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by SaltyLemonZest 6y ago
The issue in those cases was that the bundled products were OS-enforced defaults. In order to avoid using Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player, you have to specifically intervene and customize your computer to change what happens when
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by SaltyLemonZest 6y ago
Sure, but their distinction seems kinda silly. They're arguing that because the Microsoft Office suite has been so successful, adding any new product to it is anti-competitive.
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by SaltyLemonZest 6y ago
It's successful in the sense that the pandemic is greatly slowing down. Like most public health officials, he's not particularly concerned with "success" in the sense of "we can rub it in other countries' faces
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by SaltyLemonZest 6y ago
It used to be that banks had a regulatory requirement to do it. That's very different from the mechanistic requirement most people envision, where it's just not possible for a bank to make a loan if they don't have enough mon
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by SaltyLemonZest 6y ago
Those mitigations will help, but one of the fundamental problems the Gulf countries will have to address is the cultural expectation that their citizens won't do hard work. When it starts becoming infeasible to import the entire constr
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by SaltyLemonZest 6y ago
I'm not sure I agree. A claim that the article "mixes accurate and inaccurate claims in support of a misleading and overly simplistic argumentation about climate change" strongly suggests that the guy doesn't have a poin
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by SaltyLemonZest 6y ago
The analysis is, ironically, guilty of the same cherry-picking it accuses the original article of. The checkers identify two false claims and two misleading ones out of Shellenberger's bulleted list of twelve "facts few people kno
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by SaltyLemonZest 6y ago
It isn't! When Facebook announced the program [1], they made it clear that they had no interest in becoming arbiters of truth; fact checking was about preventing hoaxes, stories like "5G causes coronavirus" that are just comp
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by SaltyLemonZest 6y ago
Sure, but there's no reason to expect the required strategies to be non-disruptive. It's now impossible for anyone not on my contact list to call me, because I won't pick up or listen to their messages - it'd be a traged
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by SaltyLemonZest 6y ago
Vaccines in general have the potential to produce what's known as "antibody-dependent enhancement", where the disease will be even worse for you than if you didn't have a vaccine. Researchers don't think this is a f
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by SaltyLemonZest 6y ago
Even if it's made mandatory, which may not happen, manufacturing and distributing enough vaccines for everyone to get one will take years. Ideally we want to get everything back to normal once we have enough vaccines stocked up to st
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by SaltyLemonZest 6y ago
I'm not sure if we should expect that to be a huge problem. There are a lot of white-collar prosecutions based heavily on written documents, but as far as I know it's not common for people to be convicted based on forgeries.
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by SaltyLemonZest 6y ago
Sure you do. If I hand you a few sentences in a language you can't comprehend at all, you won't be able to create a plausible continuation.
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by SaltyLemonZest 6y ago
One obvious example would be to fully automate social engineering email scams. Imagine how much disruption it would cause if spearphishing became as common as robocalls have become post-automation.