#General

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/According to data from the best-studied countries and regions, the lethality of Covid19 is on average about 0.2%, which is in the range of a severe influenza (flu) and about
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Pulling over a convo from elsewhere re: offering feedback to authors. When authors admit that certain feedback wasn't helpful, it can be misconstrued as them rejecting criticism. More likely, it
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ㅡ exo things as dance moms references that one episode of exo ladder where ksoo is interacting with the deer like he is literally bambi yixing and jongin crying
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The Cosmos vs Grayson stuff is yet another reminder that internet speed past a certain point literally does not matter, what matters is packet loss, and how bottlenecked your connection
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I've been (re)reading a bunch of @MasteryGrading papers lately, and I'm going to summarize and share thoughts on them as a way to reflect and digest them.I'll start with "Mastery
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In general ritualized practice is a fertile paradigm for the future of socially situated immersive computing.https://twitter.com/mathpunk/status/1265058096432525312 Almost exactly a year ago I was musing on Twitter about ritual or ceremonia
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CW: pronouns -- trans folx, feel free to mute this if it's not the kind of convo you want in your feed.Folks who don't include pronouns in bio, how come?
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This week have you run across new experiences, events, people, or technology that you'd like me to cover for Tuesday's issue of the IWW? Leave a comment in this thread
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historically, btc ends the cycle with a blow-off topI don't think that happens this time actually, I think the next bear market will be less "cause pain bc number go
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Why Aristotle shouldn't be cancelled. (Last paragraph of my Afterword to The Philosophy of AristotleSignet/Penguin 2011): "In conclusion, a general remark about reading Aristotle. Aristotle never doubts that there are
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Of course it’s hypocritical that 17+ members of a majority-Democratic council are not supportive of staff unionizing. But most concerning to us in the organizing committee is potential risk or
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Standup BraindumpThe standup is a short recurring meeting used to (re-)focus the team-mind on effectively moving stories through our workflow. Here's my recommended approach to having standups be useful and
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(1/n) While there is a general upward trend in food prices in #Pakistan, there is also a lot of heterogeneity is how prices of key food items have changed across
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OK, I've been looking long and hard at the new BMW M3 and M4 (and the 4 Series in general) and I've come to a conclusion. The grille(s) is (are)
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Poignant anniversary in #Mozambique. Oct 4 1992 Rome accord ended 16 yr war and brought hope. I was BBC reporter Maputo early 90s. Photo thread of some heady days @AndrewWJHarding
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Enterrement du crime d'écocide (pour un délit sans aucun rapport), des limites planétaires et du parquet national spécialisé. Mais : @barbarapompili et @E_DupondM annoncent la création très intéressante de deux
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