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by md_ 5y ago
> Why must I be vaccinated if the vaccine doesn't prevent spread? Well, it does reduce spread, right? That said, > Join the feedlot if you want but I will not, I have been doing just fine as my own master, I need not the yoke o
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by md_ 5y ago
> Edit: One thing that puzzles me though - Why is nobody talking about those that are immune or already have the antibodies and don't need a vaccine? Why force them to have it if those vaccinated are safe? The mRNA vaccines do appea
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by md_ 5y ago
Not true. Germany has the "three g" mandate (and it has faced significant pushback). France has no vaccination mandate but does have policies to encourage it, which have also faced massive protests. Both and the US have first-dose
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by md_ 5y ago
Sure. I wasn't knocking your effort--I just always think of this comment when people talk about "what it takes to be successful." The reality is just that it's complicated and multifaceted.
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by md_ 5y ago
A decade and a half ago I was at Microsoft when the interns were all invited to BillG's house for their annual picnic. At the end of the picnic Bill comes out to answer questions. Some eager young intern raises their hand and asks, &qu
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by md_ 5y ago
OK, so serious question: what's the cool tech in Allbirds? I'm willing to buy that the wool sneakers are technologically innovative, but my gut instinct is that the S-1 is on HN because, somehow, we've all become convinced th
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by md_ 5y ago
But by definition everyone who’s rich is an outlier. :) The question is, are more of them rich from salary, from capital ownership, or from inherited wealth? In the US, the broad “rich”—about the top 1% by income—overwhelmingly make their i
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by md_ 5y ago
For sure, but isn't this sort of an inherent definitional challenge in such research? It's not a methodological issue. (The methodology itself, of course, has potential issues as well, e.g. as with the "luxury car" categ
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by md_ 5y ago
Interesting find. But my go to research for selfishness and class is https://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086 .
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by md_ 5y ago
Heh. I subscribe to the New Yorker. Every week I open it on Monday and I probably read about half of it by Sunday. I live in Europe, so I'm keenly aware of when the weekly issue comes out. (Due to timezone differences, it's typica
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by md_ 5y ago
Agreed! I wish more people would focus on that, instead of being focused on one particular prison resident (and far from the most sympathetic, in my view).
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by md_ 5y ago
Thanks for the polite reply. :)
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by md_ 5y ago
To paraphrase @popehat, this is just how federal prisons are. (OK, I don't know how such prisons are in the UK, but presumably they're bad.) That's a Bad Thing, for sure. But I suspect most of Assange's fans aren't
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by md_ 5y ago
For sure. But I think there's value in both focusing on systemic issues, as you say, and in associating individuals with the indelible stain of their own immoral actions. You can say that the rise of the Nazis was due to flaws in t
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by md_ 5y ago
> I think it provides a worthwhile perspective as to the motivations of the US and what actions it considers to be important enough to put non-trivial effort and resources towards the pursuit and punishment of. "The US" is not
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by md_ 5y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/18/james-mitchell... This also contains this amusing aside: "He also criticized Obama’s healthcare policy – a 'shit sandwich' – and his administr
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by md_ 5y ago
Among the key figures in the design of American torture programs during the War on Terror were American psychologists James Elmer Mitchell ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Elmer_Mitchell ) and Bruce Jessen ( https:&
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by md_ 5y ago
These kinds of comments detract from the horror of the crimes in Guantanamo. It reminds me a bit of when Americans opposed to mask mandates liken them to having to wear yellow Stars of David. Guantanamo detainees were tortured with stress p
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by md_ 5y ago
For sure. I have problems with some policy approaches taken here. My point is only that a glib “consumption has nothing to do with production and is thus fine” argument is pretty absurd.
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by md_ 5y ago
Surely (some) people do pay for legally porn. Otherwise whose paying the costs of production?
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by md_ 5y ago
Oh, I was just joking about the author’s prominent pgp key: https://moxie.org/2015/02/24/gpg-and-me.html .
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by md_ 5y ago
I think there are a few theories here: 1. CSAM production may be incentivized by consumers (either because they pay for it or because they serve to encourage the producers). 2. CSAM may (as, famously, with Backpage) be an advertisement for
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by md_ 5y ago
I’m reminded of Moxie Marlinspike’s comment about emails that come with a PGP signature.
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by md_ 5y ago
Note the point I made elsewhere: that you’re likely to draw on your “cash” emergency fund in times of market downturn. (E.g., you lose your job because of layoffs due to a market crash.) Having that “emergency fund” be invested in the marke
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by md_ 5y ago
"Today, banks invest customers' deposits and keep the returns mostly for themselves (the national average interest rate is just 0.03% [2])." Yes, but banks aren't just turning around and investing deposits in the S&P
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by md_ 5y ago
That's a fair point. I don't think the issue is that open source software has fewer dead ends--it's easy to adopt an open source tool that later loses critical mass--but rather that proprietary hardware+software combinations
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by md_ 5y ago
Repairability seems like only half the story. The devices you list are all mostly non-networked; nobody cares about security vulnerabilities in your NES because it isn't connected to the Internet and handling highly confidential inform
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by md_ 5y ago
> A phrase that I didn't use. For sure. :) My point was only that there's a weirdly fine line between asking readers to be critical--which I think is valid--and the crank-laden calls to "do your own research."
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by md_ 5y ago
There's a lot of valid criticism to be had, but the alternative of "doing your own research"* is a little bit facile. Real people who are actually engaged in the business of participating in society--holding down jobs, going
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by md_ 5y ago
Is your point that running ads is equivalent to the deceptive practices described in the original article? If so, can you make that a little more explicitly than your three-word argument ending in "etc"? It seems to me, on its fac

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