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by mikem170 6y ago
A lot of people in our democracy might not agree with your assessment of this pandemic. A lot of people feel that 1 in 750 people dying, mostly older with comorbidities, is not the disaster for society that some seem to think it is. A lot o
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by mikem170 6y ago
No, In Sweden 1144 out of every million people have died [0], which equates to 1 out of every 874 people. Does 1 out of 874 people dead, mostly elderly and/or with comorbidities, sound bad? Picture a room with 874 people. That's a
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by mikem170 6y ago
The grandparent's original point still stands, this is not the disaster that the headlines portray. The U.S stands at 1 in 750 people dead from covid, mostly elderly with comorbidities, a rate similar to many other countries. That is 0
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by mikem170 6y ago
> What I'm concerned about is the long-term chronical diseases that's been reported When I looked into it I was shocked at how many people have long term affects after the flu. One of the studies I saw in a comprehensive paper
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by mikem170 6y ago
I bought a little hardware bluetooth usb transceiver [0], I plug it in when I want the default sound to come out my usb speakers, it sticks out about a centimeter. I'm happy to make this trade-off, given how consistent and reliable Ope
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by mikem170 6y ago
What if the two-thirds of voters wanted to make a law saying chargers had to interoperate? (using a standard plug) Tesla could still differentiate themselves through better service and infrastructure (I saw other posts describing how bad Le
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by mikem170 6y ago
I've held that point of view, but heard something recently that gave me pause: The high tax rates of the 1960's were the reason that companies paid their employees more and/or invested in research, producing things like Bell
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by mikem170 6y ago
We could start by banning political campaign funding from corporations and unions. I took a look at a handful of western democracies and they all either banned or drastically curtailed this. People need to be in control of their government,
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by mikem170 6y ago
> Covid is not that deadly, so it's worthy of consideration. Right. People seem to loose perspective. In the U.S. we have lost 1 out of 750 people to covid, mostly older and mostly with comorbidities. I assume this number will incre
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by mikem170 6y ago
I can usually find alternatives that works without javascript. Or I find sources outside of the big tracking companies, like openstreetmaps instead of google maps, etc. I'm not a promiscuous browser, if I click on an interesting link a
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by mikem170 6y ago
I browse in firefox with javascript turned off, in ublock, with a bunch of other restrictions [0], and temporary containers. I make exceptions for a couple dozen sites, like my bank, open street maps, etc. Youtube is my only soft spot here,
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by mikem170 6y ago
Could be that. Also could be too much complexity, as opposed to capacity. Could have been timing didn't help, sometimes you take calculated risks or have to deal with additional complexity during migrations, etc. I've even seen wh
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by mikem170 6y ago
Yep, and it's possible that running low on ipv4 address space exacerbated the situation, so many more small routes than there used to be, maybe not all getting summarized during an outage they way they used to be, causing problems on p
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by mikem170 6y ago
Just to add to that, sometimes the redundancy doesn't work out as planned, maybe another weird set of circumstances, or some routers can't handle spikes in load as the network reconverges, causing other reconverges, confusing bgp
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by mikem170 6y ago
And then telco's may move leased fiber to other paths without telling customers, messing up the physical redundancy they thought they had...
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by mikem170 6y ago
I agree with you on calling out the moral absurdities in our health care system, and how that is a reflection on our level of social trust. I'd like to see changes, also. Cynically I would say that politically we have optimized for pro
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by mikem170 6y ago
There's other possible possible confounding factors, like the rise of mass media and the internet, leaving the gold standard and the growth of the finance, increased beaucratization and corporatization of everything, etc. Hard to know
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by mikem170 6y ago
I'm curious, do you think that a high-trust culture tends to be more conformist? I wonder if the two go together.
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by mikem170 6y ago
>It's worst when governments demonize journalists and media. One youtube talk I watched listed that as a sure sign democracy is under attack in a country. I don't understand your response to this. A democracy is the will of the
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by mikem170 6y ago
I think you have it backwards. First their government was untrustworthy, then they stopped trusting them. Not the other way around. And this is not a problem of developing countries only! Developed countries have had their governments turn
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by mikem170 6y ago
I thought that the parent made an interesting observation. It's not cynicism, it a simple fact, backed up by history, of what happens when nobody trusts their government, when a the government of a people deviate too much from the inte
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by mikem170 6y ago
Could it have been the other way around, where the rise of finance industries caused the "greed is good" 80s? I've assume that Nixon taking the U.S. off the gold standard precipitated the growth in the finance industry, the g
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by mikem170 6y ago
I was curious about what kind of performance problems you bumped into, outside of the obvious non-existent CUDA support? I ask because I had the impression that openbsd was doing ok in this regard. I use it for development and running apps
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by mikem170 6y ago
This laptop is also popular with openbsd developers, everything should work for that OS also. This will probably be what I get next. I'm using an X260 at the moment - smaller footprint.
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by mikem170 6y ago
It's not just the packages. The whole system is as simple and straight forward as it can be. It didn't need many tweaks, and I know everything it's doing. Openbsd just makes me happy :-) I've stuck with pre-compiled pack
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by mikem170 6y ago
Are those kind of people busy hanging out on youtube now? Are there enough creatives in meat-space to attain the critical mass necessary to generate those places like in the past? Or are many of them staring at their phones all day?
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by mikem170 6y ago
A Thinkpad that runs OpenBSD! OpenBSD developers mostly use Thinkpads, so everything works - suspend, hibernation, wifi, camera, etc. Packages for firefox, chrome, and all the usual other open source software are just a pkg_add command away
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by mikem170 6y ago
The worst I've heard of along these lines currently in practice is predictive policing [0]: First the Sheriff’s Office generates lists of people it considers likely to break the law, based on arrest histories, unspecified intelligence
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by mikem170 6y ago
I'd like to throw a thought out there: It is a problem if the government uses algorithms or ML systems that are secret and/or cannot be independently vetted by the citizenry. Judges cannot just sign off on warrants and sentencing
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by mikem170 6y ago
The U.S. share of world GDP has already shrunk from over 40% after WWII to under 25% today. This was the reason Nixon had to take the dollar off the gold standard and make deals with Saudia Arabia and OPEC to ensure oil was priced in dollar

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