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by mirimir 6y ago
Most people won't care until it's their ox that's being gored. So the plan is having non-centralized alternatives ready to spread. Dark marketplaces are an excellent example. Sure, many have been taken down, but the demand
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by mirimir 6y ago
Sure, you can't protect people from filter bubbles. But at least you can have media that don't enforce filter bubbles.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Good point. So providers must also be immune from legal pressure.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Bottom line, if you don't want censorship, build, use and support systems that are designed to make censorship impossible. Instead of censorship, demand robust filtering, applied locally. So everything remains available, and users get
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by mirimir 6y ago
Taxi drivers with literature degrees make more interesting conversation :)
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by mirimir 6y ago
Why not issue vouchers, at least to staff they'd rather not lose?
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by mirimir 6y ago
Right. But actually, "prepared" is often literally the case. Before critical depositions, experts spend a day or two, with attorneys and consultants, practicing replies. And experts are very cautious about answering unexpected que
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by mirimir 6y ago
As a non-testimonial litigation consultant, I used to joke that I could pose as an expert in anything, given a couple months. But in truth, one of my favorite deposition answers goes something like this: > I'm not prepared to offer
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by mirimir 6y ago
I felt pretty much the same, during my last post-doc. I had a friend who rebuilt power plant equipment. He got to work on very cool stuff, and he made very good money. I did a straight chemistry BS and basically a biochemistry PhD, so I rem
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by mirimir 6y ago
I'd rather have "people wracked with doubt and who fear their own ignorance" :)
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by mirimir 6y ago
OK, so what's a "4-s sprint"? I presume that this employs a stationary bicycle. But against what resistance? Also, four seconds hardly seems enough to even reach maximum exertion.
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by mirimir 6y ago
OK. But the thing to do is test, using https://browserleaks.com/ or whatever.
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by mirimir 6y ago
> Most people intuitively know that learning to write more effectively isn't the best use of their time, and so most people don't try. Funny. I decided that about coding, perhaps 40 years ago. But I did later learn enough SQL t
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by mirimir 6y ago
Basically, taxonomy isn't all that meaningful for viruses. If a given cell is infected with multiple ~related viruses, various chimeric viruses will be produced. Then there'll be selection on the basis of infecting other cells. An
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by mirimir 6y ago
WebRTC is problematic if you're using a VPN service, with the VPN client running on the local machine. Quoting BrowserLeaks:[0] > IP address detection using JavaScript. Starting work on WebRTC API, the web browser communicates with
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by mirimir 6y ago
It'd be cool to touch virtual objects, no?
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by mirimir 6y ago
Maybe so. But I never claimed that it was mainstream in Pakistan. Just that it might account for this in ramraj07's comment:[0] > Further, there's a great amount of scrutiny into whether anyone's sick (see the reports of d
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by mirimir 6y ago
From the Nature article: > The energy-efficiency drive at the information factories that serve us Facebook, Google and Bitcoin. I'm guessing less, although I failed at parsing the article.
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by mirimir 6y ago
How about those Microsoft tabletop things?
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by mirimir 6y ago
I was aiming for neutrality ;) Back when public schooling started in the US, I gather that it was about preparation for factory work. And military service, I guess. But I do agree with the dead comment that it tends to kill off creativity,
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by mirimir 6y ago
Sorry. I should have put that in scare quotes. And to be clear, I'm not arguing that he was murdered. I was just pointing out that some Muslims consider that he was murdered. I mean, the doctor who led the CIA to him is still in jail,
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by mirimir 6y ago
True. But it also teaches kids to work on schedule, follow rules, and do what they're told.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Huh. I thought that this was common knowledge. > The Taliban began assassinating polio workers the year after the CIA used a vaccination campaign for hepatitis B, not polio, to identify Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad. http
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by mirimir 6y ago
Oh well. It is possible to go ~anonymously from cryptocurrency to "paid by credit card in US dollars". Basically you barter cryptocurrency for a credit card payment. You can do it with someone you trust. Or you can negotiate onlin
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by mirimir 6y ago
> Also, they're not 100% efficient so although they are an improvement they don't fully eliminate the problem. True, but they're up near 90%, I think. And they also increase heat recovery efficiency, so you'll need le
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by mirimir 6y ago
The title is ~amusing for many who have experienced consensus-based decision making. But anyway, maybe this could be applied to helping people work together cooperatively.
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by mirimir 6y ago
What forms of payment does Coil accept?
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by mirimir 6y ago
Fun factoid: Propane leaks are far more dangerous than methane leaks. Methane is less dense than air, so it tends to mix more fully. But propane is more dense than air, so it tends to pool near the floor. And the lower flammability limit fo
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by mirimir 6y ago
You can buy catalytic converters for wood stoves. Also, as long as you have some draft, you can add wood without releasing much indoor smoke.
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by mirimir 6y ago
Thanks for pointing to the data. I'm not sure about the idea of using any particular strain as the basis for a vaccine. But the severity data for various strains might well be helpful in vaccine development. I'm guessing that this

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