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by ghoward 5y ago
We don't know. That's why the Precautionary Principle is so important. It is built on the assumption of "We don't know, and we don't know what we don't know, so we had better be cautious."
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by ghoward 5y ago
Assuming that if masks reduce the transmission by 10% is automatically worth it is not a good idea because we need to know the downsides of masks and how bad those downsides are. In science, all factors matter, not just efficacy. [1] [1]:
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by ghoward 5y ago
> For some reason, anti-maskers try to move the goal post by pretending that a basic protective measure is either full-proof or is not worth doing at all, which boggles anyone's mind. I don't know about other "anti-maskers
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by ghoward 5y ago
I use Ungoogled Chromium on Gentoo, and it takes my machine 5 hours. Well worth it, because I know that what is built is the source I see. Even FireFox is a binary on Gentoo. Just my 2 cents.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I can't downvote, but I am glad you said something because I didn't look!
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by ghoward 5y ago
Still a chance that I won't get it. Endemic also means that it's constantly mutating, like the flu. I may never get the current strain of COVID-19.
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by ghoward 5y ago
There is no data about long term effects, so my education doesn't matter. Also, focusing on liberty is not selfish. It is a false dichotomy that liberty leads to less safety. In fact, loss of liberty means the loss of different kinds o
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by ghoward 5y ago
I would hope that my moral compass doesn't depend on the current culture, so only now. Current culture probably thinks I'm a terrible person anyway.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I have the same approach, and I agree that it helps me reconsider before posting something I would regret.
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by ghoward 5y ago
There is a chance that I will not get the virus at all.
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by ghoward 5y ago
No, there are data that says that the vaccines may be the same as COVID, or worse because the virus is not that dangerous for young people.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I'm not a betting man, but it looks like the chance of dying from the shot might actually be higher than 1 in a million. And we don't yet know how high it is, nor will we, I suspect.
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by ghoward 5y ago
> Was anyone else talking about domestic travel? No, no one else was talking about domestic travel, but I was. Because it's important to me, and because I can see how it will be lost easily. And it is a liberty that I have. Also,
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by ghoward 5y ago
I am talking about domestic travel, not international. During the hysteria, I believe either New York or Rhode Island restricted travel across those state borders, despite such restrictions being explicitly prohibited by the Constitution. S
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by ghoward 5y ago
Long-term side effects don't pop up right away, so no, I can't say what side effects I am worried about. However, I think a decade is about the right amount of time to watch. I am not talking about a non-existent liberty. I am tal
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by ghoward 5y ago
> The whole principle that you need to prove vaccination to be let into a country is not really new. Requiring this for experimental and not-yet-approved vaccines is new. (The COVID vaccines only have Emergency Use Authorizations.)
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by ghoward 5y ago
> Watching the anti-COVID vaccine folks has helped me realize this isn't about medicine or science or understanding...its about selfishness. It really is about science because the vaccines have not been approved for general use yet.
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by ghoward 5y ago
If we don't know the long-term effects of the vaccines, we don't know if they are actually better than COVID and its long-term effects.
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by ghoward 5y ago
I use it on my Ryzen PC, but I am also running ZFS, and I'm a little paranoid about using my data. This is one anecdote, though, so it's probably not useful. But people using ECC on Ryzen do exist.
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by ghoward 5y ago
Not GP, but I am not until a vaccine is approved by the FDA for non-emergency use. And even then, I think I will wait for more data to come out about the long-term effects of the vaccines.
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by ghoward 5y ago
To the downvoters, I wasn't being sarcastic. GP _is_ right, and I was wrong.
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by ghoward 5y ago
This is a perfect summary of why self-driving doesn't work (yet?).
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by ghoward 5y ago
I don't think humans are the AGI benchmark, but smart mammals probably are. What I think an AGI needs to have is the _ability to learn_. To me, that's what intelligence really is. For many people, it's having a lot of knowled
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by ghoward 5y ago
I can't, but like Justice Potter Stewart, "I know it when I see it." In fact, I believe that the difficulty of even _defining_ AGI is yet more evidence that we are not anywhere close to it.
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by ghoward 5y ago
But what happens when the road is suddenly closed for an accident? Or new construction appears? What will database-based self-driving cars do then?
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by ghoward 5y ago
Actually, you are right. Guess my naivete showed through.
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by ghoward 5y ago
More people need to see your comment because there seems to be a belief that full self driving is just around the corner. However, IMO, it will never happen because it needs a full artificial general intelligence. In your case, the new lane
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by ghoward 5y ago
You are correct, and here's a citation for your assertion: https://danluu.com/car-safety/ .
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by ghoward 5y ago
Thank you for linking this paper! I was trying to find it and link it myself. I have found that it is true, actually. I had to write [1] to get portable sane behavior with signed arithmetic, and it obviously will slow my code down. Exploiti

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