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I'm not sure how this article would be any different if Culdesac had written their own "journalistic" article about itself and paid The Guardian to publish it.

If our current scientific understanding of cosmology, quantum mechanics, biology, etc. doesn't fill you with awe and humility, I don't know what will. If it doesn't fill you with g…

There are many dimensions by which to compare healthcare systems (e.g. availability of care, cost, quality, speed) and different samples and statistics to consider (means, medians,…

This article is based on this paper: https://australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/02... It looks at some recent time period (roughly, during COVID) and breaks down the…

This was too dumb. First, the intro with the dog analogy. If you remotely see your relationship with your employer as you being the beloved family dog, you're the problem. Second, …

You're right about the first part. I actually am Canadian, though haven't lived in Canada for over a decade. Absolute brain fart on my part. If you asked me outside the context of …

The content producers (NHL) and publishers (Rogers) neither own nor operate the content distribution networks (ISPs). However they make commercial terms with each other to give one…

Discriminating based on race/sex is racist/sexist. It’s sad today that many people (racists and sexists) staunchly believe the opposite of the above when discrimination is going ag…

Several, but most recently an app to generate SMART Health Card QR codes to easily put your Covid vaccination info in your Apple Wallet. App: https://akgupta.ca/smart-health-cards …

That’s right, you nailed it.

Yeah, it's a matter of whether you want to address problems proactively (nip them in the bud), or reactively after you have a crisis on your hands. If you live in reality, you can …

I mean more like, you can generally eat food from grocery stores and restaurants and trust it'll be pretty safe. You can get medical operations and pharmaceuticals, and generally t…

> The most important takeaway is to avoid new tokens that haven’t undergone a code audit. Code audits are a process by which a third-party firm analyzes the code of the smart contr…

1. The data I’m referring to is in the link I was referring to. See how far left on the spectrum SF is. Take also your figures on registered voters in each party. I suspect SF is m…

Both problems may be present, but I think one of them is the bottom line/root cause. It’s a numbers game. I don’t think there are enough who are in touch with reality to influence …

I think the problem is San Franciscans are out of touch with reality. The root problem is not the GOP brand; despite the flaws in the GOP brand that is not the bottom line.

No one is saying every geographical subdivision needs to reflect exactly the aggregate distribution at the national level. I expect the split in individual cities to deviate from t…

I was thinking of 2018, but I don't remember Ellen Lee Zhou being Republican, only Richie Greenberg. Four unaffiliated-but-Democratic candidates ranked higher, Ellen and Richie wer…

Good question. I didn't mean this to refer to a specific politician, I meant that SF isn't the kind of place where such a politician could thrive. I think in a healthy place, you w…

Based on who San Franciscans has been electing, it seems too many live in world of progressive delusion far removed from reality. Reality got too real, now elected officials react.…

There’s a lot of confusion in this thread, and the original post. To diagnose the problem with the proof, it’s worth knowing why proof by induction works, to thereby know how it ac…

I mean “valid” in the mathematical/logical sense. It does not follow from the stated assumptions that n > 1, in the inductive step is this proof. This has nothing to do with the id…

The base case is not n=2, it’s clearly stated as n=1 in the proof. The inductive step works fine if you introduce the premise n>=2. It is not valid to introduce that premise. The i…

You just said it. The base case is true. The inductive case is wrong. You called it true “with sleight of hand”, but that’s more of a poetic statement; mathematically it’s simply w…