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by mirimir 6y ago
Woah, I didn't think of that. I know that it happens, for those without close friends and family. But for many, the first clue has been failure to report for work. Which doesn't happen so much now. And it's eerie to think tha
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by mirimir 6y ago
Right, they're likely dying at home, and being counted as COVID-19 deaths. That's the safest guess, in the absence of epidemiologic data. Even so, medical systems and coroners ought to be archiving samples for testing. Eventually
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by mirimir 6y ago
As a hobbyist, I might use tinc or PeerVPN. Or Tor plus OnionCat, with restrictive ip6tables rules. I've used that for a private Docker repository. But those are probably not secure enough. Or too much hassle to setup.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Yeah, that jumped out for me too. I'm guessing that they didn't want to deploy some sort of private network layer.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Inflating sales is a classic move: > In indictments involving the case, prosecutors said HBOC sold software or services to more than a dozen hospitals with conditional "side letters" that allowed the hospitals to back out of th
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by mirimir 6y ago
Well, I think that you're overreacting. Considering risks is important. We've suffered too much from denial. Pollution of groundwater. Fallout from nuclear weapons testing. Toxic chemicals in food packaging. And I could easily com
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by mirimir 6y ago
Is there a way to do unlinked forks? Or is it impractical to obfuscate code?
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by mirimir 6y ago
There's still the risk of losing server hosting and/or network uplink. So it's prudent to use anonymously linked reverse proxies, which are ~disposable.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Would GitLab resist DCMA better than GitHub?
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by mirimir 6y ago
OK, so I've had no experience with startups. About the closest I came was flirting with biotech in the 80s. But for sure I've had my share of abject failure, anxt, depression, and all that. Until my 30s, it was all about doing wha
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by mirimir 6y ago
FYI: https://sci-hub.im/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijantimicag.202...
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by mirimir 6y ago
You're still being too hard on it. There's a clear recognition that combustion isn't sufficient. And the only other option seemed to be gravitational accretion. And it remained an open question until at least 1920:[0] > Ar
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by mirimir 6y ago
Huh. That's pretty wild.[0] > A poll of Americans in 2013 by Public Policy Polling indicated that 4% of registered voters (±2.8%) believed in David Icke's ideas. But at least some of them were joking, right? 0) https:/&#x
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by mirimir 6y ago
> We've had strong evidence that the Earth is very, very old for hundreds of years, which was the scientific and religiously backed conclusion in the early 1800s. Sure, among experts. But what about popular opinion? And did the Scop
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by mirimir 6y ago
No, such Bible-based estimates are far older. I found a review that seems comprehensive, albeit reaching an incomprehensible (to me, anyway) conclusion.[0] 0) https://answersingenesis.org/age-of-the-earth/how-old-is-the
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by mirimir 6y ago
So did some argue that 5000 years was consistent with the Bible? [I did search, but DDG found nada.]
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by mirimir 6y ago
If you read the background for that law, you'll find that people were in fact being injured by vaccines. And some still are. Just as virtually all medicines injure some people. Because there's great variability in responses. The l
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by mirimir 6y ago
Huh. I didn't know that, and I'd appreciate references. I am aware that the ad agency behind the "tobacco doesn't cause cancer" campaign got into the "lead paint is safe" and other pro-industry campaigns,
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by mirimir 6y ago
OK, so I admit that Icke's thing about 5G and COVID-19 is batshit insane. I truly can't imagine how someone could argue that in good faith. He must be trolling, doing it for the lulz. But still, that's arguably distinguishabl
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by mirimir 6y ago
So you don't believe that people ought to have the right to sue when injured? Also, calling stuff "FUD" is a classic strategy to escape responsibility. For example, the tobacco industry claimed that lung cancer risk was FUD f
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by mirimir 6y ago
There have been issues more recently with vaccine safety. Or at least, there were enough lawsuits to start frightening off vaccine manufacturers. Since 1986, however, they've been insulated from lawsuits under federal law:[0] > The
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by mirimir 6y ago
> Rather I am saying - and this was my fault for not being clear enough - that I reject the notion that we should try to pick a side to suppress. Because the same part of human nature that leads to rampant spread of disinformation is the
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by mirimir 6y ago
I've always preferred deflecting them with my katana :)
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by mirimir 6y ago
Not one. Two came to mind immediately. With some effort, I could come up with dozens. But the point is that some may be true. It's not all or nothing. However, it's important to keep in mind that stupidity and recklessness are gen
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by mirimir 6y ago
I presume that you neglected the "/s". But yes, cutting greenhouse gas emissions would also be prudent.
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by mirimir 6y ago
In small rural Mexican villages, you can use your dining room as a cafe.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Why did you pick Bitcoin as an example? Even so, that's a totally LMGTFY thing, no? But it's really not a difficult concept. Just ask someone their position on some contentious issue. And then ask them how they'd react to bei
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by mirimir 6y ago
Huh? Google, Facebook and Twitter are engaging in mass censorship!
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by mirimir 6y ago
Before Snowden's leaks, mass surveillance by the NSA was considered to be conspiracy theory. Or the CIA's MKUltra project.
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by mirimir 6y ago
> The people Taibbi is complaining about don't want to filter what they see. They want to filter what the masses see. Sure, but that's only possible with systems where censorship is possible. Consider Freenet. It's ancient

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