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At least one company in South Korea, Seegene, has produced many tests and it is this aggressive private sector production that is largely reasonable for South Korea's effective tes…

Assuming the WHO stash has not already been depleted due to the global spike in cases, the number of WHO tests available to the US is probably insufficient to be helpful for its ov…

Is 79°F hot? Alive is just a word. It means different things to different people and any formal definition will necessarily be arbitrary.

This should be its own post on HN! Great story.

So if there is superdeterminism, meaning positions are absolutely determined, either there is minimum scale in the universe (discrete universe) or somehow the universe computes wit…

This is a snide and irrelevant comment.

But ratios only express rational numbers, if we had to express location in a 3D continuum it's almost guaranteed that it would be represented by an irrational number.

It is extremely frightening, and it's important that we continue to fight for freedom of expression on all platforms. Unfortunately so many have an innate bias against the US that …

I understand that if we posit a super-Turing machine in which arbitrary positions on a continuum can be maximally expressed as finite values what I am saying does not logically fol…

It's not a matter of computability though, it's a matter of exact precision not being physically possible in a continuum.

If superdeterminism is true, it appears to imply that the universe is discrete at the smallest scales. Were the universe continuous, 'definite' position would be impossible, meanin…

The comment I replied to was saying that the lack of testing was indeed a political issue with one side at fault.

You can't just conjure the necessary tests up from nothing. Japan has also had problems with testing. No one is trying to "deny testing". It is a work in progress and is indeed ram…

I think there are a lot of Americans writing anti-Trump comments on Reddit, but I think the numbers are boosted by non Americans doing the same thing. It artificially inflates the …

There are two extreme paths we can take. The first is that we do nothing, the other is that we completely lock down our society like China. While the first option would be unwise, …

Agreed, Reddit is cancer. Reactionary hive mind internet at its worst. One of the biggest problems with Reddit is that Americans go on boards like /r/politics or in this case /r/Co…

Creativity can really only happen when the mind isn't doing anything in particular. Only then can it wander, and only in wandering can it arrive at novel combinations or alteration…

Education signals that you are "better" than those with worse education. Smarter, harder working, etc. We need to create better options for students. We can do this by refocusing e…

As it is structured today, yes it is. The majority of people study Psychology, Sociology, Economics or something of that nature then go on to make power point slides or enter numbe…

The point of UBI is not to fund people's vanity adventures in education. It's to support people who would otherwise be starving or homeless without a job. Regarding "sickness", the…

US military dominance is an ever present defense for nations around the world who would otherwise be harrassed or attacked by aggressive neighbors. US military involvement in the M…

I suppose you think we should not defend ourselves?