jMyles

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by jMyles 5y ago
Protecting kids by eliminating or breaking end-to-end encryption is a contradiction in terms. End-to-end encryption is crucial to protect today's kids. https://blog.nucypher.com/todays-kids-need-end-to-end-encryp...
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by jMyles 5y ago
> why not just disable end to end encryption conversations for users under 16 That is the cohort that _most_ needs end-to-end encryption. https://blog.nucypher.com/todays-kids-need-end-to-end-encryp...
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by jMyles 5y ago
Or, it can simply not exist while we remove the concept of rightful copyright assertion.
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by jMyles 5y ago
*main restriction for the adult-and-privileged cohort. For kids, and marginalized communities, school closures are surely the most noticeable.
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by jMyles 5y ago
I do not believe you are not having this discussion in good faith. If you can't respond to the actual concerns of lockdown skeptics (read: the expressed opinion of a substantial portion of the world's experts which enjoyed near-c
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by jMyles 5y ago
It seems that you are just ignoring my comment, and ignoring the overwhelming wealth of research and expert opinion on this topic. Do I understand correctly that you are saying, for example, that lockdowns will somehow eliminate a virus fro
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by jMyles 5y ago
> What I'm saying is, is that lockdowns technically work. Keep everyone inside (including the delivery guy) and spreading will be reduced. Let's take this one step further. What if we could (hypothetically) isolate the entire p
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by jMyles 5y ago
> I don't understand how you can be skeptical about lockdowns. The virus needs people to come in contact in order to spread. If you reduce contact you reduce spreading. It's the simple fact of the matter. Case closed. Just to c
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by jMyles 5y ago
> Is r/lockdownskepticism also skeptical of vaccination? It's a very heterogenous sub, but I don't think you'll find the kind of anti-vax thinking that suggests that, eg, childhood vaccination is unhelpful to a socie
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by jMyles 5y ago
> This guy made a graph of their data, which makes it a little more clear: As another commenter as has pointed out, the graph in question in included in the PDF version of this preprint (which you can see here: https://www.med
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by jMyles 5y ago
Since we're all sharing our anecdotes... I'm in a someowhat rare position of wanting to consume (and particularly smoke) more cannabis, especially during the work day, but I refrain because of the "anxiety" or "para
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by jMyles 5y ago
This is an incredible piece. BMJ, and Peter Doshi in particular, have really found their heart and done some truth-telling these past months. I particularly like how this piece combines two different aspects of scientific prose. The first
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by jMyles 5y ago
> Nostalgia does not guarantee me personal autonomy. Neither does it guarantee me a right to self defense. Nor does it guarantee a free practice of religion, free press, or a right of association. > Ensuring the survival of a nation s
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by jMyles 5y ago
> I can't figure out if you're talking about a nuclear war changing the world, or a nuclear disarmament process that somehow also leads to energy production. My apologies - the latter.
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by jMyles 5y ago
> The issue at hand is whether a person is willing to get vaxxed, wear a mask, observe local mandates and do various other things for the benefit of others - particularly those who are clinically vulnerable You are incorrect that this is
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by jMyles 5y ago
> That and nukes. Yeah, good point. But I can absolutely envision - without much difficulty - a megatons-to-megawatts motion swiftly bringing an end to this period in Earth's history. And more generally: maintenance of arsenals of
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by jMyles 5y ago
I think it's pretty obvious for those of us living in places "governed" by superpowers that the international affairs of state in which they are currently engaged have no bearing on our individual longevity. The USA state wil
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by jMyles 5y ago
I much prefer that the state which capriciously claims dominion over the land mass on which I happen to exist today should lose a war with one of its childish rivals than to acquire and advance more deadly toys. It may not be a gentlemen&#x
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by jMyles 5y ago
> If you are a major power with the capability to make 100K+ killer drones or similar per year, going to be hard to get you to sign this. Surely the individual decision-makers are, as with all human beings, averse to a world swarming wit
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by jMyles 5y ago
It seems that your qualm is not actually with the author, whose phrasing is not unusual at least to my eye, but with the very concept of age-adjusted mortality as a metric. Public health in concerned in part with: 1) Giving years to life 2)
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by jMyles 5y ago
BMJ has shown a lot of integrity throughout the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. They have repeatedly questioned the claims of vaccine makers, especially Pfizer, in a way that no other serious publication, scientific or corporate, has. They platformed
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by jMyles 5y ago
1) Yes I'm seriously asking this. And administratively delayed 'elective' surgeries are orthogonal to patients being turned away after presenting with illness. I don't deny the former is happening, but it is not clear
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by jMyles 5y ago
> during a f*cking, unsolved pandemic What is an "unsolved" pandemic? And what statistical features of endemic equilibrium do you view as sufficiently absent to judge that this pathogen is still pandemic rather than endemic?
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by jMyles 5y ago
It is not an offensive comment. It is an accurate observation that differentiates this pandemic from others. HIV causes misery for a decade or more before finally visiting death on a person who otherwise might have 60 years to live. Surel
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by jMyles 5y ago
> The new variant is basically a bad cold. Why do we still have these silly mandates?? In the case of more serious disease (which the Alpha, Delta, and other variants perhaps were), the "mandates" (assuming you're referrin
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by jMyles 5y ago
1) Where? Where specifically are patients being turned away today from care due to overcrowding due to COVID-19? 2) If there are clear answers to #1, why in tarnation isn't our response, "OK, we need to improve the health care sy
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by jMyles 5y ago
The thing I don't understand, given all this - and I say this with substantial study in Political Science, including a degree - is why then we still see such widespread admiration of the notion that states are legitimate organizational
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by jMyles 5y ago
To be "basically verbatim," there would need to be a sentence making the same assertion with different wording. It's true that the paper appears to show cognitive differences lasting months among some subsets of people with p
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by jMyles 5y ago
Poorly. The paper in question does not even purport to support this conclusion, when stated in such matter-of-fact terms. It's a very interesting study, with laudable measures taken to overcome confounding factors. But I imagine the
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by jMyles 5y ago
Where is this paradisal isle which is free from people spouting this theory? I'd love to vacation there.

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