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i mean he's just showing us what everyone else is wearing during their zoom meetings
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initially i couldn't decide whether it was somewhat of a tech-bro parody or not, but they really redeemed themselves with the messiah thing and the ending
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citing abstracts isn't really helping. either way neither the abstracts nor the full article by bonetti and costa make any mention of control for socioeconomic status, which correlates with both IQ and level of education. therefore it's very likely to also be predictive of your cultural capital and thus also your taste in music. am not saying this is the case, but that most of the above research and reasoning is flawed. the last article mentions a similar thought
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*general banter is the reason people post on watmm
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threads like this are the reason people mock IDM
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yeah well i painted myself into another corner and i'd rather not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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finally got around to reading dune and am sad to want to put it down after 200 pages or so. the culture and world building is really exciting, but man, it really does read like a children's book. herbert tells us exactly what every major character is feeling and thinking to the point of leaving nothing up to our imagination. incredibly annoying. am no literary critic, but i suppose "show, don't tell" is really applicable here. excited for villeneuve's adaptation nonetheless. might get around to watching lynch's dune instead of reading this trite writing... also haven't seen the documentary bout jodorowsky's dune being mentioned here. i'd highly recommend it. almost makes you happy his project failed villeneuve really needs to write something of his own eh. i'm okay with scifi epics like blade runner and dune getting adapted/remade though. they make for good movies and to be fair dune has had it coming for a good while
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that's right
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it's an embarrassment isn't it. you know how netflix has a fetisch orange/blue gradients? it's like hbo has the same thing but with alternate timelines
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this is gr8
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thought about this post and how it relates to the responses in this thread. i mean, surely there's a selection bias as to which members respond to this topic, but it seems the few who have are quite unaffected. braindancers = mainly white collars? wouldn't surprise me. no offense intended in any direction, of course. i do know there are some blue collar workers here though
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i've just been passing time at home since february, doing the occasional shifts at the hospital where i've worked for a few years while i wait for my new (graduate, woo) job. if anything i've worked less since the outbreak, but that's mostly due to me wanting to kick back and relax before i jump onto the 40h/w treadmill life, rather than the virus. i can honestly say the quarantine hasn't meant much of a difference to how i've lived the past few months.
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Favorite all time BoC track (currently)
splbt replied to Friendly Stranger's topic in Boards of Canada
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lol "i just had my little bit of vegan food"
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very clickbaity so, and regardless of the validity of his numbers flattening the curve seems to be the best we can do at this point. the head of the swedish cdc condemns some interventions as being political opportunism (i.e. closing borders when airports are practically empty anyways), which i tend to agree with, while encouraging people to stay at home and away from elders. at this point i feel like people are more afraid of an eventual economical collapse than they are of the virus itself. and by acting accordingly, hysterically stockpiling, scaremongering and what not, they're contributing to the very same collapse more than the virus itself may be. this is what i'm afraid of. however, to concede a point, yes––considering the size of facilities flattening might not be enough. at the same time, he assumes a normal distribution with "a steep exponential onset", which is exactly what flattening is supposed to counteract. a few paragraphs later he admits himself that "in reality, the spread of a disease does not follow a normal distribution". i mean, come ON dude. i'm not an epidemiologist myself, but he's clearly contradicting himself and what he considers the evidence. on top of that, he's manipulating the incline of his curves to support his point. i'm not sure he's actually using validated current predictions of epidemiologists, but his own slightly skewed interpretation of them. he even writes "my curves are not correct!" in bold italics. and yeah, i realized i too sort of contradicted myself on that last bit. but while they're not necessarily schooled in the subject themselves, they're still poking holes in a lot of his assumptions and arguments. to me, that's having something valuable to say. i dare say not just the title is clickbaity, but the meat of the article as well. there'd probably be more professionally supported criticism of flattening the curve if he was right. but maybe i've missed it
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did you even read the article, let alone the comments? literally everyone who has anything valuable to say disagrees. it's clickbait and the numbers he cited aren't necessarily the correct numbers. also, the author works in AI, not healthcare. as stated in the comment section: guys, be careful with your sources. people have a tendency to take whatever's in print for truth, even when it's just one version of it. not only saying this in sole response to the cited article, but in general. i don't know how medium makes money, if it even does, but ad-driven media (which unfortunately accounts for many major newspapers) is most likely already competing with over the top, sensationalist headlines in order to attract readers and profit out of the situation.
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people trying to make a dime out of this situation really deserve the absolute worst
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