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by 0xy 7y ago
Where would Snapchat be without their trending (garbage) screen that nobody looks at? All emerging social media totally ignores news. Instagram? Almost zero news. Tik Tok? No news. Snapchat? Garbage clickbait nobody looks at. Facebook is th
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by 0xy 7y ago
I'd say all of them, particularly the state media which have journalistic policies that allow them to skirt the issuing of retractions for months (ABC) or not at all (SBS). At least the private sector media will retract and correct in
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by 0xy 7y ago
No, but I can't remember the source. Iirc if unemployed you have a >2.5x mortality rate of someone employed.
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by 0xy 7y ago
Agreed, and it's worth noting that the death rate from economic damage could be significantly higher than the death rate from coronavirus. For each 1% increase in unemployment, several thousand people die. Unemployment substantially in
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by 0xy 7y ago
Australia and Singapore's governments are rolling out an app that allows them to track every person you meet with for more than a short period of time. Why would anyone trust them to not abuse this data? If they wanted people to volunt
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by 0xy 7y ago
I don't think their behavior is redeemable, given they continue to lie. After all, the WHO Director-General claimed within the last week without a shred of evidence that he was subject to racist and derogatory attacks from Taiwan'
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by 0xy 7y ago
As far as I was aware the US government issued a travel ban on China while the WHO was still wrongly claiming travel bans are ineffective. Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/01/30/275959/the-ch
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by 0xy 7y ago
Why do you think that the WHO bears no responsibility for spreading misinformation? Often times they simply repeat CCP propaganda verbatim, arguably worsening the crisis. Then there's the flagrant lies about masks, calling travel bans
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by 0xy 7y ago
You're missing one of the key pieces: software. I don't think many would argue that Sony can produce better tooling and operating system efficiency than Microsoft. Even with identical hardware, I'd place my money on a small X
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by 0xy 7y ago
The central point of your comment was false and invented. You have claimed they made assertions they absolutely never made. I don't see how the TLS claim is relevant, your comment is still wrong. It also misrepresents their argument, t
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by 0xy 7y ago
This statement is simply false, Telegram has never claimed group chats are "end-to-end encrypted". Only secret chats are claimed to be and proven to be. https://telegram.org/faq#q-so-how-do-you-encrypt-data As ear
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by 0xy 7y ago
The average wage for software developers in the US is roughly double Belgium. I don't know if you could convince anyone to give up 50% of their pay for I'm guessing 5% or less extra money in severance pay. I wouldn't. Not eve
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by 0xy 7y ago
The difference is regulation. There are very few regulations and oversight on cloud compute providers, whereas an average person cannot just spin up an app and begin selling securities in a month as you can being a cloud provider. While RH&
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by 0xy 7y ago
Still silence on the traders who lost tens of thousands of dollars? Are they going to be compensating or not? This blog post doesn't appear to say anything. It's not an apology, it's not an explanation, it doesn't say wh
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by 0xy 7y ago
You are correct, but just to clarify he specifically stated it did not come from the Russian government, not that the source was not from Russia (I'm not implying that, just clarifying).
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by 0xy 7y ago
Would you accuse other campaigns of swinging the election for using similar tactics? For example in Obama's 2012 campaign his online organizing director admitted to micro-targeting, harvesting of friends lists (and admitting the users
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by 0xy 7y ago
Mac is absolutely more secure and has less telemetry in general. Slightly unrelated, but Apple's FileVault encryption solution has been proven effective in court while BitLocker's default behavior is to compromise your private key
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by 0xy 7y ago
Consider create-react-app and Prisma for a basic CRUD application. If you need advanced or enterprise-y features, you will outgrow Prisma quickly. If you have used VTL before and are comfortable with it, AWS AppSync is also worth a look. Pa
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by 0xy 7y ago
Just curious, would you trust a scientific organization that would compromise scientific ethics including censorship and bullying at the whim of the current government in order to preserve their funding? I'm not sure if you're def
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by 0xy 7y ago
Given he was bullied and harassed, do you think someone could oppose climate change at CSIRO and not be bullied and harassed? ETS and climate change are inextricably linked and related. If the establishment cannot even handle dissent on sol
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by 0xy 7y ago
That source does not refute my point. Arson has been confirmed by dozens of government and police sources. NSW police are on record as it being the primary contributor.
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by 0xy 7y ago
This has happened repeatedly, though. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSIRO#Climate_change_censorshi...
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by 0xy 7y ago
Climate change is empirical fact, the extent of climate change is not. Within the scientific community, there are wildly differing theories about impact and causes. As for climate modeling, there are WILD differences in projections. This is
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by 0xy 7y ago
I live in Australia and that doesn't seem out of the ballpark. I pay the equivalent of USD$1.3k a year in levies and USD$100 a month for health insurance. Australia doesn't have access to the same level of care either (for example
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by 0xy 7y ago
Also, notably, it does nothing to impact arson rates - which are the primary cause of the crisis.
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by 0xy 7y ago
The vast majority of Australia's fires were caused directly by arson, so much so that the NSW police are starting a taskforce to tackle it while publicly saying it's the primary cause. How would a carbon price help arson, consider
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by 0xy 7y ago
Gas-fired turbines are extremely bad for the environment. Why would you compare nuclear, which is 100% green, to 'renewables + gas + batteries' which is far from green energy?