OCASMv2

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by OCASMv2 3y ago
> this paper does not estimate the effect of wearing masks, but rather the effect of mandating mask wearing This study doesn't control its variables properly. Places with no mask mandates are also places where people typicaly didn&#
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
> This seems like a ridiculous thing to say; both useless _and_ damaging? Even if one of these things were true, they can't _both_ be true. Of course they can: useless at preventing disease, damaging to the social development of chi
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
> wearing masks Reasonable at first. Once it was known that the virus is transmitted via aerosols then forcing masks was the wrong thing to do, specially on children. Useless and damaging. > minimizing in-person interactions What bene
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
> The vaccines were extremely well-tested and anyone saying they weren't is either lying or was lied to by a liar. Starting human trials before animal trials were finished is not what I'd call "extremely well-tested".
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
In the context "lessons we learned from covid that we shouldn't forget", "the government is sometimes right about important things" cannot be one of them without specifics on what is it they supposedly got right.
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
In the context of the pandemic response, without any specifics on what they got right I think it does.
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
What specifically would have been different with that infrastructure in place?
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
> That even though the government is wrong a lot, sometimes they're right about important things They weren't right during the pandemic though. From initially refusing to acknowledge the situation to lying and cohercing people
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
> The whole app ecosystem(android and apple) is carefully constructed for maximum market owner value extraction, user value is a secondary consideration. And it has become the norm because both developers and consumers have readily and h
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
The CTF is the exact same thing as the Runtime Fee that Unity tried to force on devs last year. Caused a massive outroar that got Unity to reverse course and sack the CEO.
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
Hard not to act as they do when its consumers happily reward them with their money.
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
It's not a dichotomy. The vaccine is effectively only for a couple of months so you have to compound the effects of the vaccine PLUS the effects of infection. You also don't know if the effects of the vaccine are cumulative with e
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
That view of art ended over a century ago with the modernist (mediocrist) movements. Nowadays art is whatever one wants it to be (or not to be). It's just a word people use to enhance the social perception of whatever manmade creation
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
Rocky and Alma are the bad actors who caused this.
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
Do magazines count? https://www.gdcvault.com/gdmag
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
You tell me they're monitoring the vacciness, but what I asked for is proof of your statement about proven safety. > Fearmongering about well established safety practices is at the core of it all, IMHO. These vaccines didn't go
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
> In any case, if it was a gamble, the gamble paid off, because deployment has proven to be incredibly safe. Has it? What long term trials have been carried that show that?
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
A couple of months of human trials (that started before animal trials were finished) isn't proper testing. Each mRNA vaccine (like any other type of vaccine) is a standalone product. Testing the general viability of mRNA technology isn
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
> It's even amazing that mRNA vaccines actually made it to the market, and if it hadn't been for the pandemic, there's a good chance that it would be another 15 years before they do, and this mRNA vaccination tech has been
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
If they knew the main reason they have to shell out hundreds of dollars to upgrade their computers and phones is because of lazy/shoddy developers they would care.
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
The arrogance to believe that their software is so well written already that the only way to improve their performance is by using handcrafted assembly. Just changing their high level data structures alone would yield 10x improvements, easi
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
On the contrary, decent developers should shame shoddy ones every chance they get. Maybe that would keep them from making horrible software that millions of people have to suffer every day.
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by OCASMv2 3y ago
Alma and Rocky directly competing with RHEL, undercutting RH's business by rebranding RHEL clones to sell cheaper support (since they don't suffer RHEL development costs) is what changed. Why should RH help bad faith competitors?