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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
I can perhaps see the logic for not supporting multiple U2F devices that could each be used independently, but surely if that was the reason they would enable people to use m of n devices if they weren't, as you say, being half-assed a
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
I don't know now what we can't just refer to components in systems as dominant or submissive partners, so that we can dispense with the distracting and problematic language.
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
It's not an extreme position; there are various activists extolling the benefits of an Intermittency Economy that would spring up in society once power companies introduced load-shedding and brownouts when renewable power sources becom
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
It sounds like the lack of hard neutron flux would also avoid proliferation problems with Pu-239. https://www.hsfk.de/fileadmin/HSFK/hsfk_downloads/Strong_Neu...
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
There's no shortage of great community colleges, though; the problem is that elite institutions in particular are being made artificially scarce for certain groups of people (Asian-Americans in this case) by government fiat, as well as
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
We're talking about policies that favor some groups against others in a competition for scarce resources (college places, scholarships), so it clearly is going to have a negative effect on the people that are not in the favored groups.
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
The SNP pursued the Named Person Scheme for years, which would have essentially institutionalised this; I wonder if developments in technology have led them to aim for the same objective from a different angle.
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
It's time that you can use for important things like meditation and consolidating your thoughts, as well as synthesising Vitamin D if it's close to noon and you're not especially far from the equator.
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
I know a number of IPv6 activists that are hoarding IPv4 address space with that in mind. Market forces will eventually provide compelling incentives once we have exhausted the easily accessible types of CGN magic.
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
It means creating such an abundance of technology that we will be able to supplant the limitations that we are currently operating under so that we can fundamentally alter our opportunities as a species. Rather than spending the next few hu
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
The problem is that to the extent that messaging about immunology was provided by public health authorities to the general public or used to develop policy, it was almost always about antibodies as a correlate of protection, lack of antibod
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
Indeed, inalienable rights cannot by definition be granted; they can only be recognized.
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
Also, those compensation schemes are run by the government. And it's worth mentioning that a lot of the research and development costs are borne by government departments as well (eg. via Fauci), but the IP is retained by those private
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
Vaccines can potentially be mandated for entire populations and funded by the US taxpayer for distribution around the world and require adjustments several times per year. The development of new related vaccines of this type is apparently q
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
'tis a tranquilizing prospect.
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
Doesn't that open up a whole new can of worms, though, because it would require the operator of every service to check the age (and by extension, identity) of every user of their service, so as not to inadvertently E2EE the communicati
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
I have found that cutting all carbohydrates out of my diet (with the exception of Lactose, in milk) has caused my appetite to decrease when I have gotten tired late at night, which is the opposite of what I had experienced before.
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
This is the sort of finding that would normally come out of a stage 3 clinical trial. It's going to be interesting to look back at the effects of these vaccines over the coming years. It's unfortunate that the regulatory trials lo
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
Yes, and I'd build on that to say that the author is anthropomorphizing the subjects in an attempt to give the story emotional resonance; the choice of the female pronouns also seems to be specifically aimed at eliciting empathy from t
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
When you say "unvaccinated" here are you using the currently-accepted official definition which includes people that have received a COVID-19 EUA vaccination/booster within the last 14 days? Do you think that this would be li
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
Unfortunately, RowHammer mitigations mean that this is not the silver bullet that it once was.
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
If one was short of time, one could always put out a tender so that several (hundred) different independent agents could speculatively contact them in order to conduct negotiations, then present you with offers that you could compare. If th
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
Which is why it's preferable to have a broad spectrum of immunity to pathogens, rather than an immune response that's limited to a very small number of attributes, which are then subject to increased selection pressure in one part
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Many teachers, professors and daycare workers have been trained to believe that this is an absolute, fundamental ground truth about their students and the air that they breathe; this is an increasingly prevalent worldview in the sphere of e
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
Doesn't matter, you still don't get to just use that electricity for whatever you want. Why would you want to participate in a decentralized financial network, anyway? Now go sit in a dark room and recite the Law of Jante seven ti
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
This is a symptom of the "gradual disappearance of a rate of return on accumulated wealth" that Keynes daydreamed about in 1936, and we're going to witness more and more of the social changes that result from it. > “Lenin
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
Well the problem that we're trying to address here is inequality of outcomes. Grading people against how intelligent we would expect them to be tends to be too obvious, and going out of our way to cognitively impair some of the them w
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
But at the same time, if a [big-budget Hollywood] film like this were to be made, some might be tempted to think that it was a form of Predictive Programming.
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It's a surprisingly versatile substance that can also be used to inflate a country's GDP: https://schiffgold.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15-08-Bull...
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by brippalcharrid 5y ago
Your brain has different failure modes to your fingerprints, though, and your brain in itself cannot [yet] be used involuntarily in the way that your finger[-tip] can, and as a result of factors like these it's harder to implement dis

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