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Very likely that internally there were people who had an inkling this was going on, but could never convince product to devote time to put it in the backlog. This change is a win f…

Right. I'm not saying eval(their net behavior)>0; I'm saying that if your response function is always negative, you lose the ability to influence their response. Have you heard the…

Watch out not to condemn them no matter what they do. Sure, they messed up in the past, but given the situation they found themselves in when they saw this report, this response is…

I'd be curious what you think of "Ghettoside" - a book from the left that examines the claims implied by your linked comic about the nature of the suffering we are trying to preven…

If you define away neutrality, there is no neutrality, yes. But does everyone agree with your definition? This seems more like a "you're with us or against us" trick. "I care about…

right - and this all started when someone who said "hey, let's stop people from shutting down discussion" was accused of being intolerant. When in fact for the existence of toleran…

Yeah, this debate has two instances of it from opposite sides: The original story claimed to feature people who were (voluntarily) not accepting speech from someone they suggested …

Right. The original comment suggested that any prohibitions made by an allegedly tolerant society invalidate their claim. I don't think that is a very useful definition of toleranc…

I was just bringing it up to get an admission that "there is a line". Everything else is about debating where that line is. The old ACLU set it really far into the "freedom" zone -…

In your definition of tolerant, is it required to tolerate even attempts to destroy the tolerant person? i.e. is there a line beyond which tolerance doesn't apply? Where do laws fi…

Yes, this is a coherent, stable proposal. For a tolerant society to adopt complete tolerance, even of things designed to destroy their society, is unstable. https://en.wikipedia.or…

Abstract: When vaccines are in limited supply, expanding the number of people who receive some vaccine can reduce disease and mortality compared to concentrating vaccines in a subs…

Your question is addressed here: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/37366988/Dose_sp... When vaccines are in limited supply, expanding the number of people who receive som…

The actual Feynman personal take on risk & his investigation: https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm Short and readable. It appears that there are enormous differences of op…

Would combining two people's double doses all into one person, raising their resistance even more while leaving three people uncovered be beneficial in not setting up situations th…

Is there something in NACI's analysis that you disagree with specifically? Their argument seems to be that we have 2 months of evidence that hospitalizations & negative effects are…

Canada came out with support for first doses first: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization...

The summary: While studies have not yet collected four months of data on vaccine effectiveness after the first dose, the first two months of real world effectiveness are showing su…

1. China has prior restraint on everything associated with working in the media - purchase of materials required for publication of newspapers, licenses to publish media, licenses …

Sure, Alex should update his criticism, but it's still valid to look back at why it took this long; First Doses First has been out for a while - it's been 2 months since, for examp…

> There’s no need to experiment. People who haven't caught coronavirus yet are still likely to catch it and be at risk. That is, new people are still being infected and are likely …

What is the relationship of his credentials to his logical argument? By arguing from credentials you implicitly take the side of the status quo in history; you'd have been arguing …