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by MiroF 5y ago
> In the same way as yelling “fire” in a theater. Not at all? There's a clear moral (and certainly legal) dividing line between the two.
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by MiroF 5y ago
You are imputing a lot of views onto "leftists" that I do not think are accurate. I am unsure how rainbow flags have any relevance to this discussion. So called "pinkwashing" is well known among leftist circles so to sug
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by MiroF 5y ago
Big tech, like high finance, is a Democrat aligned industry. Big Oil is a Republican aligned industry. Leftists are anti-corporate power in the public sphere. None of this is paradoxical.
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by MiroF 5y ago
> That said I don't have a good solution. Maybe somehow promoting better sources of news or making it easier for these more reliable news sources to generate income. I think the basic idea is that the government shouldn't be in
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by MiroF 5y ago
> They subpoena you to get a better answer Sure except the subpoena in question was not actually about records of conversations that the rioters had, it was about efforts FB did/didn't take to discount election misinformation.
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by MiroF 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Control_Act_of_1954 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918 https://en.w
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by MiroF 5y ago
> I, for one, draw comfort from the fact that generational wealth seems to be relatively uncommon. ~50% of all private wealth in the US is generational wealth inherited by the richest 5% of households, 60% of all private wealth is inhe
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by MiroF 5y ago
I'm not convinced the ultra-wealthy of the 19th century are not, largely, very wealthy today.
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by MiroF 5y ago
> I'm actually hugely wary of EU interfering in state affairs, because the EU is not some 'magical good guy' - they're just usually 'somewhat gooder'. I trust the French/German political tradition a lot
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by MiroF 5y ago
Good?
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by MiroF 5y ago
I don't know that having a high abortion rate is "manipulation", they are of course going to have a high rate relative to the rest of Latin America. I cannot find a sourcing for the specific rate of abortion they cite. The fi
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by MiroF 5y ago
I feel like the "West" [0] is a pretty clear referent and is not synonymous with "any source that disagrees with my position." What is it a dog whistle for? > conventional wisdom Talk about unclear referents! I questi
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by MiroF 5y ago
> If you value hunger and corruption, go to Cuba or North Korea where you have to ask permission even to have the hair cut you want and some are illegal Cuba does not have a major hunger problem at all and has a higher life expectancy th
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by MiroF 5y ago
I'm not a Cuba "supporter" but I do think that the quality of life in Cuba is not terrible, Western sources are not to be particularly trusted when it comes to Cuba, and that if we were serious about our opposition to authori
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by MiroF 5y ago
I definitely lean skeptical of Western sources on things like this, but life in NK is obviously pretty awful. That said, there is essentially no information in this article that makes me believe that they actually talked to this person as o
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by MiroF 5y ago
Most people who "got sick with AIDS in the 1990s" contracted HIV in the 80s. You don't seem to know much about the difference between AIDS/HIV or the latency period.
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by MiroF 5y ago
It depends if you have pretrained models or not. Huggingface offers a few models that are pre-trained [0], OpenNMT is a good framework [1] as is MarianMT [2]. Many of the best MarianMT models have been ported to HuggingFace. If you don&#x27
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by MiroF 5y ago
> Any test with a cycle threshold above 35 is too sensitive, agreed Juliet Morrison, a virologist at the University of California, Riverside. “I’m shocked that people would think that 40 could represent a positive,” she said. I'm a
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by MiroF 5y ago
From a Bayesian perspective, the provenance of the information you are basing a decision on is of obvious relevance to how you shape your beliefs. Ad hom is only fallacious if the information really is irrelevant to the argument [0][1] [0]:
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by MiroF 5y ago
I agreed with GP sentiment (and wrote a similar comment myself), but absolutely disagree with your sentiment. Being able, but unwilling, to get vaccinated substantially shifts my priors of where your comment is coming from. It is useful inf
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by MiroF 5y ago
Dying in the 1990s of AIDS likely means you acquired the disease in the early to mid 80s, you clearly are unaware of the science behind the disease.
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by MiroF 5y ago
There is social science indicating that employment mandates increase vaccination rates. There is science indicating that vaccines reduce transmission rates. Regardless, this is a different point than the original comment.
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by MiroF 5y ago
Beyond the other obvious problems with your comment, you're also missing the fact that many of the people dying of AIDS died 10+ years after contracting the virus, substantially before any of the science on HIV spread was settled.
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by MiroF 5y ago
Good point. I would be in favor of a similar law regarding smoking as regarding being unvaccinated. You are free to smoke/be unvaccinated outside or in your home, but if you wish to enter an establishment or work in an enclosed space,
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by MiroF 5y ago
yes, and the anti-vaxx crowd is funded by Big Hospital, which wants more people in the ICU so they can rake in those sweet sweet intubation $s.
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by MiroF 5y ago
> maybe PCR tests cranked to an absurd number of cycles c'mon, you're at least a year behind the conspiracy theory state of the art, we're on vaccine infertility now.
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by MiroF 5y ago
welcome to HN, please read the guidelines.
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by MiroF 5y ago
No. People are stupid along many different axes. I am not in favor of sentencing people to death just because their stupidity happened to lie on the vaccination axis, while other stupid people get to live.
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by MiroF 5y ago
your link does not work
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by MiroF 5y ago
good thing we don't run our society based on the NAP

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