KennyBlanken

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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
That is of zero practical use on the side of a road with an angry cop screaming at you who has the power to significantly if not enormously disrupt your life.
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
> I will re-post some thoughts I have previously shared from John P.A. Ioannidis who is a professor of medicine and thoughtful critic of medical research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioannidis#COVID-19 > In
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
> I've found the best thing is to take a group of aggressive smart grad students and have them tear every paper apart That's a pretty passable simplification of meta-analysis studies.
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
>equally offensive but opposite Damn near all of these groups are, I guarantee you, extremist/fringe groups. No false equivalencies, please. > that just fuels the flame war....I don't think it helps. "Flame war" i
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
> > If you must read the news, read it for the facts and the data, not the opinions. > This should have been the first sentence. Quality news organizations distinguish between reporting, analysis, and opinion. The author of the pie
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
At least in the US, there is a strong correlation between husbands losing their jobs and divorce. This blog post basically no different from the other "so I did X and now I'm a big success" anecdotal LinkedIn/Medium&#x2F
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
Given Martha's brand is doing exceptionally well and she uses her prison stay for gags in commercials and appearances on talk shows, more like thrown to a bunch of golden retriever puppies. Her appearance on Ellen alongside Snoop was p
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
Such a fun question. "No officer", then he decides you're lying and searches you/the vehicle for "officer safety" and finds the cash. Boom, now you lied about the cash and that's suspicious so the car and
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
Yeah, the last time I asked a cop that, I was told "YES, YOU ARE." "Why?" "SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR, like asking if you're being deeeetaiiiiined." Lots of videos of Sovereign Citizen nutjobs screeching "am
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
They're not a very viable alternative unless you plan on never trying to run any major/popular apps, because they all use Google Play Services APIs/libraries/toolboxes. Install Google Play Services and Google gets whatev
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
Again: scanning my cloud account is not the same thing as scanning my --private devices-- which have no apple cloud sync enabled. Which part of "what I store on my device is not even remotely the business of the manufacturer of the dev
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
Why should technology so bad it needs thirty mulligans have the power to completely destroy your life? And exactly how are they obligated to keep those policies? Answer: they aren't. There isn't some law saying '30 hits befor
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
Scanning content on a gmail account is not even remotely anything like scanning my device.
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
Battery wear, filesystem cruft, and solid state storage slowing down as it fills. People complaining about their phones being slow have aged batteries, a nearly full filesystem, and have likely gone through numerous system updates. On iOS i
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
They're not "overanalyzing" it. Turning off automatic updates means you miss security updates. Point upgrades are automatic, full versions aren't. Apple is clearly going to backdoor this in a 15.1 or 15.2 release, which
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by KennyBlanken 5y ago
Run an on-device scan against a hash database. Using a technology shown to have very frequent collisions. And then they notify law enforcement if they get a hit. Which means even if you're innocent - all your devices get confiscated fo