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by lixtra 6y ago
Since I seem to get downvoted for adding doubt to the paper in my comment, I move it here: The study does not look into other east German cities like Weimar[1] or Rostock that showed a similar drop in positive tests without mask obligations
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by lixtra 6y ago
To summarize the paper: The authors compute a sophisticated average of German cities and compare the weighted number of positive SARS-CoV-2 tests to the city of Jena for a timespan of one month starting just before masks became obligatory t
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by lixtra 6y ago
To be precise, the 200,000 reindeer were culled [1]. [1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10393-020-01474-z...
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by lixtra 6y ago
What do you mean by bare metal? Booting into python (or basic) would probably take less than 1h for someone who knows what they are doing.
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by lixtra 6y ago
> In theory, this is the kind of thing that the GPL v3 was trying to address: roughly speaking, if you host & run a service that is derived from GPL-v3'd software, you are obliged to publish your modifications. You mean AGPL ht
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by lixtra 6y ago
I don’t believe this. If you manage to use the git CLI you’re not put off by bad bitbucket UI. My explanation would be: Git won because it was used for Linux and because it was fastest where it mattered.
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by lixtra 6y ago
If it was about doing better the approach would be constructive: We should include B into the curriculum and to make place I propose A to go.
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by lixtra 6y ago
> You could tell three things about Bill Gates pretty quickly. He was really smart. He was really competitive; he wanted to show you how smart he was. And he was really, really persistent. Of course he was also a lier (vapor ware). And a
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by lixtra 6y ago
I’m suspicious of the green checkmarks and red crosses in this context. If the argument is convincing you don’t need it. If it’s bogus the nice design may take your attention away from it. A convincing design is more important to propaganda
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by lixtra 6y ago
> While there is ~500m km2 of land on the planet, only about 60m km2 is habitable (less desert, poles, mountains etc). Not inhabited, habitable. So yes that's not only sufficient to wipe out all population centers, it's double
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by lixtra 6y ago
It might make them more attractive to the next generation of founders, especially if it is widely communicated as here. Advertising money well spent?
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by lixtra 6y ago
(Industrial) Espionage is the ius prima noctis of superpowers. http://cryptome.org/echelon-nh.htm
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by lixtra 6y ago
> Recording from the radio is technically unlawful I thought this was settled the other way in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Uni... .
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by lixtra 6y ago
You mean like everything is a file and you could build pipelines of simple commands to modify your data? That’s genius!
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by lixtra 6y ago
> What exactly are they doing with your computer that harms you in any direct way. Remember the Sony root kit[1]? So we agree that the measures were harmful in the past. Of course you wouldn’t ask if we were widely aware of current issue
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by lixtra 6y ago
I remember a time when altavista was a the only serious search engine around. I recently switched from google to ddg on mobile because I got sick of clicking away the privacy waiver in private mode. If ddg would deliver better search result
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by lixtra 6y ago
They propose to install Firefox to work around the root certificate problem on old android devices. But can’t you just manually install their root certificate on most phones?
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by lixtra 6y ago
> Not even remotely the same thing. Well, Mt. Gox and Bitcoin? Not even remotely the same thing.
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by lixtra 6y ago
Lehmann alone lost almost 300B USD of others peoples money. Banks are safe until they aren’t.
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by lixtra 6y ago
He has an instagram profile with an update nov 2018.
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by lixtra 6y ago
See also the time line [1]. I wonder if this open an opportunity for other companies offering on premise in the same niche. [1] https://www.atlassian.com/migration/key-offering-changes?tab...
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Atlassian moving to cloud only by 2024(atlassian.com)
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by lixtra 6y ago
If the item is expensive enough you can also negotiate a discount for not paying by credit card.
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by lixtra 6y ago
> You know, the stuff that the public health experts have been recommending throughout? I thought 8 months ago experts agreed that paper masks were useless for the general public. 30? years ago herd immunity was an agreed approach for me
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by lixtra 6y ago
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. Not being close to other people is the most effective measure to stop this pandemic. Wearing a mask while sitting in a badly ventilated room with many others is considered high risk by most experts. Wh
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by lixtra 6y ago
>> If you say none [...] Maybe I should have used: In case you say none > I didn't say anything even approaching that. Please don't try to put words in my mouth. Neither did GP umvi say anything approaching >>> [
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by lixtra 6y ago
> Out of curiosity, if 200,000+ deaths in the US doesn't constitute something serious and worthy of attention and efforts to mitigate/minimize the impact of COVID-19, how many deaths would make you change your mind? Out of curi
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by lixtra 6y ago
What about copyright?
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by lixtra 6y ago
How do you deal with the (European) right to be forgotten? On one hand it’s nice that we can see all this old data. On the other hand, as far as I remember in the 90s you typically subscribed to a newsgroup and only then got recent posts. S
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by lixtra 6y ago
Your service did not work as advertised. I asked for https://ku.ag/ to be shortened but it got prolonged to https://ku.ag/5q6w9v1hnp*o Also I noticed that you generate a new link each time. Why?

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