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So why would you buy into it when presenting a rebuttal?

"Let me show you how ridiculous your point is when taken at face value" is a great way to rebutt, actually.

You're a Hamburglar Harry

even if the chances of it are extremely slim, the consequences can be worse than we’re even capable of imagining. The question is: do we really want to take that chance?

You're completely right! Not enough people are planning for this!

Note: I can't actually believe this is not just a straight up bait for specifically ^ that

TBH if the tables were turned and I thought I was able to bring upon destruction upon the executive class, I'd also be like "lol this is going to kill you all guys, you're so fucked, just wait, I'll skynet you so hard, can't happen soon enough".

mostly on isolated metro systems where the infrastructure is expansive enough, there are no level crossings, and the line operates effectively in a vacuum.

Also, critically, metro systems are relatively "dense", so you can have a human respond to an exception quickly - you're always in a populated area with not much space between individual stations.

I'm really tickled by the fact that we can't fully automate trains yet. I never thought about it, but put into perspective how asinine self-driving cars are if we can't achieve the same thing with a train, something that is vastly more tractable and less chaotic than road traffic.

How deep inside your own ass do you have to be to propose MODERNISING THE ENTIRE RAILWAY NETWORK to be a viable solution to anything?

That's a Polish company apparently. My fellow compatriots, you fucking know how rail operates in Poland. We bought high-speed trains that couldn't go at any high speed because there weren't any actual rails that would allow them to. Whenever there is even small maintenance work of a small tract of the network half of the fucking country is ground to a standstill. Honestly, building a whole new separate rail system for your invention would be a MORE REASONABLE proposition, it probably wouldn't be much more expensive, and wouldn't paralyse the existing network.

First of all, most of my "normal" acquaintances never used Twitter anyway.

Most of the ones that did just quit when it got weird and dominated by useless suggestions and creepy ads.

I had one friend last week in a group chat go "Twitter is so racist nowadays innit", to which I said ye, why you still using it, and he responded "you're right" and stopped.

There are genetic traits associated with intelligence.

Which is obviously true, since the genetic traits of BEING A HUMAN quite strongly correlate with intelligence.

There's no way to say the quiet part without saying it out loud here!

his is because i’m mildly certain that most of these TAs aren’t hired as TAs, because nobody really pays them. All PhD students, definitely all at Kampus Ochota, have a requirement to take a certain number of teaching internship hours, which is about 40-60 per year depending on field.

Depends on the course, but most TAs are PhD students, however some of the labs are also done by M.Sc. students hired on a contract (I was one!). PhD students don't get paid explicitly for teaching hours, it's part of their duties, but

but these grants are supposed to go for research, not for teaching

one of the main uses of grants is to hire PhD students! So having funds from research directly impacts the quantity and, perhaps more importantly, quality of PhDs, since ERC grants are very prestigious.

The tragic state of PhD students being on starvation salaries is a fact, but it's a wide systemic problem with the entire country's education. That being said, even with this "cheap labour source" you still can't run courses for thousands of people!

I parsed "right" there as "much less correct than he's made out to be" and was like, ye, probably, he's like 0 correct so any amount he's made out to be is too much.

the distribution of genetic traits associated with intelligence is non-zero

This doesn't even make sense. What the fuck is a zero distribution? A probability distribution cannot be "zero" in any sensible meaning of the word. Did you mean uniform?

Also obv citation needed you sack of spuds.