#Values

1) THREAD - A summary of NERVTAG’s (the U.K. virus committee who advise the government) opinions on the ‘new U.K. strain’ of SARS-CoV-2. 2) We’ve previously discussed our opinions on
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National science communities tend to revere their Nobel Prize winners, and can be reluctant to criticise them when they behave inappropriately. However a prize does not excuse poor behaviour, and
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Because our commitment to #openscience & dismantling #echochambers is (slightly) stronger than my #neuroticperfectionist #impostersyndrome, Mesoscience Lab uploaded a close-to-final draft of our very first pre-print (!!) and encourage f
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When will there be enough evidence that vaccines reduce asymptomatic carriage (e.g. risk of transmission) to be able to change guidelines for vaccinated people not being a risk to unvaccinated?
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Calling for unity then continuing to act and sound like petulant children is contradictory. YOU and the majority of GOP members, under your rule, are emotionally immature & suffering from
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Big NewsAlongside some of the world's most important writers and activists, I’m starting a new publication and community: Persuasion.The values of a free society are under threat. The time to
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Listening to @senatorjen's podcast, and the first thing she says, in a thick GA drawl, "...and my pronouns are she and ma'am."As someone with my own drawl, I can't fully
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Learning is a key part of software engineering activity.We learn to understand business domains to build appropriate solutions to solve problems.We learn how to deliver more values for people using
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@CottoGottfried @TRElections @davidchapman141 @PollWatch2020 Did some digging into the MN poll from Survey USA /KSTP yesterday. The overweighting of the suburban vote is massively off the chart. Follow the thread.
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An 84 year old woman having to do physical labor as a housekeeper in the middle of a pandemic is not my kind of pick me up story. It's an
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"The most polarized issue in the US in August 2020 was climate change... If we can talk about climate change, we talk about just about anything, anywhere." - @KHayhoe leading
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I'm glad someone challenged me on this because it is such an important conversation and one that highlights just how fundamentally broken our systems are for measuring the value of
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Hot take: the FP schism between Haskell and Lisp/Scheme is not *really* about static vs dynamic types, or purity vs effects; it's about extensional vs syntactic compositionality. 1/ Extensionality means
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People often think the children of cosmopolitan elites are sent to the best private schools in the US/UK/Switzerland. In reality, schools such as Le Rosey in Switzerland (most expensive in
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Ok, here starts a little tweetorial on everything you should know on 'Gamma Correction" and why it matters...https://twitter.com/loicaroyer/status/1284220315103449089 So why should you care? Well if you already care about adjusting
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I really think that, if you want to get a really complete framing for why Georgism is still relevant and will become ever more relevant, you need to also read
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