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by cbeach 3y ago
Are you aware that Labour want to "toughen" the Online Safety Bill? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/01/labour-pl... A snap General Election would make our situation worse, not b
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by cbeach 3y ago
It's visible and rare, when government breaks down the door of your physical home. These awful new laws make it invisible and routine for the government to break down the door to your digital home.
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by cbeach 3y ago
Disappointing, the author spends more column inches in partisan tittle tattle than challenging the substance of these awful laws. The opposition party (soon to be our govt) want MORE authoritarian control of the Internet: https:/&#x2F
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by cbeach 3y ago
When I wrote to the various U.K. MEPs in 2018 regarding the (awful) proposed EU Copyright Directive, the only ones that intended to vote against it were the Euro-skeptics and the Greens. I was impressed at how the Euro-skeptic MEPs understo
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by cbeach 3y ago
Planting trees and cutting them down is a very effective form of carbon capture (provided the felled trees aren’t burnt) A tree’s dry weight is 50% carbon, captured from the atmosphere. Over a 100 year period, one tree absorbs a tonne of CO
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by cbeach 3y ago
I've probably missed an important detail here, but if the post-quantum algo can be broken on classical computers, what use is it, vs. a combination of classical and quantum computers?
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by cbeach 3y ago
The history of Chiropractic shows it to be snake oil, with a litany of serious injuries along the way. It was started by a charlatan who was passed the knowledge “in a seance”, was formerly into “magnetic healing”, opposed all mainstream me
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by cbeach 3y ago
> a corruptor could simply pay the people who decides the single candidates for each electoral college or could buy the votes directly Corruption is hard to conceal if your strategy is to literally approach a majority of the electorate a
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by cbeach 3y ago
In the U.K. we allow our elected representatives to “nominate and scrutinise” appointed positions in the House of Lords. The result is a bunch of dodgy appointments in exchange for political favours. The whole process reeks of corruption, b
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by cbeach 3y ago
I assume the time series modelling is used to predict normal non-fraud behaviour. And then simpler algorithms are able to highlight deviations from the norm?
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by cbeach 3y ago
Seems to be plenty of support for this kind of technocratic authoritarianism on Hacker News, based on the comment voting. Is there an alternative venue similar to HN where people who value freedom and individual liberty can discuss topics l
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by cbeach 3y ago
I wish all anti-motorist activists could go live in this utopian city and be happy, as opposed to lobbying for measures that make my family life more difficult. * My parents live 50 miles away, impossible to reach to on public transport wit
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by cbeach 3y ago
Perhaps Clinton and Pelosi’s arguments simply weren’t convincing enough? Some of Trump’s last tweets (before his first amendment rights were violated and his tweets were hidden from the public): “Please support our Capitol Police and Law En
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by cbeach 3y ago
Clinton and Pelosi claimed the 2016 election was rigged. But they weren’t accused of conspiracy theory (or sedition). So it’s interesting how we’re so quick to judge people who question the 2020 result. Particularly given the outright corru
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by cbeach 3y ago
That kind of taxation would just reduce upward mobility in the workplace though, wouldn’t it? I wouldn’t accept a job role with more responsibility if it meant losing my low-income subsidies and being taxed instead. Society needs workers to
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by cbeach 3y ago
Interesting. I would have walked out the surgery if the doctor refused to perform this simple safety precaution. "Destroying the vaccine" sounds like a peculiar argument against aspiration.
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by cbeach 3y ago
Vaccines like this are not meant to be injected into the bloodstream. They’re meant to be injected into muscle tissue. There is an injection technique called “aspiration” that is specifically intended to avoid vaccines being inadvertently i
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by cbeach 3y ago
While it’s slightly concerning that the baby ingests genetically engineered mRNA that has been untested for infant consumption, the more pressing concern is that mRNA proliferated further than expected in mothers’ bodies. We were originally
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by cbeach 3y ago
The Guardian exists because of a massive trust fund. Guardianistas are literally the wealth hoarding aristocratic class they claim to despise.
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by cbeach 3y ago
Met my wife of 13 years on OkCupid. Data-driven matching works and I just want to say thank you for helping design such a great product. I’m sad to read that it’s gone downhill since it moved into new ownership.
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by cbeach 3y ago
Excellent thread. I take this as a warning to carefully consider ANY medical treatment (especially novel ones) where some corporation stands to benefit hugely. Scientists, just like politicians, can be corrupted. Science, particularly “expe
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by cbeach 3y ago
By their ability to ban -others- from seeing an individual, those admins DO have censorship power over that individual. And censorship power is further concentrated by the existence of Fediblock
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by cbeach 3y ago
The Two Minutes Hate against Elon Musk has elements of Trump Derangement Syndrome, where commentators on the Left seem to compete amongst each other to hate the man hardest. Or to be seen to hate him, at least. It’s how they signal tribal a
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by cbeach 3y ago
I agree. Twitter/X seems more “alive” now than it was before. I’m really enjoying being on the platform now. I’m glad that scientists such as Dr Robert Malone have been unbanned. I’m not an expert in his field so I cannot tell if he is
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by cbeach 3y ago
Doesn't that depend on how orchestrated that decision-making is, and who's making the decisions (on behalf of others)? When many instances co-ordinate to block an instance based on activism (Fediblock), they are censoring everyone
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by cbeach 3y ago
The issue here, as I see it, is orchestrated blocking of viewpoints. Not just on one instance, but across many instances. Fediblock is systematic and partisan.
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by cbeach 3y ago
So if I express a liking for “free speech,” for example, my entire instance might be de-federated by Fediblock activists. And if I join another instance and discuss “free speech” I will be swiftly booted out, lest Fediblock comes for their
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by cbeach 3y ago
Fediblock is a co-ordinated scheme for ostracising people from the Fediverse if they hold certain views. Generally it works by announcing blocks via the hashtag #fediblock, but there are also catalogues of instances to be blocked en masse,
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by cbeach 3y ago
California has more than FIVE TIMES the rate of homelessness of Texas. https://www.statista.com/statistics/727847/homelessness-rate...
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by cbeach 3y ago
I'm curious, do you apply the same puritanical moral judgement to all entrepreneurs, inventors and innovators throughout history? Only the ones that pass your moral standards are allowed to be celebrated for their achievements? Sounds

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