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Programming brings me joy in two different ways. 1. Crafting something beautiful. Figuring out correct abstractions and mapping them naturally to language constructs. Nailing just …

Achieve a significant scientific or mathematical breakthrough without human supervision. Domain experts should agree that the new result is truly groundbreaking, and achieving it r…

For recipes I use the Paprika app [1]. I point it at one of these terrible websites and it will scrape out the ingredients and instructions and present them in a useful way. It doe…

Here are examples of people who were cancelled without even saying anything [1]. One was due to a misunderstanding. Another was due to something a family member said. [1] https://w…

I’m rooting for you. Here’s a thought about a possible trade off between radicalization and engagement. When social media platforms optimize for growth, it makes sense for them to …

It’s certainly possible my intuition is wrong. Run-flat tires can support the whole car, but it is possible this support only kicks in at very low pressure.

I agree that higher tire pressure results in smaller surface area, but it's not clear to me that the tire itself does not support the car, skewing the result. So I'm not convinced …

The suggestion is to use F=PA to measure the car weight, where P is the tire pressure, A is the area the tires in contact with the ground, and F is the unknown: the weight of the c…

> “do what the experts say we should, while maintaining a diversity of expert views.” I don’t think this is an actual strategy. If there is a diversity of views, which experts do y…

If Sweden has a significantly higher percentage of the population infected (as they claim) then it doesn’t make sense to compare death rates at this point, because it may be that t…

I am sorry to hear you’ve lost your source of income. > But financial hardship is solvable -- food, housing, etc. can be handed out. That depends on the size of the handout. At the…

> In 100 years, the only footnote for 2020 will be all the deaths and suffering that this caused. No one will care that you were sad because you couldn't see your friends or go do …

> At 2% a day cases double every 5 weeks. Would anyone apply this reasoning to any other disease? I don't know but maybe the flu [1]? I don't think focusing just on the infection r…

To be clear, by “This is hysteria” I meant the gp’s claim that every healthcare system is overwhelmed. I was not referring to the general response. However, see Sweden for a clear …

My theory is that it’s because they stayed open. The numbers are higher, yes, but it has not been a catastrophic disaster like many predicted. Crucially, the health care systems ar…

I have —- comparing with additional European countries, Sweden deaths per capita are lower than France, the U.K. and Italy, and is followed closely by Spain. Therefore, as I said, …

None of what you said here takes away from the fact that your original claim is false. Again, you wrote: “ completely overwhelmed every single health system in the world.” That is …

You are making several false claims, most notably: > We're talking about a "flu" that has, in a matter of weeks, completely overwhelmed every single health system in the world. Man…

To be clear, I am not arguing for or against the validity of the claims regarding covid-sim. I am only saying that this is not a good example of the effect where people feel entitl…

I don’t doubt it, but covid-sim is not the best example of this effect. In this case, people are worried that poorly written simulation code is informing policy decisions that affe…

Many people die in traffic accidents every day, but we don’t ban cars. Everything we do involves some risk. There needs to be a rational discussion on how much lock down is appropr…

We don’t know enough so let’s stop the economy while we find out? That is not typically how we do things, because it’s not a rational response. For example, we didn’t know whether …

It is hard to overstate how important the resolution of this question is to physics, and in particular to theoretical physics. The “cosmological constant problem”, that is the prob…

In my experience, the reason to “follow the math” is that it is the best and perhaps only way to truly understand a physical theory, especially one as strange as quantum mechanics.…

The article makes some fair points for performing end-to-end tests. There is however a benefit of unit tests over end-to-end tests that is not mentioned: code locality. The cost of…