Pokepokalypse

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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
mad cow disease has a VERY distinct marker. (it's hard to get to; but it happens in a post-mortem examination of the brain tissue). If most Alzheimer's was mad cow, I guarantee you; we'd know it. (also, symptoms are differen
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I agree. The real problem isn't that one guy has an opinion. The real problem is that there's an article about it, and this article is somehow getting massive promotion and engagement as if it's real valid science.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
you cannot rely on anecdotes. But: pretty much every single anecdote I've heard (online, or meatspace) tells a very consistent story. Maybe it should be studied. But I guess if some professor at a "prestigious university" s
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
All of those statements about stress are complete unscientific garbage, until someone comes up with a test, which can show some kind of chemical or biological marker that indicates what stress actually is, rather than some vague squishy thi
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
>"half of people suffering from long Covid may not have it." That's a completely baseless statement, and there is some serious fuckery going on here, either with the article, or the supposed expert they're citing.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
If we get rid of corporate income tax (and we should), we should absolutely bill corporations for ALL use of publicly-funded infrastructure. - use of public highways (reimburse in proportion to wear-and-tear, etc). - use of public regulator
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
It's a tool. Tools are not immoral. Immoral uses of tools are immoral.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
The recorded sales-pitch with their CEO Nix that the BBC aired, revealed that effort as largely a Political Scam operation. The guy was supposedly the CEO of an AI research firm - but he was offering services to send underage prostitutes a
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
No individual can. If we all agree (and I mean, a large number of people) to fully quit Facebook; or at the very least - report and block every single one of these sites and postings, I think that would be a great deterrent.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
That sounds like a very pragmatic, and politically-neutral idea, that would be portrayed as a "far-left nanny-state Marxist doctrine." . . .
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Lol. That's the supposed Gislane Maxwell account, right?
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
That's why I think the best thing any (all) of us can do is to report and block every single page that's doing this. Unfortunately, I don't have 1M+ users; so I doubt this message will get out or make any difference.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
NOTHING; individually. This is the way statistics work. The threat is an aggregate threat. What happens when 150k people respond to a post.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
>s there concrete evidence any of this is happening? Cambridge Analytica? Doesn't even matter if there's any truth behind the science. If the personality profiling works, they can apply their MODEL from the 270k responses they
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I tend to think these are reactions to some of the "warnings" memes that are passed around lately (as-in: "don't answer these memes because they're collecting security question info") . . . the goal of these af
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Well, I prefer to victim-blame the idiots who shell out astronomical sums of money for ads; based on these fraudulent "statistics".
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
that's what I'm seeing too. It's a new thing. Maybe a few weeks old.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
That's my secret. I'm always burned-out.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Lockheed called that process "Spiral". (which DOES have some features of Agile; because development is iterative). Now; aircraft are very different than software. You don't go and manufacture 1000 birds based on a partially c
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I attended an interview with them once. (I think it was for one of their clients; American Express). It started in a large conference room, where I was one of about 200 other people. Weirdest interview ever, and also totally inappropriate
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I know the solution! Hire a scrum-master! that will fix it.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
true; but in the devops world, you absolutely have to keep learning new things constantly. There's always new tools. It's even a hazard that you get too distracted learning new things to be effective at the old stuff, and I&#x27
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
The fact is: you can't wave a magic wand, and suddenly crap out a person with high-level experience in these very young tools, who also happens to have officer-level rank in the USAF (or at the very least: experience with satisfying th
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I've seen much smaller organizations fail to adopt "DevOps"; pretty much textbook against the recent "Puppet yearly state of Devops report": cultural issues, and legacy software. It boils down to the organization S
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
>He threw new requirements out of left field in the middle of demos that were not real requirements written down anywhere, but for whatever reason, we had to change course in the middle of development and do it anyway. To me this sounds
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
There ARE formal definitions of positions, title/rank, and requirements for experience and education, (as well as pay range) defined by the US Federal Government's Office of Personnel Management. These are used for determining s
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
>Scientists and health professionals fail at it. They do just fine. The problem is "science" "journalism".
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Vaccines are NOT a treatment for individuals. Vaccines are for populations. We seem so wrapped up in our own precious snowflake egos now that we seem to have lost the ability to think of ourselves as part of a group.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Can confirm. Got snowed on 9/1 (at 12k') last year in south western colorado.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
No joke, we are in the sights of Hurricane Nora.

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