As a grandpa, I love this.
Readit Newsleggomuhgreggo commented on Matcha.css – Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS matcha.mizu.sh/... · Posted by u/popcalc
leggomuhgreggo commented on Sunlight and Vitamin D (2013) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/luu
The author of this paper, Michael Holick, was a professor of mine and is highly controversial due to his industry conflicts of interest that he didn't disclose (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/business/vitamin-d-michae...) and his seemingly perverse testimony in child-abuse cases (https://www.propublica.org/article/michael-holick-ehlers-dan...). I regard his research with high suspicion.
What's controversial here? The benefits of Vitamin D is pretty well established
( it's a "vital mineral" after all.)
I read the summary and didn't see anything very adventurous.
>law enforcement officers performing their official duties can be secretly recorded because they have no expectation of privacy.
Sounds about right.
I was worried that this referred to personal conversations and was about to say "dang have we gone too far?" but yeah this makes sense.
Probably goes without saying but — we don't want to condemn/bastardize/immiserate the entire institution...
leggomuhgreggo commented on Global CO2 emissions could peak as soon as 2023 carbonbrief.org/analysis-... · Posted by u/pier25
The plants have had it too good for too long
I've never heard that either which makes me suspicious of the author.
It was a significant enough story to have weeks of meta narrative reports — so it was definitely "a thing".
(Our propaganda institutions will generally put some MIC-friendly narrative out there, more or less immediately after events like this.)
Here are some examples:
[1] https://en.radiofarda.com/a/why-are-fingers-pointed-at-hezbo...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-08-05/beirut-ex...
[3] https://www.voanews.com/a/hezbollah-rattled-by-port-blast-pr...
[4] https://www.tv7israelnews.com/the-beirut-explosion-is-there-...
[5] https://www.foxnews.com/world/beirut-blast-hezbollah-port-un...
I think people who facilitate the sale of community destroying hard drugs deserve punishment, but this trial was a farce. The media ran ceaseless stories making it sound like he was selling guns to terrorists and child abuse material. There's no way he could have been fairly judged by a jury with how prevalent that type of reporting was.
Hoping it's not too much of an imposition, I'd like to pose a series of rhetorical questions about criminological policy, which may not be new territory, but I hope will, nonetheless, elevate the discussion
What does 'deserve' mean?
How do you distinguish it from vengeance?
If the idea is that it has deterrent value, how do we measure that?
Also why are we trying to deter? What's the social cost of the behavior his platform helped facilitate?
How much did his being a party to that behavior contribute to its prevalence? Is there any evidence suggesting the behavior wouldn't have been enacted through alternative intermediaries?
Most importantly: Is there any unintended secondary cost to society, as a result of bringing punitive repercussions on intermediaries that are incidentally party to an undesired behavior?
In Policy Analysis one often sees a pattern where punitive policies exacerbate either the undesired behavior or associated antisocial behaviors
It's counter-intuitive but the correlation between criminalization and increased antisocial activity — and indeed net social cost — is quite strong.
In my view the only sensible approach to criminology is "consequentialism" with all punishments being informed by therapeutic approaches to reduce future harm — or "Harm Reduction"
When we allow ourselves to be guided by "scale balancing" rationales, it's just too easy for that to turn into sadism and worse "mob" sadism — where any view of proportionality (vague and aspirational to begin with) is abandoned until some "Lord of the Flies" moment of cruelty provokes social reflection.
Anyway thanks for considering my perspective.
leggomuhgreggo commented on Buttons as Finite Automata web.stanford.edu/class/ar... · Posted by u/picture
Nice!
It's funny that buttons are the "Hello World" of frontend components, because they're actually feverishly nuanced.
I wrote a proof of concept for one of these, using XState, a few months back.
My use case was a cross platform react native button -- which means there's technically a difference between "pressed" and "hover" -- and there's also a loading state, which required special handling for the a11y state.
https://codesandbox.io/s/fervent-shirley-dgesq?file=/src/Pre...
NOTE: this will open a popup (might have to enable popups) with the visualizer, and it defaults to the a11y machine, but there's a drop down to switch to the main button machine.
leggomuhgreggo commented on · Posted by u/whereistimbo
Not to be confused with:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Dalet
leggomuhgreggo commented on Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado covid19.colorado.gov/data... · Posted by u/shrubble
I'm not sure what basis you have for assuming it will evolve to be less dangerous, Since it still leaves most of its host alive I can't think of a mechanism that would prevent it from staying equally deadly, except of course that most of the population will have some degree of immunity.
This pandemic will inevitably end, after which Covid-19 may stay endemic, but Covid-19 becoming endemic and the pandemic ending aren't really the same thing and frankly aren't really causally related so to me it seems weird to express hope for the endemic to begin rather than the pandemic to end.
Anyway, we'll need to ride out this last wave first. I'd say hopefully last, but we may end up hoping it wasn't. Regardless let's hope it at least burns itself out in the process as opposed to smouldering for ever.
It's not an absolute but it is a strong tendency which seems evident with omicron.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muller's_ratchet
Noteworthy exception in virology is Marek's Disease: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek's_disease
The vipers in the big nest need a bunch of trash cyber security media to premise renewal of sanctions against DPRK.
Bless our patriotic vipers, and their white hat hackers/influencers.