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Fraudsters Used AI to Mimic CEO's Voice in Unusual Cybercrime Case (2019)(wsj.com)
1 points by djsumdog 6y ago|2 comments
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by djsumdog 6y ago
You are right to be skeptical. Wired found tons of issues with it: https://www.wired.com/story/are-covid-patients-gasping-it-is...
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by djsumdog 6y ago
More testing and the PCR iterations are off the scale (over 40). They're basically picking up tons of false positives. With that type of PCR testing, it's like picking up background radiation with a Geiger counter and saying you&#
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by djsumdog 6y ago
This made it to the fromt page few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25125929 This nurse might have been telling the truth, but Wired found a lot of issues with her interview/story and none of the reporter
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Are Covid Patients Gasping ‘It Isn’t Real’ as They Die?(wired.com)
9 points by djsumdog 6y ago|2 comments
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by djsumdog 6y ago
So it turns out this post is likely complete disinformation and made up. This nurse likely hasn't treated very many dying patients. Wired did a followup: https://www.wired.com/story/are-covid-patients-gasping-it-is
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Cheap Router Table and Lift(splitbrain.org)
104 points by djsumdog 6y ago|51 comments
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Very true. I wrote this on the secondary effects a few months back ( https://battlepenguin.com/politics/secondary-effects/ ) and I think people are totally missing all the secondary effects. When cancer detection ra
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I remember some Microsoft people sued due to PTSD: https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2017/01/12/microsoft-sued-b... I'm not sure exactly how this works in tech. I know lawyers who have worked on chil
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Yes, normally you are. We are in a CVOID19 world, which makes that a little more problematic. Still,e the fact that unemployment is dropping and people have found new ways to make money, despite old jobs potentially disappearing forever, is
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by djsumdog 6y ago
It doesn't really add anything to this conversation. "Blame Capitalism" is all the rave, but it doesn't really fit with this argument. There is a lot going on here. One, this is a letter to Facebook when it really seems
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I understand these moderators are contracted out, but maybe, just maybe, this is a sign they really need to change the way moderation is done. Maybe they need to bring people back in-house and change moderation policies before legislation d
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Weird assumption. There is new evidence showing masks don't seem to really have that significant an impact on getting infections: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817 ..may still prevent transmiss
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I think it is, but the real virus is the Media and Big Tech. The Ministry of Truth in 1984 was government, but the version we see today is Big Tech + Big Media, backed by the political party that is encouraging the censoring and labeling of
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> It broke my heart. A smart, good, kind man that I knew had been brain damaged. Like some kind of fucking psychological cancer. You're applying your view of the world to him. You're also condemning him in your mind. How about
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Wow. I'm honestly not surprised. That's ... that's pretty shitty.
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I don't like to criticize the author. We all have good takes and bad takes and really for a single post, you should address the argument. Digging up the past is part of what's making the world worse. That being said, I do see a va
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I say about 50% I'm good with DDG. About 1/3 of the time I add !g, usually for weird error messages and tech stuff. Honestly we shouldn't be using Google for everything. Why not just search StackExchange or Github issues dire
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> Harnessing real user experiences (blogs, etc) This is what we need more than anything. More independent blogs. The ability to search events now, or 10 years ago, mass indexing of RSS feeds, etc. A general search engine is kinda way out
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Not to mention the e-waste and the inability for users to upgrade their own devices. I wonder what the performance cost was of having standard memory modules. I suspect it wasn't significant and this is more of a move to prevent upgrad
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I agree. The memes with the Twitter fact checks are hilarious, but they're also tragic. I have no hope of any meaningful Section 230 reform anytime the way things are going and applauding big media companies for their censorship. I fee
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Microsoft Pluton, a security chip built into Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm processors(techcrunch.com)
4 points by djsumdog 6y ago|0 comments
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Very very few hospitals have actually been overrun. Many were and still are empty (or flooding in with people who couldn't get treatment for other things during the lockdowns). The cases in NYC, Michigan and Kirkland (Seattle) were all
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Well this vaccine isn't approved yet, and there are still more testing phases left to go. So they "might be" wrong is more appropriate than "were" wrong. I also have a lot of safety concerns about something develope
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by djsumdog 6y ago
It was one account, but during that time period, there were tons of reports, every single week, from miscounted deaths. The No Agenda Podcast guys covered it pretty well. If it's just a couple here or there, there are miscounts for sur
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No Excess Deaths in Sweden Compared to the Last the Years(statista.com)
2 points by djsumdog 6y ago|4 comments
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by djsumdog 6y ago
That's not the issue with HIV. The issue with HIV is that it's a retrovirus. It uses both reverse transcription and inscription enzymes to change your DNA. A vaccine works to stimulate your immune system's "memory"
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Newspapers were still pretty good at spreading nationwide narratives and fear back then, probably much better than current media because people couldn't talk back at scale.
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by djsumdog 6y ago
The government orders have been overwhelmingly the largest piece of it! I wrote this a few months back; the secondary effects from government intervention, and they fear they've brought with them, have been far reaching and disastrous:
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I think we need some meaningful section 230 reform, but I'm not sure if that's even possible at this point. I wrote this the other day: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/is-meaningful-section-230...

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