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by ghoward 5y ago
The sibling comment to this one is absolutely correct that the root cause is distraction, but I'm going to elaborate on that. * Noise. The inside of a school bus is very noisy, even with quiet kids. During the particular route I was on
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by ghoward 5y ago
I'm trained as a bus driver. I quit after my first day because driving without kids and driving with kids was so different that I was no longer confident in my ability to drive safely without more training (which the district was not w
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by ghoward 5y ago
> most modern countries are carefully balancing policy to keep ICUs at a manageable rate. Why not allow nurses and doctors to be unvaccinated and "keep ICU's at a manageable rate"? Also, Israel was first to acknowledge the
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by ghoward 5y ago
Sure, vaccines have reduced deaths... for now . Except, have they? Not really. [1] See the bump between July and November? That was after mass vaccination. That begs the question: what happens when their efficacy wears off, as it appears to
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by ghoward 5y ago
> But in addressing those questions, we have to consider consequences of their political action, which are accounted in tens or even hundreds of human lives lost EACH DAY. Sure, if we do the same for the politicians like New York's
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by ghoward 5y ago
> I think you are misrepresenting my statement. I said "without any speakable side effects". > You always have to compare potential side effects of a measure against the effects of the things the measure should protect again
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by ghoward 5y ago
> You can't drive drunk, you have to wear a seat belt, you can't build buildings out of straw or sticks (you silly pigs), you can't pour sewage into you can't have unprotected sex without disclosing it when you know y
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by ghoward 5y ago
> The virus wouldn’t have a high survival rate if we didn’t have these measures. Otherwise hospitals would be completely overrun, which would not only increase death rates directly related to COVID but also those of people with any other
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by ghoward 5y ago
> Getting a COVID vaccination that 7.000.000.000 shots have been administered to other people (world wide) without any speakable side effects is not a big thing to ask for. If you think that, you haven't been paying attention. Sever
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by ghoward 5y ago
Nurses, teachers, doctors, hairdressers, etc., should not be subject to vaccine mandates. Doing that exacerbates the problems of understaffed ICU's, schools, and service industry, not to mention the fact that governments have been the
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by ghoward 5y ago
99+% recovery rate is not "large scale sickness and death". But authoritarian governments almost invariably cause large scale sickness and death. The reality is that lack of freedom is the default state of the world through histor
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by ghoward 5y ago
Fair enough, although in my mind, I only care about tagging for my own files.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Replying again to give you a command that I've tested: find -L tags/tag1 tags/tag2 -xtype l | xargs readlink -f | sort | uniq -d
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by ghoward 5y ago
It does, unfortunately. But you probably could implement finding something with two tags with some command-line fu. My first crack at it is this: find -L tags/tag1 tags/tag2 -xtype l | sort | uniq -d I don't know if
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by ghoward 5y ago
And the Spanish Flu was far deadlier. Perhaps that matters?
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by ghoward 5y ago
+1, and build from source if you can. I do on Gentoo, but then again, that's the point of Gentoo...
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by ghoward 5y ago
We used masks during the Spanish Flu until politicians were caught not using masks. Also, the Hong Kong Flu might be close to COVID in per capita deaths.
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by ghoward 5y ago
A "bit coy"? No. He said it explicitly that he's picking the highest number on the range. He gives no reason. Why not just tell us the range and leave it there? Also, if "we need to have some humility," then perhaps
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by ghoward 5y ago
I have JavaScript disabled, so it appears for me. The relevant quote is: > In a telephone interview the next day, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly base
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by ghoward 5y ago
> it was a potentially incorrect measure to take but also not as big of a deal as you are making it out to be. Any lie from an expert is a big deal. We are supposed to "trust experts", right? Any lie makes them lose trust. &g
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by ghoward 5y ago
Fauci did not give us his best information. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covi... So he lied. Plain and simple. I used that word because it's the truth, even though it&#x
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by ghoward 5y ago
You're being disingenuous. Newton's model still "works" (at low speeds and when we don't need high precision), so he didn't lie. He also believed what he was saying. Fauci, on the other hand, does not believe h
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by ghoward 5y ago
Fauci said that he keeps moving the goalposts based on what he thinks we are "ready to hear": > He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what
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by ghoward 5y ago
Does that matter? No! It was a study commissioned by an organization I don't trust anymore because they lost that trust. But even if I did trust these scientists before, I don't know that they decided to put a political statement
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by ghoward 5y ago
Not a study, but they admitted to lying. They lied about masks. They lied about what percentage of people need to be vaccinated for herd immunity. I'm sure there's more.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I admit that every time I see a CDC study, I wonder if they began the study with their desired end in mind. The CDC has admitted that they lied multiple times; why should I believe their studies? Edit: I see that this study did begin with
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by ghoward 5y ago
And that would be a win for me too. In fact, I'm really just trying to put them between a rock and a hard place so that I win no matter what. Of course, if that does happen, I expect more people would want to use my licenses...
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by ghoward 5y ago
> GitHub's intention isn't for Copilot to hold the code's copyright, but for the user to. That is true, so I have two things I can do: 1) I can argue that Copilot is actually the distributor of the code, which means Copi
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by ghoward 5y ago
> Frankly, I think it's on you to lay out your argument in full rather than assume everyone is privy to your thought process. No, it's on you to not assume you know everything about my thought process before I show you otherwis
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by ghoward 5y ago
I have no idea of what you are trying to say. By definition, boilerplate is code that is repetitive. That repetition should be minimized by the programming language. If there are assumptions and guesses, that's because there's les

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