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by corty 6y ago
It is also quite easy to pull the wool over an IRBs eyes. An IRB is usually staffed with a few people from the medicine, biology, psychology and maybe (for the good ethical looks) philosophy and theology departments. Usually they aren'
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by corty 6y ago
Also, they are talking of three cases. However, the list of patches to be reverted by gregkh is far longer than three, more than a hundred. Most of the first batch look sufficiently similar that I would guess all of them are part of this &q
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by corty 6y ago
And what was? I cannot find constructive criticism in the related paper or any of your comments.
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by corty 6y ago
Maybe for employees, but usually it is a contractor of a contractor in some outsourced department replacing your employees. I'd argue that in such common situations, you are worse off than with randos on the internet sending patches, b
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> they didn’t do anyone harm. Several of the patches are claimed to have landed in stable. Also, distributions and others (like the grsecurity people) pick up lkml patches that are not included in stable but might have security benefits.
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Only in more developed countries where your medical insurance pays the bills. And even there it can wreak havoc on the public health insurance system due to the excessive cost of keeping HIV-positives alive. Generally, HIV is "solved&q
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Even so, preliminary numbers where available seem to show the suicide rate to be falling. So in the loss-of-years calculation, all is quite fine actually...
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The question is also: "Will this research have benefits?" If the conclusion is "well, you can get access to the water supply and the only means to prevent it is to closely guard every brook, lake and river, needing half the p
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Which shows that IEEE also has a problem with research ethics if they accepted such a paper.
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That those diseases have a lower death-count today is a consequence of the havoc they have brought historically and of the current disruption they cause in isolating the infected, vaccinations, necessary medications and hospital beds, etc.
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by corty 6y ago
Well, a source of havoc, maybe. But one among many, there is still Malaria, Tuberculosis, Dengue Fever, Ebola, HIV. All with far more significant consequences. That we are worrying as much about Corona as we do in the West is a consequence
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Paywall.
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They can get dust or lint in them, making skips (if the dust blocks parts of the rotor) or erratic misbehaviour. But unless you fix that in some destructive way there is no real wear.
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by corty 6y ago
Depending on how obscure the hardware is, there often is a video on youtube that helps. At least for mobile phone and laptops I've always found something.
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Gaseuous lead condenses on all cooler surfaces, but due to the high surface tension of liquid lead, doesn't bond to those surfaces. Leading to a cover of mobile lead dust over everything, which makes breathing dangerous. Touching it is
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by corty 6y ago
Tether mediates a lot of the BTC/USD-exchanges. At the same time there are rumours that tether has insufficient USD backing, so if there is ever a bank run, exchanges will be unable to pay. At that point it will be too late for a tethe
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I think the Tether people know quite well when to exit, because their implosion will bring Bitcoin down.
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People at large aren't really protected in any way here. Neither is the environment at large. There are just a small number of people who advance their interests by selectively pretending to protect some insignificant part of the envir
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by corty 6y ago
The customer group for teams seems to be used to the likes of Cisco Webex, Skype for Business, Lync and similar crap. Compared to those, Teams is a step up.
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The path to famine is exponential population growth. No need for agriculture to fail as well. We do have bigger fish to fry than worry about soil quality as long as it is still fixable with fertilizer.
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by corty 6y ago
Methane can be and sometimes is produced from biomass. And there are a few plants in operation that produce without any fossil inputs, but most of them aren't switched over yet, mostly because green hydrogen production isn't at th
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With that attitude we can just go back to the caves. Big-anything is what makes our society and level of population work, without Big-Ag we couldn't feed everyone. Without Big-Trans we couldn't distribute the food. Without Big-Tra
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by corty 6y ago
Most important is nitrogen-based fertilizer, that can easily be produced from any kind of electricity. Most of the other stuff are minerals that are cheaply mined anywhere and won't run out for the next few thousand years. The most imp
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Problem is, modern browsers do things differently yet again. So the insanity continues, just on different levels.
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Berlin has a lot of real-estate with unclear ownership, due to seizure of property during the nazi time and communism, sometimes multiple times. Add a few levels of inheritance and you get real estate that is unusable because it belongs to
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Well, yes. Because environmental activism is basically an instrument of NIMBYism, not anything based on facts, evidence or logic. Nobody really protests when farmers spread their poison, because that would be inconveniently far away, lots o
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All the western countries go through urbanisation, and have been for the last few decades. Back in the days, industry would build a factory in a smaller country town with a few thousand inhabitants and employ half the population there. Nowa
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> If it was really such a big deal, "someone" would've paid "somebody" already to relocate the animals "after business hours", if you catch my drift. There's more going on behind the scenes for sur
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Well, either you build over the growing plants in the city, or you raze plants in the outskirts. The former gets complaints because people want greenery in the city, the latter gets complaints because of sprawl, added traffic and unnecessar
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Berlin is also full of empty spaces for historical reasons. Previous rulers intentionally built some things big and far apart for their capital, WW2 left even more unused spaces after the rubble was cleared and during the cold war only some

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