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by argvargc 5y ago
Testing is a bit of a mess. There aren't any standards and it's highly subjective and interpretative. Some facilities/tests don't even report the CT of the PCR, rendering the result essentially meaningless (which in many
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by argvargc 5y ago
All of those examples could be invalidated with new information. As inconvenient as it may be, truth is transitory and progress toward it is frequently made through invalidation. It's more prudent and useful to assume facts don't
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by argvargc 5y ago
This is simply wrong. I frequently see comments on comment downvoting causing a reconsideration and reopening of closed discussions, resulting in discussion value. Whether this was achieved or not in this case is debatable, but that doesn&#
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by argvargc 5y ago
Don't worry, you can trust decrypt (at least inasmuch as you can trust Yahoo): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-government-enlists-usdc-gl... Regardless of a given view on the politics of this particular interven
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by argvargc 5y ago
Sorry to hear about your friend - I don't mean to minimise the effects of serious cases. I'm referring to the proportion of cases which are asymptomatic or mild. In some seroprevalence studies asymptomatic reach up to 80%, though
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by argvargc 5y ago
It seems for younger persons, the severity of adverse reactions to the vaccines may be worse than the would-be experience of naturally fighting off the virus itself.
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by argvargc 5y ago
The US government has been using cryptocurrencies to deliver aid direct to Venezuelans, for whom previously traditionally bank-wired funds were been pilfered by local (government-controlled) banks. The aspect of direct "peer to peer&qu
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by argvargc 5y ago
I can't imagine why you're being downvoted, for a well-balanced, educative post with full disclosure. No wait, I can - and it sucks.
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Origins of the Lockdown Idea (2020)(aier.org)
1 points by argvargc 5y ago|0 comments
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by argvargc 5y ago
Translation: people make political donations
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by argvargc 5y ago
Haven't seen convincing evidence the death rates would be higher without the measures employed, much the opposite (35 studies so far): https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-co... It is hearteni
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Domino Chain Reaction (2014)(youtube.com)
1 points by argvargc 5y ago|0 comments
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by argvargc 5y ago
Something that might help is understanding a very fundamental thing about computers: they are very, very stupid. Essentially, they don't/can't know anything about anything, at the most fundamental levels of their construction
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by argvargc 5y ago
Someone should track the dislikes on this over time, eg: https://81m.org (Note clicking a vid shows more detail, eg: https://81m.org/videos/juH2Mfre_oM/ )
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by argvargc 5y ago
Actually, most fundamentally understand what's happened. We've all seen these things before; the embarrassing identifying characteristics of unchecked power.
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by argvargc 5y ago
That sparked an interesting idea: would these work in a zero-gravity situation (mechanically I mean), and if not, how to adapt them so they would? (And agree with the nostalgia - I'm sure for many the sound is associated with a quiet
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by argvargc 5y ago
Genuine question: what are some practical advantages of a split-flap display over, well... any other kind of dynamic character display? The only two I could think of are: - they don't emit light, so maybe there could be some kind of li
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by argvargc 5y ago
Yes, these are concerns, but anything like this will not ultimately be left to consumers to deal with. As part of the process of crypto becoming widely-adopted, this class of problems is in the process of being solved in ways that are trans
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by argvargc 5y ago
XRP is whatever any holder wants it to be. If users hold it as a store of value instead of Bitcoin, your strange opinions have absolutely no dominion over that.
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by argvargc 5y ago
XRP and Stellar were the pioneers in this regard. Since about 2013 and 2014 respectively (or thereabouts). Such systems have negligible energy usage. In general, anything using some flavour of Byzantine Fault Tolerance - of which there are
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by argvargc 6y ago
Sure but it's trivial to split funds across accounts to mitigate that (even dynamically), unlike with cards where getting/activating a new one is a major hassle.
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by argvargc 6y ago
That might be a good Ask HN question - surely some here would be able to answer it. Our extensive radio transmissions would surely already have been received, but the nukes (being secret initially), if detectable at interstellar distances,
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by argvargc 6y ago
You're probably missing the futures contracts. You said "credit cards amount to $3tn of payments [my emphasis] in the U.S annually.", doing so as if this somehow made crypto appear small. I pointed out that Bitcoin alone
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by argvargc 6y ago
Bitcoin trading volumes are in the several trillions per day . I'm not referring to those. On-chain transactions are for a variety of things, but they are all payments , which was the criteria in question you brought up. Regardless
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by argvargc 6y ago
Our context here is: "What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?". Assuming they exist is central to exploring this context. This doesn't mean anyone exploring the idea necessarily believes or disbelieves they exist. The
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by argvargc 6y ago
Bitcoin alone has done more than that per year since since 2018. And there are literally thousands of other projects. Credit cards are small by comparison. https://mobile.twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1346139278636
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by argvargc 6y ago
As we've seen with the development of centralised exchanges, institutional and retail custodial solutions, many of which are backed by various forms of insurance, the fact that the base layer provides for transactional finality (along
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by argvargc 6y ago
While true on some level, this is broadly incorrect. The necessity for reversibility, and the inflexibility of being limited either to it, or some form of it, is indicative of an inherent, unfixable flaw in the system itself. This flaw limi
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by argvargc 6y ago
On a per-value basis, what I have claimed is entirely true. The bulk of fiat does not move around on peoples payment cards or in cash in their hands, it moves in bank-to-bank transfers that indeed do take days or even weeks, and further hav
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by argvargc 6y ago
Unless it's their only option to be able to eat and stay alive.

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