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by guscost 6y ago
Unfortunately I don't, but I hope you understand the meaning behind this facetiousness.
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by guscost 6y ago
Yes, and they could be right, but this is a very complicated issue, and the size of the platform matters a lot. In this case Section 230 effectively enables a monopoly on "mainstream" video content, where the monopolist in questio
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by guscost 6y ago
Hey, I said it was controversial.
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by guscost 6y ago
No, I would vote those morons out of office. As it stands I don't have nearly enough money to vote the Alphabet CEO out of office.
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by guscost 6y ago
Maybe we need to have a discussion about what kinds of trolling and spam should be legal. And if you have a problem with that stuff, why doesn’t the current state of YouTube comments bother you just as much as this idea? > I don't u
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by guscost 6y ago
It would be censorship only with the consent of the governed, as it should be. Also folks, keep in mind that I am absolutely not saying that the government should regulate every video on YouTube, I am only saying that YouTube should los
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by guscost 6y ago
It is exactly what I’m proposing, yes. These companies should be forced to participate in the making of laws about free speech, they should not effectively be able to decide what free speech is by fiat.
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by guscost 6y ago
Congress should revoke immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, for any online community the size of YouTube that imposes their own "code of conduct" independent of US law. This is a very controversial idea
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by guscost 6y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge... > Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case
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by guscost 6y ago
> *Edit: To the people giving me shit, I am pointing out that this commenter is using a strategy (I don't know if there's a formal name) to tangentially push an agenda. 1. Sweden did the right thing, and 2. Brown people are &#x
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by guscost 6y ago
Please point out where I claimed to know that Vitamin D explains a significant portion of the excess mortality in Sweden. Or actually, don't bother. My intention is not to suffer this foolishness, and it sounds like you don't even
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by guscost 6y ago
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.14.20101691v... > Areas with large proportions of Black/African American residents are at markedly higher risk that is not fully explained by characteristics
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by guscost 6y ago
Unfortunately this has become a political hot-potato and nobody is thinking straight, so the entirely preventable losses will continue to mount.
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by guscost 6y ago
Now add in deaths due to the following reasons, and you'll start to get the real picture of what we've done. People who are avoiding treatment for heart attacks, strokes, and other critical conditions: https://www.washi
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by guscost 6y ago
You're dismissing a serious health problem that disproportionally affects "brown immigrants", yet somehow I'm the racist? What the fuck?
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by guscost 6y ago
So your counter-argument is: "This factor should be ignored." Got it.
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by guscost 6y ago
Sweden also has a larger immigrant population, many of whom have difficulty synthesizing Vitamin D. This factor should not be ignored. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200512134426.h... https:&#
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by guscost 6y ago
This is one of those times where it’s a good thing that GitHub got bought by the biggest company in the world.
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by guscost 6y ago
He’s definitely smarter than he lets on, but there are lots of funny moments where he clearly has no idea what the guest is talking about. Elon Musk: We need some kind of like, mind-viral immunity. So that’s, that’s a bit concerning. Joe Ro
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by guscost 6y ago
These were not ICU patients. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/04/14/... https://nypost.com/2020/05/02/nyc-hotels-meant-for-recoverin... https:&#
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AP count: Over 4,500 virus patients sent to NY nursing homes(apnews.com)
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by guscost 6y ago
But among a cohort of mildly-symptomatic hospital workers, almost all developed detectable antibodies: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.19.20101832v...
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by guscost 6y ago
Only 8% fewer traffic deaths in March: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0... And consider that heart attack and stroke centers are seeing precipitous drops in patient referrals, almo
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by guscost 6y ago
Is that "deaths with COVID-19" or "deaths by COVID-19"?
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by guscost 6y ago
We also do not know the seroconversion rate for mild or asymptomatic cases (every study measuring this seems to use an entirely-hospitalized or mostly-hospitalized cohort). EDIT: Hey hey it looks like some information is finally coming out,
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by guscost 6y ago
We can test the prediction that parachutes improve skydiver survival with a simple experiment. It would be an inhumane experiment, so in this case it is fair to assume the theory would be proven correct (but we can always test a similar pre
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by guscost 6y ago
I’m not OK with that option. We can make up nonsense on computers as many times as we like, but it will never mean that reality “would have” been anything. Science doesn’t work on “would have” questions, and anyone who claims otherwise is a
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by guscost 6y ago
This is preposterous. The measures we are taking will kill far more than the disease itself when all is said and done - look at the referral numbers for stroke centers alone. If this was a test of our collective ability to meet an emerging
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by guscost 6y ago
Yet another (non-political, this time) reason why the law needs to be changed. I’ve sent a note asking my district representative to support reform, and would encourage everyone to do the same: > In Green v. AOL (2003), the court establi
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by guscost 6y ago
We should probably ignore most "scientific code" altogether. The jig is up. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/9/98038-science-has-only... https://guscost.com/2020/05/12&#

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