PureParadigm

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by PureParadigm 6y ago
So its effect on the immune system lasts even after it's gone. So if it were to cause any problems (in the immune system, for example), those could also persist after the mRNA is gone. So how exactly is this line of reasoning reassurin
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
> once its gone, it can no longer have any effect on you. If this is true, then how does it provide protection against COVID19 for more than a few days?
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
Wikipedia [1] has an overview of mRNA vaccines, including a summary of some potential side-effects/risks. For more technical details, this review of mRNA vaccines [2] appears to be a decent place to start. [1] https://en.wik
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
A coworker of mine would write all his bash scripts to echo out the commands it would run, and then to actually run it he would pipe it to bash. This way he could inspect the commands to make sure they were correct before running them. Some
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
I think this is a good point. I'm not sure how to best encourage political distancing. Perhaps the most realistic way is to pitch it as a way to reduce stress/anger/etc. (which I think will be true), but this relies on a self
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
It is clear that Facebook is either unwilling or unable to effectively address the spread of misinformation. In light of this, I'm increasingly of the opinion that if misinformation and conspiracy theories are like viruses, then we sho
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
It's a double standard in that web browsers are not considered responsible for the content they display while chat apps are considered responsible. These are two different standards being applied just because of a technicality about wh
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
How about we consider any website accessible through Safari? Is Apple going to start blocking users from viewing those?
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
This is a complete double-standard. Telegram messages are user-generated content. Is Apple going to start blocking websites in the Safari app? I'm sure one could find a lot worse things than doxxing by using Safari.
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
I think the idea is that you can achieve the diversity goal while still hiring the most qualified people by broadening the recruiting pool. This way you're not discriminating based on race because you are still hiring the most qualifie
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Distributed Pacman Cache via IPFS(pacman.store)
1 points by PureParadigm 6y ago|0 comments
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
I think censorship resistance should be handled at a different abstraction layer. IPFS can focus on peer-to-peer immutable file sharing and some other tool can tunnel your traffic to avoid censorship. You could run IPFS over a VPN or someth
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
Correct me if I'm misunderstanding, but at least in California this doesn't seem to be the case: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/voting-cal... It says you should bring in your mail-in b
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
I think this can definitely save you time in some cases, but usually at the expense of other people. For example, if someone asks me for help on something because I'm more familiar with it, my spending five minutes to answer their ques
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
Who exactly is going to hold the USA responsible for any violation of that treaty? And if someone tries to, what's stopping the USA from ignoring them?
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
I had a similar experience as the author when trying to do a "digital detox." I removed apps from my phone, installed a launcher that forces you to type the app name you want to open, changed the screen to black and white, etc. Ye
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
Grandparent might be referring to the fact that the founders' vision of limited government was of a government much smaller than what we have today with much less interference in people's lives. If they were alive today the founde
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Open Wireless Movement(openwireless.org)
2 points by PureParadigm 6y ago|0 comments
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
VPN (and tor) users are the ones you'd be most interested in as a government. So it doesn't matter how much of the general population uses your VPN as long as you convince the ones you're interested in to use one. And for all
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
If I were a government trying to gather metadata about web usage, the first thing I'd do is set up or acquire my own VPN company (and make it look convincing, of course).
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
It's possible there are more than 300,000 cases, since not everyone with the virus gets tested, so you can't assume 40,000/300,000 is the true death rate. There are likely many with milder symptoms who do not get tested and r
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
"Master," in many contexts, need not be associated with slavery. You can be a (grand)master at chess without having any slaves. You can have a master's degree without having any slaves. In the case of git, I don't think
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
That analogy is not the same at all, and is quite a leap. The difference lies in the double negative in the antifa situation, if you will. The parent was claiming that if you are against antifa ("anti-antifa" such as by calling th
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
One of the original points I wanted to push back against is when the parent said that "your clear designation of [antifa] as an enemy is also clear signaling that you're in for fascism." In particular, I don't think that
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
I wasn't talking about calling it a terrorist organization. I was responding to the parent: > If the former, you also know that "antifa" is short for "antifascist" and your clear designation of that as an enemy i
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
Coinbase is profitable [1]. Potentially other exchanges are profitable. Mining is profitable for some, or they wouldn't be doing it. [1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/brian-armstrong-conf...
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
Criticising antifa does not imply support of fascism. Many of those proclaiming to be antifa have committed acts of violence, and there are still some people left in the country who believe in peaceful protest and find violence distasteful.
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
No, that evaluates to 730. It's the same as 365*2=730.
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
I've taken exams in college where the professors intentionally put more questions on the exam than you have time for. They say, "think of each question as an opportunity to increase your score" as opposed to caring about answ
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by PureParadigm 6y ago
It looks like the strategy here is to use free Civ Vi to try to get you to install the Epic Games store. If you have Windows, this may be compelling, but it also comes without a lot of the extra content that you'll need to play with fr

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