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by mirimir 7y ago
That's a sobering argument. But I wonder how it compares to other major disruptions, such as major wars. Or even the 2008 recession.
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by mirimir 7y ago
I tried something like this to run 1U servers in my office. It didn't work :(
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by mirimir 7y ago
I was going from $1 per day per resident. And in retrospect, I was off re income. $100-$1000 per day is reasonable for a middle class worker, but not the average resident. So OK, make that 10 to 100 times greater.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Indeed. And what are net economic losses? I'm guessing that it's somewhere between 100 and 1000 times that. Edit: Sorry. Make that 10-100 times greater.
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by mirimir 7y ago
I don't think that we know where the pandemic started, whether it was bats for sale in the market, or escape from the lab. Maybe it was both. But I do think that sampling and lab work are important. You just need to be careful. Very, v
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by mirimir 7y ago
Wow. That'd be quite the fuck up. I mean, maybe they were sampling bat caves, to check for SARS-CoV-like viruses. Which would have been prudent. But then maybe they were sloppy, so many died, and it escaped the lab. If you could find s
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by mirimir 7y ago
Huh. Maybe Chinese labs were studying SARS-CoV-like viruses because the risk of zoonotic reemergence was so damn obvious. See my comment in another thread.[0] But in any case, doesn't ignoring that risk count as "inadvertence&quot
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by mirimir 7y ago
I was referring to ones with simply shaped body parts that don't articulate, but merely shift. They just scream "cheaply made".
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by mirimir 7y ago
I was more of a Warner Brothers fan.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Huh. Cartoons went that way, decades ago :(
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by mirimir 7y ago
> I know the instant reaction is "people predict things all the time, some are bound to come out right", but this seems so specific that I think it's not just pure chance... we're just not heeding some of the warnings
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by mirimir 7y ago
Indeed. Isn't this just an other example of how dangerous it is to base your business on third party resources?
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by mirimir 7y ago
No, this was a high-volume play boat. About 35 years ago. And it wasn't a kit. I was boating with a club with a shop, and members who knew what they were doing.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Having built a glass/kevlar/epoxy kayak, it's a little mind blowing to read about people building a supersonic airplane, using similar (albeit far^N more precise) techniques.
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by mirimir 7y ago
But they knew what they wanted: gold, silver, and slaves to mine them if necessary.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Also, how many of those images are just sexting between consenting young people? I do recall reading about kids who have been prosecuted for sharing images of themselves. And then there are all the cam entrepreneurs.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Reminds me of my favorite 60s-70s billboard graffiti: > US out of North America now!
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yes, she's authoritarian. She supported the Clipper Chip, along with Al Gore. Which is one of the reasons why he lost to Bush.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Wow, that's amazing!
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by mirimir 7y ago
Or maybe climate change? Maybe even like a peristaltic pump?
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by mirimir 7y ago
For the most part, there's nothing surprising here. Because we know so little, and searches for evidence have been driven by preconceptions, and outright superstition. This jumps out as the key observation : > By contrast, Mina Wein
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by mirimir 7y ago
That sounds right. But it's my impression that the Taiwanese aren't much like old China. They went from Japanese occupation to ROC occupation.
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by mirimir 7y ago
I'm no expert, but it's my impression that the faction that ended up controlling Taiwan is not the "culture of old China". It's the westernized elite that was trying to reform China as a democracy.
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by mirimir 7y ago
You're projecting, I think. Sure, there are many millions of "well-educated middle class Chinese who would hope for a more transparent and democratic system". But they're irrelevant. Another Cultural Revolution, and they
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by mirimir 7y ago
I don't know. If you mean Google, it's been lobotomized over the past decade.
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by mirimir 7y ago
It's a wash, I think. Anyone who cares uses VPNs and/or Tor. You can do either IPv4 or IPv6 with VPNs, but the methodology is different. With IPv4, it's just NAT. With IPv6, VPN servers must assign a public address. And with
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by mirimir 7y ago
The Saudis no longer control enough oil to explain it. But maybe it's all connected to Epstein, or rather to the group that he ostensibly headed. That would account for the links to both Israel and Saudi Arabia. And there's the po
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yes, they were tailing the Saudis through the US. That was reported by Salon, within days after the attacks. But maybe they were helping the NSA and FBI. And perhaps someone made the call that it wasn't important enough to risk blowing
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by mirimir 7y ago
If we assume that Al-Qaeda was behind the attack, it's hard to imagine how high-ranking Saudis weren't involved. Given what we know about Saudi funding of Al-Qaeda. Also, given what we know about CIA funding of Al-Qaeda, it&#x27
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by mirimir 7y ago
It's not one dimensional.

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