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by defaultname 5y ago
The doctor notes that the patients she has seen have all been young, healthy men, with a very small sampling set. I'm not sure how much to read into that at this point, as every variant of COVID would average out to "mild" to
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by defaultname 5y ago
Several years ago I made a basic, interactive explanation of the same- https://dennisforbes.ca/articles/understanding-floating-poin... At the time it was to educate a group I was working with about why their concern th
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by defaultname 5y ago
The QR-code based solutions, using elliptic curve asymmetric cryptography, aren't breakable by anyone at present (maybe someone has some monster quantum computer and they could, but they wouldn't be making fake vaccination certifi
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by defaultname 5y ago
How does anything I said imply they are "all idiots". Quite the opposite, the other guy's argument demonstrates that they had zero need to go to a new process because they were going to do well regardless. nvidia is currently
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by defaultname 5y ago
"Yet we're pretending that they couldn't design for only one lithography and that's why they couldn't get their orders first?" Don't manufacture arguments and then soundly beat them down. They didn't
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by defaultname 5y ago
"There is not enough capacity left at TSMC because of the Apple orders getting priority" Reality: Apple had designs ready and committed to production. Indeed, the first 5nm production was Apple chips, and HiSilicon . Yes, HiSilic
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by defaultname 5y ago
We've been hearing this "they've lost all their CPU talents" claim for literal years , during a period when Apple keeps having win after win. At what point will it start to ring a little hollow? "somehow delay thei
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by defaultname 5y ago
It's a concise, unique label, making it convenient to add to block lists. It is amazing how much more cogent and actually interesting tech twitter is when you remove all of the "Will this make me rich and important, and quick?&quo
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by defaultname 5y ago
Related but also not: One of the most interesting aspects about a "shroom" trip is the incredible ability to visualize. Visualizing is something that we all think we can do normally, but if you really try to picture something in y
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by defaultname 5y ago
The normal way to publish is to point them (Netlify and alternatives) at a git repo and they pull, follow configured build rules, generating the resulting static site (then updating it whenever the repo sees new commits). This drop mechanis
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by defaultname 5y ago
AGW is factual reality, not a "MSM narrative". Even if we think scientific fact changes based upon polling, "MSM" videos on YouTube aren't 55% positive, they're often < 5% positive. Because some people truly
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by defaultname 5y ago
I have no clue what your vice link is supposed to demonstrate, or how it is remotely relevant. Maybe you linked the wrong thing. > Perhaps instead of trying to dismiss this dissent as part of an echo-chamber, you might look in the mirror
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by defaultname 5y ago
The statement directly follows their observation that news videos on YouTube are "downvoted". It is the foundation for their "popular opinion" claim. No, a tiny representation of excess idle time YouTube arrow clickers
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by defaultname 5y ago
> I don’t understand why a dislike brigade could be harmful but a like brigade couldn’t be (like propaganda and/or misinformation). Likes or dislikes in isolation are pretty coarse metrics. Is it small, medium, big, or a huge number
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by defaultname 5y ago
"I'm always amazed at the discrepancy between what's promoted in the MSM and where popular opinion is." Do you think like/dislikes on YouTube represent popular opinion? If so, you are profoundly deluded.
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by defaultname 5y ago
Any asymmetrically engaged group is going to lead to metrics that aren't generally useful . In little bubbles, sure, but to everyone else it's just digital pollution. Imagine that there was a group that really, really hated the c
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by defaultname 5y ago
Fair enough, though I'm a little confused at the gigantic threads that have remained unflagged that basically make the same statement (albeit from the "other side" - that YouTube is defending Democrats, the White House, etc).
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by defaultname 5y ago
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by defaultname 5y ago
I suspect that your notion of what qualifies as propaganda differs significantly from most people. Some subgroups -- motivated groups who seem to have endless free time and a lot of passion to click little arrows and leave comments -- briga
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by defaultname 5y ago
I would say the vast majority of solutions do it properly, and it's hard to fathom why someone would ever use a service like this. Quite aside from adding additional latency, improve privacy/security by looping in another party?
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by defaultname 5y ago
While your replies seem to be made in bad faith, you claimed that organic pesticides/herbicides have the "same constituent chemicals". Which I guess if we're obtuse, sure -- everything is made of stardust (H2O, CH4, C10H
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by defaultname 5y ago
"They have to, otherwise they wouldn't work." If you want to give some specific example, go ahead, but as is the statement is nonsensical. You can kill insects and pests with a neurochemical. Or you can put sharp rocks (dia
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by defaultname 5y ago
Vinegar. Sticky traps. Soaps. Diatomaceous earth. Targeted bacteria. And so on. I'm not sure these are in the same league.
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by defaultname 5y ago
"The idea that you can really tell, or there is any difference at all, in the meat of livestock fed organic vs. conventional is extremely far fetched." If they tested the feed of course they would know the difference because the n
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by defaultname 5y ago
I don't think it's really anti-Apple, but these articles do tend to take what seem likely to be very isolated events and present them as widespread, systemic issues. I have absolutely no doubt that this person is having bad memory
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What collective narcissism does to society(theatlantic.com)
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by defaultname 5y ago
The GPU designs in Apple chips has nothing to do with ARM, so even if we accepted that "ARM has notorious scaling issues" (a confusing claim, but even if we took the most generous route and assumed it meant "vendors using ARM
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by defaultname 5y ago
"What's interesting is Steve Kirsch was touting this months ago alongside Robert Malone and Bret Weinstein." https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/05/1036408/silicon-... To be clear, th
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by defaultname 5y ago
People will still buy all sorts of computers. Lots of options will appeal to different people. Intel is finally being forced to actually complete . It's all good. My M1 Mac (not even M1 Pro/Max) is quite easily the best computer
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by defaultname 5y ago
Can you name those laptop Xeon CPUs that beat the pants off the M1 Max? [Spoiler because I don't think I'll get a response -- there are none. Even when you get into the "luggable" category of workstation that is ostensib

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