Ambolia

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Transcript: Vladimir Putin’s Televised Address on Ukraine(bloomberg.com)
9 points by Ambolia 5y ago|2 comments
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Notes on software abstraction (2020)(oh4.co)
58 points by Ambolia 5y ago|3 comments
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Reality Honks Back(theupheaval.substack.com)
3 points by Ambolia 5y ago|0 comments
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by Ambolia 5y ago
Not just censorship. A lot of people think the media, the government AND the opposition, are actively malicious towards them. Not just in America, in many western countries. I think in the 90s a lot of people thought the goverment was misgu
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by Ambolia 5y ago
Not sure if it is a good control group. How much was the flu or other coronaviruses a thing in Africa before Covid? They may be climatic or other factors that make Covid irrelevant there. If you want a control group I'd assume it'
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by Ambolia 5y ago
Allegedly, the AZ issues may have been political as much as scientific: * https://www.forbes.com/sites/leahrosenbaum/2021/03/15/politi... ** https://www.theguardian.com/business&#x2F
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by Ambolia 5y ago
Yes, I think if you apply a medical treatment approved on emergency grounds to most of the population it would be a good idea to track their health and raise an alarm if something changes, or "correlates" as you say. Maybe even ha
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by Ambolia 5y ago
Would have been interesting to have control groups in every country that did a vaccine rollout. But I guess we will never know now.
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by Ambolia 5y ago
Should be simple to determine if we just check if the increased cases started in 2020 before vaccine rollout or in 2021 after the rollout.
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Washington Is Not a Swamp(newrepublic.com)
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by Ambolia 5y ago
Are China covid numbers accurate? Or is it just counting internally, dealing with it internally, and reporting externally zero cases? Would it be even desirable to keep your population 100% isolated from a global pandemic while the virus ke
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by Ambolia 5y ago
Abortion is a can of worms which combines many underlying power issues, from the obvious issue of personal freedom that usually gets discussed, to the need of capitalism to be able to double the work force[1], to eugenics and demographic co
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by Ambolia 5y ago
The issue is whether christian communities get to choose how to run their own communities or if they need to be told what to do from more progressive states. Not saying they shouldn't be told what to do. Maybe they should. But the powe
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Review and meta-analysis of the effects of lockdowns on Covid-19 mortality [pdf](sites.krieger.jhu.edu)
2 points by Ambolia 5y ago|0 comments
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by Ambolia 5y ago
Most of the times "fact" wars or "culture" wars are just covert interest wars. Just ask yourself who benefits and how, pull from the string, and most "facts" will just dissolve on a carefully crafted narrative
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Why the Experts Are Losing(unherd.com)
14 points by Ambolia 5y ago|8 comments
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by Ambolia 5y ago
"Every generation thinks they invented sex"
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by Ambolia 5y ago
That's political marketing, not science.
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by Ambolia 5y ago
That sounds terrible, from hearing about NFTs I expected they would be a hash of the file, not a link to a file. Not like a hash would be much better, as changing one pixel would give you a different hash, but at least it would represent a
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by Ambolia 5y ago
I don't know, seems kind of a stretch to say crypto is decentralized because everybody uses the same protocol. Is the IP protocol centralized too by that standard? On the other side yeah, most of the goals of decentralization could be
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by Ambolia 5y ago
>This is not censorship resistant I think the good thing about Nostr is that all the network / account / content seems to be stored in the data, not on the servers, so if the relays become a problem at some point it would be tr
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by Ambolia 5y ago
In this case the content and accounts are independent of the node. In Mastodon as far as I can see both the account and the content are instance dependent and will disappear if the instance disappears.
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by Ambolia 5y ago
Customized chains of trusts can be created too. Where you could choose either directly who you want to read, or who you trust to "whitelist" people, so you can have censorship but you can choose your own censors.
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by Ambolia 5y ago
It's not so much peer discovery, rather the nice thing about Twitter compared with a newsletter or a blog is that you get a post and different people responding and interacting with it. I guess some level of interaction will be needed
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by Ambolia 5y ago
As far as I can see you subscribe to specific authors, not to a global feed on the relay, an the author is identified by their cryptographic key. Not sure how it allows you to find new people or responses to comments. Seems like it should b
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by Ambolia 5y ago
>So there's no like/dislike? No retweet? Yes, that's interesting. You don't want to replicate the addictive part of Twitter but you need at least to replicate some of the network effects. There should be at least the
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by Ambolia 5y ago
That's fine, nobody is taking Facebook and Twitter away if you enjoy those, just opening up new spaces.
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by Ambolia 5y ago
I can appreciate censorship if I thought the authorities and experts had any idea what they were doing. I don't think that's the case anywhere at this moment. Seems a good time to create new alternative spaces.
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by Ambolia 5y ago
You don't get the majority to switch. You get small interesting niches.
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by Ambolia 5y ago
The blockchain can be interesting for a small part of a process that requires an immutable public history. For everything else needed in a distributed internet we should look at the Bittorrent / Scihub / Pirate world that has been

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