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by caeril 5y ago
> Racial categories are based on a very small number of superficial traits Right, but genetic correlates are real. These superficial characteristics evolved along with a thousand other non-superficial characteristics, in mostly (with the
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by caeril 5y ago
What is tiring is the insistence of folks like you completely ignoring that fully 94% of those deaths came with comorbidities, far and away dominated by 1. Old age, and 2. Obesity. We've already vaccinated nearly 90% of group #1, and c
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by caeril 5y ago
> That people whose professional reputation and livelihood it is to keep well-calibrated fell for this No, their professional livelihood is predicated specifically on the opposite: to lie to the public, but to do so convincingly. Falling
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by caeril 5y ago
It's definitely not consistent from the bodily autonomy angle, though. And that's a pretty major angle, considering how deeply we're connected with our bodies. Personally, I think anybody who advocates for abrogation of bodil
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by caeril 5y ago
It is shocking that this comment is downvoted by the supposedly math-loving pro-science HN crowd. Click through to the specific graph mentioned - that's precisely what it shows - demographic breakdown of response groups, NOT percen
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by caeril 5y ago
> counting several millions of deaths I don't think this is what the 5G conspiracy theorists claim, at all. Nobody is claiming people are going to drop dead from 5G. The last 50 years have seen a dramatic rise in incidents of variou
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by caeril 5y ago
Precisely this. Zerodium will sell your bug to the FBI, who will be happy to use it to incarcerate more Americans. They'll also absolutely sell it to China, they'll just be quiet about it and use one of many Thailand-based interme
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by caeril 5y ago
What the world really needs right now is a power efficient, server version of the NUC. An SoC board that carries a solid GbE NIC with LoM (or perhaps SFP+), a console port, supports ECC SDRAM, no sound hardware, and either no video, or very
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by caeril 5y ago
> either accept some form of content neutrality or become a petty and chaotic tyrant constantly reeling from one public backlash after the other No, there is a middle ground that Google, with its army of engineers, could implement in a w
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by caeril 5y ago
My understanding is that: 1. Black Americans were taken away from their native specific cultures, whether it be Bantu, Hutu, Berber, etc, and unable to propagate the specifics of their cultures within communities. After emancipation, the on
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by caeril 5y ago
...but we know it's possible under Swiss law, from this case, for them to be compelled to start logging specific account accesses, that they by default were not previously. How is that any different from them being compelled to dis
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by caeril 5y ago
> you'd be crazy to trust anything the NSA offers to make you more secure You'd also be crazy to trust anything made by American gear vendors. This is not the only instance of this, just one of the ones for which FVEY got caugh
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by caeril 5y ago
> loosely-coupled What's really funny is that the latest fad for those running microservices is to go to monorepos, to make sure that all their APIs are synchronized, which is effectively tightly-coupling them again.
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by caeril 5y ago
Is this still possible? My lay understanding is that the SEP decrypts kernelspace on-demand, loads the opcodes on a very temporary (and randomly allocated) basis, and makes dumping any meaningful amount of the contents out of RAM very diffi
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by caeril 5y ago
This is the most likely outcome. Moreover, they won't even announce it. Apple learned a valuable lesson here. Roll the panopticon out in secret, and don't announce it. They've done a very good job locking down their modern de
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by caeril 5y ago
All I'm saying is that if you're doing logistics accounting for gas canisters in 1943 Germany in order to "provide for your parents", that's fine, I get it. But you're not in a moral position to complain about
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by caeril 5y ago
Not the OP, but I'm guessing the larger point is that if you're pulling $400k writing adware/spyware/analytics, you're at least complicit in oligarchs concentrating their power, control, and ownership of your pers
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by caeril 5y ago
Indeed. I'd add to this list: every major VPN provider too, "no-log policy" be damned. And if you spin up your own wireguard exit, your VPS provider too. They all take credit cards only, and require a non-voip phone number fo
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by caeril 5y ago
> big business and government often works hand-in-hand The bizarre irony is that this condition is a core tenet of Fascism, which is something the "woke" anti-free-speechists claim to be fighting against.
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by caeril 5y ago
> Yeah. I know. But I don't want to SUDO this or SUDO that. This is an exceptionally good point. I've NEVER, in my life, tried to either install something, update something or, even literally open a random localhost port from
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by caeril 5y ago
I'm not a Mac user (anymore) but I often ask myself this, as well. MacOS is buggy as hell, the UI sucks, and a stock Ubuntu or Fedora installation is much, much, much more usable, particularly for development tasks. From what I've
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by caeril 5y ago
Not really. And the allure of Go over .NET has very little to do with performance. Most applications I develop these days are web services. I write most things today in Go, but I used to work quite a bit with C#/Asp.NET applications. H
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by caeril 5y ago
This situation could be greatly improved if these companies didn't have or need to have this data in the first place. Prepaid mobile plans carry a lot of stigma with them - perceived to be "low-class", or even criminal by man
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by caeril 5y ago
To say nothing of the fact that modern "fruits" bear little resemblance to the fruit available to us through much of our evolutionary history. We've bred, selected, and engineered "fruit" for sweetness, size, yield,
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by caeril 5y ago
Market forces would solve that problem very quickly, considering that HFCS costs $0.26 per pound, versus cheap clover honey at ~$5.00 per pound. A corn syrup free world would drive the price of nearly every fructose-laden food at least 5x
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by caeril 5y ago
Yes, they screwed the pooch with us, representing: 1. The few who care about privacy. 2. That's about it. Maybe 1% if you're being generous. ( And subtract the portion of that 1% on this site who DO care about privacy but are bein
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by caeril 5y ago
> This reads like a failure of the NCMEC Yes, it's a "failure" of a "private" Non(lol, technically , wink wink) Governmental Organization who works extremely closely with the FBI to put their camel-shaped nose
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by caeril 5y ago
He understands, he's just playing the game.
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by caeril 5y ago
Indeed. However, there is no point getting mad at Alex. He used to be a real hacker, until he sold his soul for mammon at Facebook. Once someone like this makes the transition from hacker to wiping one's ass with the hacker manifesto,
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by caeril 5y ago
> This would obviously be far far more invasive than getting two shots. This is not prima facie evident, at all. For many people, being rationed to 1500kcal per day would be much less invasive than a foreign substance being forcibly in

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