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by asabjorn 5y ago
You are here talking specifically of N95 masks, not cloth masks, and this is only true for the very few that properly use masks. Doctors are required to not touch N95 mask and dispose of them after each use. Viruses can live for up to 24hrs
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> The rationale for cheap masks is that they drastically reduce the spread of particles from the wearer to everyone else nearby. If so, why does states with the highest mask use (CA, NYC) have much higher covid rates than states with som
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> An honest rewriting of my quoted text using your terminology would be something more like this: “It would be reasonable to say that the explicitly racist policies advocated by DEI as a remedy are not a proper solution to the problem, b
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> As I’ve stated multiple times, I take no issue with you disagreeing with a specific set of policies pushed by DEI initiatives, but that is different from denying the existence of racial discrimination against BIPOC. You are arguing tha
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> The children that integrated schools in the south are still very much alive, and aren’t even that old [1]. The supreme court ruling that ended school segregation in public education was in 1954. On the other hand the people classified
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> The notion that DEI advocates have redefined racism to mean “inequitable outcomes” is a framing that has been constructed by conservatives and IDW types, but it is _not_ what DEI is about. The second term of the social justice prescrib
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by asabjorn 5y ago
Social justice is totalizing as an ideology, I was not referring to past racial discrimination. In social justice activism "racism" is redefined to mean "inequitable outcomes". So of cause with this change of definition
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> I took it as a given that we could agree that there was an explicit system of racial hierarchy in the United States. When you think it's explicit instead of implicit you are in a minority even amongst social justice adherents. Soc
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> Just to clear things up, do you agree or disagree with my previous statement that “ people are treated differently by society as a whole, based on their race”? Further that white people have historically been placed at the top of a hie
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Yes, and Basecamp has with this improved their organization in this aspect. Social justice activism divides individuals by unchosen group identities into "oppressors" and "oppressed" which is in direct opposition to
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> You claim not to know their true motivation, yet your entire argument relies on the assumption that they had malicious intent. You also note that “the act they claim to be racist may or may not be racist” and yet it is clear that you h
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> Please point out where I asserted there are no issues with activist techniques. Refer to the comment I replied to where you argue "No one was calling anyone a white supremecist", and then justified this conclusion by stating
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It’s nonsense that you have to accept a premise to argue against it. That’s exactly what I did. On this website it’s expected that if you don’t have an argument, don’t make one. With your assertion in mind that there is no issues with the a
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Do you have a counter argument? Do you think such a person should be trusted or do you think this is not how the activism works? If it’s about my comment on trust: You are welcome to trust someone that use these power tactics based upon lie
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You are correct activists use this undeclared redefinition of the term white supremacy to mean "someone that does not have a social justice activist mindset". Which is exactly the issue. Why? It is a tool to utilize confusion to r
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> Why would anybody who knew they were talented and got hired or promoted, assume it had to do with anything other than their talent? Affirmative hiring, diversity quotas etc are actively aimed at identity based hiring and promotion. In
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Generally talented people enjoy working with other talented people, and prefer to be hired and rewarded only for that reason. The social justice diversity, equity and inclusion is a political stance that instead of seeing individuals see gr
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Discourse can only be had when one is open to listening to individuals different viewpoints and accepting differences. Unlike individualistic ideologies social justice define a person by a constantly expanding set of politically motivated
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by asabjorn 6y ago
> Are you aware of the tolerance paradox of Popper? > The woke sense of tolerance Yes, Popper wrote the "paradox of tolerance" in 1945 as a liberal philosophical answer to the national socialists that were intolerant to vi
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by asabjorn 6y ago
> To me this list of people and organizations are not some silly knights of "woke activism", they are people who'd feel misrepresented by RMS due to his beliefs. I'd not be so dismissive to that. We try to make softwa
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by asabjorn 6y ago
> I'm not fully aware of what he did, and to what extend he hold on to being a "misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety". Hence I look fwd to a defense. The accusation uses poli
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by asabjorn 6y ago
Linux dominates in the server space [1]: * In 2021, 100% of the world’s top 500 supercomputers run on Linux. * Out of the top 25 websites in the world, only 2 aren’t using Linux. * 96.3% of the world’s top 1 million servers run on Linux. *
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Can you please add details on what hardware you bought and what battery life you have achieved? I want to build something similar.
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No, use a varied set of mitigation strategies that fit your use-case.
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In the case of Gab "many eyes make all bugs shallow", but those eyes in this case had malevolent intent so the value of those extra eyes is dubious for a platform with as many high-skilled tech enemies as Gab has.
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That is not a fair assertion, as source confidentiality to limit wide-spread computerized and manual inspection of backend code to find flaws is just one of many tools to mitigate attacks. For instance, in this case a group with sufficient
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It is way easier to find a software vulnerability in a backend you have the code for, instead of probing a black-box backend for vulnerabilities. For instance, you can use static analysis tools to discover vulnerabilities.
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Thats a good point. And because of this they are limited in their mitigation strategies.
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As much as I love open source, Gab should have never been open source. It seems very unwise to make a highly targeted free speech social media platform available for easy backend code analysis. No wonder they were hacked. https:/&#x2F
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by asabjorn 6y ago
This WSJ article mention herd immunity. Covid spread really fast, so herd immunity through a combination of the large amount of people that already had covid and vaccination of the vulnerable should make a big difference. https:/&#x2F

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