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During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers … found that the unvaccinated people were 72% more likely to be involved in a severe traffic crash—in which at least one person was transported to the hospital—than those who were vaccinated. That’s similar to the increased risk of car crashes for people with sleep apnea, though only about half that of people who abuse alcohol, researchers found. ...
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Josh Beckman
I’ve been thinking of a kind of article I commonly write:
1. Here’s some examples of *something* .
2. I am going to give that *thing* a name.
3. Now that we have a name, let’s discuss it as its own topic.
Examples: [edge case poisoning](https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/edge-case-poisoning/) , [mimicry](https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/software-mimicry/) , [cleverness vs insight](https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/cleverness/) , [constructive and predicative data](https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/constructive/) .
Making Memes
Hillel Wayne
The presence of an affordance is jointly determined by the qualities of the object and the abilities of the agent that is interacting.
This relational definition of affordance gives considerable difficulty to many people. We are used to thinking that properties are associated with objects. But affordance is not a property. An affordance is a relationship. Whether an affordance exists depends upon the properties of both the object and the agent.
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
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