KarlKemp

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by KarlKemp 7y ago
It’s almost tautologically true that the cost of closures are considered in the decision-making process. This “article” tries to portrait this entirely obvious fact as some sort of sinister conspiracy, with cargo-cult charts to appeal all s
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Fascinating question... There's this standard case for law students (here in Germany): A man wishes his wife was dead. He sends her out to the mailbox on rainy day, muttering "I hope you get hit by lightning" under his breath
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
OP's point wasn't "this is only going to have very limited effect", to which your reply "better than nothing" would be appropriate. Their point is that there's absolutely no effect of banning travel betwee
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
That has nothing to do with the question. Travel to and from doesn't lower the number of infections in the US, assuming prevalence is about equal on the two continents.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
You're also eliminating one potential source of infected people leaving the country before symptoms show. Assuming prevalence is equal in the US and Europe, you gain exactly nothing. (Op already said as much. Your answer reminds me of
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Don't put this on "The Politicians". There is exactly one politician in the world that sees closing the borders as the solution to all their problems.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
There is absolutely no proof that this originated with someone eating bats. Bats often life close to humans—in attics for instance—and aren’t eaten raw. That makes it far more likely initial transmission was due to someone accidentally tou
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
They get to excuse their government’s new Katrina. They also tend to be distrustful of science, and of our ability to change anything through centralized action.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
It isn’t China’s fault that this disease happened to emerge in the country. And judging by what we see from other countries, their handling of it seems to be at least as good as mosts’, not even taking into account that countries like US h
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Trump’s not even named once in the article, nor are party affiliations.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
that’s (at best) a gross oversimplification of the process, idealizing the past while ignoring how expectation for the kernel have increased (I e. security & privacy), all colored by a layer of bad faith that, to be frank, seems to orig
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
This assumption comes up again and again: that criminals are somehow motivated and competent enough to use encryption even when the easiest way to do it are no longer available. There’s no reason to believe that. Criminals are just as lazy
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
You re certainly reimagining the marketing slang of a few years ago (a decade for the gratuitous dig at Google Reader)
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Apple forced Uber to stop their location-tracking shenanigans when they were found out. I agree that such large apps are treated somewhat differently than smaller ones—anyone smaller than Uber would have been banned outright. That’s due to
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Don’t spread “rumors”.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Doing something once does not, contrary to popular (on the internet) theory, create an obligation to do so perpetually and in all situation. That’s the whole point of Section 230 of the DMCA, for example. Judging by this thread, this faulty
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
This tired cliché is annoying enough when people use it in situation where it arguably has some explanatory power—a complaint about FB’s customer service, say. It adds absolutely nothing to this discussion. Facebook has an interest in retai
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Alignment Charts Went from Dungeons and Dragons to a Meme(theatlantic.com)
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
This case involved technology that even hardcore critics of intellectual property rights would presumably consider "classic" patents. The LIDAR hardware was one of the major items, IIRC. I don't remember anything about ML and
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Having made the same observation as you, I always preferred the formulation in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringelmann_effect . Although the Wikipedia article lists "loss of motivation" as a cause, it origina
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I've studied in the US, binged every Sorkin series, scored a 700 on the verbal SAT, and work almost exclusively in an English-language environment. And yet I've never heard of Fleets enema". It's strange what cultural bl
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
It's Ansible, plus the total lack of noticing when you've gone too far inventing cutesy nicknames totally devoid of any meaningful connection to the concept they are supposedly describing.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
> So let me ask a dumb question for someone with actual biomedical knowledge. Are they saying that infection of the CNS is somehow easier through the nose, in which case high-quality face masks actually do matter? The olfactory receptors
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I’m pretty sure they hate the ads even more than you do. But margins in publishing are thin, and often negative. Nobody is earning money in that business, yet people are inventing this scenario of exploitation to have something to point to
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
It’s quite a feat of logical contortion to somehow claim a privacy motive to legitimize your unwillingness to pay. Unless, that is, you never buy anything online. Because Netflix and airlines and food delivery and Amazon all run track
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Unlike the music industry, journalism has been decimated, especially on the local level. Even success stories with world-wide audiences often barely break even. And unlike music, professional journalism is a necessity for a function democra
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
It’s probably closer to price discrimination: they are obviously happy for people to read what they publish even without paying, as long as it’s only people who would not pay otherwise. Publishers aim for a barrier that is just high enough
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
You’re equating things that... just aren’t the same? Deutsche Welle and the BBC, for example, were set up and are continually monitored by somewhat functioning democracies. This grants them legitimacy, and also has the side effect of making
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Making cars saver has dramatically reduced death and injury, and not caused the number of accident to spike. So.. no?
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I just tried this, and it's somewhat strange? Zoom out until you can see the globe, and forests are shown. Zoom in one step, and forests are all but invisible. As you continue to zoom in, contrast is all over the place. Turning on terr

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