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by ls15 4y ago
It was not socially accepted to ask if someone died with Covid or from Covid. To me it is obvious that this alone already leads to wildly inaccurate data. There have been incentive structures for hospitals to make their Covid numbers la
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by ls15 4y ago
> In a revision to a technical paper on their methods, researchers cut Germany’s pandemic-related deaths estimate by 37%, pulling its excess death rate below those of the United Kingdom and Spain1. As a German, this was obvious to me whe
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by ls15 4y ago
> We care deeply about privacy. We will be good stewards of any personal information you share with us (we do not ask for any apart from your email address which can be any email really). We do not log or associate searches with an accou
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by ls15 4y ago
And I should be able to provide fake data to apps out of the box. Some location that I can set manually, an address book with fake contacts, an image/video of my choice instead of camera access, audio for microphone, a directory of my
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by ls15 4y ago
> The field is in its "90's internet phase" right now. Second Life was launched in 2003
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by ls15 4y ago
I think there are mainly two camps of people. Those who prefer remote and those who prefer onsite. Both perspectives are perfectly valid. Ideally, companies would put more focus on what their employees actually want instead of just creating
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by ls15 4y ago
> Conventional banking combines a moderate level of privacy Rather fake than moderate, I would say. https://moguldom.com/351338/fact-check-do-jp-morgan-chase-we... As long as banks can just pretend to protect my pri
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by ls15 4y ago
I can imagine that only a tiny minority of citizens was fine with it when Cyprus' government closed the banks in 2013 for a couple of days and took some additional percents of already taxed balances. Who really would be fine with giv
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by ls15 4y ago
> Uhuh... and if the state, with its monopoly on violence, wishes to ban these currencies? Then some people comply and some don't
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by ls15 4y ago
What about the fuel/transportation cost?
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by ls15 4y ago
Why?
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by ls15 4y ago
I hope there will be a push back to paper ballots. Electronic voting is eroding democracy, because it introduces intransparency via complexity.
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by ls15 4y ago
>> I'm not OK with LibreSignal using our servers, and I'm not OK with LibreSignal using the name "Signal." You're free to use our source code for whatever you would like under the terms of the license, but you
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by ls15 4y ago
Can I get your 808 in exchange for a set of 808 samples? I am asking, because I spent hours, trying to make 808 samples sound like an 808.
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by ls15 4y ago
"Be my guest, but don't touch the food!"
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by ls15 4y ago
> never seen hydroponic potatoes either https://youtu.be/9ck5iEP03g4 Aeroponic potatoes. They don't even need any substrate.
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by ls15 4y ago
Where do other countries get their smartphones and computers from?
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by ls15 4y ago
Maybe it sucks for Bitcoin, because it is becoming a little less relevant, but privacy coins are clearly the best fit for darknet markets. To me, Bitcoin is already commoditized. Wallstreet is already using it. It would be unreasonable to e
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by ls15 4y ago
What's the English word for "jargon"?
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by ls15 4y ago
How was the BIKE_VALUE / LOCK_SECURITY ratio, compared to the surrounding bikes? I always try to achieve the lowest score at the corner where I lock my bike and haven't had a bike stolen for a while.
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by ls15 4y ago
> This isn't the media's job. Their recommendation is to talk with your doctor. This is realistically the only safe suggestion since all of the alternatives are bad. I wish people would lay this blanket advice to rest, unless t
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by ls15 4y ago
Then it sounds like a sampled 808 ("boom") and not like a real 808 ("BOOOOOM")
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by ls15 4y ago
> we need to define what best means. I think we also need to define what drum machine means. To me the MPC mainly is a drum sampler , while the 808 is an analog drum synthesizer. > mpc have a way more possibilities for shaping a so
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by ls15 4y ago
"Best Drum Machine" depends on genre and era. While legendary in many genres, the MPC never was a full replacement for a 808 or a 909 in their fields, even though there are tons of 808 and 909 sample kits for the MPC available.
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by ls15 4y ago
And now all of them needed to be removed!
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by ls15 4y ago
I don't think that a US ban would successfully shut down crypto. Not even a simultaneous US, EU, Russia and China ban. BTC price may adjust accordingly though. > the fiat exchange point is completely bannable. So are drug trades,
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by ls15 4y ago
In 2011 I expected that governments will eventually try do shutdown Bitcoin and that these attempts will ultimately fail, because it would require most governments to tightly collaborate, which I think will not work out, because of conflict
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by ls15 4y ago
Wasn't it called ME/CFS before Covid?
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by ls15 4y ago
Privacy coins are already a subset of cryptocurrencies, so private coins would be a terribly confusing term...
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by ls15 4y ago
Apart from security and privacy implications, phone numbers for 2FA are a major issue when you travel to a country where your number is not working. I had to communicate in a very complicated way with my health insurance because of this. Wh

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