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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
https://nypost.com/2020/02/19/whistleblower-doctors-say-coro... > “It’s highly possible to get infected a second time,” one of the doctors, who declined to be identified, told the outlet. > The physicia
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CDC: The containment phase is really to give us more time. This virus will become a community virus at some point in time, this year or next year. [...] Right now we're in an aggressive containment mode, we don't know a lot about
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From https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.10.20021675v... it has a case fatality rate of 4.45% for men and 1.25% for women. CFR increases when people don't get treatment for severe complications.
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There is also possible testicular tissue damage: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022418v... From SARS we can guess at the long-term effects, including permanent fatigue, post-traumatic stress
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Students in South-Korea have a strong prep culture, and are already trying to game these types of interviews. It is much harder than gaming skill-based tests ("Don’t force a smile with your lips, smile with your eyes."). > The
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Which Western country uses their military surveillance to decrease the security of its dissidents? I can't find such as case, while I can find many cases of surveillance used to stop tragedy. Seems like military surveillance in the Wes
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I really miss the times when these articles were a .txt file with legit tips on how to improve anonymity. Did not matter that it was written by a random high schooler, instead of a paid journalist. Now this article title will rank highly on
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> She was working on a application designed to serve notices both security and legal to Google users. She added this notice because as part of being legally compliant with the law people have to be informed of their right to unionize. Th
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She was doing activism, not work. She knew damn well that she could not push without a code review, so she basically threw two colleagues under the bus (they were reprimanded). She will get work somewhere else, but, to me, it does not look
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I would start protesting Google if they did not fire a security engineer for abusing systems like this. A security engineer subverting internal security systems is what is messed up. Turning it all in a horrible PR story about a retaliatory
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I think it is the other way around: mainstream news organizations will cry fake news to delegitimize bloggers and amateurs. If everything is easily faked, the only ones to trust with the truth, are the entrenched media companies. Powerful p
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How to create news when there is no news: try to write a tutorial about it, fail, then state that thing-that-people-irrationally-fear-because-nipples is not something to fear yet, because even seasoned tech & blockchain journalists can&
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Government surveillance is crucial for effective counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence, foreign intelligence, and law enforcement. Government surveillance contributes to an increase in law and order of nations, and an increase in informat
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We give the police a monopoly on violence to fulfill its goal of to protect and serve. While there exists potential for misuse, this does not justify taking away that monopoly. I am further under the impression that way more checks and bala
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Government surveillance is a good thing. Change my mind. Its stated goal is to catch baddies and protect a country. Business surveillance is a bad thing. Its stated goal is to monetize user data and surveil everyone on the internet. So basi
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Everything, including income, is eventually correlated with race. The point I was making counters "does not matter how, just the outcome matters": The model disapproved you not because you are black, but because you have a low inc
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Gathering intelligence on - and data from - bad actors. Do a search for "site:telegram.me" including a keyword from any illegal activity, such as carding, and you'll find hundreds of channels with interesting behavior.
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> The Apple Card bias is a real problem. Who cares whether it's about gender or not? If it's not about gender, the responsibility lies on the bad actor to prove otherwise. The most logical conclusion - based on the events that
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> But before it lands on Avast servers, the data is stripped of anything that might expose an individual’s identity, such as a name in the URL, as when a Facebook user is logged in. How would this technically work? I can see this only if
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That's two cases where politicians jumped the gun to make something that isn't decided yet a decisive campaign issue: - Elizabeth Warren Ramps Up Attacks on Apple Card Bias Claims - The four got public support from presidential fr
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> Nasdaq runs [ https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hhrg-116-b... ] more than 40 different algorithms, using about 35,000 parameters, to look for market abuse and manipulation in real time. Click link: &
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He is saying something less controversial that was put through the PR media machine: those without the skills or willingness to work alongside the machines will lose their jobs. If you look at who is saying this, and follow the money (not d
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Another (to me more plausible) option: The employee was unable/unwilling to separate the personal from work. So the "personal" data included (or could have reasonable suspicion of including) employer data.
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Ok. Then bring your politics to work. But when you have to make a difficult decision (whether to ban a popular Youtuber for hate speech), make that decision based on precedent, the good of the company, and for the users. Don't view it
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IMO it is all about intent. Did you check your colleagues' calendar to improve work, or did you check your colleagues' agenda to further identity politics? In this case, the intent seemed to be: to stalk political opponents. Unacc
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Incorrect on many fronts. It is "don't be evil". It was in their code of conduct, not mission statement. It is not removed from their code of conduct, in fact, it is the final conclusion of the document: > And remember… do
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The Song of Songs was adapted from Egyptian love songs. The ancient Egyptians elevated the woman and her sexuality. It is a bit out of place in the Bible, which mostly warns against the power of female sexuality (Christianity written by men
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The mentioned cases in this article all talk of re-activation, the others I assume legit broke guidelines meant to protect its younger users. For instance, the article mentions Cinderella Jewels, which has a new account showcasing her &quot
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They are temp de-activated because an IRC channel with a 100 or so bored kids mass-reported them. No one at Instagram looks at these accounts and goes: let's ban them for who they are. If you really think that, you got tricked.
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Why? 4chan and other assorted incels took the tactics used by the left to silence and deplatform people (mass flagging/reporting), and applied it to e-thots: women who often don't pay taxes, yet receive massive donations for shari

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