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by aljungberg 4y ago
I have to agree with the argument that the prior should be that breastfeeding is beneficial and we would need massive and strong evidence to the contrary to change that position. It is an expensive process so it must have an evolutionary ad
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by aljungberg 4y ago
At the time only amateurs were allowed to compete. Taking money made you a professional. I don’t think there’s any dispute that he did make money as a player. However, the wikipedia page says that disqualifications had to be made within 30
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by aljungberg 4y ago
I can’t tell what the buyers of Apple products voted for exactly, but neither can you tell me what EU voters voted for when choosing their rep. I mean here we have a law proposed by an unelected body (the European Commission), now being rat
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by aljungberg 4y ago
> This legislation is the result of democratic process - i.e. decided by the "common people", if indirectly. Do you know that for a fact? The EU is famously opaque to its voters. What is being done in the name of the voters is
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by aljungberg 4y ago
Can us common people get to decide what the common good is, or is that exclusively your choice? Censorship is something governments do, not private companies selling an optional product. If the greater good is a free for all app store, then
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by aljungberg 4y ago
So many people in this thread seem to be arguing I should not be allowed to choose Apple’s model as it is today, “for my own good”. The article is about explicitly outlawing parts of their model. How’s that for personal agency and not infan
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by aljungberg 4y ago
Far would it be for a government to describe censoring opposing viewpoints as “blocking content for the greater good”, right?
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by aljungberg 4y ago
Hide my email services are a dime a dozen, but for a “hide my phone number” service you need deeper pockets because phone numbers cost money.
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by aljungberg 4y ago
Apple could complement their existing “hide my email” with a “hide my number” feature that makes it easy to create disposable tracking protected phone numbers. This would help counteract the “oh something about your account is suspicious so
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by aljungberg 4y ago
This is good to keep in mind although should you ever find yourself in such a situation know that you can still put your feet in a bucket of water. We usually get water from rivers our underground reservoirs so it tends to be cool enough ev
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by aljungberg 5y ago
The parallel to Guillan Barré Syndrome seems intuitive. MS and GBS are both autoimmune disorders which damage myelin. MS is slower and chronic while GBS is acute and rarely relapses. What if MS is a low grade persistent immune response to a
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by aljungberg 5y ago
To me semiweekly sounds like “somewhat” weekly (the same interpretation as in “semiconscious”). With that reading, semiweekly would mean it’s basically weekly but not quite. Maybe it’s not every week, there could be some exceptions. I like
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by aljungberg 5y ago
The news article makes it sound like causation has been determined beyond a doubt but the actual study abstract does not detail why the authors think this. Is it impossible to imagine that more brain “damage” leads to more drinking in some
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by aljungberg 5y ago
Unfortunately savepoints only work for a non-transactional single connection test. E.g. you can only set a savepoint within a transaction. If the code under test, like an integration test, uses transactions itself, or multiple connections,
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by aljungberg 5y ago
Creating these vaccines is hard as we see from Merck failing to make any at all and J&J still not having gotten significant deliveries out. Let’s recognise that AstraZeneca are in a minority succeeding at all . When this is all over th
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by aljungberg 5y ago
> Regarding the "no company would do this type of deal again": good! We don't need companies that get free expansion and IP with the promises of delivery, just to find out they won't deliver. We don’t need companies t
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by aljungberg 6y ago
It would be cool if the DOM was exposed. Then you could write one liner bash scripts to do simple tasks like “download all images” or “delete script tags referencing spammyads.js”, all with nothing more advanced than find, cp, rm and mv in
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by aljungberg 6y ago
Haven't testing rates increased significantly? A natural outcome would be that we see more mild cases which previously would have flown under the radar. I don't buy the article's hypothesis of social distancing being a factor
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by aljungberg 6y ago
At the point of comparison in 2016, both games were in early access, and, I think, both games were enjoyable. Factorio had a more complex late game in terms of available structures and they had liquid pipes which is a major feature. But Sat
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by aljungberg 6y ago
I'm not sure how one could measure the complexity in terms of game mechanics, but there is definitely a large amount of overlap in that complexity I would say. Both games have machines to mine, assemblers of increasing complexity, belt
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by aljungberg 6y ago
Great game. Without being critical of the team's awesome accomplishment, I do wonder if there's something to be learnt here about software development productivity. How did the Coffee Stain guys develop Satisfactory apparently so
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by aljungberg 6y ago
Voting can be helpful, but not always. For a long time the voting majority in some places thought treating black people as lesser human beings was fair. In those cases, having the option to easily choose a different government would be usef
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by aljungberg 7y ago
That does not contradict anything the government said. All else being equal, of course smaller groups, in the sense of people seeing fewer other people, is better. That’s not the argument. Nobody is saying “we should see more people”. All e
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by aljungberg 7y ago
Of course it will in time spread. By having a quarantine right now, that time would be shorter, not longer. That’s the point being made.
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by aljungberg 7y ago
Of course, reducing the frequency of contact with other people in general is good. I don’t think anyone is arguing against that. What I’m saying is that quarantine can cause more novel contacts. Statistically speaking there is a good chance
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by aljungberg 7y ago
It’s not the size of the pool but the novelty of the configuration of people. Every time an infected individual meets a healthy one that’s a new chance to spread the infection. But you can only spread it once to each person, so if you meet
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by aljungberg 7y ago
Sweden is making the same decision and they explained it quite well. A quarantine means children stay home from nurseries, daycare and school. This increases the stress on the medical system because some doctors and nurses have to stay home
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by aljungberg 7y ago
Even the smallest nuclear power plant in the states generates 582 MW — enough for 95 000 homes. I’m not saying this isn’t a cool membrane. I’m making the point here that the comparison to 2000 nuclear power plants seems arbitrary.
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by aljungberg 7y ago
One wonders how quickly these pores will become clogged over time. If the membrane deteriorates fast, the energy cost of producing more membranes continuously needs to be factored in. The article headline is pretty weird, by the way. So thi
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by aljungberg 7y ago
If we are still talking about rsync.net, and an attacker gains access to your account and deletes your borg archive, you can still restore your backup from the rsync.net ZFS snapshots. The snapshots are not deletable even with your full cre

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