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by hcurtiss 5y ago
I see these comments here and there and am always stunned. There's a strong nihilistic streak in the modern environmental movement.
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
I feel like Telegram has some big user base out there that organizes into communities. How do I find out about those communities to participate?
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
Looks great, but a bummer for Fastmail subscribers who use Lastpass. I can't imagine the nightmare of switching my family from Lastpass to 1Password. Password managers truly do create a lot of intertia. Though we're all Apple,
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
It seems likely to me that’s true because it is not an open platform.
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As a mid-sized US manufacturer that recently went through a ransomware scare, we contracted with FireEye for remediation and cybersecurity consultation. I was shocked that they recommended we install ad-blockers as a corporate policy. I r
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
This is a talking point for the environmental left, but it's not really true. Ranchers don't get cash subsidies (most other crops do). Farmland, including pastureland, is generally taxed at a lower rate than other lands, but tha
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
This is what treaties are for. To the degree the developed world took this position, it would radically reduce the incentive.
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
I am strongly of the opinion paying cyber ransoms should be a felony punishable by jail time. It's the only cure. Absent that, the question is only how the ransomer gets paid, not whether they hold assets for ransom.
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
I've never understood how deflation could ever be a concern in countries that print their own money. Can you not just print your way out of it every time?
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
But literally nobody is proposing removing all guns from a society. Rather, even the most aggressive proposals merely confine them to government actors, usually a standing army. Confining guns to government actors means lethal violence is m
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
So, if guns are in both places, what accounts for the different outcomes? Could it be something other than guns?
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My kids don’t go through metal detectors. The mistake here is to presume large urban centers define the US.
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Yes.
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I use Fastmail. Delivery has been fine. My only challenge with .email was that some services wouldn't take the address as a valid email address.
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I had .email for a while. Many shopping sites wouldn't actually let you use the address, presumably given some filter assuming that "email" was a fake address. Because my name ends with "ss", I switched over to .e
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
FWIW - I’ve used both Cake Wallet and Edge Wallet on iOS and both work very well. Fast, cheap, reliable transactions.
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
Such a cynical position. I predict there will be domestic calls in the near future to significantly curtail the US's extraordinary benevolence -- nobody seems to appreciate it anyway. And that will benefit nobody other than maybe Chi
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
Which just blows my mind. At a total US development aid of $34 billion in 2019, China is the only country that even comes close. The US's giving in the last fifty years (including massive sums to China) has been unparalleled in recor
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
Wow. So the idea is that we want them to wear out more quickly so that they buy a new product that's more energy efficient? That strikes me as terribly wasteful. What about the impacts of a discarded appliance?
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
Yes. For small island countries like New Zealand it works "great." This was never an option for countries like the US, or even most of Europe. Much less so for countries like India. But we'll see how it goes. If New Zeala
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
Excess mortality rates aren’t relevant at all to the lethality of the delta variant in children relative to prior strains. Overall mortality isn’t even asking the right question, and it’s a very poor proxy even for the lethality rate of SAR
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
>” The virus is under control in countries where the vaccine rollout has been swift.” Israel would like a word with you. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628...
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
I’m pro vaccine, but requiring I take a test or prove my trustworthiness strike me as fundamentally different than requiring I inject something in my body.
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
The odds are overwhelmingly high they won’t with COVID either. Let’s not forget that the survival rate in all populations is well north of 90%. Parent age populations closer to 99%. Even higher if the parents are vaccinated.
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It seems one option is to increase hospital capacity. There should be ways to do this without needing more RNs and MDs.
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It does once you have sufficient karma. Also, you’re wrong. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-booster-shot-cdc-...
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
I meant “declining.” Revised simultaneous with your comment. If the vaccine immunity does not persist and requires boosters, we will never reach global here immunity. The parent article is on point.
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More dangerous than what? Even if it were 200% more lethal, 2x a very small number is still a very small number.
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Given global vaccination rates, it will have abundant and plentiful opportunities for breeding and mutation forever. There is no vaccinating the entire globe for coronavirus. Certainly not in our lifetimes. And not given the declining effec
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Except that in kids COVID is about as lethal as the ordinary flu. It’s more transmissible, but the number of kids we’ve seen suffer serious consequences across the US has been very, very low. We don’t make kids wear helmets everywhere they

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