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by mikem170 5y ago
Presidents can use the power to declare war for political purposes, i.e. start a war after a scandal, or before an election, etc. They can also be bribed, just like the politicians in congress. The constitution grants congress the power to
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by mikem170 5y ago
They can already identify people wearing masks [0]: > a normal face mask doesn’t help you ‘evade’ facial recognition [0] https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/4511/can-covi...
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Even worse, wait until you somehow acidently find yourself on the shoplifter list. Who are they going to believe, the all knowing facial recognition algorithm, or the lying thief it just identified? What company is going to budget the time
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by mikem170 5y ago
Wifi and/or bluetooth media addresses, which are unique. I've heard that wifi tracks you to the store, bluetooth to the aisle in the store. A lot of people have all this enabled on their phones, right? Then there's the apps i
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From this list [0]: Albertson's, H.E.B., Macy's, and Apple at the moment, and there's a whole list of companies that said they might use it in the future. EDIT: elsewhere in these comments someone stated that Apple does not u
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by mikem170 5y ago
The "grown by 67 percent" phrase in the main article links to another redfin article with the specific figures.
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From the end of the article: > In sum, of the 14 RCTs that have tested the effectiveness of masks in preventing the transmission of respiratory viruses, three suggest, but do not provide any statistically significant evidence in intentio
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by mikem170 5y ago
> all the hedge funds are swooping in with dark money, dark legal and dark politics I'm concerned about this also. I wonder if this is something that can be mitigated somehow via referendum? It seems wrong if the will of the people
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by mikem170 5y ago
The extra sources I quoted support the original preliminary contention that vaccine immunity looks like it may be decreasing over time, and that natural immunity is better. Do you object specifically to the 6.72 number they calculated with
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by mikem170 5y ago
Yep, preliminary data. Do you think they made it up? Apparently health officials in Israel and elsewhere are not dismissing this as misinformation. Those preliminary are consistent with this study which found the same low risk of reinfectio
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by mikem170 5y ago
This seems to be confirmed by data collected in Israel: [0] > More than 7,700 new cases of the virus have been detected during the most recent wave starting in May, but just 72 of the confirmed cases were reported in people who were know
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It seems that the lipid delivery was trickier than the mRNA payload: > Over more than 3 decades, promising lipids studied in the lab often failed to live up to their potential when tested in animals or humans. Positively charged lipids a
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by mikem170 5y ago
You have an automated system like an ivr with voice recognition collect sensitive info. You don't have sensitive info on an agent's screens. You don't collect unnecessary personal info.
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by mikem170 5y ago
My guess is that it's not just about securing data, it's also about looking over everyone's should to be sure they look like they are working. Instead of having a supervisor for every ten people to spot check calls and go ove
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by mikem170 5y ago
How about an ivr with voice recognition to process credit card transactions over the phone, that agents can engage during a customer call as needed, getting the customer back when the ivr is done collecting their sensitive info or authentic
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by mikem170 5y ago
Not the poster you are replying to, but I'll bite, out of curiosity about your thinking... > Is this offering anything more substantive than you own bias and suspicions? My take-away from the article is that they found all the bits
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by mikem170 5y ago
That's interesting! > More than 7,700 new cases of the virus have been detected during the most recent wave starting in May, but just 72 of the confirmed cases were reported in people who were known to have been infected previously
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Same source you quoted also says: >Our findings show that most COVID-19 patients induce a wide-ranging immune defense against SARS-CoV-2 infection, encompassing antibodies and memory B cells recognizing both the RBD and other regions of
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The article also said: > hitting a high of 74 degrees Fahrenheit on July 29 at the Nerleit Inaat Airport
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by mikem170 5y ago
Do you really think covid cold be eradicated? The only virus we ever eradicated was smallpox, and only because that didn't have an animal reserve. Covid will keep jumping between animals and humans. There are at least a dozen different
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by mikem170 5y ago
Used to be while he was actually in China. Apparently he had some trouble with the authorities, falling on the wrong side of some rules that apply to journalists, and left the country in a hurry. After that it seems that he found that he co
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by mikem170 5y ago
Nations engage in a lot of propaganda themselves to ensure their citizens feel that way, things like the pledge of allegiance every day in school, the way history is taught, the anthems before football games, national news and what is prese
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He's right on this: > SARS-CoV-2 is also carried by animals, which some hypothesize can spread the disease to humans. We will need to rid ourselves of dogs, cats, mink, bats and more to get to zero. Which means the headline is corre
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by mikem170 5y ago
Becuase the flu is unique in this regard, it divides and recombines as a matter of course, that's why they number the combinations, like h1n1, h1n2, etc. Most other viruses, including coronaviruses, don't do that like the influenz
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by mikem170 5y ago
> Spreading negative implication and opinion about a third party is and should remain protected expression. In the U.K. it is. You can publish the truth, and you can publish your opinion. You can't publish lies. For someone to sue y
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> But is there any evidence that this matters or has a noticeable impact? I came across this paper [0] that seemed to be saying their tests showed that the vaccine antibodies better handled the receptor mutations they created (how much b
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> can't think of a logical reason why it would be more effective than a vaccine based on the original virus. Because the body's immune system can target the entire virus, and not just the spike protein.
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Not even if they are causing you real harm by lying? Other countries don't allow as much of that as the U.S. does, like the U.K. for example [0]: > "English laws are much more favorable for someone looking to protect their repu
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by mikem170 5y ago
The libel and slander laws in the U.K. different than in the U.S. [0]: > "English laws are much more favorable for someone looking to protect their reputation," says Jenny Afia, a lawyer in London who often represents people ma
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by mikem170 5y ago
I wonder if a country with different libel laws would help her? For example, I've heard it's easier to sue for libel in the UK than in the US.

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