aiilns

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by aiilns 5y ago
I feel that articles like this one are much closer to propaganda than to any explanation of science. 1. In comparing risks of adverse effects of drugs with those of covid vaccines the author is missing a big point. Namely, medications are g
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by aiilns 5y ago
It means that no one wants to take responsibility for any side effects. And it obviously creates mistrust. If the state is practically mandating you to be vaccinated for covid they (or the companies that make the vaccine) should be held res
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by aiilns 5y ago
I'd love to see a source for this, never heard this before. In modern Greek it'd be "μπε μπε". With the μ + π giving the b sound. However your example is interesting because sheep make an "eee" sound like in &
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by aiilns 6y ago
You are surprised because you equate two things that are qualitatively different. Some people advocating for arresting someone for something they did, even if it is way too crazy is quite different than tools that enable discrimination base
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by aiilns 6y ago
Ah thanks. Haven't ever seen a typewriter and ingorantly assumed you'd get double quotes from pressing a single quote twice.
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by aiilns 6y ago
This might seem like useless criticism but oh well. In "straight and curly quotes" it says: "By replacing the curly opening and closing quotes with ambidextrous straight quotes, two slots became available for other characters
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by aiilns 6y ago
I don't really agree with rantwasp and in his/hers answer to you I don't understand what he is talking about lawsuits. In my university (in Europe) not only several student organizations used exclusiveley Facebook, but profes
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by aiilns 6y ago
Same thing in GNOME files if you press ctrl+l. Just like you would to get to Firefox's URL.
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by aiilns 6y ago
Well good advice in general, even though the way you phrase your comment makes it look like you think breast feeding is no better than the formulas. I am a medical student and we have been told at uni from professors (paediatricians) that b
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by aiilns 6y ago
I don't quite see how creating laws would provide real solutions. I don't think that the world should necessarily "burn", I just think that real change has to come from the changes in societies. People demanding change.
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by aiilns 6y ago
I think you misunderstood my comment. I just think that it will take worse restrictions of speech & privacy issues for a complete change in a new direction. Big tech is already pressured to backdoor all encrypted communication (and fran
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by aiilns 6y ago
I'm actually in favor of this. Not because I agree with Apple/Google/Amazon etc acting as speech restricting overlords, but because I think it has to get a lot worse before people realize the dangers of what's happening
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by aiilns 6y ago
I don't see that it is opensource.
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by aiilns 6y ago
> If I had to make a guess I would say that most people's diet/lifestyle/stressful job is about 1000X more impactful to their expected lifespan than microplastics in their diet. I like how in your first comment you try app
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by aiilns 6y ago
Don't let the negatity and accusations here bring you down. I have great faith in what you're doing and greatly anticipate what is to come. I also really liked the post on backdoors and the EU proposal. I've managed to talk 6
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by aiilns 6y ago
I don't see how the technical point of view is relevant. I listed three examples that should make it obvious. You refuse for some reason to accept the obvious, that these kind of tests try to alter real world behaviour and not behaviou
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by aiilns 6y ago
You can look up "Surveillance Capitalism" by Zuboff for numeral examples of Facebook's overreach. Consider "A 61-Million-Person Experiment in Social Influence and Political Mobilisation", the 700,000 people whose em
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by aiilns 6y ago
Not the op, but I'll try: 1. FB didn't "do something wrong". They have repeatedly engaged in research without informed consent as op mentions. These are not isolated incidents, but rather Facebook's modus operandi.
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by aiilns 6y ago
Your comment shows a fundamental misunderstanding of F/LOSS. It's a movement for software's freedom and consequently users' freedom. Programmers from all over the world work on their free time on projects, some foundatio
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by aiilns 6y ago
Sorry for going off topic, but your comment confuses me. Doesn't "sail off into the distance" mean to disappear? But you're saying the opposite in your comment? My reasonibg being that when a ship sails off into the dist
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by aiilns 6y ago
Was society willing to pay for workers when they had slaves? To think that if only the Confederate states would have made that iron-clad argument back then, the civil war would have been avoided. Imagine how low the prices could be if we st
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by aiilns 6y ago
I wasn't aware that people working in Uber/Lyft advocate for not being employees? Do you have a source for that? Are people engaging in gig work because it has several advantages over "every other available option"? What
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by aiilns 6y ago
Yes, using atomic bombs was bad. As others say it is debatable if it helped end the (already won?) war. And in any case, _lasting_ _piece_ where? Are middle east and Africa not part of this world? I find your comment is entirely missing the
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by aiilns 6y ago
>corporations are not hypocrites, either, because corporations don't hold beliefs. They make PR statements.Their belief is "I will say what I need to in order to be left in peace to maximize profits." This is the definitio
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by aiilns 6y ago
While others have already written great replies arguing for untranslatability, I'll add my own views as well (as a trilingual, non-native English speaker). I think what's immediately wrong in your argument is equating untranslatab
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by aiilns 6y ago
I think it all depends on what you are using bookmarks for. I bookmark sites I want to check out again in the near future, but searching in my bookmarks/tagging as memex does has never been an issue for me. If it is something worth sea
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by aiilns 6y ago
Right now the top reply's first sentence is this: > Maybe the world needs an unmonetizable space. I have noticed that people in hackernews generally tend to look things from a, excuse me for saying so, narrow business "make mo
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by aiilns 6y ago
I didn't think his tone was being condescending and superior but I may have missed it. But then again, I care more about the topic than the tone one uses. I've had to use Microsoft teams for university lectures and I've faced
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by aiilns 7y ago
Changing keybindings is really easy. I understood the comment as copying Mac's style (unclear what exactly) and recreating it on KDE. But maybe that's the weird translation from English in my head.