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by new_realist 5y ago
How much of this is from waning immunity due to “expiring” early vaccinations without a booster?
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by new_realist 5y ago
If the question is whether vaccine should go to someone who hasn’t been vaccinated or used as a booster for someone who has, it seems clear that it should go to the unvaccinated person unless the booster candidate is very high risk. But we
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by new_realist 5y ago
Vaccines reduce the chance of a new variant by reducing the number of copies of the virus made in society. Every copy is a chance to mutate. Vaccines don’t create more mutations, any more than a person with zero immune response will produc
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by new_realist 5y ago
Also, these chips are as yet only in Tesla’s labs, not in production. What’s cooking in secret in NVIDIA’s labs right now?NVIDIA doesn’t have to hype their stuff, so they don’t tip their hand to competitors until it’s ready for sale. Creat
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by new_realist 5y ago
It can be more transparent to scan on users devices, which are in the possession of the public, than it can be to scan through user dat in the cloud, which is hosed in private and controlled "black box" data centers. This can be
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by new_realist 5y ago
Total U.S. assets amount to about $225 trillion. Spending 1/700th of that per year for the past 20 years to protect those assets seems a reasonable investment. That’s not to say this money was spent wisely, in hindsight (which is alway
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by new_realist 5y ago
No, the U.S. already spends $4T a year on healthcare.
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by new_realist 5y ago
U.S. spends $4T a year on health care (of which $171.8B is spent on research), vs. $320B a year here.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Total U.S. assets amount to about $225 trillion. Spending 1/700th of that per year for the past 20 years to protect those assets seems a reasonable investment.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Tesla marketed Autopilot != responsibly implemented assistive safety systems.
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by new_realist 5y ago
As someone who has used Autopilot extensively, I can tell you: you only have the illusion of enhanced safety. In reality, parts of your brain have shut down to save energy, and you've lost some situational awareness, but you can'
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by new_realist 5y ago
Google’s problems are interesting. Amazon’s are mostly brute force obviousness.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Agreed, this is nothing to brag about.
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by new_realist 5y ago
By Apple moving this process from the cloud to the device, they have the opportunity to make the process transparent and auditable. That would actually be an improvement. Everyone could see what was being looked for, to the point where cert
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by new_realist 5y ago
Please elaborate on these magical methods.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Authoritarian governments have never needed preexisting technical gizmos in order to abuse their citizens. Look at what Russia and the Nazis did with no magic tech at all. Privacy stems from valuing human rights, not easily disproven lies
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by new_realist 5y ago
No. SEV is supposed to protect from root.
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by new_realist 5y ago
“Techno-geeks throw fit upon discovering their devices are not immune to the rule of law.”
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by new_realist 5y ago
This is the best Apple can do. Apple can’t say to governments that client-side scanning is impossible, because it obviously is. In fact it’s quite easy. There is no magic technical fix, but at least Apple has preserved e2e encryption of clo
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by new_realist 5y ago
The island looks beautiful, but I would worry about cabin fever, social isolation, emergency services and quality medical care. Also, there appear to be no beaches.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Are children allowed on the island after what happened there?
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by new_realist 5y ago
That simplistic and fundamentalist interpretation is incompatible with copyright, publication of trade secrets, classified information, invasion of privacy (nude pics), distribution of pedophilia materials, etc.
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by new_realist 5y ago
This is already possible using other services (Google Drive, gmail, Instagram, etc.) that already scan for CP.
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by new_realist 5y ago
A cargo cult operating system. None of the things it provides are the reason people use macOS. They use it because they pay money to ensure everything just works, and to use their macOS apps.
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by new_realist 5y ago
This has already been considered and addressed via a secret sharing threshold scheme.
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by new_realist 5y ago
Moral panics are nothing new, and have now graduated into the digital age. The last big one I remember was passage of the DMCA in 1999; it was just absolutely guaranteed to kill the Internet! And as per usual, the Chicken Littles the world
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by new_realist 5y ago
Moral panics are nothing new, and have now graduated into the digital age. The last big one I remember was passage of the DMCA in 1999; it was just absolutely guaranteed to kill the Internet! And as per usual, the Chicken Littles the world
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by new_realist 5y ago
Studies have shown that CCTV reduces crime ( https://whatworks.college.police.uk/toolkit/Pages/Interventi... ). I expect results here will be even better. This technology uses secret sharing to ensure a threshold o
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by new_realist 5y ago
The electric F150 has already reached 120K preorders, and it was announced only in May. The number of Tesla preorders they can accumulate is a function of how long it is delayed. Which, at the rate Tesla’s battery tech. isn’t progressing,
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by new_realist 5y ago
If you live in an area with harsh winters, your battery will degrade faster than usual. Do you want to a frame which is going to outlast an obsolete vehicle?

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