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by jMyles 3y ago
update: Just cut five more bluegrass tracks in East Nashville. :-) You'll hear them soon. You can hear my last record here: https://justinholmes.com/music/vowel-sounds/
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> Creators need to be compensated, absolutely, I'm working full-time on this issue, just in the context of my own music project. Stay tuned!
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> In an effort to "avoid the growth of piracy", Plex asked GitHub to remove a repository that allows people to reshare libraries that were not originally theirs. I am so sick of the policing of copying of data masquerading as
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A theory being a conspiracy theory is unrelated to whether or not NSF has funded a particular study. The two question are very simple: * What is the crime being planned? * Who are the conspirators? If there are cognizable answers to those -
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Even when (maybe especially when) people greviously harm others for profit, prison still doesn't make sense. How is putting this person in a cage (and filling the coffers of prison profiteers) supposed to restore his victims?
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Maybe to follow users during a single discrete trip through the space?
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This only applies to projects whose authors seek to comply with the whims of a particular jurisdiction. Surely there are plenty of project prospects - even commercial in nature - which don't have this limitation.
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Whew! As a long-time lover of The Green Pill, it was great getting to sit down and talk about a few of my favorite topics with Kevin. Studying and telling the weird and wonderful origin story of cypherpunk, and its roots in Grateful Dead ta
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The unlikely shared origins of bluegrass and blockchains [video](youtube.com)
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> Is the quintessential experience meant to be soulless and grating? Of course not. Few things in life are more fulfilling than a job you absolutely love and are excited to whack at every single day. But your question raises another one
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Really takes the "inter" out of it, doesn't it?
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* researchers and clinicians
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> This is where Covid is listed on the death certificate as the primary cause of death. Everyone that dies of cardiac arrest or cancer also has a belly button. Where are you getting death certificate data for 2023? I can't seem to
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I don't see anybody advocating for no public health measures - perhaps you might consider that the views of others are as nuanced as yours. > Or, just go to pre-1950s graveyards and gather data on how many dead children there were b
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Of course. And John Ioannidis. And Jay Bhattacharya. And Martin Kulldorf. And Stefan Baral. And Sunetra Gupta. And Vinay Prasad. And dozens of other acclaimed researchers who represent the core of the incredible, laudable, essential, dear
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> Covid is still over 2% of all deaths in the U.S. The presence of a particular pathogen (or for that matter, any phenomena) coincident with death is not a meaningful metric. Nearly 100% of human deaths involve a person with a belly butt
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I think any reasonable observer can conclude that we have reached a point in the discussion in which it is evident that you are not participating in good faith. > That sentence is not in question. It doesn't exist anywhere in the re
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> Shooting a virus at a masked mannequin in a lab Your point is even stronger than you make it sound. Nobody shot a virus at anything. They shot beads of polystyrene latex. If you woke up from a dream where such a study occurred, you&#x2
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Please, I beg for your sensibility and brief attention here. This issue continues to tear fissures in what seem like otherwise reasonable and literate communities. The sentence in question is: "Wearing masks in the community probably
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> I'd more restate it as "for a given population size, enough people would mess up that making everyone wear one would not slow the spread of the disease". ...but this is even less conservative than the review summary, whi
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Yeah, seems so. So the tests are good as confirmatory devices. But yeah, it was extremely unserious when they were used to gatekeep public events, etc. The reasonable presumption has always been that transmission of respiratory pathogens wi
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In an unlikely turn of events, you appear to be an actual human and not a bot (from a cursory look at your comment history). So I say, gently: > because evidently your approach to life prioritizes your immediate gratification Do you gen
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Well put. Though I suspect that the overwhelming majority of the sentiment to which you are referring is being carried by bots and not real humans. It's a difficult time to be empirically-driven, though hopefully we will come out bette
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My presumption is that the downvotes are related to this unsourced and incorrect assertion: > As we know, COVID infections are almost unknown when infected individuals consistently wear a high-quality fitted mask.
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...this link is not a new RCT. It is an article about the Cochrane review which we all read a long time ago. And, despite the (somewhat reasonable) chagrin expressed by the authors, the Cochrane review did indeed show that masks are largel
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When you say, "so bad", you mean in terms of sensitivity? They seem to be sufficiently selective, but under-sensitive. So, not great for risk aversion.
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You say this as if it is established fact, but there has been no RCT convincingly showing the effect you are describing - typically called "source control" - can be achieved from the use of a respirator to interdict individual tra
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> boeing is needed for national sovereignty concerns. Same reasons all other countries have flagship carriers. Is there a connection between flag carrier airlines and aircraft manufacturing? That never occurred to me, since most flag c
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I agree with you 100% on your assessment of what can be known, but I think I disagree nearly as strongly on your assessment of the humanity that springs from attempting to know it. To exist in the state you describe - with neither start sta
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> we haven't made any new discoveries in cosmology in the past two decades Is that true? At least for my hobbyist understanding of the progress of cosmology, quite a lot seems to have happened in the past two decades. Confirmation o

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