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by beagle3 5y ago
I don't consider this a binary condition. There's an inherent balance on information dissemination, much like any "true positive / false positive". We might not be at the optimum, but I don't think we're f
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by beagle3 5y ago
TL;DR: I think the uniformly gray area is vastly larger than the "black and white or almost so" area. Truth in this context is not well defined. "Dietary cholesterol increase associated with increased mortality" and &quo
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by beagle3 5y ago
It is occasionally clear cut. But what if those same pictures are tweeted, with only a vague text like "This is how war looks like"? I've seen this in the last week, specifically with 6-year old Syrian civil war pictures, and
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by beagle3 5y ago
And yet, they are also true if they are statement of fact: "More than 80% of people who drank water even once in their lifetime have died!" is a true statement of fact (if you follow the accepted estimate of ~100 billion humans ev
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by beagle3 5y ago
Not sure what you are trying to say here. Let's try again. Are you aware of any other metric for covid infection , comparable between different countries? Please pay attention to the examples I already gave about how numbers from Isra
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by beagle3 5y ago
It is far from perfect; and yet, it's the only metric comparable between different countries, assuming you can trust death counts -- which I do for most countries. It's not a good proxy, but there is no better one that I've f
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by beagle3 5y ago
Yes. I’ve had both with and without valves since 2015. Would never buy one without a valve again if I can find one with a valve (in the last year at some times could only find valveless) Fwiw, in Israel it was illegal to use a valved mask w
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by beagle3 5y ago
There doesn’t seem to be any evidence specific to this pandemic that masks work. The CDC study released recently puts it at 2% or so. And there was no new evidence in March that caused the reversal from “masks don’t work” to “you must mask
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by beagle3 5y ago
Bacteria and viruses behave differently. It’s possible, even likely, that a measure against one will be ineffective against the other. In an attempt to fights a specific virus, namely sarscov2 - no, we don’t know that masks work. The cdc nu
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by beagle3 5y ago
I don’t know the details here, but in the Israel vs Sweden comparison, absolute numbers favor Israel (7000 vs 14000 dead) but age normalized are the same (Sweden has about twice as many >60), and in European normalized excess death measu
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by beagle3 5y ago
The CDC study concluded 2% reduction. That’s in the range where harms need to be weighed too (e.g. masks that aren’t replaced often enough harbor bacteria themselves; there’s environmental costs, etc)
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by beagle3 5y ago
Unless you have a valve, and hardly breath at all, exhaling pushes the N95 away from your face enough to let some unfiltered air in. There’s a similar (though smaller) effect with the thin paper valves, but regardless of how good the fit is
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by beagle3 5y ago
Basically all convincing evidence for mask use is models (like the linked article) and in vitro unrealistic tests; whereas in real world data, the best I could find wrt covid is 2% reduction. Bacteria are a different matter, and possibly ot
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by beagle3 5y ago
…… and at least until 2011 which was when I last checked, select() was the reliable way to do usleep() in Windows without having to change system time granularity, set up invisible windows with their own message pump or a variety of other
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by beagle3 5y ago
Kdb+ or it’s latest incarnation k9/shakti are likely faster, but they cost a few arms and a few legs. Once you factor price into the equation, click house is infinitely better :)
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by beagle3 5y ago
That’s making an awful lot of assumptions, and is contradicted by a counter example with Pandemrix. There is no equivalence between naturally getting it and artificially getting it. Almost everything is different about the process. And ever
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by beagle3 5y ago
Age is a risk factor. Many European countries recommend AZ only above age 50 (Britain above 30) because of the risk/reward profile. Also, the Pandemrix history teaches us that although adverse effects manifest within 2 months, it can t
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by beagle3 5y ago
In context, Israel had 9 (for 1/40 of US population - similar rate) and a reporter that actually inquired about each case, reported that every single one of them died while PCR positive but corona was not implicated in death (e.g. one
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by beagle3 5y ago
It can be turned off, but IIRC it's on by default, and probably on for 99% of all users.
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by beagle3 5y ago
The copy of the backup on Google drive/storage (whatever they call the app backup) is completely unencrypted. Google won’t just give it to you - if you want it, you have to impersonate the WhatsApp app. The local backup on your device
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by beagle3 5y ago
Just pointing out that there’s a difference between one person being owned (your signal example) and essentially everyone’s data being available to state-level actors (what’s happening with WhatsApp)
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by beagle3 5y ago
network effect. WhatsApp is not useful because it's a good app (even though it is a good messaging app). It's useful because everyone else has it installed.
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by beagle3 5y ago
That's true, but if the Apple/Facebook war escalates, it's a price Apple will be willing to pay iff they find a way to do it in a way that hurts Facebook. It is a status signal, but no one buys an iPhone just for iMessage.
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by beagle3 5y ago
I was able to not use WhatsApp until my kids started school; And after a year of realizing, often 2-3 weeks after the fact, that I was unaware of something important that happened, I gave up, and bought a whatsapp burner phone for kid schoo
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by beagle3 5y ago
That's likely true about the protocol, as far as I can tell. But that's never been true about data-at-rest on your device; which wouldn't have been much a of a problem, except ... They used to have encrypted backups, but at s
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by beagle3 5y ago
They hardly ever did, and the last time they did was something like 7 years ago. He is probably being scammed.
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by beagle3 5y ago
No, it's not a security feature. If you do allow contact access, but don't add people to your address book, you see the name they chose for themselves. And it looks different (slightly faded gray instead of color coded, a tild
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by beagle3 5y ago
Well, xCloud and Stadia are successfully doing games on an iPhone remotely using canvas and/or webgl and/or webrtc (I think?). Desktop is much less complicated in comparison.
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by beagle3 5y ago
FB SDK is basically everywhere (including e.g. Google's Waze app), and the data is incredibly useful to FB to segment users.
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by beagle3 5y ago
Most people do. However, the precision of the Israeli system (Based IIUC on cell tower triangulation) was not good, meaning you'd have a nontrivial chance of getting randomly get flagged for 14 days quarantine (with legal consequences

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