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by fsociety999 4y ago
What you consider “misinformation” today may turn out to be the truth tomorrow. I am not familiar with this site, but do you have examples of the “blatant lies and deliberate misinformation”? Imagine if in 2001 everyone used your argument t
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by fsociety999 4y ago
I agree, but that is not what the study in the linked article shows. It looks like they only looked at people who had previously tested positive for COVID: > They ran an analysis of the first 509 COVID patients treated at Northwestern
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by fsociety999 4y ago
I do not deny that this exists and is a real symptom. The issue is when you classify regular anxiety and stress as long COVID in addition to actual neurological issues caused by COVID (which multiple studies have done), it inflates the over
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by fsociety999 4y ago
I read some of the “Long COVID” studies a while back, and they all included things like anxiety, depression, and mental state weeks or months after testing positive for COVID. Linking this to COVID is an example of bad science. Correlation
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Ask HN: Is there a precedent for legislation that mandates code changes to OSS?
18 points by fsociety999 4y ago|11 comments
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by fsociety999 4y ago
The main difference I see here is that buying up mining hardware actually has limitations and constraints. You have to find enough supply of the hardware, find enough energy to run it, find a location big enough to house it, make sure to ke
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by fsociety999 4y ago
I don’t think they are necessarily the same. People on Wall Street only see crypto as an opportunity to make more money. Switching to proof of stake does nothing to really change that. On the other hand, at least some people in the crypto i
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by fsociety999 4y ago
What makes you so sure the existing lobby are not the ones pushing for this? Also what makes you so sure that the banking/Wall Street lobby is not larger than the crypto lobby in terms of $$$? I suspect it is much larger. I also susp
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by fsociety999 4y ago
> Migrating from svelte to react, is months if not many man-years. I’m not sure what your argument is here, but I’m pretty sure you have it backwards. The fact that it might take a while to migrate a svelte project to react is not becaus
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by fsociety999 4y ago
This entire study should never have made it through peer review for this alone: > The effect of vaccination was not systematically assessed. In total, 144 participants received an mRNA vaccination between the baseline and the follow-up s
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by fsociety999 4y ago
> It really isn't. This is the usual ignorance of social contagion that we see from free speech purists who can't fathom that spoken ideas can spread and motivate catastrophic outcomes. Have you considered how many ideas have b
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by fsociety999 4y ago
That is a fair point. Perhaps that was the wrong classification, but “an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life” is a pretty extreme portrayal of events without any additional evidence/context. If anything, the fa
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by fsociety999 4y ago
The Kiwi Farms response claims that post was deleted within minutes, and the fact that someone posted on 4chan referencing a post on another site is a ridiculous reason to ban the other site. The original justification from Cloudflare for
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by fsociety999 4y ago
Is there any evidence that it is true other than the word of one person? The Cloudflare post didn’t provide any examples, and it seemed to be news to the Kiwi Farms people as well. Just a few days ago Cloudflare took a pretty strong stance
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by fsociety999 4y ago
Crazy, this article was rising on the homepage of hacker news. Got up to number nine when I checked and then all of a sudden, I refresh and it was gone. Demoted to page two. It’s a shame too cause more people need to read this. I think DALL
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by fsociety999 4y ago
That is a ridiculous take. If you share a link to an article and Facebook decides to not show it on the feed for other people especially at the direction of the FBI or government, how can you argue in good faith that that is not censorship?
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by fsociety999 4y ago
This is a somewhat misleading headline. Everyone who participated in the study was unvaccinated. > Eligible participants were personnel of the Swiss Armed Forces (SAF) who were aged 18–30 years with a positive or negative RT-PCR test for
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by fsociety999 4y ago
Now compare the $47 million they are down in dollars to how much the Government in the United States wastes on absolutely useless stuff. Ridiculous to gloat about their decision to purchase Bitcoin and how it is bad. It is a long-term inves
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by fsociety999 4y ago
It’s pretty amazing that these programs used 128KB of memory. Nowadays, it is rare to find a program that uses less than 128MB. I know I’m being a bit hyperbolic. There are definitely apps that use less than that, but my point is more that
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by fsociety999 4y ago
Gold markets are manipulated like crazy. This article talks about it a bit https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/gold-silver-pr... There have been a number of cases of banks being found guilty of it as wel
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by fsociety999 4y ago
I have noticed that people come on here to gloat about things like this due to the pure hatred of crypto flowing through their veins without realizing that they are cheering on regular people suffering ultimately at what will be the expense
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by fsociety999 4y ago
> All things that could be alleviated if "Crypto" and it's so-far intangible benefits were to dissapear. This is pretty shallow thinking. I’m sure the traditional banking system uses orders of magnitude more energy than cr
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by fsociety999 4y ago
> I think using Svelte was a mistake Why do you think that?
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Court rules Government can obtain any private user data without justification(reclaimthenet.org)
9 points by fsociety999 4y ago|0 comments
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by fsociety999 4y ago
> One “of the biggest reasons for democracies weakening is the profound change that’s taking place in how we communicate and consume information,” Obama told an audience in a keynote speech at a symposium at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Cente
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by fsociety999 5y ago
Right. Very valid point. It’s entirely possible removing them was partially politically motivated or perhaps more accurately, it was politically motivated to LEAVE them off after the work was complete. It has traditionally not been in the b
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by fsociety999 5y ago
This article puts “roof repairs” in quotes to suggest that was an excuse, but it sounds like that actually happened from what I can tell. I think this answer on Quora provides a more reasonable explanation about why they were removed: http
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by fsociety999 5y ago
Came here to say the same thing. It is pretty ironic that in an essay that is basically criticizing people who can’t put up with heretics, he is doing the same thing with regards to "anti-vaxxers" without even realizing it. It doe
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by fsociety999 5y ago
Congratulations. You knew exactly what to write to make it to the top of Hacker News. Sadly, it doesn’t take a whole lot of original thought these days. Just repeat the establishment talking points that crypto is a bubble and will be worth
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by fsociety999 5y ago
While what you are saying may be true, you shouldn’t look to the west for answers. The idea that we pick our leaders based on political debates is ridiculous. Just look at how our debates are structured. If they are lucky, candidates have t

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