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by _red 5y ago
Its a complicated topic. At one level the tech is neutral and is just a tool, at another it engenders the worst forms of thought-control and coercion. It should be fairly obvious that we are heading towards CCP-style social-credit score. Th
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Ask HN: What can /u/spez realistically do?
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by _red 5y ago
One issue is that the childless will wind up requiring more state care as they age (since they won't have family to care for them). A possible solution would be to slightly increase taxes on childless to make up for that difference.
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by _red 5y ago
In many many countries Ivermectin is sold OTC in your neighborhood pharmacy alongside the aspirin, decongestants, etc.
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by _red 5y ago
"horse medicine"? You mean the medicine that has been used on humans for 40 years and then repurposed for animals? You mean the medicine on WHO list of essential medications to alleviate human suffering?
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by _red 5y ago
I work in hardware design. Almost all ICs are very very limited supply. In our own case we had to move from 512K MCU to 256K simply because lead times are now until Dec 2022 on the 512K version. I'm really surprised this hasn't bu
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by _red 5y ago
Hey Ars, there is a global chip shortage right now. I doubt Samsung is doing this to screw over their customers, rather its either this or nothing. I know Ars knows this because they allude to in bottom of article. Click-baity.
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by _red 5y ago
An advisory saying "there's no proof it works and many people are being harmed". They are "signaling" their position and putting doctors who disagree on notice that they are acting against official advisories. They
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by _red 5y ago
Japan's health minister says otherwise. They are truly desperate to prevent any alternative treatments available, no matter how modestly successful, otherwise it invalidates their EUA. This private-public partnership (where NIH gets a
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by _red 5y ago
>bash and python Neither of those of idempotent. It seems likely you are coming at this from the perspective of "when I find an ansible playbook on github its hard to follow whats going on". There is a certain truth to that, bu
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by _red 5y ago
>sim swap + phishing nothing really specific to Coinbase.
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by _red 5y ago
>punitive hospital policies Why not also put fat people + diabetics at lower priority? Why is someone killing themselves by being 350lbs and having high-fructose corn syrup blood somehow more forgivable than someone waiting for FDA appro
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by _red 5y ago
Likely Gen. Mark Milley (Joint Chief of Staff) and/or Sec of Defense Lloyd Austin will probably lose their jobs over this. Maybe focusing on preaching about "White Fragility" wasn't the best use of their time.
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by _red 5y ago
>His entire corpus basically deals with how to escape nihilism You must admit there is some sort of grand comedy in this: Nietzsche's one 'novel', "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" entire plot line is about a man who trie
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by _red 5y ago
You mean this cornavirus is like all other cornaviruses!? Hopefully someone invents an Immune-System-As-A-Service we can all subscribe to!
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by _red 5y ago
>our campus NeXTs, this new "World Wide Web" thing Similar story. My lab had 2 NeXT cubes (the monochrome version) and the first time I saw a graphical browser was eye-opening. I had only experienced telnet and gopher before th
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by _red 5y ago
>So in your scenario, you'd have to save the photo received from the unknown number to get flagged. Whew! I was worried there for a minute. Maybe for extra safety I could say "SIRI I DISAVOW OF THIS MESSAGE!"??
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by _red 5y ago
>don’t use iMessage 1. Send someone you hate a message with cartoon making fun of tyrant-president. 2. That person is now on a list. Its swatting-as-a-service.
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by _red 5y ago
Yes, my history was Linux 95-04, Mac 04-15, and now back to Linux from 2015 onwards. Its been clear Tim Cook was going to slowly harm the brand. He was a wonderful COO under a visionary CEO-type, but he holds no particular "Tech Origin
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by _red 5y ago
Why then do you need the mask and 3rd shot?
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by _red 5y ago
>Just get your shot instead of playing armchair epidemiologist. I've already had covid in 2020 and recently had another antibody test which still showed a strong response...
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by _red 5y ago
>newer variants Against the original Alpha perhaps. However Delta effectiveness is nowhere near 90%...this is precisely the reason for the push for boosters.
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by _red 5y ago
Not exactly. Natural immunity is more durable and more complete. Vaccines are often "leaky", offering only partial protection against very specific markers. Whereas NI is more comprehensive and long-lasting. "Leaky vaccines&q
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by _red 5y ago
High vaccination rates will only exert selection pressure on the virus causing new mutation strains to become dominant. How is this not understood? Vaccines should only be used for targeted at-risk population. Everyone else should strive fo
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by _red 5y ago
Phthalate's are "plasticizers" - chemicals added to make plastics durable, flexible, transparent (ie. like every single water bottle). Its been increasingly shown that "Phthalates act by mimicking the female hormone estr
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by _red 5y ago
>-mid 2000s might just have been a fortuitous accident, not somethgin Apple ever courted. yea, I think you are probably right. I was a linux user from 95-05 then switched to mac from 05-13 now back to linux. I'm well aware of the &
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by _red 5y ago
Well...FANG products have largely reached the point in development where new features are incremental and not closely tied to growth or churn in a meaningful way. Not being dismissive, simply pointing out...what fundamental leverage does a
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by _red 5y ago
>But the reality at the time was bottom-up and we should not forget that. Its a good point, but that ignores that co-opting "useful tragedies" are how authoritarian fanatics grasp power. There is no reason why it can't be
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by _red 5y ago
>dual-root-type setup where they update the inactive root, boot into it, Fedora-IoT effectively does this with rpm-ostree + greenboot. Greenboot specifies a series of directories under /etc that organizes your custom scripts (script
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by _red 5y ago
Its interesting to watch things self-destruct in real-time. As is often the case, the companies involved almost act on auto-pilot seemingly compelled to keep digging their own grave.

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