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by generj 5y ago
Children weren’t contracting the virus in meaningful numbers. The delta variant has changed that and Louisiana had 3,000 child cases in just 4 days. The child death rate from COVID is higher than the child death rate from the flu AND many
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by generj 5y ago
There are a few cases where they haven’t chosen to - mostly people under 18 whose parents are antivax. Or elderly people under guardianship of antivax - like my grandma being cared for by my aunt (though I doubt my grandma would have receiv
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by generj 5y ago
Honestly at this stage if people had the opportunity to be vaccinated and didn’t I’m OK prioritizing care for those who chose to be vaccinated and are sick with non-preventable illnesses. Triage has lots of ethical questions, this doesn’t s
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by generj 5y ago
Because COVID has many severe effects other than death? For example long term respiratory system damage. People with long COVID have had diabetes diagnoses at a high rate. This hasn’t had the side effects of a typical respiratory virus.
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by generj 5y ago
This seems rather an odd argument to me. Kythc gets to reverse engineer Taylor machines but Taylor cannot reverse engineer Kytch? I’m all on the side of right to repair but surely reverse engineering ought to be permissible for all sides?
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by generj 5y ago
Vaccination status isn’t private health information in the same way a cancer diagnosis is. Vaccination’s are public health measures not private health measures. Employers need to know if their employees represent a risk to the health of t
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by generj 5y ago
China isn’t the best example of my point. I’m talking about the developing world broadly - we should absolutely foot some of the bill for other countries to go green or pay for geoengineering so they have a longer timeframe to do so. Coal i
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by generj 5y ago
Doesn’t the poor farmer in China deserve electricity though? US + EU got to use coal (and still do) for 150 years before we even started discussing eliminating its use. If the West isn’t going to let the world use coal or other carbon heavy
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by generj 5y ago
I agree there are dangers to applying band aids. It depends on if the band aids apply enough pressure to stop the patient from bleeding out. We don’t know how much about positive feedback loops for climate change. Things like the tundra mel
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by generj 5y ago
Solar shades have great potential and the unintended consequences can at least be mitigated. Unlike aerosol dispersal they can be “turned off” semi trivially with onboard thrusters or specialized missions. Cost estimates were at $100 Billio
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by generj 5y ago
I agree price signals and local automation are the way to go. I would love to have my HVAC run according to the true cost of electricity, also minimizing CO2 emissions. BUT giving the grid operators emergency control over demand is a useful
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by generj 5y ago
I not only agree with your post but also want to heartily endorse the Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta. They go to great lengths to ensure everyone in the audience understands e.g. that Romeo and Juliet has loads of raunchy humor. I’m confiden
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by generj 5y ago
And this is new? I’m sure schools weren’t political hotbeds during civil rights politics, Vietnamese war protests, etc. Some states are required to teach creationism, and many mandate students stand for a daily ritual of the pledge of alleg
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by generj 5y ago
That’s an...incredibly poor and uncharitable reading of his argument. It’s not a good essay but he definitively isn’t advocating for a genocide - and indeed is arguing against Israel committing a genocide in slow motion. At worst he is conf
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by generj 5y ago
How many cameras do you think exist capable of capturing a MIG-29 at 50k altitude in low population density areas? I doubt there are pictures of most military interceptions of passenger flights, which is no reason to doubt they happened.
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by generj 5y ago
YouTube also entertains hundreds of millions of people, whereas crypto benefits the average person…how exactly? By enabling ransom ware attacks? Creating GPU shortages?
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by generj 5y ago
We probably should at least for people with flu like symptoms. We could save a lot of lives annually if we shifted our culture on mask wearing during flu season.
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by generj 5y ago
It’s good to give better incentives for people to be vaccinated, as many have urged for some time. I worry this carrot isn’t tied to an adequate stick - the unvaccinated can simply go without a mask regardless of their status. Will this mov
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by generj 5y ago
The US government can compel nearly every financial institution in the world to stop trading crypto coins for fiat, overnight, as an executive action. Yes crypto is theoretically decentralized, but in practical terms it is remarkably centra
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by generj 6y ago
The 12” ones from Waveshare are unfortunately 1-bit grayscale (e.g. on/off, black/white) so any of the pictures will require quite a bit of dithering and the text isn’t as crisp as I’d like even at the large resolution. Probably r
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by generj 6y ago
I did something similar with a much smaller (and much less expensive) 12.48” screen from Waveshare. Cost about $200 all in. Guests are frequently confused why I’ve printed out today’s New York Times. One downside is the aspect ratio not ali
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by generj 6y ago
I think people are responding to language like “wannabe-stasi deplatform mob” and “de-platforming witch hunt” more than the actual facts or websites involved. That language is not neutral, so the response isn’t surprising.
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by generj 6y ago
I think it’s harder to have succinct press conferences when there are hundreds of terrorists instead of 19. The FBI/Justice Department have been busy identifying, charging, and arresting hundreds of insurrectionists. Details on many o
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by generj 6y ago
Honestly some straps inside the already pressurized capsule + some CO2 filtering and Crew Dragon 1 is probably much less risky than most of the early human space flights. We forget how many astronauts and cosmonauts died in the early days (
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by generj 6y ago
Not really - they only allowed buying to bring the total position to 5 shares, and then lowered that to 2 shares and now 1 share! And if you already held more than that quantity of shares you couldn’t buy more shares.
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by generj 6y ago
It’s suspected Fridays price jump was caused by your second point: naked call sellers buying shares. The so called “gamma squeeze”. Every single strike price on Friday was in the money on expiration. It’s hard to overstate how ludicrous tha
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by generj 6y ago
That’s one way to encourage your employees to walk a certain amount per day.
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by generj 6y ago
Very useful if you already have a mirrorless camera (with clean HDMI out) and a tripod or other way to mount it. I’ve deeply enjoyed using this card when doing webcasts. For another $20 for a power line adapter for my camera I’ve had fantas
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by generj 6y ago
Often for eInk screens the problem with speed is the driver (either code or chip), not the paper itself. For example, many drivers don’t support partial refreshes. I just bought the B/W version of this screen and read the data sheet.
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by generj 6y ago
Please don’t use autistic as an insult.

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