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by kian 5y ago
I'd like to take a moment to appreciate Apple for telegraphing its intentions going forward. And I'm glad to know that anyone who is concerned is a 'screeching minority'.
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by kian 5y ago
I'm glad you've nailed the crux of the problem - if this is no more than a bank making sure you aren't storing stolen diamonds in their bank vaults -- then surely the analogy to bank vaults here is 'the phone you purchas
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by kian 5y ago
It only becomes a war when people are willing to do anything to “win”
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by kian 5y ago
Again - you cannot require a driver's license to cross state lines. Precisely because you cannot be required to present that information in order to move about freely. As long as you aren't the person driving ;) I understand that
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by kian 5y ago
In response to 'but its literally no different than having to get a vaccine to travel to certain countries', we literally (as in have a literal - written word - constitution) that explicitly prohibits the prevention of movement be
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by kian 5y ago
Every synapse is itself a protuberance caused and maintained by microtubules. If the previous estimates of computational power are based on the mere integration of synaptic activity (I'm looking at you, Kurzweil), and as of late we are
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by kian 5y ago
It's never reasonable to lie to people about the medical care being given. It's a reasonable argument against vaccination because they were lied to about what they were given . If you wish to narrowly interpret this as purely &#x
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by kian 5y ago
If you're statistically discriminating, it doesn't matter if you're correct in any particular case - just that on average, you're more right than wrong. Just because you searched for heart issues doesn't mean you ha
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by kian 5y ago
I hope so as well ;)
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by kian 5y ago
A cure worse than the disease. Also wouldn't stop the military from building up a drone army and then someone within it choosing to go rogue and take it with them. It only ensures that no one else can stop them.
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by kian 5y ago
The argument used to be quite frequent that sterilizing prostitutes, “mental defectives”, and criminals was in fact a public health and safety measure, as was aborting the unborn of said individuals against their will - that is the reasonin
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by kian 5y ago
Given that plants growing at a faster rate due to increased CO2 seems to decrease their mineral density, I wonder if there is a similar effect here. There is no mention of micronutrient content in the original paper.
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by kian 5y ago
Those patrons are often more successful Substack journalists, these days, who double as the outlet in which they publish.
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by kian 5y ago
As long as the ends are not the justification for the means...
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by kian 5y ago
I believe the entire thrust of this article is that the noble lie to achieve policy objectives backfires in spectacular and predictable ways, because it erodes trust in the statements made by officials and experts. Regardless of where your
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by kian 5y ago
I believe that the person you are responding to is basically telling you that 'utilitarianism' is an unethical moral view, to them. Either that, or that there is no utilitarian who is capable of competently calculating the cost of
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by kian 5y ago
In combination with their comments here, they now appear to be a person of integrity who shares mutual interests. Enjoy the life you create for yourself.
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by kian 5y ago
It feels quite possible to me that, despite total comp tracking productivity, wages ceasing to track work productivity could still cause increased anxiety due to a lack of choice in how to spend that fraction of compensation. Health Care as
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by kian 5y ago
Pretty much the opposite of that. I meant that I read some of his other posts and I would love to talk with him about some music-tech related things. But, I’m glad you’ve created a self-consistent world for yourself in which every statement
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by kian 5y ago
Thank you for speaking sanity. Is there any easy way to get in touch? I would love to talk.
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by kian 5y ago
People who disagree with you must be borderline mentally defective? This is unnecessary and against the HN guidelines. If you replaced those three categories with ones that describe any 'protected class' of people, I think you wou
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by kian 5y ago
And here I thought the author was making a pithy observation about the fact that history is always written by the victors, and therefor almost always a form of disinformation about the losers.
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by kian 5y ago
It seems a shame to downvote someone who is so genuinely trying to help in this situation. The moment the populace falls for 'far right' rhetoric, it becomes, by definition, centric rhetoric, in the same way that what was once &#x
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by kian 5y ago
Since we are all about curbing misinformation these days, when are we going to start censoring government officials for misinforming us about the dangers of misinformation? After all, it was government health officials responsible for &quot
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by kian 5y ago
To be clear here, looking for conditions that include more than one gene as influencers, and potentially multiple conditions at a time, due to this.
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by kian 5y ago
There is no need to violate the principle of charity or HN norms. Whether or not the gp meant Democrats, do you really think that atheists, agnosts, members of all other religions, scientists, artists, spiritualists, conspiracy theorists, a
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by kian 5y ago
Insurance companies will be all over personal data (search, location, and profiles) so that they can statistically discriminate against their clients beyond what they have been thus far able. HIPAA is fairly toothless in many ways, and does
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by kian 5y ago
No one likes being outed as a hypocrite - even alone in the privacy of home ;)
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by kian 5y ago
It is interesting how nbc news now sells geopolitical opposition to China by pointing out that unifying Taiwan is part of a plan to “make China great again”. How quickly we have gone from any commentary about the dangers of the CCP being Tr
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by kian 5y ago
His point was that in a country where there are, say, two extra men per ten women, then a large number of those men, no matter how hard they work or try, are destined to be alone for life. If we are talking a country of a billion people, we

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