VagueMag

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by VagueMag 4y ago
A horrendously uninformed comparison. It's extremely tedious to still be reading this Pfizer/FDA copypasta at this point. It's more like if Ford wanted to release a car with some kind of completely new engine or propulsion ty
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by VagueMag 4y ago
"Incompetence" has been used as the justification for broadened power so many times at this point it would be surprising if they aren't feigning it from time to time.
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U.S. may change how it monitors the web after missing leaked documents for weeks(nbcnews.com)
38 points by VagueMag 4y ago|29 comments
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by VagueMag 4y ago
After decades of propaganda on both sides, the period just after World War II where the Western/NATO countries and the Soviet Union both enjoyed very high rates of affection for one another are now totally unknown and alien to people.
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by VagueMag 4y ago
It wasn't just Patton, there were a lot of other psychotic generals high up in the U.S. command structure like Curtis LeMay (inspiration for Jack D. Ripper) who wanted to go fully off leash in fighting communism, use nukes in Korea, et
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by VagueMag 4y ago
The people (and even military personnel) of the United States wouldn't have tolerated capriciously dropping atomic bombs on Moscow three years after we helped them defeat the Nazis. But perhaps something in the nature of AGI will allow
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Elon Musk plans artificial intelligence startup to rival OpenAI(ft.com)
11 points by VagueMag 4y ago|6 comments
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by VagueMag 4y ago
Safety and efficacy for whom? Numerous European countries have already begun significantly dialing back the demographic groups to whom they are recommending booster shots, so I'd say it's looking pretty un settled.
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by VagueMag 4y ago
I had in mind PEG-coated-mRNA and adenovirus vaccines which cause the body's own cells to express a close analog to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein antigen, a thoroughly novel approach which was rolled out to the general public roughly ni
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by VagueMag 4y ago
What "disinformation which led to staggering loss of life" do you have in mind, specifically? The vast majority of high risk groups for SARS-CoV-2 were fully vaccinated very soon after vaccines were made available, so (assuming th
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by VagueMag 4y ago
Definitely a good heuristic for deciding whether to support a particular piece of legislation, one which will surely never come a cropper in spectacular fashion.
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by VagueMag 4y ago
What about the case where new, largely untested therapies are being pushed on the public before they have even been around long enough for peer reviewed data on their long-term effects to become available, and the only peer-reviewed data on
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by VagueMag 4y ago
"Why Did So Many Doctors Become Nazis?": https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/fernande...
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Suspicions Multiply as Nord Stream Sabotage Remains Unsolved(nytimes.com)
5 points by VagueMag 4y ago|1 comments
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by VagueMag 4y ago
Been using the webcam with my FreeBSD desktop for job interviews over the past couple of months. Unfortunately Zoom eats up a ton of CPU and then crashes when I open it in a browser tab, and there isn't a packaged binary that I've
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by VagueMag 4y ago
The FreeBSD installer provides out of the box options to put the root filesystem on an encrypted ZFS partition. The last I looked into doing root-on-encrypted-ZFS on Linux it was a lot more involved.
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by VagueMag 4y ago
Given that 1 in 1,000 deaths would be a far higher fatality rate than what SARS-CoV-2 causes in many health demographics (and the vaccines don't even prevent infection anyway), no, that would be pretty far from "safe." This w
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by VagueMag 4y ago
By the same token, if the vast majority of doctors and even people who take the shots are (completely unjustifiably) certain they can't be the cause of any issues, then problems will tend to be under reported. And indeed this is exa
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Recurrent tachycardia in a patient with Covid vaccine associated myocarditis(atm.amegroups.com)
4 points by VagueMag 4y ago|0 comments
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by VagueMag 4y ago
Something about the greyed out text makes troll comments like this extra funny.
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by VagueMag 4y ago
Ever heard of the Match King? This is not an uncommon pattern in history as late stage bull markets turn to bear and reveal which of Wall Street's favorites were just frauds riding a wave of liquidity the whole time. If I was to look f
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New York Finance Regulator Says Signature Bank's Closure Not Related to Crypto(wsj.com)
1 points by VagueMag 4y ago|1 comments
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US Bank Lending Slumps by Most on Record in Final Weeks of March(bloomberg.com)
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Binance.US Struggles to Find Bank to Take Its Customers' Cash(wsj.com)
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Tesla hit with class action lawsuit over alleged privacy intrusion(reuters.com)
71 points by VagueMag 4y ago|10 comments
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US probes crash involving Tesla that hit student leaving bus(apnews.com)
3 points by VagueMag 4y ago|1 comments
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First Republic Bank to suspend dividends on preferred stock(reuters.com)
1 points by VagueMag 4y ago|0 comments
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CIA complained U.S. was blindsided by Saudi outreach to Syria and Iran: Report(middleeasteye.net)
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U.S. Bank Deposits Fall for Tenth Straight Week as Worries Continue(investors.com)
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by VagueMag 4y ago
Look, NPR isn't state affiliated because it also gets lots of money from various foundations and corporations which are themselves built using massive amounts of state funding. If you add those extra steps it's totally different

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