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@palakzat @sumitkbehal Lol what, why not? Every group of people on earth has scammers, it's like the human birthright

@sumitkbehal Lmao this is wild. It seems such an obvious scam now that I read this, but at the same time, this wouldn’t occur to any of us that Sherpas could scam like this.

The funniest scam of the year is Sherpas doing food alteration on Mt. Everest expedition to trigger helicopter evacuation for climbers > charge $50,000 for expedition > make rescue insurance mandatory > add drugs in food of climbers > climbers feel altitude sickness > rescue climbers with choppers > insurer pays bills for rescue service > take commission from aviation company This is literally highest level of financial engineering at the highest point on earth

@mojito_flow @maestrodistors1 @HollyBriden @TaylorLorenz She tweeted an hr ago?

There were signs.

@webdevMason > because it had never been irrefutably proven If you know many physicians, you know that med education makes them dumber in this precise way: until there's a 'conclusive' RCT, you're free to believe whatever you want. I don't think "these docs weren't stupid" is quite accurate

To state it plainly: at the time, torturing babies reduced liability for providers, and it was easier for them to believe that it wasn't torture because it had never been irrefutably proven that a baby can feel any pain at all.

I'd contest this framing. Yes, research in the late 1980s demonstrated empirically that newborns feel pain. But these physicians weren't stupid, and any mother can tell you a baby can feel pain. In the medical community, there was a *motivated* disbelief in pediatric pain.

@NoTeamsIndy @_Jase_C_ @andrewfeinstein 1. Point 2 wasn't your "main point". And the lie in 1 was so egregious that it's what I chose to remark on 2. Your example just proves my point: Yinon Levi's charged carry a maximum sentence of 12 years in prison

@Bootlegregore @_Jase_C_ @andrewfeinstein 1. Look up Yinon Levi and Kfir Yifrah. 2. Thanks for conceding my main point via your silence on it!

Not even apartheid South Africa codified executions for only one ‘race group’. Israel is now the most racist state the world has ever known. Shame on every government, every company, every individual who offer it support.

@NoTeamsIndy @_Jase_C_ @andrewfeinstein You are flatly lying with point 1, responding to tweets talking solely about the death penalty with the non sequitur "they also stand trial".

@_Jase_C_ @andrewfeinstein 1. That's not true. If accused of murdering a Palestinian, Israelis also stand trial for it. 2. His framing explicitly calls Palestinians a "race," and the tweet he quotes calls them an "ethnic group." Both are 100% false.

@QuinnyPig @amazon Perhaps it displaces a pkg whose contract with the user doesn't allow for delaying Or perhaps adding this pkg to the Apr 1 delivery requires an upstream leg that isn't batched Logistics are complicated enough that I don't think you can infer much from a batched delivery

This is an excellent question. Any comment, @amazon? Because I have some ideas.

@SauronDeciever @yah5us @doc_gero Using your frame: If you lean on a shelf while standing on a scale, did your "weight" change? Or is it well-understood that the scale's measurement is net of upward forces, which includes the minuscule contribution of buoyancy on your extremities?

@SauronDeciever @yah5us @doc_gero My 'point' is the literal definition of weight...if you like, you can consider the number on a scale to be an approximation of weight

PhD in economics here! 1kg of steel is heavier than 1kg of feathers!

@SauronDeciever @yah5us @doc_gero No, weight is the gravitational force downwards, equal to mass scaled by the constant g (for Earth) The buoyant force counteracts, but does not change, the gravitational force

@yah5us @doc_gero The steel is heavier. kg is a measurement of mass, not force/weight. A kg of feathers has more volume, displaces more air, and due to the buoyant force weighs less than the steel.

@tweetingboa @jonatanpallesen Noah isn't and has never been elite human capital. He is practically the definition of midwit. At least Ezra Klein slowly puzzles his way to intellectual growth

@jonatanpallesen Classic. He blocked me for the exchange below. Elite Human Capital dislike having it pointed out incontrovertibly just how fragile their mental gymnasium is. Gives them anxiety. 🙄🤭

I got blocked following this exchange.

@CarloDallapicc1 @geraldposner It's not

@geraldposner How can this photo be from this year? Why are >50% of the people wearing masks? Outdoors, even!

All my friends in my native San Francisco are in a fury over a judge's decision to grant probation to a 24-year-old defendant who had assaulted and killed an 84-year-old man in an unprovoked attack. The judge—Linda Colfax—was appointed to the bench in 2011 and has subsequently run UNOPPOSED in elections. I hope voters remember this case the next time she is running to keep her seat. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/gra…

@runeindark @benlandautaylor @MetabolicTonic Ah sure, didn't catch that OP was specifically talking about med student education I was speaking more broadly abt the imo unconscionable deficits in critical & statistical thinking among physicians, due in large part to med education's cultural flaws

@Bootlegregore @benlandautaylor @MetabolicTonic doesnt necessarily reflect the current education paradigm. what was the avg age of the physicians in that study? not sure, but likely over 40, probably older, which means they were trained decades ago. stats are emphasized much more now

My healthcare blackpilling moment was when I was ~14, my dad explained false positive/false negative statistical tests as he drove me home, and at the end he mentioned most of his medical students never really understand how to apply the basic stuff I’d just learned.

@stanfordNYC This analysis implies that assault leading to death _without_ provocation is treated more mildly than w/ provocation. Are you sure? That seems like an odd gap...

The biggest problem here seems to be not the judge but the statutes. I've attempted a look at how each contributed. Antoine Watson was charged with first degree murder, second degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, and aggravated assault. The jury acquitted on the murder charges, which sounds pretty bad, but looks like it might be correct based on the actual required elements. This would have turned on whether Watson had malice (implied by an "abandoned and malignant heart") when he ran up to and shoved Vicha Ratanapakdee. The California pattern jury instructions require that the perpetrator be aware that "the natural and probable consequences of the act were dangerous to human life in that the act involved a high degree of probability that it would result in death." Is that actually true of running up to and shoving a person? Probably not. Though attacking a stranger that way is an evil thing, most of the time a person so shoved will not pass away as a result. So murder, though it was charged, was probably off the table from the beginning. Turning to voluntary manslaughter, it's narrowly defined in California as a killing in the heat of passion caused by a provocation. But there was no provocation here. So involuntary manslaughter was charged, which was what was convicted. Involuntary manslaughter can have a sentence of 2, 3 or 4 years, and in this case, there were enhancements (due to the age of the victim) available that allowed for a 5 year extension. So the longest possible sentence was 9 years imprisonment. As a violent offender, Watson would need to serve 85% of the sentence before getting automatic parole, or about 7 years and 8 months. He had already served about 5 years and 2 months before and during trial. So he served about two-thirds of what he would have served with the harshest possible sentence, and the way the California statutes and instructions are, that 7 years and 8 months is probably the most time he could have conceivably served for running up to and shoving a random stranger, resulting in brain injury, coma and death. In my opinion, if California is going to have such narrow criteria for murder and voluntary manslaughter, the sentencing range for involuntary manslaughter has to run MUCH higher than 4 years. So the judge did have some latitude, but in the maximum case could have added only about two and a half years of additional time in custody.

@runeindark @benlandautaylor @MetabolicTonic Yes, and this doesn't appear to help.... In '82 Eddy found 95% failure rates on the most basic form of this q, and later research indicates there hasn't been huge improvement: researchgate.net/publication/31… Unsurprising to those with a realistic understanding of how med education works

@benlandautaylor @MetabolicTonic Not sure when your dad trained, but this question gets asked on USMLE step 1 and step 2 about 3 times per exam

@AdkHomeroom @patrickc @conor64 And this was evident in real time! I remember strong emotional reactions when I posited in Apr 2020 that the cdc & fda had horribly mishandled the early pandemic Same friends started dutifully believing this as soon as the nyt published an article about it a yr and a half later

@patrickc @conor64 What Patrick said, and: *the CDC used 1 fax (fax!) per case for reporting *stifled early effective testing *smeared dissenters *"leading" scientists claimed self-reported surveys were strong enough evidence for billion dollar policy decisions *misled re: age profile of victims

A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.

@Pask218337 @herandrews Yea, I have no explanation for this but I know ivy league educated doctors who still see debt as magic spells, and can't do incredibly simple reasoning around it. Luckily, all of their husbands have no trouble with basic financial literacy

@herandrews Women aren't as good at managing their finances (generally. Exceptions abound)

Settle a debate for me. Are women slower to pay off their student loans because they’re - out of the workforce having kids - working in fields eligible for student loan forgiveness (e.g. nonprofits, helping professions) What explains the huge gap? Obviously both are a factor.

@mndl_nyc @50YearsAgoLive That's surprisingly true of many places before the modern modern era. Looking at pictures out of the rural US eg a few decades earlier are pretty astonishing

@50YearsAgoLive Going to guess that this is how the elite parts of a couple major cities looked but 90% of the country was something completely different

Female students in Kabul, Afghanistan walk to class. Afghanistan is one of the most socially-modern nations in Asia, and may soon become a bellwether for the Middle East. Afghanistan is a major stop on the “Hippie Trail,” where European tourists hitchhike or drive from Europe to India.

@dubya_brian @nicbarkeragain Is it "increasingly"? I remember getting a Creative Zvm instead of an ipod video in the 2000s bc iTunes was such hot garbage. I don't think I've used a piece of Apple software since then that has changed my mind

@nicbarkeragain Not related to the desktop app, but if I tell my homepod "Siri, shuffle my playlist" it plays the same songs in the same order, every time. Apple's hardware has gotten very good, but the software is increasingly poor.

Usually I try to just ignore this type of stuff and get on with my day, but I recently switched from spotify to apple music for reasons™, and the desktop user interface is so comically poor that I have to make a thread highlighting what I came across in one session, strap in:

@rmushkatblat @patio11 @1939worldsfair @patrickc Interesting, Ive heard otherwise from both west coasters & NYers (in the single instance I've ever experienced a New Yorker saying elsewhere does anything better) I don't personally know, but someone mentioned something about the coldwater Pacific making the West more suitable?

@Bootlegregore @patio11 @1939worldsfair @patrickc I think NYC's high-end sushi scene is currently regarded as the best in the country, beating even LA's (as of the last 5-10 years).

There’s a lot of discussion in these parts about all the things that are degrading (public safety, disorder, architecture, institutions, …), but it is remarkable how much better food has gotten over the course of my lifetime. I was recently traveling in the UK, and even in small towns, the restaurants were consistently great. (I particularly recommend Isla in Durham.) Ireland has similarly improved by leaps and bounds. The US is very good these days. Has there ever been a better time to eat?

@patio11 @1939worldsfair @patrickc Is that true? NYC's sushi is way worse than sf or Seattle's? Was it so different back in the 80s?

@1939worldsfair @patrickc LA and NYC are the ~only US cities that can credibly claim that.