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by headsoup 5y ago
Sorry I may have misinterpreted. So the pass does actually provide live covid status (positive/negative)? That's interesting, I thought they just showed vaccine status
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by headsoup 5y ago
Sorry I mean more in terms of attitudes towards protesting against increasing government authority. As in 'oh sure I suppose the government could use those powers in an authoritarian manner, but as if they would, so protesting is un
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by headsoup 5y ago
How about we force gastric bands on everyone instead to stop this obesity pandemic, the death toll is unbearable any longer. That sound 'trendy' for you? Just need to media to drum up all the fear about how eating crap is contag
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by headsoup 5y ago
It all feels too eerily familiar to those dismissing privacy concerns because 'well if you don't have anything to hide you shouldn't be worried.' As if vaccine passports and mandates etc would be used for anything not po
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by headsoup 5y ago
You do realise the passport doesn't actually provide any information on whether you do or don't have covid, right?
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by headsoup 5y ago
Of course, but there are probably thousands of other decisions we make through life that could increase or decrease our chance 1%. Yeah, statistics and graphs can be a special type of evil
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by headsoup 5y ago
As is never highlighted, especially in media, is that it's relative risk reduction. Going by their study (and simplifying for argument's sake), there were 10k strokes out of 365k subjects, so <3% risk. A 30% risk reduction me
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by headsoup 5y ago
I don't disagree with you, but you didn't exactly refute the point of 'low standards' just by using multiple OSes ;)
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by headsoup 5y ago
Not to mention Facebook gathering a dataset that is a virtual replica of your physical self. Imagine how much that would me sold on for...
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by headsoup 5y ago
Is this only referring to executive meetings, project meetings, or what? Most meetings I'm in finish within 30 minutes so doubling that to sit and read notes sounds pointless, even if it reduces total meetings by half. Wait, wait, in
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by headsoup 5y ago
No, Apple's clever marketing department 'solved' the digital music problem. The iPod was a clunky, unintuitive and buggy product (not to mention the horrors of iTunes), but people didn't care because it was the 'thi
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by headsoup 5y ago
My point is not going about going backwards, it's realising there isn't infinite growth that we just need to solve for
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by headsoup 5y ago
It sure was, I have the ZuneHD still, it's still a beautiful device with an intuitive UI and nice clean software. Pity MS never figured out how to compete in marketing against existing sentiment and Apple (with their horribly clunky U
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by headsoup 5y ago
No, artificial meat is not. Always looking for solutions to the symptoms of the root cause, which is feeding overpopulation. We don't expect to hit a human carrying capacity, we expect to 'solve' that problem with technology
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by headsoup 5y ago
Are we still in 'the early stages?' We seem to always be in the early stages of blockchain/bitcoin.
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by headsoup 5y ago
You haven't actually provided any evidence in any of your responses, just arguments and hypotheticals.
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by headsoup 5y ago
Um, aren't they already doing this, or are Zuckerberg, Murdoch and co now not billionaires? Or are we now getting into the post-misinformation/disinformation war where truth is redefined again for us? Long shot, but maybe people m
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by headsoup 5y ago
That would hurt!
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by headsoup 5y ago
They are stuck in a tricky situation. To admit they have responsibility means they should have set up code of conduct with manageable moderation from the outset (or at least not have open public pages). Alternatively, would you trust Faceb
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by headsoup 5y ago
I think you're misreading me. I'm not on the denier side. I personally think we're spending far too much time around defining the problem (or that it exists...) instead of systematic approaches to change not driven by indus
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by headsoup 5y ago
Of course, my thoughts are that's fine so long as those proposing or supporting alternatives may still do so, rather than be silenced entirely. This based on where political interference abuses the scientific consensus or manipulates i
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by headsoup 5y ago
Alright, make it simpler then. There was once broad consensus the earth was flat. I believe the OP's point was around consensus as truth, rather than which example is used to demonstrate...
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by headsoup 5y ago
Indeed. And while we can confidently agree with an outcome and believe evidence as we please, it is dangerous when we decide that consensus means we should no longer consider other opinions and then worse, actively shut them down to preven
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by headsoup 5y ago
Might as well buy all the devices you can then of course!
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by headsoup 5y ago
And the fact the mRNA method is not technically a vaccine as such (excepting that they've changed the definition since). The vaccine was sold as the ticket to freedom with early claims that it prevents spread and death. It does neithe
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by headsoup 5y ago
Define 'perform.'
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by headsoup 5y ago
Those ant lab slo-mo videos are awesome. Can't say I haven't binged a few times on them on YouTube (lockjaw ants, springtails, Etc). A lot of the insects do look completely silly taking off though, sometimes like they're a m
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by headsoup 5y ago
Tether in the past have created millions of tokens out of thin air, so could just be that again... Speak of the devil, look what's popped up on HN: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypt
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by headsoup 5y ago
Probably the Tether execs doing the old pump and dump to cash in before they face the subpoenas and the downward spiral of criminal reckoning... I doubt anything was 'bought,' probably more likely 'traded.'
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by headsoup 5y ago
The most common thing I see of late is people apparently reading the minds of the unvaccinated and drawing conclusions on their behalf so they can judge them.

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