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by beebmam 5y ago
This makes sense if you don't check a package's hash before you install it.
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by beebmam 5y ago
Frankly, I don't plan on flying unless I am guaranteed everyone will be vaxxed and masked. I have respiratory issues and I am doing what I can to avoid infection, and we know that both masking and vaccinations decrease infectivity
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by beebmam 5y ago
According to this article: "A CDC advisory panel meeting, slated for next week, will delve further into who will qualify for the additional dose." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fda-panel-votes-against-pfize..
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by beebmam 5y ago
This is a really important point which is being missed by virtually all commentators on this topic.
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by beebmam 5y ago
Sometimes the business world really feels that way. Glad to see probably one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of mankind is highly profitable. Maybe modern capitalism isn't completely toxic!
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by beebmam 5y ago
The truth is that tech companies don't give a shit about working with law enforcement and actively try to avoid ever dealing with them at all. The ONLY time a tech company works with police is when they are obligated to, by law. It&#x2
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by beebmam 5y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. And for that, I worry for the future of humanity. Chinese aggression, or any country's aggression, should be faced down by the international community as a whole.
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by beebmam 5y ago
Man, that's awful. Why would anyone use Chrome then? Ugh.
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by beebmam 5y ago
There's one job in the US that is currently experiencing extremely high rates of burnout. ICU Nurses. What can we learn about burnout from them in this current situation? I don't think "Burnout is caused by working hard at so
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by beebmam 5y ago
uBlock origin doesn't seem to work well for me in Chrome compared to how well it works in Firefox.
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by beebmam 5y ago
I don't care for moralizing. If you're not going to make a legal argument, I really couldn't care less. Companies aren't ethical; they obey laws. That's all they will do. Often, ethics become law. If you care about
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by beebmam 5y ago
Irrelevant legally, and the legal right to choose which speech a private entity publishes has been upheld in US courts since forever
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by beebmam 5y ago
It is not legal (and should not be legal) for people to force privately owned companies to publish speech that those companies don't want to publish. Hacker News itself does this all the time; there's plenty of topics and conversa
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by beebmam 5y ago
Premise is strictly false. That's not what reason is. Reasoning has a precise definition and set of frameworks.
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by beebmam 5y ago
The more he embraces conspiracy theories, the less I find him persuasive. At this point, with his embrace of anti-vaccination ideas and being completely mostly to medical science and the scientific community out of contrarianism, I find him
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by beebmam 5y ago
Stop believing metaphors and analogies are persuasive. There's no reason to think that company performance is linear, or fits any basic function at all. Reality is far more complex than this. A metaphor or analogy greatly oversimplifie
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by beebmam 5y ago
And for homeowners, that means more equity for them. It's a massive wealth transfer to homeowners
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by beebmam 5y ago
MedCram is the best source of medical information on YouTube intended for a med school level audience. All of their videos are superb. I watch all their videos :)
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by beebmam 5y ago
There's emerging evidence that consumption of Neu5Gc, a sialic acid that coats non-human mammalian proteins, is a cause of chronic inflammation in humans: 1. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Glycolylneura
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by beebmam 5y ago
Climate change has a very simple and efficient solution, that can even be popular: a Carbon tax, where all revenue generated from it is redistributed through a UBI or negative income tax. Carbon taxes are the best economic solution, and UBI
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by beebmam 5y ago
An analogy is not an argument. It is an assumption
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by beebmam 5y ago
I'm not so sold on your premise. I think there are trade-offs when using AI for software dev, like with copilot.
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by beebmam 5y ago
If you live in a low vaccination rate state in the US, you'll probably experience a severe shortage of medical care for the next few months, especially if you need to go to a hospital. My wife is a nurse in an ICU that is at 100% capac
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by beebmam 5y ago
You can always work somewhere else. Or start your own company. Or even organize, which is a legally protected ability in the United States. Don't accept that bullshit. Especially if you're a software engineer and have a million op
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by beebmam 5y ago
People need to stop buying Apple devices, immediately. They do not give a shit about us.
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by beebmam 5y ago
Stereotyping is extremely rude. How would you like it if someone stereotyped whatever regions that you are part of? You are certainly aware that even within your own set of cultures, there's a wide diversity of opinions on what people
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by beebmam 5y ago
There have been massive conversations here about immunology and virology by confidence-men who have zero understanding of the human immune system. Even the most well educated medical scientists recognize there is a giant amount of uncertain
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by beebmam 5y ago
Maybe you should stop buying devices that undermine your freedom.
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by beebmam 5y ago
Windows has been doing this for years. Not with this new tech, but with older methods.
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by beebmam 5y ago
It's important to remember that plastic waste is virtually unrelated to climate change. They both might be "green" issues, but plastic straws in our oceans aren't going to have any significant effect on warming the plan

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