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by ColanR 6y ago
Couldn't you simultaneously do the twitch stream, but also record and host the shows elsewhere, if you wanted that library of past shows?
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by ColanR 6y ago
I'd guess the limits of information theory have been just about reached. The only real improvement I can think of would be either the ability to scan and resolve smaller individual squares (and that is dependent on how much the printe
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by ColanR 6y ago
> Why didn’t the researchers submit a patch? They can’t. The Apple/Google code is mostly closed-source, in contrast to the open-source nature of most of the apps that are running on it.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> "The lowest risk sexual activity during Covid-19 involves yourself alone," [Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's Chief Public Health Officer] advises. Hilarious.
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by ColanR 6y ago
This is awesome. I remember finding this a while back for some project. > Optar fits 200kB on an A4 page, then you print it with a laser printer.
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Covid-Tracing Framework Privacy Busted by Bluetooth(hackaday.com)
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by ColanR 6y ago
Having dealt with my share of technically-unsavvy users, I can confirm that half the job is managing their feelings. The other half is working around them to keep things safe and functional in spite of them.
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by ColanR 6y ago
No expert, but if it's a pool of water then an earthquake might cause a leak?
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by ColanR 6y ago
Another study to back you up: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16959053/
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by ColanR 6y ago
> you can't reasonably conclude that it was the vitamin D. Except you can, because that is the conclusion of at least one other study of the effect of Vitamin D. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16959053/
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by ColanR 6y ago
Glad we agree on the essentials. There was anecdotal evidence to back up the claim, however; it's not "unfounded." While that's not enough evidence to make any real claims, it is enough evidence to have a conversation.
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by ColanR 6y ago
you: Holding someone accountable means giving them consequences. you: Britain as an entity certainly faced consequences from US independence me: The 'holding accountable' was the revocation of Britain's authority over the col
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by ColanR 6y ago
> until then we all just assume that the information I'm giving is good. Fallacy of the excluded middle. There's other alternatives to a) saying it's outright false and b) saying it's outright true. I'm saying it
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by ColanR 6y ago
> Spreading such misinformation can lead to people not seeking treatment and getting hurt. Misinformation? Unless you have expert knowledge in that domain - and unless the alternatives podgaj describes have been exhaustively eliminated b
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by ColanR 6y ago
"held accountable != "punished" or "punative". I'm not talking about punishment or punative action. I'm talking about accountability, where being 'held accountable' could be a synonym for '
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by ColanR 6y ago
It seemed pretty obvious to me when I wrote the original content that I was referring to the American revolution as the 'holding Britain accountable'.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> If they were willing to do that, do you think they'd enforce penalties of jail against themselves for their violations? The Constitution itself isn't going to leap out of its case to arrest them. The people will, though. As I
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by ColanR 6y ago
> No regular people voted on the Constitution. Nitpick. The people who were sent as representatives from each state to help write and ratify the constitution were chosen by the people of that state. So technically, through representative
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by ColanR 6y ago
Absolutely agreed that it is a very last resort. The declaration of independence actually does a good job of outlining just how much of a last resort the american revolution actually was.
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by ColanR 6y ago
I was referring to the American Revolution. The 'holding accountable' was the revocation of Britain's authority over the colonies.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> stands to reason that a document as old as the Constitution should be updated more often than it has been That constitution was based off of about 2000 years of legal and political theory stretching back at least as far as the Roman Re
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by ColanR 6y ago
> because there's no higher authority to appeal to for enforcement Technically, that higher authority is the people themselves. Bear in mind that the Constitution was written in a context where the governed people successfully held
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by ColanR 6y ago
What no one seems to mention is that Magic Wormhole depends on the maintainer's server to negotiate transmission between clients. I don't like that requirement. Better to GPG encrypt and use bittorrent for a direct transfer. At l
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by ColanR 6y ago
How would your citizenship be verified without identification?
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by ColanR 6y ago
Then the comments should be flagged, not the article. There wasn't anything wrong with the article, and apparently it was interesting to the hn crowd - which according to the guidelines is exactly what makes it acceptable. EDIT: to res
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by ColanR 6y ago
Apparently quite a lot of HNers disagree with you, and liked it well enough to save it. That should be enough to indicate the article is appropriate for hn.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Notice that the 19th most favorited post is also flagged. ("Those People We Tried to Cancel? They’re All Hanging Out Together"). To me, that indicates the flagging mechanism on hn is broken.
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by ColanR 6y ago
I thought the website was well laid out and easy to read. uBlock Origin makes a huge difference.
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by ColanR 6y ago
You're right, I confused the two.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> retired developer who is now a science writer Unless there's some unmentioned specific expertise, that's not a very high bar, relative to what he's trying to discuss.

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