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by gjulianm 5y ago
> because the writer has apparently never heard of a web server. This is a constant issue I have with crypto advocates. Most of the use cases can be done with crypto, but also with other techs (sometimes it's as simple as "we n
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Something to add: use proxychains to ensure that the requests of all apps go through the proxy. A lot of applications don't have good proxy support, or have nothing at all. If you configure proxychains with the SOCKS proxy provided by
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> No, it very specifically supports the hypothesis that masks are not effective. It very clearly doesn't. No support for "masks are effective" is not the same that "support for masks are ineffective". To put an e
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I assume it falls under "newsworthy events" too.
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> It seems more a commentary on the narrative (not promulgated by you, but it is out there) that vaccines+distancing will somehow be able to eliminate the novel coronavirus entirely. To be honest, the only times I've seen this narra
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> but you most definitely can say there was no statistically significant benefit. Yes, but this study also doesn't point too conclusively that they don't have any effect. If the CI was something like 1% increase in infections -
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I think that's the point. Regulations on finance are, in part, to avoid attacks, scams, misunderstandings... Blockchains only offer some security in a part of the transaction, but they do nothing for the "real world" part. If
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Inconclusive results != no statistical benefit. A 95% of CI that ranges between 46% decrease and 23% increase is pretty much inconclusive, you can't say masks are better with that study but you wouldn't be justified either in sayi
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by gjulianm 5y ago
"Public figures are exempt from the policy, Twitter said"
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Luckily we have data and not just anecdotes and humble opinions. For example, see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01009-0 : ‘Wearing a mask’ exhibits a significant impact on Rt in three methods (ΔRt between −
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> I'm curious how this is expected to work in practice. Most of the time, the prohibition is on distribution. And it's only applicable when the people in the picture can be reasonably identified. A street scene in Berlin where
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Most of the times, the prohibition is not "taking the photo" but distributing it, which is much easier to enforce. At least it's how it is in Spain, where we have a similar law.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> England for one has open source statistics, and most cases are breakthrough I was thinking why one would say this without mentioning that the vaccination rate is pretty high, so one would expect more breakthrough cases than cases in un
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by gjulianm 5y ago
An anecdote in the other direction: I know people that were working in the hospital, treating COVID-19 infected people, before vaccines. Protection was a N95 mask (well-fitted and tight), a gown and gloves. They worked for months without an
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I don't know about your country, but in Spain we have those stats each day from the ministry of health. Turns out that the efficacy is still pretty high, around ~80% for infection. There was also a report with rates of hospitalization
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Well, in Spain's it is settled law as you say: you need to ask for consent to distribute images of someone save for a few exceptions, in which "I took a photo of someone in the street" doesn't fit. So it's settled l
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by gjulianm 5y ago
This is extremely backwards. You don't need to photograph anyone in public places. Would you be ok with having a photo making a ridiculous face online? Or a photo where it looks like you're going to hit someone? Or a photo ignor
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by gjulianm 5y ago
Because it's my image, and I should be able to exert a reasonable control over it. When someone publishes my image, I lose that control, and in these days that could mean anything, from people ignoring it to people making a meme out of
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by gjulianm 5y ago
There is absolutely no lack of material of any kind to document this period of history. There will be no huge black hole just because we respect the privacy of people who don’t want to appear in public photos.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> Despite the take that these public photographs are "privacy" violations, I think they should be celebrated I don't know why your enjoyment of a photo should take priority over the right to privacy of people. In a world w
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by gjulianm 5y ago
I do not agree too much with that part. The fact that there are compelling use cases at launch is independent of centralized/decentralized only depends on who's launching. Google Wave was a centralized platform and the use cases w
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by gjulianm 5y ago
It doesn't change things. There were federated alternatives to most centralized sites you see today. I remember Mastodon for Twitter, I'm sure there are more. The point is that web3 is not adding anything new here. We could always
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> Based on our collective experience in (1), how does anyone believe that (2) is a reasonable proposal? The people who are invested in crypto and think it's the future. They do the same reasoning all the time: crypto can be used for
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> When you're running a script, what is the expected behaviour if you just run it with no arguments? I think it shouldn't make any changes to your system, and it should print out a help message with common options. Is there any
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by gjulianm 5y ago
In my case I mostly use ABCs, not because I think they're universally better but because my use case fits them: dealing mostly with my own types, base classes provide some common functionality and the number of types is limited. Protoc
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by gjulianm 5y ago
You can use flag enums for the logical facts. Not always, but sometimes they can be useful and make comparisons/checks easier.
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> "It hasn't been done so it probably can't be done" is a really dumb attitude. It's utterly defeatist. No, that's not what I am saying. What I am saying is that if something has not been done yet, you shoul
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> Why can't we solve all these things with technology? Unless you invent a way to generate political will, eliminate wars, reduce inequality, no, I don't think you can. > But can't those things all be solved by inventin
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by gjulianm 5y ago
> But aren't all problems just due to a lack of technology? Not at all. I mean, to take your example: > Not enough food? Invent agriculture. Agriculture is invented and pretty advanced and yet there are a lot of humans suffering
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by gjulianm 5y ago
That's a self-reported survey by members of a Bitcoin mining council, which represent an unknown portion of the total mining capacity, and if I'm correct the term "sustainable energy" includes "carbon-based energy w

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