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by corty 6y ago
In the rest of the world, the mechanisms are clear: Free education for all citizens at public universities. Those who want to be ripped off by for-profit diploma mills can go ahead, but noone with a non-lonely brain cell will.
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by corty 6y ago
There are separate symbols for sarcasm, but in "serious" writing emoji aren't considered appropriate. And sites/software likes to restrict them, like e.g. HN, which is why the sarcasm above is marked by quotes instead of
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by corty 6y ago
Reinstalling everything from scratch is a good start, but persistence of an exploit can easily be achieved through most data backups. Nobody wants to part with their important Word and Excel files, so those will get restored onto the fresh
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by corty 6y ago
In Germany, the end-of-summer spread happened due to several factors, bad weather because autumn, lowered restrictions (as were all summer) and start of schools after the summer holidays. There is no single silver bullet to stop the spread
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by corty 6y ago
Maybe not even that, it could be a typical childhood ailment that you get once in your life and never again.
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by corty 6y ago
Yes, so much this. Everyone was shocked about the Chinese methods in spring 2020, but looking back, the Chinese did something right there. Maybe nailing shut doors was a little excessive, but their success proves them right. (If one can tru
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by corty 6y ago
I didn't read the original study, but I think the 75 to 95% reduction is in the number of cases, not in viral load. So this would be, in other words, a 75 to 95% prevention. As to the time the immunity lasts, that remains to be seen. S
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by corty 6y ago
Also, masks don't filter all the viruses, they just reduce the amount you breathe in. Viral load is important, an infection will be less likely to lead to a disease if the viral load is low, e.g. because you are wearing a mask or keepi
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by corty 6y ago
Maybe. But precise counts are a challenge even today, because different countries use different methods of counting. E.g. some only count corona deaths after a PCR test, some after an autopsy, some require just symptoms of COVID to be there
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by corty 6y ago
Yes, the oral polio vaccine is a live vaccine that can cause polio. More advanced vaccines, practically everything in use in developed countries nowadays, don't contain live virus. It's just that third-world countries cannot affor
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by corty 6y ago
Yes, it certainly looks that way: https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-israel-va... https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-pfizer...
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by corty 6y ago
Well, we are already at roughly .04% worldwide deaths, and that with quite some doing to contain the disease in most of the world. I would suggest that letting COVID-19 run it's course, the numbers would be quite a bit higher, and even
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by corty 6y ago
"Vaccine hesitancy" is the term for antivaxxers plus people who would not refuse in principle, but prefer to wait for more results, are too lazy or something like that. The high death rate of pandemics of yore is also due to the h
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by corty 6y ago
Well, the pox, diphteria and polio are gone or almost gone due to vaccinations, at one point or the other we had herd immunity with those. Its just that some small pockets of society refused to vaccinate and played incubators, so the rest o
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by corty 6y ago
Quite the same as if the vaccinations were causing herd immunity: Everyone who wants a shot will get one. Everyone on the vulnerable list should think really hard and really get a shot. The rest can suffer of their own free will. Or: make v
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by corty 6y ago
The JVM itself shipped with a ton of vulnerabilities, e.g. in vendored ancient versions of libjpeg and similar stuff. Those didn't only affect applets but all Java client and server side applications that presented e.g. image processin
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by corty 6y ago
There is a whole heap of applets for educational content, e.g. interactive simulations of experiments and such. Those are still useful but unlikely to be ported to Javascript, similar to lots of Flash content. If the Java VM weren't as
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by corty 6y ago
> In fact with US bank accounts, "2FA" steps make your account less secure, because the security of your bank account ultimately relies on checking your transactions every 30 days - anything that gets in the way of easily loggi
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by corty 6y ago
European cars, especially German ones, are built for company leasing markets almost exclusively. After the 5 year lease is up, it will be resold. To make more money for the manufacturer, it needs to start breaking down and requiring parts a
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by corty 6y ago
Microsoft Authenticator can be replaced by any app that does standard OTP, e.g. FreeOTP+.
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by corty 6y ago
SMS has no security at all. SMS is not properly encrypted over the air, GSM and UMTS encryption is broken and often misconfigured anyways. There is no way to check and no guarantee that a SMS will be transmitted in a safe encryption protoco
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by corty 6y ago
Raw milk cheese is typically easier to produce and far tastier. However, as far as I'm told, it is illegal in the USA. So there is a simple reason: Your fear. ;)
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by corty 6y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-09-07 So you support genocide ;)
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by corty 6y ago
Chores around a house are an educational tool and may be considered beneficial. On a farm, you get lots of additional "chores" on top. Where the "chores" are hard labour, often dangerous, at times early in the morning be
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by corty 6y ago
> Children of parents on a family farm is hardly exploitation. How so? I know it often isn't against labor laws because there are specific exceptions for exactly that case. But in any other circumstance the same thing _is_ considere
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by corty 6y ago
> Manure isn't a problem if you free range your animals, have landscape structures to prevent runoff and have other animals that eat bugs in the same space such as chickens. Then it just contributes fertility to the land. I would c
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by corty 6y ago
Also, ecological production has suffered several scandals, quality problems and marketing snafus that have lead to it decreasing in popularity or getting less ecological: E.g. there have been scandals around contaminated ecological ("B
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by corty 6y ago
> I don't have any fixed evidence or numbers, but recalling my youth working on a 200 - 250 cow dairy, the animals were strip grazed in paddocks during the day and night. They would therefore mostly defecate in the paddock, on the g
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by corty 6y ago
>> To feed a growing population on earth, we do need industrial farming. > Do we? That's a massively contested debate. See: (Neo)Malthusianism. On the one hand, you dismiss my population growth argument as "Malthusianism&
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by corty 6y ago
While I can appreciate the author's nostalgia, I cannot really agree on some of the criticism: The manure problem is a problem at any size of farm, the amount of manure per cow is somewhat constant. So concentrating all the cows in som

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