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by imperio59 5y ago
I wonder if the governments enforcing mandates have a legitimate reason to enforce them. There FTFY.
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Novak Djokovic arrested in Australia, despite winning in court case(firstsportz.com)
2 points by imperio59 5y ago|1 comments
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by imperio59 5y ago
Or you have the reverse issue, where the child is abusive. I watched my step son berate his mom for almost a decade before she finally was able to end the toxic relationship and cut him off for good. He was completely spoiled, was never phy
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by imperio59 5y ago
If only it worked for more than a few months at a time it might be worth it for more people. As of right now natural immunity is still much much better protection for those who have already recovered from COVID.
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Today’s Disneyland is a price gouge, not a magical experience(sfgate.com)
92 points by imperio59 5y ago|133 comments
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by imperio59 5y ago
He forgot to mention hiding sensitive information behind a JS-powered script that had the password saved in the clear in the script on the page, and then disabling right-click events so you couldn't inspect the source of the page to fi
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A Chinese CEO Stole Control of All of ARM's Intellectual Property(youtube.com)
6 points by imperio59 5y ago|0 comments
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by imperio59 5y ago
France has a long tradition of the "BD" (Bande Dessine = Comic Books) and a thriving community of illustrators and writers who make them. There are many great series which a lot of us French kids grew up with who had pretty intric
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New Discovery Shows Human Cells Can Write RNA Sequences into DNA(scitechdaily.com)
5 points by imperio59 5y ago|0 comments
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by imperio59 5y ago
I hope there's no accident of course. That said, Tchernobyl and the cost of managing that disaster is seen by many historians as the event that bankrupted the USSR and ended its communist regime for good. If a disaster does happen one
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by imperio59 5y ago
Apple runs its own Ad network for app advertisements. They conveniently do not need to deal with iOS 14 requirements when it comes to using their users' data to target ads and track app installs in their own network. Can you say monopo
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by imperio59 6y ago
Is it such a crazy concept that one pays taxes partly to cover the costs of schools, and that one would therefore like to have the benefit of said school to watch and educate their kids during the day? These people who make snarky comments
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by imperio59 6y ago
My experience doing perf optimizations in real world systems with many many people writing code to the same app is a lot of inefficiencies happen due to over fetching data, inefficiencies caused by naively using the ORM without understandin
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by imperio59 6y ago
Prediction of phenomena in a repeatable fashion is the hallmark of all good science. Very few of what pass for sciences today in our world, save for the sciences of chemistry and large parts of physics, have achieved such precision of predi
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by imperio59 6y ago
Did you know Electric shock is still a very lucrative business in the USA, while the United Nations has deemed involuntary ECT (which is allowed if court-ordered in the US) as torture? Meanwhile the FDA recently re-classified ECT as Categor
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by imperio59 6y ago
In your experience, do they get better after their stint in the psych ward, or are they pretty much the same, or are they worse? My experience dealing with the homeless on the streets of Seattle is they seemed to either stay the same or get
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by imperio59 6y ago
If the arrest record is warranted, I fail to see your point. The outcome of not having a record when you probably should have one is probably net worse for society, given it won't show up later on a background check, for example.
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by imperio59 6y ago
I had a friend who was essentially committed against her will. She was never grabbed violently or thrown into a van. She was calmly told they would be committing her, then asked to strip and change into a gown, told to take the medication o
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by imperio59 6y ago
Maybe the 3-4 people in Denver are fine. The issues come with scaling this up nation wide to where you have tens of thousands of variously trained "health professionals" where outcomes will not necessarily match what you're s
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by imperio59 6y ago
See the article at the bottom of my original comment for the Buzzfeed investigation into UnitedHealthCare psych wards. That was targeting adults, not children. However, involuntary commitment of children (and subsequent rape too many of the
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by imperio59 6y ago
Being a minority tends to mean in America that you have a higher chance of growing up in areas with bad education, poor economic situations, and higher crime rates. These are all factors that lead people to poor mental health, to drug abuse
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by imperio59 6y ago
Agree for the case of oncology. Disagree for psychiatry. The evidence is mounting that vitamins may actually be just as good a treatment for most people with mild depression or other similar ailments vs SSRIs and other psychiatric drugs. So
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by imperio59 6y ago
I once had a cop issue me a moving violation for Jay walking. So I understand that there can be pettiness from certain cops. But that's a far cry from a cop being violent against someone or killing someone wrongfully. The justice syste
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by imperio59 6y ago
People sue for unlawful arrest and bad police behavior and win all the time. Check out this YouTube channel dedicated to covering just that... https://youtube.com/c/AuditTheAudit
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by imperio59 6y ago
This article has goods stats. https://quillette.com/2020/06/11/racist-police-violence-reco... TL;DR: looking at numbers killed by police in absolute is meaningless. You also need to consider how many of these
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by imperio59 6y ago
In my observation a lot of the homeless in the camps with mental health issues are on medication or have been through mental health facilities several times and it just made things worse for them Source: working on the streets of Seattle a
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by imperio59 6y ago
Psychiatry does not know how to cure mental illness. At best it knows how to medicate it and alleviate symptoms while causing very serious or deadly side effects. Investing more money into this doesn't solve the societal issues which c
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by imperio59 6y ago
I understand the media loves to hype these things when they happen, and they are all tragic incidents, but when you take a look at how often that actually happens compared to other things that can end your life, you realize it's really
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by imperio59 6y ago
No one is talking about the very big risk associated with this, that mental health professionals can commit you against your will with no trial, which is an erosion of civil liberties (incarceration without trial). Having known several frie
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by imperio59 6y ago
Experimenting with people's lives is not a responsible way to experiment. No one is denying these drugs are harmful, yet Oregon is basically saying "go ahead, it's fine, use these drugs". Seeing what is happening with th

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