remember. That being said, to the earlier point they're best when they're not trying to exactly replicate meat flavor but just taste good. Spicy italian sausage was good because it didn't try to taste too much like sausage and was just spicy and italian haha.

Comment · 6 years ago
Couldn't have said it better. "Why would i develop something that could save millions of lives if it will save millions of lives and might not make me money". Absurd

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