Tomminn

I believe this is an act of subversion, if this kind of thing is annoying anyone.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/128082387/...

And just so we're clear, I'm not posting anything on NZ reddit atm. That is someone else who has heard me and understands _exactly_ the game we're in here. I expect that we may not agree on politics, but we agree on democracy, so kudos to their effort on that platform.

I shied away from the police violence videos, and snuck them in quietly later, because mainly I wanted to establish the _innocence_ of the protest, which is key for showing the _inaccuracy_ of it's mainstream media representation, and the _absurdity_ of the parliamentary response. The police are not the enemies here, and I didn't want to inflame things too much. I'm trying to get this done in an orderly fashion.

Whether the rest of the story holds water is for the rest of society to figure out. This is the part we on the left can help with. We can demonstrate the distance we're willing to go to figure out the truth here.

For those wondering why I did this, I believe I saw an unambiguous example of left wing ideology being used to cover up a powerful display of oppression, so I felt morally obliged to destroy it.

All done now. A left wing defense.. of the right.

Atm it looks like it might be Micheal Baker.

Basic plan to defend NZ from getting torn apart by EndTheMandates was by replacing the effective leadership in the country with the leading epidemiologist most sympathetic to the cause of the unvaccinated. Protip.

If anyone is interested in the strategy I took to try defend New Zealand from being torn apart by the Convoy protests, I've documented it here.

https://www.facebook.com/thomas.minnee/posts/101600891209174...

Reporting from me, on the outbreak of omicron and on the protests happening around me. No friends so I gotta share it with you.

This interesting article was posted earlier by another user and quickly received 28 upvotes but was flagged, presumably for editorializing the title. Reposted without the editorializing. A reply to this comment with a link to the unpaywalled pdf would obviously be helpful for many readers.

I think that if those studies showed large reductions in transmission and infection of omicron with vaccination then they wouldn't provide the disclaimer that these studies are not good and complete. Why are the studies that show substantial omicron hospital reductions and death reductions from vaccines good and complete? By what metric do these articles differ from those which show vaccines barely budge infection and transmission rates? Often both claims (substantial hosp/death reduction, minimal infec/trans reduction) are found in the same damn paper.

Also everyone knows many people scan articles, and it feels like the format of this article is intentionally constructed to deceive those people. I would estimate 60% of readers come away with the impression those transmission and infection reductions are for omicron. The only reason I didn't make that mistake was because I knew those numbers for omicron were super far off from what is currently understood, and so I read the article more closely that I ordinarily would an article in this format.

March 2015: https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re...

He could have used the TED platform to talk about anything, and he chose to raise the alarm bell about pandemic preparedness. A fairly niche and unpopular topic at the time.

Note the bait switch to Delta when transmission and infection are mentioned.

This may be the case in computer science but is definitely not the case in science/philosophy. Not doing graduate school means effectively not doing science/philosophy. We sort of scoffed at everyone who dropped out at undergrad and thought they were obviously never serious about the field. I'm not saying the scoffing was correct, just that it was mystifying to us when someone actually good didn't go on to grad school.

My physics supervisor used to tell me:

"Write in Fourier space, starting at zero frequency and working your way up."

This person is a high-functioning aspie [1] who is well-groomed and relatively attractive.

One interpretation of this post is that a good dating site aimed specifically at people on the spectrum may be able to charge its users substantial amounts of money compared to what you can charge neurotypicals because perhaps people on the spectrum recognize more accurately in dollar terms how valuable it is to solve the partnership problem and have less mystical thinking around it.

[1] https://tolicodes.com/

Epic, thank you:)

I love this as a verifiable implementation of a mathematically trivial, but easy to forget point.

So I'm sad that when I tried to recreate the elephant scatter plot, I haven't been able to. Anyone find exact parameters that work for tau and alpha?

Just wish they'd given a complete list of the decimal places for those animals. It would've been something to plot them yourself.

This just straight up isn't true for blue collar and service work.

I've worked those kinds of jobs with 12 hour shifts pretty recently, and you definitely Really Actually Literally Work 10+ hours of em'. It's kind of a buzz.

I could still do it, 6 days a week, day-in day-out at 32, which was pleasantly surprising to me as someone who has always struggled to work a good 4 actual hours of white collar shift.

Some jobs just come at you non-stop, and basically your only options are quit dramatically, or keep grinding through.

The camaraderie with your work colleagues is something too. I've never felt that kind of genuine, manic, expendables-in-the-trenches, darkly comic camaraderie in any white collar job.

This is a good response, upvoted it.

It begs another question though, is chess a worse game if white begins with a pawn on a3 instead of a2 (assuming this is the result every time the suggested procedure is used), and black moves first? Maybe. But I think it's an okay solution if you want a neutral platform for a tie-breaking game.

I fail to see how this would be the case. I think it may even increase opening variety.

I think you'd see many more opening with oddly position a-c/f-g file pawns, or horses thrown into the rail. I think it could make for a radically different game opening game that would be just as diverse as the current game. Perhaps more so.

I wonder if you misunderstood? Since this is very far from agreeing to a draw at the outset. I meant the cake cutting for only the very first move. Not the subsequent moves. Only the very first move played on the board is incentivized to be value neutral.

Fair chess is trivial.

The first player chooses white's move. The second player chooses whether to play as black or to take over playing as white.

Problem solved. The first player is incentivized to make white's first move as value neutral as possible. It's exactly the same principle as the "sister cut's the cake, brother chooses which piece to take" trick many will have used as kids.

"The nicer flute arrived the next day. “I'm sitting at the harbour. And some guy is sort of dressed like me, I guess casual, has this three-foot-long bamboo flute and a cup of coffee, and he is walking. And I say, ‘Can I have a sip of your coffee?’ ‘Is that a flute?’ ‘Can I try it?’” The man gave Johnston permission for both requests—and then he gave Johnston the flute.

Stuff like that “happens constantly,” he tells me."

There's a second interpretation of this interaction. I'd like to hear it from the other side.

If you wanted to make this quantum, one is red and the other is blue only if you're looking for a red ball when you stick your hand in the bag. If you're looking for a purple ball when you stick your hand in the bag, then one is purple and the other is green.

That's the spooky part.