La1n

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by La1n 6y ago
k-anonymity is often only applied to "pseudoidentifiers", if you have the original dataset it'd be trivial to reverse k-anonymity applied that way. For example someone's blood pressure isn't considered an identifyin
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>How are they going to check if the manufacturer fudged the report? Run the experiment themselves again in 20 days? Site and document inspections.
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by La1n 6y ago
>There is absolutely 0% chance at the end the vaccine will not be approved. That's not true, I think it's foolish to 100% trust a company to not make any rushed mistakes, lie, or hide some facts, when there are massive amounts
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by La1n 6y ago
>I'm simply stating that raising them to eat is better than just gassing them immediately. I think that is more of an ethical debate than a fact. One could argue that most farmed chickens live a life of suffering, and keeping them s
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by La1n 6y ago
> the males grow large enough to be edible, It would seem to me these are still killed. Lacto-ovo vegetarians might still prefer no-kill egg as shown in the article.
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by La1n 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_%26_Teller:_Bullshit!#L... The show pretends to be just about calling out "bullshit", but sprinkles in a lot of politics and opinions.
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Both can be bad you know.
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>It's not a bad battery. The degrading performance over time applies to every battery ever sold. It's not a bad banana. Rotting after a while applies to every banana ever sold. Yes it's a natural thing to happen, but it do
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by La1n 6y ago
>It's made mostly in China right now though, so it's quite literally "Chinese". Proof: It doesn't say that at all, it says that most of the _import_ into the US is Chinese made fentanyl. It does not touch at all
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by La1n 6y ago
>Here's the patient information they want: You are missing the page before: >Non-specific patient demographics (gender; age group; city, state, and zip code of residence) This doesn't seem HIPAA compliant according to the sa
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by La1n 6y ago
That if is not even an if. They ask for: Gender, Age group, Zipcode and City HIPAA already considers that too much under their safe habour rules, and k-anonymity (expert determination) can hardly be applied if you need to provide full zipco
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by La1n 6y ago
>I've been pretty lowsec on telling my medical practitioners about my drug use. Also a good idea because physicians are less likely to prescribe you the same as someone else who doesn't use illicit drugs. They often make no dis
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>How are you going do "defend" with your nukes, By making the chance that someone would even be willing to attack you a lot lower. MAD is a defensive strategy, not offensive.
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>relies on MAD being solid for all involved And MAD would not work if the US would be "invulnerable" to an attack.
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But can't you then also say, an attack with a carrier group is gambling with mutually assured destruction?
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>The most realistic, and highest success chance scenario is that North Korea will coordinate attack with China. The most realistic scenario is that the nukes are not used to initiate an attack. They are there for defense, not to start a
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by La1n 6y ago
>You're not going to have ordinary North Koreans head for the hills and turn into partisan guerrillas fighting for Juche. Maybe, but they might be willing to fight invaders. The Korean War that killed 2-3 million civilians doesn&#x2
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>Using more ... aggressive metals might help energy density here I think breweries are one of the types of business that could more easily use low density fuels. Right now a lot of the beer is moved by road, and the trucks that transport
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by La1n 6y ago
Chinese Co2 emission seem to have flattened quite a lot in the last 6 years.
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>Is there a good explanation for that assertion? I think part of the explanation is that Republicans tend to feel less threatened by covid-19 and thus more willing to vote in person.
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Big polluter because it's a giant country. Per capita it's quite low, and there is no reason a big country should be punished why a smaller country that does significantly worse shouldn't. According to that logic if they woul
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by La1n 6y ago
>Allowing the market to select prices that keep masks in stock is the opposite! In this situation it also makes sure that the rich can be a lot better protected from a virus than the poor, that is not ethical in my mind. Yes, the market
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by La1n 6y ago
>Wrong why? I mean, in a time of scarcity how do you ensure that only those who need it the most are able to self-moderate their purchases? On the other hand, how do you ensure that the poor have equal access to items that could save the
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> do the impossible to find and add new stock on the market. Sure, but that does take time, during which hospital stuff and immunocompromised people don't have masks.
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>You're talking about supply shortages as if it was a permanent thing. So the hospital staff should just do without PPE for weeks until production catches up?
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It was, just not quick enough for something that people needed quickly. Similar in the case of PPE
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The response to covid19 (e.g. lockdowns and mask mandates) have been very politicised. Other political topics on HN seem to follow similar vote patterns.
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>Because AP’s displays of Lean Left bias are quite infrequent, AP still warrants a Center rating. They just rate it center. There is no single media source that will never have any bias at all. So that would mean there would never be an
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by La1n 6y ago
>There is nothing intrinsically leftist about this. Exactly, the world is not that polarised that anyone not agreeing with right wing conspiracies is left wing.
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by La1n 6y ago
You don't have to imply things, it's more useful to the discussion to just say it. Do say the quiet part out loud so people can actually interact with a comment like this.

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