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by bartimus 5y ago
Unless you enjoy moving the goalposts you need to pick one version of the theories: * Traditional capitalist companies trying to make a profit. * Traditional capitalist companies colluding with governments, scientists and the media to make
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by bartimus 5y ago
So basically the whole conspiracy theory can only work if there's nanochips in the vaccines. If the goal is some economic advantage the vaccines don't make sense. You would exactly focus on treatment drugs. Not preventative drugs.
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by bartimus 5y ago
The reason ASML is one of the few successful tech companies in Holland is because this type of engineering is so far distanced from consumer products. As soon as consumers come into play it triggers our HR departments to introduce a whole s
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by bartimus 5y ago
Or we're just getting older. Software tech has become less of a disruptive novelty. Younger generations are entering the scene with different ideals. They desire meaningful capitalism (in a political sense). This also brings new opport
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by bartimus 5y ago
It seems they are confusing herd immunity with complete eradication? Most likely the virus will become endemic. We've already achieved a level of herd immunity.
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by bartimus 5y ago
You can deduce the number of required infections by taking an IFR and the given total deaths of 613000. IFR: 0.15 = 613000 * 1 / 0.0015 = 408 million infections (124% population) IFR: 0.3 = 613000 * 1 / 0.003 = 204 million infecti
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by bartimus 5y ago
That may be so. The other point is that all those media mergers are perhaps the inevitable consequence of a battled and dying industry due to disruptive technology (YouTube / Widevine).
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by bartimus 5y ago
But when the version control system is distributed you already have a form of "feature branches" since everyone has a local copy with the changes they're working on. The question is perhaps more about if it's okay to pus
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by bartimus 5y ago
There would still need to be a central model (and centralized management thereof) if I understand correctly.
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by bartimus 5y ago
They don't make for sensational Youtube content that isn't covered by the "MSN".
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by bartimus 5y ago
> but the actual IFR of COVID-19 is 0.15% * US total COVID-19 deaths: 600.000 * US total population: 328.200.000 = 0.18% COVID-19 deaths of total population. The IFR must be even higher.
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by bartimus 5y ago
I'm speculating: I think China is okay with big monopolies. Just as long as they control them. This particular anti monopoly fine was part of a larger power struggle with Jack Ma: https://www.reuters.com/business/c
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by bartimus 5y ago
Not exactly the same. You're taking the chance with the virus while completely isolating yourself from the vaccine. The available data appears to show the virus is much more damaging than the vaccine. For every age group.
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by bartimus 5y ago
The virus didn't go through the approval process either. We already know it has serious side-effects. It's self-replicating and able to spread to others. It probably wouldn't even pass animal testing. Why would you take the h
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by bartimus 5y ago
See how it goes to get infected with the virus? It didn't pass any clinical trial.
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by bartimus 5y ago
The virus didn't go through the approval process either. We already know it has serious side-effects. It's self-replicating and able to spread to others. It probably wouldn't even pass animal testing. The fact that something
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by bartimus 5y ago
Maybe it's not necessary. It's my understanding there's different types of antibodies the body can create. I've already had Covid but I'm still taking the vaccine. My reasoning is that the vaccine offers a hack to e
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by bartimus 5y ago
Still a bit vague: https://twitter.com/fastly/status/1402221348659814411
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by bartimus 5y ago
> The closest genetic match is only 3.8% similar. How did you come by 3.8%?
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by bartimus 5y ago
At least a factor of 2-100 would solve the problem we're facing at this moment in time. We can explore solutions (like 2nd layer) while keeping everything usable.
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by bartimus 5y ago
But can we expect the future cryptocurrency of the world to be bottlenecked by average users needing to run full nodes on average laptops? Considering Bitcoin only has a total of 27 million addresses, couldn't we introduce some special
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by bartimus 5y ago
Is this a good thing? Better those bullies get exposed on Tinder than on the first date?
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Instagram now asks bullies: 'Are you sure?' (2019)(bbc.com)
3 points by bartimus 5y ago|2 comments
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by bartimus 5y ago
Or energy use per transaction based on full throughput capacity (full blocks).
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by bartimus 5y ago
> If I give you an apple and you give me an orange, the total amount of fruit in the economy remains constant. That's not entirely correct. The economy isn't a zero sum game. If person A has 2 apples and person B has 2 oranges.
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by bartimus 5y ago
Then also the core parts (with many dependents) deserve more elegance and readability compared to some less critical side module that can easily be thrown away and replaced.
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What the Data Says About Wealth Inequality(visualcapitalist.com)
2 points by bartimus 5y ago|0 comments
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by bartimus 6y ago
I would love to see the wealth gap broken down into liquid and illiquid assets.
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by bartimus 6y ago
Cities are a good metaphor. Now consider we want to move some buildings around. Teardown some buildings. Create some new ones. Move a bunch of roads around. We need to think about water supply. Electricity. Where to put the people. Which ro
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by bartimus 6y ago
Because it's less about engineering and more about knowing all the laws and regulations. You'd either need developers with both expertise or have these people working together finding a workable software interpretation of all thos

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