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by nanis 5y ago
I too have thought about this stuff. In many instances, the correct solution depends on the context of the work being done. Are many people working on interrelated parts of the same project? Or, is there a small group of people jumping from
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by nanis 5y ago
A little more than 20 years ago: https://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/03/01/afg... > World begs Taliban not to 'vandalize' history
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by nanis 5y ago
The author and I ascribe different meanings to "penny pinching" ... Also, > Imagine you are in your car driving and you notice someone in another car, alone, wearing a mask. This is during the covid pandemic so seeing someone w
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U.S. Asks Taliban to Spare Its Embassy in Coming Fight for Kabul(nytimes.com)
41 points by nanis 5y ago|57 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
> vaccinated people who become infected with Delta SARS-CoV-2 can carry as much virus in their nose as do unvaccinated people. This means that despite the protection offered by vaccines, a proportion of vaccinated people can pass on Delt
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by nanis 5y ago
I don't envy you ... Funny thing is, when I was in academia, I was always annoyed by being passed over in the "token Muslim" photo shoots because I did not fit white liberals' stereotypes of Muslims :-)
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by nanis 5y ago
Did notice this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28140315
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by nanis 5y ago
I clicked to see if there was anything surprising ... There isn't. Free tip: Wearing layers (within reason) will keep you cooler. The inner layer will absorb your sweat and the outer layer will reduce the evaporation, providing a cooli
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by nanis 5y ago
sigh ... _no_ I thought the selection would give a pretty idea of what people mean by "no new normal".
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by nanis 5y ago
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/?query=no%20new%20normal
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by nanis 5y ago
Right. There might be three people in the world that believe that the stated goal of the mission was to kill a bunch of people and return power to the group whose members we killed while in the process arming them to the teeth with U.S. equ
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College lecturer charged with starting blaze near Dixie Fire(sfgate.com)
32 points by nanis 5y ago|2 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
> anyone think that a US civilian militia has more than a snowball's chance in hell against any committed government-deployed force? I am not taking sides in the underlying argument. I am simply astonished that you can make this sta
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by nanis 5y ago
The actual pre-print is here https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v... Note Panel B on page 27 which shows the vax hesitancy growing only among people with PhDs and professional degree holder
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by nanis 5y ago
Curiosly, I just checked and I have: * media.autoplay.default = 5 * media.autoplay.enabled = false in my about:config but media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground was left at its default "true" value, so I changed that. I am going
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by nanis 5y ago
Thank you. Good idea. I will look into it.
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Ask HN: How do I reliably prevent autoplay in Firefox 91?
49 points by nanis 5y ago|26 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
> It doesn't imply a political dictator, Who cares when the set of allowable things are defined by what would be best for people who are worst at it?
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Chair of Perl's Community Affairs Team Quits(theregister.com)
3 points by nanis 5y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
> Practical problems with it don't really matter Oh, but they do because people's half-baked understanding of the philosophy get warmed up and served in all sorts of ways that affect our quality of life.
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by nanis 5y ago
> Where is the dictatorship, precisely? In Social Choice Theory, "dictatorship" is defined by the "social" choice always matching the most preferred alternative of an individual (or, sometimes, as "social prefere
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by nanis 5y ago
> HTTPS-First Policy: Firefox Private Browsing windows now attempt to make all connections to websites secure, and fall back to insecure connections only when websites do not support it. Hmmmm ... Does this mean "HTTPS Everywhere&qu
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by nanis 5y ago
WTF?! The color of my right-click menu changed again! I am sticking with Firefox simply because it is not Chrome, but this is silly. Why does the looks have to change constantly. The browser is where one ends up spending most of one's
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by nanis 5y ago
> If laws are made behind the veil IF The laws we live with are never made behind the veil. Relatedly, I have done some classroom experiments where the laws were indeed made behind the veil. Students overwhelmingly chose minimum guaran
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by nanis 5y ago
The problem with Rawls is simple: Behind the veil of ignorance, "maximizing the preferences of the worst off" has many appealing properties. However, in the real world, where both one's own actions and events out of one'
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by nanis 5y ago
What are these things that do not work? Asking as someone who's been using Arch consistently on my laptop and on a long-lived VPS since 2007 ... Original VPS install was maintained just through regular updates (including the transition
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by nanis 5y ago
Well, there doesn't seem to be any need to falsify/forge anything. Just simple omission seems to do the trick*. For example, consider report ID 1313795 in VAERS[1,^]: > My goal was to get a vaccine from each manufacturer. I acc
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by nanis 5y ago
Note: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3896310 says > This paper has been removed from SSRN at the request of the author, SSRN, or the rights holder. even though the download link seems to work at
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by nanis 5y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...
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by nanis 5y ago
FWIW, unless explicitly otherwise specified, official stats only consider people who have had two weeks since second does as vaccinated for the purpose of counting how many vaccinated get infected, hospitalized, or die.

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