Pausanias

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by Pausanias 6mo ago
This process worked so spectacularly well that it eventually created human consciousness and the very concept of engineering... but I would never design a system that way because it killed version 1.0.
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Stay-at-home policy is a case of exception fallacy(nature.com)
2 points by Pausanias 6y ago|3 comments
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by Pausanias 6y ago
"With our results, we were not able to explain if COVID-19 mortality is reduced by staying at home in ~ 98% of the comparisons after epidemiological weeks 9 to 34." "The low number of significant associations between regions
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Florida outperformed lockdown states on excess deaths, education, and economy(rationalground.com)
4 points by Pausanias 6y ago|4 comments
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A Year of Coronavirus: How Deadly Was 2020 Compared to Other Years?(medium.com)
2 points by Pausanias 6y ago|1 comments
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by Pausanias 6y ago
'Finally, a recent CDC report indicated that, while the vast majority of excess deaths occurred among the elderly, the greatest relative increase in deaths occurred in the 25 to 44 age group.'
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Global repository for research into the collateral effects of lockdown measures(collateralglobal.org)
2 points by Pausanias 6y ago|0 comments
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Twelve Forgotten Principles of Public Health(twitter.com)
1 points by Pausanias 6y ago|0 comments
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Child labour doesn’t have to be exploitation(theguardian.com)
2 points by Pausanias 6y ago|0 comments
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by Pausanias 6y ago
“ Much of our current social polarisation and conflict is not, as The Social Dilemma suggests, between those influenced by social media’s “fake news” and those influenced by corporate media’s “real news”. It is between, on the one hand, tho
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The world to come: What should we value?(newstatesman.com)
1 points by Pausanias 6y ago|0 comments
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Will Facebook’s salary-by-location move set precedent for tech?(ft.com)
2 points by Pausanias 6y ago|0 comments
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Fully referenced facts about Covid-19(swprs.org)
2 points by Pausanias 6y ago|3 comments
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by Pausanias 6y ago
“German virologist Hendrik Streeck explains the final results of his pioneering antibody study. Professor Streeck found a Covid19 lethality of 0.36%, but explains that this is an upper limit and the lethality is probably in the range of 0.2
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by Pausanias 7y ago
When I reflect back on this meeting, it was a surreal experience. Everyone present discussed the idea of building a workplace panopticon with complete normalcy. The TCO managers claimed that monitoring workers was necessary for keeping them
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by Pausanias 7y ago
Excerpt: “They’ve been here before. A few years ago, the company introduced its Free Basics plan, which provided a primitive, less data-intensive experience of the web by funneling all traffic through Facebook and a few approved apps, essen
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Facebook’s new cryptocurrency promises a government-free solution to poverty(thebaffler.com)
1 points by Pausanias 7y ago|1 comments
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by Pausanias 7y ago
Excerpt: "There are three main factors that could be encouraging professional environmentalists in their denial that our societies will collapse in the near- term. The first is the way the natural scientific community operates. Eminent
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Societal Collapse Due to Climate Change Now Inevitable Jem Bendell BA PhD [pdf](lifeworth.com)
51 points by Pausanias 7y ago|25 comments
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Proto-internet trolls: Struensee and press freedom in 18th century Denmark(blogs.bl.uk)
37 points by Pausanias 8y ago|14 comments
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China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real(foreignpolicy.com)
4 points by Pausanias 8y ago|0 comments
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by Pausanias 8y ago
Excerpts: The neoliberal program was not simply a move in the distributional fight, but rather about establishing a social order in which distribution was not a political question at all. For money and markets to be the central organizing p
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Neoliberalism: Planned Economy for Property Owners(bostonreview.net)
2 points by Pausanias 8y ago|1 comments
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Bezos defends big tech co-operation with US military(ft.com)
4 points by Pausanias 8y ago|2 comments
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Amazon patents Alexa tech to tell if you’re sick, depressed(arstechnica.com)
4 points by Pausanias 8y ago|0 comments
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Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again(notesfrombelow.org)
3 points by Pausanias 8y ago|0 comments
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“Big Star Labs” spyware campaign affects over 11M people(adguard.com)
2 points by Pausanias 8y ago|0 comments
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Cambridge University rejected Facebook study over 'deceptive' privacy standards(theguardian.com)
7 points by Pausanias 8y ago|0 comments
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There is no software(ctheory.net)
1 points by Pausanias 9y ago|0 comments
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Banking and finance have vacuumed up the talent(ft.com)
2 points by Pausanias 9y ago|0 comments

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