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by gojomo 5y ago
For the last 6 years Dorsey was CEO, with final say on all corporate priorities. He could have undone this "worst thing" from an earlier time when he "wasn't running the company" in fairly short order. He didn'
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by gojomo 5y ago
Shouldn't it be hard to delete things from a library and historical-archive? If you had to choose between the GDPR, & an accurate historical record, which would you prefer?
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This study has a rather strange design that might be miscategorizing people who’d both been infected & vaxed (counting them only as vaxed), & among other things, misses the risk that more unvaxed people might seek medical care, or r
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by gojomo 5y ago
The high rates of breakthroughs mean even very-highly-vaxxed populations have had case surges. Rt is going to oscillate around 1, forever.
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COVID fear creates that sort of warped fantasy. But few nations are totalitarian enough to carry that out. And large reservoirs of COVID would remain in wild animals, and other countries, and groups (like the elites & their children, or
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by gojomo 5y ago
Vaccinations are too leaky to "make this virus extinct". Within a few months of vaccination, half or more of people can get mild, but still transmissable, cases of Delta. (Omicron is likely worse; there are already multiple report
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by gojomo 5y ago
Indeed. If Dorsey wanted Twitter to be "open", he'd open it. Instead he's closed it & started a sideshow to further distract those who could create credible challenges to Twitter.
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by gojomo 5y ago
I made that same point about rates in my post, before also pointing out the absolute number disparity. (So what’s the point in repeating it as if it were a refutation, or new contribution?) Vaccinations only cutting infections by half i
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by gojomo 5y ago
Did it work? Is Germany now a COVID-free bubble? Are Germany's results even better than nearby countires who locked down less, or never? Neither the US, nor its porous-border neighbor Mexico, is likely to accept any such measure. And e
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Which totalitarian world government can enforce such testing & quarantine of the asymptomatic? How long would elections, the right to travel, & the right of protest need to suspended, worldwide, for this plan to work? (Personally, t
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And also significant rates of breakthrough infections in the vaccinated! The nearly 2-year-old spike-protein formula in current vaxes quickly decays to 50%, or less, effectiveness versus mild (but still transmissable) infections. For exampl
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Elimination is impossible given rapid decay of immunity, whether vaccine-induced or post-case-recovery, to levels where it only prevents severity, not transmission chains. There's thus a massive reservoir of diverse variants in breakth
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by gojomo 5y ago
I'm not trying to "make it appear the virus could only mutate in a lab". But, there are well-documented experiments in labs of the type that could create Omicron. And, only a small fraction of all experiments that are hap
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by gojomo 5y ago
That's also a possibility! But note that in many respects, Africa has had a mysteriously mild pandemic overall – see https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-heal... Also that South Africa, specific
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by gojomo 5y ago
My understanding is that variant monitoring in Africa, generally, is very low – even though it's supposedly quite good in South Africa. And in enumerating possibilities, the hypothetical reckless experiment I described might also be si
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by gojomo 5y ago
Our human tendency to discourage frank discussion of real, but uncomfortable, possibilities has contributed to the 5M-and-counting COVID-related fatalities. This is true even if you assign little-to-no likelihood to the possibility any COVI
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by gojomo 5y ago
It's common worldwide: #708 on this list of the 1000 most-common surnames in the world: https://forebears.io/earth/surnames That's higher than 'Serrano', 'Meyer', 'Murphy', &#x27
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by gojomo 5y ago
From: https://nypost.com/2021/11/26/who-skips-two-letters-in-alpha... > But the United Nations public health agency avoided Nu and Xi for two reasons, a spokeswoman told The Post. > > “[For] Nu
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by gojomo 5y ago
I'd be curious to know where this research was performed. They expected 'co-incubation' might produce a variant that escapes prior immunity, as represented by convalescent plasma containing antibodies. They performed this co
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by gojomo 5y ago
No opinions from me on Rust pacing/contribution standards in general, or `alacritty` specifically. But from sidelines, I find it ironic that a project whose name is a play on the word 'alacrity', meaning "cheerful readin
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by gojomo 5y ago
"Open source: the gift that keeps on taking." (Earliest use I can find here – https://twitter.com/devbisme/status/1017520086096207874 – but perhaps goes back much further.)
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Many such cases. The download & run experience for Java/JRE fat client apps was also awful for so long, at least for mass consumer end users. (Captive corporate userbases could be shepherded through the steps.)
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by gojomo 5y ago
From my seat at ParcPlace 1993-1996, I'd offer the synthesis: ParcPlace's legacy-enterprise-apps-focus prevented it from properly chasing the pure-internet opportunity that Java pursued. ParcPlace had a successful 1994 IPO based o
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by gojomo 5y ago
But also, SHRDLU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU
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Is there a demo that shows this 5000x speedup? (A jump that large suggests to me they may be fixing issues in the default implementation that could also be fixed for other processors!)
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That US news sites find their EU visitors of such low value that they'd rather block them than spend to be compliant (& thus still get some aggregate or opt-in data) is a pretty strong refutation of the idea they're "
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These websites, based on their own internal analyses, have concluded ignoring it completely is not safe for them. But also, they know that implementing (& maintaining!) compliance, moreso than a simple block, has nonzero cost, while EU
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by gojomo 5y ago
It is an extra compliance cost & financial risk imposed by the EU, with essentially no benefit for the website. It also provides negligible benefit for any EU subject, compared to what the privacy-conscious users could achieve via self-
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by gojomo 5y ago
Googling [ayahuasca experience reports] should provide a better mix of writeups (including both rigorously-reported mainstream articles & deep-forum anecdotes) than any number of responses inline here could.
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I wonder if Europe will ever lift its Iron GDPR Curtain to allow its residents to access free-world websites!

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