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by garmaine 5y ago
By conservative he meant (edit: I thought he meant...) maintains-the-status-quo, which in modern politics is neither a Liberal/Conservative nor Democrat/Republic issue. Elites and bought-and-paid-for political hacks on both sides
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by garmaine 5y ago
XBMC/Kodi, or AppleTV if you want a managed ecosystem.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Further testing at SpaceX is basically on hold until the FAA completes their review of the orbital launch facility, which they have promised to do by the end of December. Plenty of ground testing going on, albeit with less publicity.
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by garmaine 5y ago
He tends to focus on one or the other at a time though.
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by garmaine 5y ago
I don’t think that was a shallow dismissal…?
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by garmaine 5y ago
Prior coronavirus species tend to evolve toward non-lethality because their peak transmission coincides with peak symptoms. Covid-19 is not like that and so has no evolutionary push towards non-lethality. A variant of COVID as lethal as MER
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by garmaine 5y ago
How am I arguing in bad faith? I’m deeply familiar with the actions of the FDA during the AIDS crisis, having studied it in college, read books, watched documentaries, etc. But I can’t convey that info through a HN comment, so I sought out
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by garmaine 5y ago
Whatever you may think of yourself, you have demonstrated severe political bias in this thread by outright dismissing articles without reading them based on the perceived politics of the hosting organization. FWIW I didn’t know or care the
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by garmaine 5y ago
Then google “fda aids drugs” and pick your favorite source. This is, at this point 30 years removed, a non-political historical issue with objective facts.
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by garmaine 5y ago
History says otherwise: https://www.cato.org/blog/challenging-moral-authority-fda-le...
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by garmaine 5y ago
But counterpoint: TFA is about the WHO asking for more authority, the power through treaties to control what governments do or don’t do. However the countries which handled COVID correctly (Taiwan, New Zealand) did so by outright ignoring W
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by garmaine 5y ago
I called out the gatekeeping job of the FDA specifically. The agency does two things: (1) blacklist food products with deceptive or harmful ingredients or advertising, and (2) whitelist the medications you’re allowed to put in your body, wi
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by garmaine 5y ago
Anyone who lived through the AIDS epidemic can tell you that having a regulatory body is not automatically better than none at all. FDA bureaucracy and inaction has killed more Americans than WW2. Dissolving the FDA, or at least the gatekee
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by garmaine 5y ago
The WHO did measurable damage throughout the pandemic, but particularly in the beginning. They played down covid, were against travel bans, was anti-mask, and have hindered investigation into the origins of covid. They also did good, like g
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by garmaine 5y ago
I wouldn’t waste your time. He appears to be trolling.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Print-to-pdf usually does the trick. (The issue is that the signature is done on a second layer, not any issue about noise.)
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by garmaine 5y ago
Unlikely. Unknown I’m never going to walk around with AR glasses, nor are a whole hell of a lot of other people. This headline doesn’t pass he sniff test.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Your own link [2] shows RSA being 10-50x slower than the EC algo they used, which itself is many factors slower than state of the art. Are you reading the table right?
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by garmaine 5y ago
And thanks to HIPAA, we can’t actually send pictures to our doctors easily over here.
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by garmaine 5y ago
There is a massive performance difference—not just size, but computation as well. Especially if you want a constant-time implementation. There is also an order of magnitude more ways to screw up and not do input validation correctly, thereb
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by garmaine 5y ago
By cryptography being deployed today I meant new protocols. Like if the people who are actually in the position of picking cryptographic primitives, virtually no one reaches for RSA. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Almost no cryptography being deployed today uses prime numbers. (Not because of any weakness, but because there are better, more efficient algorithms instead.)
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by garmaine 5y ago
I'm not sure why you think that? Basically all of physics, chemistry, and other physical sciences is calculus. Calculus is the mathematics of rates of change, and basically all physical science is the study of change. Discrete math is
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by garmaine 5y ago
> which is bad for public companies, Im sure you can see why now Tesla is the world's most valuable car company. What is bad about that now?
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by garmaine 5y ago
Why/how exactly do you think people become a math whiz? For many of us it was because we were introduced to subjects at an early age and had supportive teachers/parents that encouraged our academic success even when (especially be
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by garmaine 5y ago
The more I learn about swift, the more I like it.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Like this: “:)” ? Japanese kana also count as two characters. Which they largely are when romanized, on average. Korean isn’t identical but the information density is approximately the same. Good enough to approximate as such and have a con
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by garmaine 5y ago
Only in some languages.
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by garmaine 5y ago
From what that page describes, it appears Twitter's algorithm is in fact "number of unicode code points" except for specific carve-out cases which are so obscenely unfair by that metric as to justify counting differently. E.g
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by garmaine 5y ago
Yeah, and most languages/libraries which predate Unicode define string length as the number of bytes (#1). That's probably the most common interpretation, actually. But most new implementations count code point, in my experienc

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