SiVal

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by SiVal 6y ago
Yes, the citation of "currently no evidence of X" as if it meant "good evidence of NOT_X" is just the sort of thing that demonstrates that those who support policies of silencing "misinformation" are no better
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by SiVal 6y ago
That reminds me of a few years ago when a robot was the governor of California. I always wondered, If you heard a robot speaking German, how would you know it was a robot? Hmm?
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by SiVal 6y ago
If your employer thinks you're in California, they'll tell the California tax authorities that you are. CA will use that as evidence that you owe them a big chunk of your income. If you don't pay, you'll have to fight. T
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by SiVal 6y ago
No, that's not what "Harvard" estimates. One group, including "ethics experts", is estimating that it would take that many daily tests to completely eliminate all "social distancing" without any risk. Whet
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by SiVal 6y ago
I totally agree. When you employ lossy compression to reduce a multidimensional assessment of degree and kind of risk to a single bit ("Do any potential risks exist, yes or no?") you are deleting almost all information that can be
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by SiVal 6y ago
People who wail that lives are too precious to risk are ridiculously naive. By that logic, driving should not be tolerated, swimming pools and ski slopes should be closed, etc. But it's very reasonable to argue that more caution is war
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Golden State Lockdown(city-journal.org)
1 points by SiVal 6y ago|1 comments
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by SiVal 7y ago
As I said, test for antibodies. Put the "who's more likely to work at Walmart" speculations aside and start with, "Of the people who were provably infected, how likely were they to die?" question. If there are large
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by SiVal 7y ago
Sorry, I didn't see your question until now. Unless I'm mistaken, they had a list of their sources somewhere on their website that I saw a few years ago. I don't think they said where their minute-by-minute came from, but I&#
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by SiVal 7y ago
When the clinical demand wanes, I hope there will be extensive antibody testing in various regions to do a comparison between how many people actually got it vs. how much damage it did. If, as I suspect, there are significant differences (e
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by SiVal 7y ago
The Chinese gov't spying problem isn't with schoolchildren per se but schoolchildren use their parents' computers. Chinese authorities openly demonstrate their intention to deploy the maximum level of surveillance they can ov
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by SiVal 7y ago
Not disagreeing, just extending. Dark Sky merges multiple weather data sources, even in a single country, and I use it for a private app that deals with weather all around the world. An open source project could just be code, not a service,
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by SiVal 7y ago
The Dark Sky API combines lots of data sources, and its weather data is not limited to the US. I use it for cities all around the world. The US National Weather Service API cannot replace it.
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by SiVal 7y ago
I agree with every point you're making, so I wonder if it isn't just one big factor: lots of people routinely put on masks at the first suspicion that they might be sick, even before they're sure. They just go ahead and do it
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by SiVal 7y ago
It already does a lot of inflexible manufacturing, often by outsourcing overseas, but I'd love to see part of the US military converted to a rapid-response, highly flexible, fully-domestic manufacturing system. LOTS of very flexible
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by SiVal 7y ago
Wow, there's a press release that's so desperately spinning so many claims of so many kinds (social, business, health, educational, tech, ethical...) that it's almost impossible for me to figure out what they are even announc
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by SiVal 7y ago
I really don't think it's that "apps aren't there yet". The platform is more than a decade old and has an order of magnitude more apps and app development than the Mac ever had. I really think that the reason people
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by SiVal 7y ago
When I go to a place where people are working--an office, a university library, a coffee shop--I see a sea of laptops and no iPads. Even in places such as Stanford libraries, where it is a sea of MacBooks, the people who provably buy lots o
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by SiVal 7y ago
If cross-platform tools are always behind because the native platforms change more quickly--and I think you're correct about that--then so are native apps that aren't constantly rewritten for the latest OS version. And then so are
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by SiVal 7y ago
I completely agree with this. For decades, operating systems have been designed to make it as easy as possible for us to create our own ad hoc solutions to problems by combining subsets of tools in customized ways. A folder holds a project,
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by SiVal 7y ago
Also, a11y support isn't just for "blind" or "disabled" users; it tends to make the page better for all users. Yes! Although I'm not "officially" disabled, I'm "blind" to my screen wh
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by SiVal 7y ago
It doesn't have to get better to not be dementia. I agree that if there is a sudden increase, you should first ask yourself about recent lifestyle changes (sleep, alcohol/drugs, medicines, recent general anesthesia) and ask a doct
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by SiVal 7y ago
No, it's common and it will gradually increase. It has nothing to do with dementia. I've been working with several people in their 90s who are still mentally sharp enough that our work is based on my need for their expertise (noth
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by SiVal 7y ago
Could you (or someone) explain this? (I'm not arguing, I'm interested.)
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by SiVal 7y ago
What evidence/reason do you have for the claim that annual is unappealing to most? (I'm not advocating anything here, I'm hoping to learn something.) I would assume the same thing if there is no discount (no compensation for
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by SiVal 7y ago
only really useable as an auditory messaging system What? When I was a kid, it was common for camping flashlights to have pressure buttons on the side, which was intended for (and we used for) morse code. Ships used bright, shuttered ligh
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by SiVal 7y ago
That's what I experience at the Computer History Museum (near Google). A high percentage of the items behind the glass were part of my daily life decades ago (punchcards, the earliest TI and HP calculators, etc.) I feel like the Highla
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by SiVal 7y ago
Part of the technology is the capturing of photons, fewer of which bounce off dark skin than light skin, so it is in part the same generic problem as always: fewer photons, less data, worse images. Whether it's day vs. night, fast lens
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by SiVal 7y ago
Yes, and since there are so few varieties of screen size, having it cut off perfectly with no ugly hints (scrollbar, cut-off icon, or even off-centered item) is no accident and shows much higher they prioritize better-looking over more-usef
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by SiVal 7y ago
We have crows and jackrabbits in our neighborhood. You drive down the road toward a bunch (I think they prefer the term "murder") of crows having a meeting in the middle of the road. They'll eventually start nonchalantly stro

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