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by deogeo 7y ago
"...among heterosexual men in sub-Saharan Africa [..] The effectiveness of using circumcision to prevent HIV in the developed world is unclear;"
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by deogeo 7y ago
I find that reducing politics to a one-dimensional left-right is unproductive, and leads to people arguing past each-other. E.g. you will pick one property by which Republicans/Fox News aren't right wing, while your counterpart
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by deogeo 7y ago
They're right wing in some ways, but not others. E.g. even just legal immigration is still at about 1 million per year.
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by deogeo 7y ago
It seems the irony of calling out sites that draw attention to black-on-white crime, while in the same article drawing attention to white-on-black crime, is lost on the author. Implying, but not outright saying, that only one of those inspi
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by deogeo 7y ago
I (and Occam's razor) would say the exact opposite - one should assume the effect will be the similar as for an older human, unless proven otherwise. Otherwise you're making the unproven assumption that an infant's mind respo
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by deogeo 7y ago
Looks like most medical organizations range from advising against circumcision, to considering making it illegal, with the notable exception of the US [1]. As for the protection against disease: "Male circumcision reduces the risk of H
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by deogeo 7y ago
> it could have been used as a hook to hang a hat on, if for some reason I was naked and needed to carry an extra hat around. It would be more practical to put the hat on your head, or on top of your first hat, if you were already wearin
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Amaroq developer John Gabelmann banned Gab to avoid potential problems with the App Store. From Amaroq's app store and github repo: "Amaroq is a lightweight universal client for any Mastodon instance!". So that is now a
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by deogeo 7y ago
> This is why they are also slow and expensive. They're not all that expensive - data is inconclusive, but looks like they're anywhere from twice as expensive as e-voting [1] to cheaper [2]. And they're not all that slow e
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by deogeo 7y ago
I don't like how the article implies that if these systems passed some "cybersecurity verification", they'd be safe against a nation-state attacker, or internal sabotage.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I think it's because the connection to one's home has been devalued. That there is no legitimacy in wanting to live where one grew up. That it's somehow entitled to expect to stay without paying for it - 'it' being
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by deogeo 7y ago
That's part of the reason for that "at least for small to reasonably large lots" exception I made. Suppose there is a tax, but it's progressive (by square-foot), so you pay ~0 for your first house, a bit more for your se
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by deogeo 7y ago
As I understand, the tax difference in California is because the tax is based on the property value at the time of purchase. If it were instead based on just e.g. area and zoning, everyone would be paying the same tax rate (barring zoning s
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by deogeo 7y ago
That's the primary reason I'm opposed to real-estate taxes (at least for small to reasonably large lots) - they force you on a hamster wheel just to keep what you have. If they're pegged to property values (not just area) the
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by deogeo 7y ago
Think how many more attacks could be prevented if everyone had to wear an ankle monitor at all times.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Let me put it this way - how would you achieve non-exploitable systems? Not just 'move towards them', but actually reach that goal? Because from what I can tell, it would require formal proof that the connected parts are safe (log
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by deogeo 7y ago
Air-gapped systems far outnumber bug-free ones, so isn't that goal, by your own logic, even more pointless?
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by deogeo 7y ago
So because convincing manufacturers to air-gap devices is difficult, we should instead try for the easier goal of making bug-free software and hardware???
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by deogeo 7y ago
A permaban is an awful idea. A legitimate user who forgot their password can easily go through more than 10 failed attempts as they try variations of what they think their own password might be. "I know I used my usual password, but di
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by deogeo 7y ago
I can see this in two ways, neither of which make such site look good: 1: One should be able to block their charges without cancelling a card - by what logic should they be able to take your money without permission? (This is not entirely a
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by deogeo 7y ago
> At this point it's nearly becoming unethical not to use a gene drive. And what are the odds the gene drive spreads to other mosquito or insect species, via e.g. horizontal gene transfer? How sure are we that we can target one spec
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by deogeo 7y ago
> but mostly it's the west's fault for not researching cures. I though the whole white man's burden shtick was considered racist nowadays.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> If so, you're right. I'm not making any claim regarding the relation between clever and clear/understandable code. Just that writing clever code, however defined, doesn't expend much of a cleverness resource - if an
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by deogeo 7y ago
Never meant to imply otherwise :)
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Clever is a limited resource. Save your clever for good, insightful architecture I'd sooner say clever is a skill, that gets better with practice. Compare it to solving tricky math problems - the more you solve them, the more clev
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by deogeo 7y ago
> claiming for the last two decades we need mass immigration for the nursing shortage. Which is particularly funny, as immigrants are usually claimed to not take jobs from natives because they create demand, thus creating more jobs. Is n
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by deogeo 7y ago
I consider f-droid a different ecosystem from Google's app store.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Well, at the very least, it shows the risks of using non-FOSS apps, and why FOSS versions might be preferable even if they're not as polished.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Having to use a non-FOSS app for something as basic as a file explorer is a symptom of a very sick ecosystem.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Even though insulin treatment itself can’t be patented, improvements in delivery mechanisms can be. These incremental improvements, no matter how small, can be used to extend the 20-year patent on a drug, a process called “patent everg

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