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by balnaphone 6y ago
Perhaps you should read the report before opining on it, as I mentioned when I posted the link.
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by balnaphone 6y ago
Apparently your threat model doesn't include governments and large corporations, who have done more enumerable harm (e.g. through the military-industrial-information complex) to people than small-time crooks ever have. Sometimes it see
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by balnaphone 6y ago
This may be true, but is not materially relevant. For people without underlying risk factors, the illness is generally quite minor. Those at risk should stay home, and avoid contact with the potentially infected. For those who share accom
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by balnaphone 6y ago
I object on the basis that (a) the given data doesn't support the policy conclusion, (b) the policy of lockdowns causes extreme harm, and (c) this policy severely impinges on human liberty. The lack of intellectual integrity here is as
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by balnaphone 6y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emanuelabarbiroglio/2020/04/23/... > COVID-19 will double the number of people suffering from a food crisis, pushing it to 265 million, estimates the United Nations W
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by balnaphone 6y ago
The majority of people in the UK have not been exposed, even potentially. Therefore, this is not a traditional quarantine, by the standard definition. Prior to the lockdown, quarantine was already in effect for foreign travellers and so o
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by balnaphone 6y ago
Reserving freedom of association for "essential workers" shows the flaw in your thinking. The reason for the carve-out in the lockdown is so they can do their "essential" job. Well, every job is an essential job, to th
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by balnaphone 6y ago
Your "implicit" statement is a false inference. The public health authority's decision is the very thing that I'm objecting to. Secondly, since that unfortunate soul is locked in their home, how are they touching anythi
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by balnaphone 6y ago
No one is advocating the right to break into homes to make others sick. Anyone who wants to stay home alone, absolutely should. I am advocating freedom of movement and freedom of association. Quarantine is for the sick, not the healthy. I
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by balnaphone 6y ago
> hilariously late in imposing lockdown > Really is shameful It's shameful that any country put practically their entire citizenry under house arrest. If someone is scared of catching something, they should stay home. If they wa
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by balnaphone 6y ago
I really like the philosophical approach here, even if it's too finicky to put in practice today. I'm really sick of everything being made "secure", when in fact the "security" is for someone other than the le
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by balnaphone 6y ago
From wearing COVID-19 masks? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764955 Quote: > Oxygen concentration inhaled by healthy subjects wearing a surgical mask covering an N95 respirator decreases
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by balnaphone 6y ago
Yes, agreed. In fact, the first example I can think of is the Michelson stellar interferometer at the Mount Wilson Observatory, which was in operation in 1920. However, there has been a major push recently to circumvent the limitations of o
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by balnaphone 6y ago
> A person’s “preferred name” is their name, their “legal name” is something else, and it’s our duty as software engineers not to muddle the two up. I strongly disagree, having dealt first-hand with the fallout of identity fraud. These
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by balnaphone 6y ago
> "Lucky imaging" is not a widely used technique in astronomy True, but it is very popular in astrophotography. Also, there are many recent advances in super-resolution imaging, compressive sensing, and sub-diffraction-limit
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by balnaphone 6y ago
Yes, that's true, but unfortunately these libraries only work on a closed-source platform, namely Microsoft Windows. My apologies if this wasn't clear in my earlier post.
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by balnaphone 6y ago
Not having dedicated floating-point hardware seems like a totally reasonable trade-off, and is common even today for applications below a certain price point. They chose the MIPS R3051, even though the relatively low-cost R3500 was availabl
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by balnaphone 6y ago
I'm guessing you mean something other than FOSS (free / open source software) in your critique of FOSS. Reason being, Swift is FOSS ( https://github.com/apple/swift ), both the compiler and the standard library
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by balnaphone 6y ago
It's great that the author has posted running code, so others can try it out and learn from it. That is great. To run this code on debian, I had to install python2, python2 pip, python2 virtualenv, and the gimp-python plugin. The ini
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by balnaphone 6y ago
> For non-quantum objects, this isn’t a problem, as different methods of measuring an object all give you the same answer. Whether you use a measuring stick (like a ruler), high-definition imaging, or a physics-reliant technique like Bro
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by balnaphone 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the "regulators" don't examine every molecule of atmosphere going in your lungs, nor every wild blueberry that gets eaten. If I walk out my house to the nearest farm and buy some chickens, I somehow don&
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by balnaphone 6y ago
As a footnote, I came across a couple interesting papers on the topic of vaccine contamination from around 2012. They talk about the usual development time being 8-10 years, and about a few recent cases of vaccine contamination. Extraneous
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by balnaphone 6y ago
Because coming from a natural source, namely other people, I can estimate risk probabilities for a range of outcomes, in the short term. Highly pathogenic viruses in general have a tendency to become attenuated as they spread, due to evolu
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by balnaphone 6y ago
I believe what they're saying, but in some way it feels unbelievable. The vast sizes and distances involved are frightening.
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by balnaphone 6y ago
Exposed to SARS-CoV-2? Absolutely, no problem. Exposed to god-knows-what in their untested vaccine? Absolutely not, even five years after release ("my body, my choice"). There is a long history of contaminants in biologics, and v
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by balnaphone 6y ago
> Mandatory military service otherwise known as government mandated slavery >> It depends if you think of your country as an accessory burden or as the ensemble of your fellows. This "depends" clause doesn't logicall
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by balnaphone 6y ago
I'm sorry to report that this analysis is completely wrong, and demonstrates a lack of understanding of the R object model. The class that is provided by tibble does not implement all of data.frame, and the OP is correct.
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by balnaphone 6y ago
I was very impressed with Linux Lite. The name is terrible, but the distro has worked great. It uses the Ubuntu 18.04 standard apt repos. Since I replaced the kernel, my presumption is most of the benefit is just selecting a smaller subse
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by balnaphone 6y ago
> their lockdown activity Since Sweden doesn't have a lockdown, this statement is meaningless. A major objection to lockdowns is their involuntary nature. In general, there is a big difference between choosing to stay home, and be
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by balnaphone 6y ago
Perhaps it's considered "good enough" because users balk at performing NLP-style queries when they find they almost never work properly.

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