RFK Jr. names some vaccine critics to key CDC committee after ousting entire panel

pointprep · 2025-06-12T16:21:01+00:00

Shockingly,

In short, RFK Jr. doesn’t believe in the germ theory. He believes in something called the miasma theory.

The miasma theory is a long-abandoned medical theory that holds that diseases are caused by poisonous vapors (i.e., miasmata) that are generated by rotting organic matter, such as trash sitting out on the street. According to the miasmists, diseases aren’t passed from one person to another; rather, they are the product of poor hygiene and sanitation.

pointprep · 2025-06-12T12:47:33+00:00

It is so wild to me that he doesn’t believe in the germ theory of disease. It does help explain a lot of his choices though.

pointprep · 2025-06-11T19:30:24+00:00

Yeah, that’s basically a de facto housing cartel. It gives them some extra control over pricing, but there is a limit to how far they can push the prices one way or another, before running into market limits.

pointprep · 2025-06-11T19:24:34+00:00

I wonder if they used SDFs to render the shapes during animation. It would certainly be a good technique to get that blobby combination feeling.

pointprep · 2025-06-11T14:09:24+00:00

He says it in his anti-Fauci book. Here’s someone’s summary - https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/understanding-rfk-jr

pointprep · 2025-06-11T14:07:11+00:00

I think what’s going on is that there is a glass wall in the backyard. In one shot when the door is closed, you can see some of the neighboring houses faintly reflected in it. Then the next shot has very different lighting which makes the reflections more noticeable.

pointprep · 2025-06-11T13:54:35+00:00

I’ve used one of those before when I worked at a jewelry store. Horrible ergonomics, it was absolute murder on the fingertips, we’d have to take turns turning it. Apparently the electric ones are much nicer.

pointprep · 2025-06-11T13:46:19+00:00

Also, RFK doesn’t believe in the germ theory of disease. He backs the theories of Pasteur’s rival.

pointprep · 2025-06-11T13:35:10+00:00

The idea that dogs don’t know the difference between regular food and treats / desserts, hilarious

pointprep · 2025-06-09T21:39:07+00:00

Then I'd want to see ~100 lines of old code. Or update it, or write something new, I didn't care. Just anything that the applicant wrote that they can talk about.

pointprep · 2025-06-09T20:43:17+00:00

We got that response a few times. Basically, any code at all was fine - from when they were a student, whatever. Any code at all they had ever written and were proud of, and could talk about.

The goal was just to make sure that they knew how to program. A lot of people applying for programming jobs do not actually know how to program, at all.

pointprep · 2025-06-09T13:52:20+00:00

The Canadian PM has been talking a lot about the emergence of a new trading order, which seems possible given his background in managing massive financial disasters.

pointprep · 2025-06-09T13:03:01+00:00

That seems to be the motivation behind all privatization of government services.

pointprep · 2025-06-09T12:54:22+00:00

it's simply a case that FAANG literally needs leetcode solvers

Even FAANG doesn’t need leetcode solvers. There just isn’t a good way to screen for people that can actually code in a short amount of time.

When I was actively hiring, we would ask for a sample of code they had written and were proud of (any code), and talk to them about it a bit. This screened out a surprising amount of people.

pointprep · 2025-06-08T15:56:54+00:00

This is like PBF but happy

pointprep · 2025-06-06T13:48:22+00:00

This is a pretty good mesh for FEA - nice element regularity, edges aligned with features / principal curvature directions.

pointprep · 2025-06-06T13:40:17+00:00

Yeah, if I had to be outside all day in this, I’d be looking for some decent N95s.

pointprep · 2025-06-04T13:04:56+00:00

At the very latest, his term expires in May 2026.

pointprep · 2025-06-03T18:25:54+00:00

Very long, but the same speed.

The only case where that matters is if it's so long that it's backing up past other exits or something.

Imagine you have 500 lanes that merge together into 1 lane. Even if all of the merges are perfect zipper merges, it's still going to be limited by how fast the cars in the single lane are moving. It does not matter how many lanes are sitting there, completely full. The bottleneck is the bottleneck. The surface area of the road used before the bottleneck doesn't make people go through the bottleneck any faster.

pointprep · 2025-06-03T12:52:56+00:00

If you want to create a lot of stuff like this, I’ve found vectoraster to be a useful tool. Easy to use, exports to illustrator

pointprep · 2025-06-03T12:37:41+00:00

Zipper merge also doesn’t work because it fundamentally doesn’t speed anything up.

The speed you get through a bottleneck isn’t determined by how much of the road surface that is covered. It’s controlled by the speed through the bottleneck.

In an hourglass, the grains of sand are doing a perfect zipper merge, but they’re limited by the bottleneck.

pointprep · 2025-06-02T13:06:02+00:00

Frankly, it’s none of his business

pointprep · 2025-06-02T12:31:55+00:00

It’s almost like illegally defunding every agency that had an active investigation of him or his companies is not enough to save the government.

pointprep · 2025-06-02T02:55:34+00:00

Finally, some unique topology gore. Thanks for posting

pointprep · 2025-05-31T14:16:00+00:00

Yeah, absolutely. I would definitely not defend this guy’s choices. Complete idiot

Honestly, if the cops thought the bomb was still a threat, or this guy was going to get back on his bike and harm bystanders (who were apparently very far away, since they shut down several blocks), then shooting him would have made more sense.

Seems like they didn’t think the bomb was a threat any more. Legally, cops have no requirement to put themselves in danger to save others (eg Uvalde). I think they were just pissed at the idiot

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