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Things I Learnt in 2020
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#22What is a knowledge addict?
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#23About artificially created language I really like Toki Pona - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona Very minimalist, nice sounds.
I was quite confused by the examples for Solresol
> Will you go to the countryside this year? - Fadoremi?
> Will you go to the theatre tonight? - Soldoremi?
I was very intrigued at how much meaning could be packed into such a short word, given only seven phonemes.
Finally I found a dictionary and found that those words just mean "countryside" and "theater" respectively.
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#24So... who else has now burned hours on the incompatible food triad? Seriously, it's killing me. Some kind of fruit and chocolate and something??
A food chemist might be able to figure it out. Three foods or additives that singularly or in pairs would be innocuous. But all three combined, perhaps if exposed to heat, would form a toxin. Sounds like my cooking...
They generally don't post these sorts of answers online so people don't know how to kill others.
There are all sorts of foods that can make you sick or kill you if improperly prepared.
The post is really just saying choose items that pair well with each other but not all together. (The only one I can think of quickly is sugar, yeast, and shaggy mane mushroom, assuming the yeast ends up fermenting the sugar).
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#25Re "broon sauce" i.e. brown sauce:
> The recipe is a mystery, and every chippy mixes their own. However now I know the secret: Just dilute down some yourself. Add vinegar to brown sauce
I had the same self-referential discussion with a chippie in Scotland.
"So what exactly is in brown sauce?"
"Dunno mate, it's just got brown sauce in it."
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Re Roman numerals as multipliers:
I think this must be a recent invention (the example cited is 18th c). In Roman times, 2000 was MM, not IIM, and likewise MM did not mean one million, like the photo shows.
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#26That an "epidemiologist" is not typically a scientist who studies epidemics, but is more usually a bureaucrat with a master's degree in public health.
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#27That an "epidemiologist" is not typically a scientist who studies epidemics, but is more usually a bureaucrat with a master's degree in public health.
Citation needed.
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#28That an "epidemiologist" is not typically a scientist who studies epidemics, but is more usually a bureaucrat with a master's degree in public health.
Citation needed.
Annecdatum: I know someone with an MS in public health who is working as an epidemiologist for the state government.
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#29That an "epidemiologist" is not typically a scientist who studies epidemics, but is more usually a bureaucrat with a master's degree in public health.
From the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics[0]:
> Epidemiologists are public health professionals who investigate patterns and causes of disease and injury in humans. They seek to reduce the risk and occurrence of negative health outcomes through research, community education and health policy.
So to cavalierly categorize epidemiologists as "more usually a bureaucrat" speaks to a myopic understanding of what value they provide.
0 - https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/epi...
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#30That an "epidemiologist" is not typically a scientist who studies epidemics, but is more usually a bureaucrat with a master's degree in public health.
From the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics[0]: > Epidemiologists are public health professionals who investigate patterns and causes of disease and injury in humans. They seek to reduce the risk and occurrence of negative health outcomes through research, community education and health policy. So to cavalierly categorize epidemiologists as "more usually a bureaucrat" speaks to a myopic understanding of what value they…
You’re arguing with a connotation when the denotation is true. Most epidemiologists are bureaucrats not scientists. They don’t do research and probably can’t, certainly not at the level of someone who has done a Ph.D. Also, let’s be honest. The FDA and CDC have been of negative value in the US, on net, during the current pandemic. Lying about masks, lying about the threshold needed for herd immunity, prosecuting distilleries for making alcohol for disinfectant, keeping KN95 masks from being allowed for months, not allowing human challenge trials... The list goes on.