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by ghoward 5y ago
The media won't talk about it because what politicians are doing is exactly what's causing or exacerbating the economic collapse of the poor and middle class. And I'm not talking politicians from one party. Both parties are
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by ghoward 5y ago
We should not act just on the basis of data we know now. We should also follow the Precautionary Principle. These vaccines are still experimental. I am not going to take any one of them until at least they are not and companies accept l
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by ghoward 5y ago
If people are vulnerable, they are responsible for taking precautions. If I am sick, even with the "common cold," I quarantine.
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by ghoward 5y ago
COVID safety is different because the measures we are being forced to do is actually affecting our ability to live.
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by ghoward 5y ago
When I fall ill, I quarantine. I do not just "spread" it to others. Other than that, I'm not responsible for the health of other people. They are responsible for their own health.
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by ghoward 5y ago
One of the greatest lies of this COVID saga is that everyone is responsible for everyone else's health. We are not. The vulnerable are responsible for their own health and should take measures to protect themselves , not expect everyo
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by ghoward 5y ago
You say that right now, the numbers are overwhelmingly in favor of vaccines. I disagree, but even if you're right, that's only right now . Until we know more about their long-term effects, we don't know. I'm in the age
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by ghoward 5y ago
You can only make that judgment for yourself. Assuming that your judgment works for everyone is highly presumptuous. For myself, I see less risk in going the route where I may not even get COVID at all and risk actually getting it, rather t
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by ghoward 5y ago
That's just it: we are not adequately cautious. Who knows what the long-term side effects of the vaccines will be? The fact that those concerns are hand-waved away makes me more concerned. I mean, I don't trust Big Pharma, but a
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by ghoward 5y ago
I found out recently that the author of this article only really cares about science in his own field. In other fields, specifically medicine, he parrots the establishment line without thought to the actual evidence. I read this article bef
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by ghoward 5y ago
Asking "What's your birth sex?" might end up being a "hate crime" with the way things are going.
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by ghoward 5y ago
My thoughts: https://gavinhoward.com/2019/12/replication-and-retraction-c... .
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by ghoward 5y ago
I'm not blaming them. It's an important consideration for me to have children. Also, I'm going to wait until at least the FDA puts the vaccines through the ringer and approves them for general use.
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by ghoward 5y ago
https://gavinhoward.com/2019/12/replication-and-retraction-c...
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by ghoward 5y ago
The Special Relativity example you brought up is not a good example because it's about observation , not the truth of the order of the events. Reality is not dependent on the observer, but we are observers, so that's why ever
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by ghoward 5y ago
Wanting bad things to happen to people is almost never a good thing. Also, as one of those aforementioned people, I'm not taking any vaccine because I am at the age to have children, and I don't trust the vaccine to not screw that
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by ghoward 5y ago
You are putting words in my mouth. In fact, if humanism is about human agency, then I am saying that police officers who give themselves the right to shoot people are violating humanism because they violate the agency of others. That said,
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by ghoward 5y ago
You said that the idea of God-given rights was used as the major justification for "the strongest deserve to rule the weak", but that is a non-sequitur; you know that what I mean here is the God-given rights to "life, liberty
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by ghoward 5y ago
I'm not sure you know the Declaration of Independence. And I do know what it means.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Sure, police are bound but human constructs, but they can also change them in a whim since they have power. And yes, I do it out of respect and would never capitalize those pronouns for a mere human, king or not.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Declining to sue in this case, when I have publicly said what I am going to do, shows other companies that Microsoft is ignoring the threat to closed source software that this poses. So while it would not be a legal precedent, it would be a
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by ghoward 5y ago
If rights are a human construct, then cops, who are at the top of the power pyramid, can just give themselves the "right" to shoot whoever they want. Yet the fact that we still say it's wrong shows that no, rights are not a
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by ghoward 5y ago
Language is a human construct, yes, that cannot be ignored. But even if there are human constructs that cannot be ignored, my example with police still stands because since the police are the power, they can "construct" rights or
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by ghoward 5y ago
Yes. Absolutely. [1] I use scan-build, but I also used to use Coverity until they had that vulnerability a few months back. [1]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/manuals/dev...
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by ghoward 5y ago
So the right to life is a human construct? That means that it is totally okay for the police to shoot everyone they don't like. Rights are not a human construct; they are inalienable, given by a Creator, and we will be accountable to
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by ghoward 5y ago
Yes, those are all problems with destructors, but they are well understood. However, in a language I am currently creating, calling a destructor on a partial object is impossible because the object is created in "one" step. In oth
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by ghoward 5y ago
I made a series of licenses that attempt to do that while still remaining within current legal bounds. https://yzena.com/licenses/
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by ghoward 5y ago
These are great examples. I knew that I preferred destructors over defer, but I could not explain why. You put it into words. I think people have a bias against destructors because of C++, but they really are pretty nice. Speaking as a guy
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by ghoward 5y ago
This is entirely reductive. I have written a substantial enough C codebase used in the real world that uses C string handling functions. I did that because the codebase needed zero dependencies other than libc. Yet as far as anyone who&#x27
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by ghoward 5y ago
I am doing something very similar: https://twitter.com/GavinDHoward/status/1415380847537135620 . We'll see if they answer.

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