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Like the MS employees that wrote books on proprietary APIs that are otherwise undocumented an undecipherable.

It's possible that hospitals were claiming something like a car crash victim with COVID as a COVID death for extra funding, making actual total deaths less due to COVID than report…

Just beat them to death. Jury nullification. Or vote, or whatever the site rules permit, good luck with that.

"Immune. Immune, immune, immune." You forced me to not actually read the dissent but to CTRL+F "immune,", because I couldn't believe a person/demigod serving in such an incredibly …

All knowledge/predictions are encoded as a chain of probabilities that something is true, otherwise, what else is it? My brain calculates 0.8 * 0.3 * 0.5 * 0.6 in order to make a 3…

Your question is a trap. Either you dispute that money=power or you're just waiting to capture my rant on video and find some flaw in it. Good day.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/24/politics/republicans-house-un... According to billionaire-owned media, the owner of which is owned by a trillionaire investor, you are a conspiracy t…

Men are the most disproportionately affected.

"But their senior civil servants quit if they try." Why does abandoning ship when the ship is set on fire or under threat to be set on fire save the ship? Worse if the abandoners a…

Star Trek: TNG episode "The Game" anyone?

Regarding the "pedagogy", my favorite method of learning is straightforward problem solving: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad... If you wanted to have s…

Years of life lost to COVID-19 in USA in 2020 [1]: 5.5M Years of life lost to heart disease in USA in 2020 [1]: 8.9M Years of life lost to abortion in USA in 2019 (no stats for 202…

Believing in a different set of axioms cannot be a logical fallacy.

But this is worse because the interrupter may be doing it in good faith, as in, "I already predicted the rest of your paragraph, let's save 50 seconds of our lives." edit: unless t…

Velocity is fake. Money is valued according to totalStuff / totalMoney. If there is one item of food left on the entire planet, everybody is about to starve to death. If you print …

93% are men, 7% women. Our criminal justice system is designed to incarcerate men. edit: High five to sibling comment.