tomerico (u/tomerico)

tomerico commented on Political trolling twice as popular as positivity, study suggests bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/pseudolus

onion2k · 4 years ago

The pace of technological change makes predicting a viable but exciting future pretty much impossible. Back in 1960s to 80s the futurism of scifi was lots of computers, screens, automation, etc. You could make something look beliveable but far off by applying the cutting edge of tech that people knew about but didn't really have access to and making it look commonplace.

Today the cutting edge of tech looks pretty mundane. It's usually software, which doesn't really translate to looking futuristic. If TV show makers go too far it looks like magic and stops being an achievable dream.

Essentially, the reason why making high quality "dreams of the future" hopeful TV shows doesn't happen any more is because hardware innovation stopped looking exciting. The brilliant thing is that happened because we actually have the hardware now, and that had taught us to be realistic about the (near term) future.

tomerico · 4 years ago

The counter argument is that Black Mirror is an insanely popular TV show that shows exactly what technology innovation could bring - but again, from a dystopian perspective.

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beebs93 · 5 years ago

Another nice add-on to this format within my department is that we utilize an internal retro tool for people to post their questions for discussion.

After the 20ish or minutes of silent reading, we give people ~5min to post their questions for all others to see in real-time. We then give people a set number of votes and the presenter goes through the list answering the questions in descending order of votes.

I was hesitant at first when they introduced this (since it felt like more red tape), but I've found it helps focus the discussion on the most important feedback while avoiding one person bikeshedding the discussion time right at the beginning.

tomerico · 5 years ago

Can you share the tool name?

tomerico commented on Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals medrxiv.org/content/10.11... · Posted by u/bananapizza

Taniwha · 5 years ago

However there already exist real people in the world who have had Covid twice, and who reportedly have had a much tougher time the second time around.

This study helps us put some bounds on how many people this might happen to (assuming there are no mutations to the virus) but it doesn't rule it out completely, because of the prior existence proofs

tomerico · 5 years ago

If this is rare enough, it could fall into the false positive rate of the COVID test they've previously done (i.e. while the test said they had COVID, they didn't)

tomerico commented on We are publishing the tax secrets of the .001% propublica.org/article/wh... · Posted by u/jbegley

whiddershins · 5 years ago

Every time someone tries to make a tax targeting the ultra rich, it ends up hurting the moderately wealthy instead.

Every. Single. Time.

The worse tax situation is always the person who makes 500k in a good year, or sells a house they held for 25 years which went up a bunch in value.

I suspect this is a significant factor in social mobility. Our tax system is punitive to people who try to leave the working class.

tomerico · 5 years ago

Another point is that $500k is not in the 1% everywhere. In the Bay Area, it wouldn’t even put you at the top 5%.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/01/upshot/are-yo...

tomerico commented on Once a bastion of free speech, the ACLU faces an identity crisis nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us... · Posted by u/mful

p1necone · 5 years ago

The whole concept of cancel culture seems to just be used as a way to silence legitimate criticism of others as far as I can see. I'm sure it meant something at one point, but now it's just silly.

tomerico · 5 years ago

Note how you have just did exactly what you criticized ( “silence legitimate criticism of others” by dismissing those that called out cancel culture)

tomerico commented on Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters usa.oceana.org/publicatio... · Posted by u/belter

1MachineElf · 5 years ago

>China's official position is that a large part of the South China Sea is their territory

Unfortunate that it's literally called The South China Sea. This dispute will likely never go away.

tomerico · 5 years ago

Good thing that India doesn’t use this logic (Indian Ocean)

tomerico commented on Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters usa.oceana.org/publicatio... · Posted by u/belter

Tams80 · 5 years ago

You underestimate how utterly corrupt a lot of authorities are in Argentina.

Once bribes, 'personal cuts', etc. have been made/taken, there's not much left. Not to mention the kind of culture that breeds.

tomerico · 5 years ago

That’s a different argument than cost.

tomerico commented on Israel reports link between rare cases of heart inflammation and MRNA Vaccine sciencemag.org/news/2021/... · Posted by u/07121941

JPKab · 5 years ago

No, this post isn't callous, and I appreciate the information.

I've had a few days to process, because her last few days on life support..... well, when I saw her, I could just sense that "she" was no longer present.... and the EEGs showed the decline in brain activity. Point is I was mourning her days ago, when her body was still alive. Anyways, a doctor pulled me aside and broke it down for me this way:

The vaccine is our weapon in a war against the virus, and my mother-in-law is a "friendly fire" casualty. They are inevitable, but the war must be fought.

While this kind of helps me feel a bit better, it's been disturbing to my wife and her family...... there has certainly been a rather strong tendency amongst the medical staff to try to attribute the causality to a multitude of other factors. They did this almost immediately. The tests, after days, showed an unusually healthy heart, and left them stumped. Only then did they even begin to discuss the vaccine. I understand why, it's just that the initial 4 days or so of behavior, and refusal to engage in any convo on the vaccine, made them suspicious.

They are Filipino-Americans, and have about as much trust in authority as my West Virginian relatives do, which is basically zero. This made things 20x worse. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to convince my wife to get vaccinated now. She had COVID in February when I did (both of us extremely mild symptoms) and she is currently saying she won't get the vaccine, even if that means cancelling our planned overseas trip.

Anyway, I just got an impression that there is some hesitancy, likely institutional, to not talk about it..... Which makes sense, seeing as how this manifests with famous friendly fire incidents in the military.

Edit:

I forgot to thank you for pointing out the HHS program, but I've been told that the program is extremely high burden of proof (my MIL was on machines for over a week, so any autopsy is garbage at this point). I've heard that in 10 years, they've handed out benefits to approximately 30 people. I hope I'm misinformed on this.

tomerico · 5 years ago

Just noting that if you had COVID already, there is no need to get a vaccine, even for international travel.

Most countries that restrict travel to vaccinated people accept either a positive antibody test result or a positive COVID test result.

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wolfretcrap · 5 years ago

I live in India, even after working hard and making good money it's not possible to live a comfortable live here. There's no space for you, everything is packed up in tiny spaces.

Yet some people keep reproducing here, it's true birth rate has fallen in educated people but there are simply too many people at the bottom here in India so our population isn't going to come done anytime soon

tomerico · 5 years ago

India's women fertility rate is already below replacement level if you consider the gender imbalance.