#Uncertainty

1/I read 'The character of Physical Law' by Richard Feynman when I was a college girl, but I don't know why I never read the last 2 chapters.Unforgivable, because the
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People need to learn from this experience. Hopefully what we've started to wrap our heads around is that Human Rights are often social privileges This #lockdown has hopefully opened peoples
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i am so sorry for my tweet earlier, i didn’t mean any of them in a way that would offend anyone. i missed out some detail in the tweets because
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Seeing papers make the rounds that the herd immunity threshold may be much lower than the rough approximation 1-1/R0. Maybe, but let's slow down a minute.#1. There is still way
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We are all haunted by our past, by the future, by lost love, by mistakes we have made, by uncertainty, by death, by loss. Almost everyone goes through it, or
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As abolitionists, we believe that social structures, both formal and informal, need to support people's lives and ability to live. As a severe public health crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic has
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It’s not easy home schooling. It’s can’t be easy being a teacher. I’m struggling. I’m not going lie, I’m as honest as they come. I feel like I’m failing my
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When fiat currency dies, conditions tend toward deflation first (since money becomes more valuable when uncertainty looms), before becoming increasingly inflationary and, finally, hyperinflationary. #Bitcoin was purpose-built for this.A
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10 perspective-altering ideas: (thread)Illustrations by @visualizevalue 1/ Expectation ≠ reality. 2/ Distraction vs. traction. 3/ Depth sharpens edge. 4/ “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to
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The assumption that Hong Kong will decline as a financial hub is predicated on the notion that China can't change international norms.Instead, allow yourself to imagine a Hong Kong that
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One of the most disappointing things I hear repeated when I talk to other library residents is how their coordinators and supervisors literally don't talk to them. No regular check
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Is this why you pushed so hard for Burr to get fired, @mattgaetz?“The committee found no reason to dispute the intelligence community’s conclusions,” Richard Burr said in a statement.Senate Intel
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I've identified my #1 revelation in this crisis:People (all of us) take very complicated things and try to explain them in terms we can comprehendIf our rationalizations make sense, we
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The forthcoming hell debate on excess deaths is going to be over the time period of aggregation. Spiked already have several articles good-to-go arguing that over a sufficiently long time
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From @CharlieAngusNDP I'm back in Ottawa for a new round of hearings on the WE scandal. As Canada grapples with the insider connections between WE, the Prime Minister & Bill
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Just a reminder that we have two-fifths of FA real data on how any single person or group gets infected by SARS-CoV-2. We're not there to observe the process. We
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