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by barnacled 6y ago
It is fun to see criticisms of China get insta-downvoted to hell. Mine is fully referenced and went to -1 instantly... there is definitely some real denial about what the CCP actually do.
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by barnacled 6y ago
"and probably many more" is an understatement. There is mass organ harvesting from Falun Gong followers [0] and God knows how many die in the Uighur concentration camps [1]. There is a 99.9% conviction rate in crimes in China [2]
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by barnacled 6y ago
Can you re-read my post and explain which part of it advocates for censorship? You (and the downvoters) have entirely misunderstood what I said. I thought opening with 'China are a god-awful totalitarian lying genocidal state and Apple
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by barnacled 6y ago
Very ironic given Elon's endless tirades about short sellers. The problem solves itself...
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by barnacled 6y ago
Before I got my current job I reached the final round (of 4 or 5!!) at a startup where I was failed because I failed to say 'message queue' or mention RabbitMQ (the interview used to work for them I think) for a question of '
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by barnacled 6y ago
ah yeah there's a camera so would need to get an operator ID. Thanks!
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by barnacled 6y ago
I am super curious about the DJI mini 2 - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ayibagexi-Sashas-Fierce-Lemonade-Al... - I hope this won't get overly impacted by the new rules (I am in the UK).
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by barnacled 6y ago
I'm not sure a small subset having a bad reaction to a known-untested vaccine they volunteered to have would have quite as bad an impact as you say, certainly not 100 years of lower uptake! It would likely have some kind of an impact
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by barnacled 6y ago
That's a very good habit to be in, however when it comes to external-facing stuff, e.g. APIs, or stuff that needs a lot more detail (and especially examples) then you're going to need more than self-documenting code. Of course get
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by barnacled 6y ago
In the case of highly vulnerable patients the death rate is vastly higher, easily into the double-digits, e.g. https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/frailty-old-age-a... - with extreme risk factors and old ag
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by barnacled 6y ago
That's a very good point, latter should be P(death ^ covid) I suppose! I still think the numbers would arguably work out well given the general safety especially of the mRNA vaccines (as I understand it). It wouldn't be a simple o
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by barnacled 6y ago
At the cost of how many lives? And if the vaccine is successful how would that harm buy-in? If not then it's a failed experiment (though obviously the PR impact could be rather negative!) I think it's pretty clear from the past ye
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by barnacled 6y ago
I contribute to the linux kernel and one key part of it is its extensive documentation - one of the patches I made was to correct some invalid offsets there - there is so much that can be done there that isn't code. If even the kernel
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by barnacled 6y ago
>So you never asked anyone. The problem is, if you ignore ethics, which of course says a lot about your priorities, still two fold. This is offensive and I suggest you re-read my post (as well as the HN comment guidelines). I am not igno
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by barnacled 6y ago
'Because of ethics' and 'these rules are there for a reason' are not arguments, they're 'shut up' encoded. Present arguments please. The progress of the vaccine has been incredible compared to usual, but t
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by barnacled 6y ago
You could distribute it in limited batches to only the most vulnerable which should reduce any risk of that. I think the most vulnerable are in any case most likely to already be heavily using the health services anyway (and would be the on
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by barnacled 6y ago
An issue that I basically never see come up is - why not administer the vaccine earlier on (pre-approval) to the most vulnerable? if P(death|vaccine) < P(death|covid) then it seems really barbaric not to give it. Many dead people now cou
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by barnacled 6y ago
I think that's a very unfair assessment of my original comment and very dismissive. Do not make the mistake of thinking everybody who criticises a company like apple is naive as to the complexities and difficulties around supply chains
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by barnacled 6y ago
Absolutely it would be very costly, absolutely the expertise might not even exist at scale in an alternative country, absolutely it would take effort and pain and a long time. But apple appear to, in the decades since the iPhone made them r
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by barnacled 6y ago
Interesting that large parts of that supply chain coincidentally operate in parts of the world which have extremely low wages and virtually no worker rights. Having worked at a company that Apple bankrupted in order to bring their work in-h
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by barnacled 6y ago
ah yes I have encountered this repeatedly myself!
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by barnacled 6y ago
And yet Tim Cook has the cheek to get 'woke'. Apple could easily afford to build everything in a country that isn't an awful dictatorship running concentration camps and still earn obscene profits. And yet they still somehow
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by barnacled 6y ago
One thing I have noticed and found really irritating is the degradation of the street view functionality in Google maps. They have got lazy. I used to be able to click or keyboard navigate through a route but now it either stops responding
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by barnacled 6y ago
Again you are trivialising things that are far wider-reaching as do many on the 'forever lockdown' side. They are not just shutting down public health risks and asking people to wear masks, they are instituting, at least in the UK
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by barnacled 6y ago
“The majority of the people in China do not eat wildlife animals. Those people who consume these wildlife animals are the rich and the powerful –a small minority.” Thanks for that, I viewed that some time ago and found it very informative.
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by barnacled 6y ago
>If you really imagine that any country in the world has either the means or the will to impose sanctions on the US or the UK, you definitely live in a different international community than I do. I don't think you've been foll
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by barnacled 6y ago
It does astonish me how poorly people understand different in _magnitude_ between offences and how quickly we get into whataboutism. >If a similarly dangerous flu mutation jumps from a pig to an undocumented agricultural worker in the Un
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by barnacled 6y ago
Thank you for taking the time to take a look. It is a lengthily one but I do certainly recommend spending the time to listen, it is of course very UK-centric but a lot of the points he makes are valid globally. I am not advocating some abso
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by barnacled 6y ago
I'm very proud to see this go to negative votes, as it entirely proves my point. Every time democracies abandon that for authoritarian measures there is always a seemingly highly justified reason at the time and those who speak out wou
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by barnacled 6y ago
In the UK law is being passed by decree without parliamentary approval, fundamental democratic freedoms are being specifically prohibited - freedom of speech, assembly and association and prosecution of people conducting hitherto legal and

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