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Those two ruin more lives because they're legal and way more widely available, so more people abuse them - not because they're worse. Larger sample size means larger number affecte…

It doesn't directly contradict the paper you linked, but figured it's worth mentioning - the hypothesis about a diabetes-Alzheimer's link might have originally stemmed from fraudul…

>if autonomous driving can save 1+ life, it's better than what we have now so we should keep it and accept that crashes will occur This argument ignores the reality of driving: by …

Wow. Phrase above was almost certainly talking about the Holocaust.

Here's a nice article answering your question and explaining the confusion here. It definitely seems like people who want to believe that covid is a hoax are taking this CDC post (…

Interesting - I've only worked on pretty small eng teams, but I couldn't live without git blame (or an editor/IDE feature using git blame). It's like another dimension, seeing the …

Read this: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/health/vaccine-nursing-ho... "An unvaccinated worker set off an outbreak at a U.S. nursing home where most residents were immunized." …

That's not how evolution works. The question to ask is, if most food sources except for grass disappeared, would humanity as a whole (through mass starvation and the resulting natu…