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by argvargc 5y ago
This somehow inspired me to type "google destroyed" into HN search. Didn't disappoint.
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by argvargc 5y ago
And when activists are scientists? Or what about when activists just pay attention to, read and understand science? That, in general, seems to be something rather common - emergent science is often what motivates activists, especially r
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by argvargc 5y ago
Here's a 20-year Professor of Ethics take on it: https://odysee.com/@percep7ioneer:e/Julie-Ponesse-Ethics-Pro...
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by argvargc 5y ago
I legitimately cannot tell if this is a line from a TV commercial.
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by argvargc 5y ago
It's exactly how fractional reserve works. That it can happen more than once due to redepositing (in other banks, and so on...) doesn't help an argument against that reality. You may have missed the memo that went out in 2008 rega
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by argvargc 5y ago
Is this just number of deaths without population context? If so, it's falsely accumulating. Probably not a huge deal given the period and growth rate, but still, not hard to adjust. USA population growth is about 0.6%/year. Adjust
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by argvargc 5y ago
Why is Gnome the reason people don't stay on linux? The article makes it look great to anyone familiar with macOS, which while it has faults is generally regarded as a pretty good OS GUI. Is there something bad about Gnome the article
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by argvargc 5y ago
Genuine question: By "tinkering" do you mean every once in a while something really important completely stops working and you have to pull your hair out in the middle of some important work in order to get that thing fixed so yo
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by argvargc 5y ago
It feels like there could be a way to automagically solve collation as part of decentralising the storage. If there were deterministic way to create the decentralised hash for example, and then it could simply attempt to load it before comm
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by argvargc 5y ago
This is the first time I've seen a reasonably full-featured encryption suite that doesn't require hours of investment to make full use of it. I liked the considerate UI touches too, such as automated pass-phrase generation on hitt
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by argvargc 5y ago
Could this be used as a base to fork the existing ecosystem away from centralised control and back to its users? Say using decentralised storage and a synched side chain?
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by argvargc 5y ago
Because it stayed up long enough for you to see it.
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by argvargc 5y ago
How then would you explain that this has never happened here?
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by argvargc 5y ago
The context was treatments for COVID, and you brought up only one of the least studied and least likely effective of the studied treatments you could have mentioned. Misinformed.
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by argvargc 5y ago
You're completely misinformed. There have been hundreds of peer-reviewed RCT's in vivo , in live human COVID-infected patients of many differing treatments for COVID, several of which have demonstrated high efficacy in reducing
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by argvargc 5y ago
Governments the world over have made repeated, clear statements that if someone tests positive for COVID, and then dies within 28 days for any reason , the death is counted as a COVID death. That is the end of any validity in test-derived
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by argvargc 5y ago
In pandemics, you isolate only the sick, treat them, and offer prophylaxis to vulnerable groups. In COVID, we isolated everyone, sick and healthy (utterly unprecedented), then flooded the most vulnerable with sick people (bizarre care h
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by argvargc 5y ago
Presently, no one can post certain peer-reviewed science from well-known and respected medical journals on any social media account, or speak of them on YT, because of widespread censorship of certain topics. It's not possible to have
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by argvargc 5y ago
The facebook posts typically reference one of several organised groups of hundreds of working doctors, some of whom claim to have directly observed high levels of concerningly-serious adverse reaction, even among small sample groups (eg, sm
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by argvargc 5y ago
Sweden and UK saw an almost identical death curve per million despite diametrically-opposed policy decisions. Gibraltar had almost no COVID, vaccinated literally everyone and then had a massive (and ongoing) outbreak. We can go back and for
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by argvargc 5y ago
Well that comparison might make sense if the masks were made of latex.
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by argvargc 5y ago
I doubt it. Pandemic preparedness, including for airborne diseases, was the same for decades until it was all thrown out the window to do something wildly different that had never been done before. Which - evidently, as we're still hav
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by argvargc 5y ago
Not really, at the rate death is declining overall COVID will almost certainly kill far fewer in the same timeframe. And given differences in policy, and differences in resistance to them have not resulted in any discernible difference in r
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by argvargc 5y ago
Well worth the click, the article (1997) starts with a great explainer, and has photos. Deserves its own post.
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by argvargc 5y ago
Wow, thank you. In a brief search, I found this strange and interesting article from 1983, regarding experiments conducted at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory of the University of California: https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02
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by argvargc 5y ago
Where are the boundaries though? Are they established? There must be a point at which a magnet of power n causes a negative effect that increases along with n, time, and exponentially with proximity?
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by argvargc 5y ago
The heart itself is kind of an electromagnetic device - are there any studies on the health implications in healthy people of having powerful magnets placed next to it?
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by argvargc 5y ago
In reality, 99.9% of all people who don't understand this issue don't care at all about Apple doing this. It's similar to pointing out that 99.9% of all people don't care about enabling robust, non-SMS-based 2FA on the
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by argvargc 5y ago
Beware state *** of your *** - governments can change for the worse
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by argvargc 5y ago
No, the attacker is committing a crime with the attack you describe, but has plausible deniability that they are not with the Apple-nonsense enabled attack vector. This is a huge difference as not only does Apple facilitate a gain-of-functi

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