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by 4bpp 4y ago
If there was concrete evidence (of the form I described) beyond speculation, I don't know about it. Bats have a relative of the virus, but as was said further up in the conversation and if I understand correctly, it was found very far
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by 4bpp 4y ago
I think something like a convincing natural pipeline (such as a close relative with last common ancestor predating known human infections) from a wild animal population that was shown to be traded at the wildlife market, or in contact with
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Sure, but if that's the metaphor you want to invoke for this situation, you need to actually argue that the probabilities of the "lab leak" vs. "natural origin" scenarios are actually similar, _in this particular ca
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Something that is overwhelmingly most likely in a general case may not be overwhelmingly most likely in a specific one given additional information. The vast majority of people do not die of violent causes, and yet we still have murder inve
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by 4bpp 4y ago
What exactly do you mean by "ignoring the counter-evidence"? I don't think I am (if I did in the literal sense, I would be thinking that it was a lab leak with 100% certainty, not the 60% or so that I actually have!), and if
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by 4bpp 4y ago
But then I've heard assertions to the effect of a WIV research group performing sample collections at one of the caves in South East Asian countries where the closest wild relatives were found. (That they collected samples far afield i
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by 4bpp 4y ago
From a quick skim, it seems to me that at least in Linus's interpretation, his interlocutor is requesting changes to the way the kernel does things in order to accommodate/maintain Rust's "there is no undefined behaviour
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Why would keeping the pipelines operational not be a strictly dominant (over blowing the pipelines up) strategy if reducing EU support and aid to Ukraine is the objective? Having the pipeline there but not delivering anything through it res
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Right, and then you die and the guy who has it out for you immediately goes like > Well played! > Well played! (There is a mandatory delay after sending two canned messages.)
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Whether the operators of the site are guilty of a crime is surely for the courts to determine, not for Cloudflare or Twitter's userbase.
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by 4bpp 4y ago
It sounds like you may be failing some sort of implicit cultural filters - you've been in the same small workplace for 8 years and apparently your circles don't include highly-paid IT/development people. "International-t
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by 4bpp 4y ago
> I think the MDI was too complicated for most people. Simplicity wins. And wasn't it like an application had to implement it to use it, not part of the OS-GUI by itself? It's true that MDI generally existed at a different lev
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by 4bpp 4y ago
...and what is your source for any of this information? US news media? In a context where a man is cited for the theory that the ruling class of the US uses news media skillfully to get its population to adopt incorrect beliefs and support
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Up until the mid-2000s, a lot of complex GUI applications (such as Visual Studio 6) in the Windows world used a paradigm somewhat ambiguously named MDI (cf. https://documentation.help/Win32/MDI%20Frames.htm ) which is w
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by 4bpp 4y ago
> Privacy, telemetry, and Linux don't matter, sorry folks, if they did people wouldn't use Chrome or Edge. The most important thing is compatibility with major sites at this point. if people's banking or health insurance p
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Did they actually ban the books, or did they merely ban their usage in K-12 instruction with the news outlet rounding that up to a book ban for dramaturgical reasons? Not that a ban in school instruction is necessarily good (though, I would
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Not that I'm sympathetic to the decision to fire here based on what I know (which is really just this article and what I've read in this thread), but the two issues seem to be somewhat orthogonal, in that I could imagine a consist
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by 4bpp 4y ago
If you are a citizen of another country, at least, vote against politicians that want to strengthen your country's alliance with it, and respond to polls in ways that indicate opposition to causes it cares about. The US is dependent on
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by 4bpp 4y ago
Good for you that you never experienced it breaking, because when systemd breaks, half the time the experience very much feels like breakage in a proprietary software stack (like Windows or, god forbid, Apple). Most recently, I've had
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by 4bpp 4y ago
It seems to me that both this person's own predictions and the predictions of past futurists that he criticises fundamentally fail in the same way: they assume that the faddish ambitions of the day will play out on exactly the timeline
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by 4bpp 5y ago
I fancy myself a fairly technically aware person, and I have no idea what improvements, features or bug fixes Firefox added this quarter that would outweigh all the little and big bad things. In terms of performance, a recent patch made Ele
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by 4bpp 5y ago
What if it was an event where they rallied nearly the entirety of the world apart from the US to cease trading with the US, confiscated or froze US assets abroad, and made threats that their media generally described as "cratering the
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by 4bpp 5y ago
By implication, you are saying that the 9/11 attacks were morally justified, right? In fact, there is a case that they were strictly more so: as everyone asserts, American elections are more fair and free than Russian ones, so American
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by 4bpp 5y ago
I was dismayed to have two words rejected that I thought were by all accounts legitimate. What's the word list you are using? Since they got rejected, there is probably no issue with mentioning them here: "hoplite" and "
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by 4bpp 5y ago
It's not like "enforce more" vs. "enforce less" is the only axis along which the behaviour of a government agency can be tweaked. For an extreme example, imagine you had a court system that picks 100 people at rando
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by 4bpp 5y ago
Eh, I don't think that this pattern is even remotely a uniquely Chinese thing; this is just how most people react defensively of the country and narrative they identify with when it is seen as threatened by a hostile country. Look into
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by 4bpp 5y ago
The implications of defining an action as "happening on US soil" whenever it had an effect that involved mere data that was situated on US soil also seem troubling, and it's easy to imagine only slightly less clear cause-and-
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by 4bpp 5y ago
Well, it's not just about polish. In the case of Matrix, a simple look at their "feature matrix" shows that the only client that seems to be making any appreciable effort at all to keep up with the feature sets that are toute
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by 4bpp 5y ago
Many posts are comparing this development to the ACLU's gradual heel/face turn (depending on which camp you are cheering for), but here I am left wondering, as someone with little knowledge about the workings and legal foundations
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by 4bpp 5y ago
An eye-opening exercise you can engage in (by either using machine translation or appropriate language skills) is to look at articles of political significance to other countries in the respective language (and, if you are feeling brave, th

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