elmo2you

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by elmo2you 6y ago
From personal contacts, directly within the medical community, I can assure you that the measures did not eradicate the virus. If anything, the combination of an already dismal state of the local healthcare system, political opportunism and
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Maybe I have good reasons for doing neither. And maybe those reasons have nothing to do with the numbers not suiting/supporting my "rhetoric". Either way, it doesn't take rocket science to figure out which country I&#x27
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by elmo2you 6y ago
You might want to give that line of reasoning some additional critical thinking. Because there appears to be a big assumption in that statement. One that might sound all but certain to you, but might not be. What I can tell you is this: I h
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I fear it might be even worse than that. But first let me clarify: I'm not against people using technology to augment their natural capabilities. On the contrary. However, I see a big risk in how this could cause a trend of less qualif
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I fully agree with that. But I think there is another angle to this that is often ignored/overlooked. With their (intentional) behavior you described, these companies often violate even basic legal principles and sometimes even specifi
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by elmo2you 6y ago
funny one ... "seem to be on something"
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I have a little less experience, only 30 years, but I have to fully agree with you. Not sure why you got down voted (maybe the religious popularity crowd rearing its head). I have seen my share of "innovations" come and go, but I
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by elmo2you 6y ago
There might be a "to" too many in your statement. The answer probably is laughing gas, if not crack cocaine.
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by elmo2you 6y ago
After reading it again, you may indeed be right. I didn't see it the first time around. My bad. Still, "installing APTs" as a synonym for installing packages with apt? I guess I would have noticed it, if it had been "ins
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by elmo2you 6y ago
You may want to think that statement through a bit more. Secure boot, as the name suggests, secures initial loading of the most central/core parts of an operating system: (indeed) the kernel and kernel modules. While APTs can be instal
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Essentially (de facto): yes. Generally I like to remind people of an infamous quote, from a truly nasty period at the beginning of the last century. Because I believe it illustrates the true nature of this fact you pointed out: “Fascism sho
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I believe that you that's a fairly accurate assessment. More so, the whole thing is kind of a red herring. Facial recognition technology is, after all is said and done, probably illegal in any country that implements the protection of
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by elmo2you 6y ago
> Facebook announced that it will no longer allow state-controlled media outlets to run ads on its social networks, effective this summer. Luckily, there is a clear determining factor for what state-controlled means. If it comes from a f
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by elmo2you 6y ago
That depends on a lot of things, including perspective. Things can be legal according to one set of rules, yet illegal under another set. EU member states certainly could see this as illegal interference in their economies and a stretch of
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I think you are right. At least to a large degree. I will never do business with cloud providers like these, but I know enough people who did and got burned. The pattern and results are usually very similar. While involving a different clou
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by elmo2you 7y ago
> Meh. You can be recognized by humans, you can be recognized by machines. I don't get the outrage. Put another way: "Meh, you can die from a freak accident, you can die from a well resourced contract killer. I don't get t
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by elmo2you 7y ago
And how does filtering on the IP range of a country prevent traffic from that country? Or are you also blocking every known proxy and VPN service? Are you sure that your strict firewall even provides the security you wish it did? Either way
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by elmo2you 7y ago
Could you please elaborate on your claim? I feel confused. I learned that ice has a (slightly) lower density than water, hence it usually floats. I was convinced that submerged ice is doing so because of an additional weight on top of it (a
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by elmo2you 7y ago
Trivia addition: Lovage called "lavas" in Dutch, and I remember it growing wild in abundance, where I grew up (North part of The Netherlands). Colloquially the herb was often called "maggi-plant", because it smells very
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by elmo2you 7y ago
I can follow that line of reasoning, but I think it is biased (maybe unintentionally) to the point where its conclusion is inaccurate. Indeed, the League of Nations couldn't prevent WW2, neither did the UN prevent a lot of atrocities f
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by elmo2you 7y ago
> Humanity has never made collective decisions for the whole planet ... League of Nations, later becoming the United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights ... hopefully you will have heard of those. Within the UN there are not t
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by elmo2you 7y ago
Luckily there are still people who consider that a travesty of academia. The fact that it exists, doesn't make it right. Just as slave trade existed for a long time, both profitable and considered a reputable business, didn't make
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by elmo2you 7y ago
Apparently you are right. I was mistakenly under the impression that it was still under review. I would call that claim first and foremost convoluted, more than specific and detailed, but that is a rather normal practice in patents (IFAIK).
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by elmo2you 7y ago
True, at least in theory. While not all that much relevant in this particularly case (or at least not likely), I've heard from several patent lawyers (granted, this is still hearsay) that it is a rather common practice for big companie
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by elmo2you 7y ago
What are these others then pointing out, regarding what's really happening? All I see is how Alec is advised to focus on the claims of the patent. However, I do not see how that substantially changes the situation regard the double-rat
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by elmo2you 7y ago
I'm not surprised to see the name of Qrypt's CTO (Denis Mandich) listed as one of the "inventors" on the application, but to see the name of a New York University professor (Yevgeniy Dodis) is rather baffling to me. Even
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by elmo2you 7y ago
Your response sounds fair enough to me. One small thing I would like to add to it though. I'm actually not a fan of Russia (for a number of personal reasons). But I equally dislike how the things you mentioned about Russia are (in my o
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by elmo2you 7y ago
1st: I do not claim a conspiracy. I just am rather sceptical when it comes to believing anyone with a potentially (if not likely) sketchy history, who all of a sudden grows a moral conscience that he or she apparently didn't require be
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by elmo2you 7y ago
That's one perspective. Another one is that the person who is hailed a whistleblower in the USA (Rodchenkov), may himself have quite a (highly questionable, if not blatantly criminal) history of active involvement in doping activities,
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by elmo2you 7y ago
I'm a bit dyslectic (and yes, pedantic too), but isn't that commit d0ce00? (d0ce00 != d0c00)

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