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by rajup 5y ago
"Maybe future socialists will adjust accordingly and promulgate the slacker gene in some other form?"
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by rajup 5y ago
Seems to be doing well despite CA's policies and politics not because of.
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by rajup 5y ago
Pretty sure it's not the only one, it's just the most visible one (the straw that broke the camel's back so to speak). There are tons of other examples above (turning down the music in gyms etc), just not talked about as muc
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by rajup 5y ago
No thread on surveillance and privacy is complete without this clichéd quote, might as well be me: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Frank
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by rajup 5y ago
Bought to you by the country where this tweet https://twitter.com/9newssyd/status/1430707532134236163?lang... is absolutely not satire or an Onion newspiece.
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by rajup 5y ago
Pardon a perhaps naive comment: I thought whatever is being “whistleblown” was already known. Is it that now we have someone from within the company confirming what we already know?
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by rajup 5y ago
That's a fair argument. > You might be giving too much credit to adults who can't do basic math. I agree and perhaps this is where most of the difference lies. I do tend to place an outsize trust on adults whether they can do b
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by rajup 5y ago
Oh definitely. And the stories about how hospitals are now like war zones. I totally understand the enormous toll and pain this pandemic has caused, but headlines like these make me feel like it infantilizes the problem in a way I can'
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by rajup 5y ago
It's not an excuse to not get vaccinated, that you read it that way says a lot about the whole problem really. It's a reply to the GP's question about what "lies" (I personally would not use as strong a word) were s
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by rajup 5y ago
Also don't forget that not too long back suggesting that COVID-19 might have escaped from a Chinese lab was considered "lunatic conspiracy theory mongering".
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by rajup 5y ago
That sounds very nice, do tell us if you have come up with or know of a (successful) business model where you do not have to collect the data of users. Nothing comes for free.
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by rajup 5y ago
From the article, rental companies would not keep cars beyond 40-50k miles, hardly a couple of notches above bottom.
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by rajup 5y ago
Perhaps slightly off-topic: does health insurance cover people who poison themselves on purpose?
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by rajup 5y ago
So kind of a physical Clubhouse?
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by rajup 5y ago
It is quite evident who is narrow headed and wrong in this discussion.
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by rajup 5y ago
You know what's really a "major inconvenience"? Getting in a car and getting hit by a trailer truck and getting paralyzed for life. Lets all stay in a closet at home forever...
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by rajup 5y ago
I don't understand how after nearly one and a half years into this pandemic, people still keep parroting "but what about the children!". There is close to 0 (zero, nada, zilch) risk to children from COVID-19. You're much
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by rajup 5y ago
So these people should be wearing masks then? Sounds reasonable to me, not sure how imposing masks on vaccinated people helps.
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by rajup 5y ago
I didn’t see any mention of state-sponsored hackers in the article apart from some hand wavy associations. Care to elaborate?
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I don't think OP was suggesting that. Their comment specifically seemed to be about the media drawing unsupported conclusions from specific incidents. That is, as you say a job for the scientists.
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by rajup 5y ago
Wrong. YOU might want cutting edge care from the smartest and most highly educated people in the world (not sure where you get this from however, healthcare in most of the developed world is equally good). Most people want decent care that
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by rajup 5y ago
While I am really glad Robinhood existed back when I started working to introduce me to investing, their amateurish ops (see their outages in the past few years) and customer support (they managed to bungle a position transfer costing me a
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by rajup 5y ago
I agree. All the annoying animations and hyperbole in the article notwithstanding, it does not seem as malicious as the article tries to portray it. It is rather disappointing that there are barriers to some of these investments but I think
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by rajup 5y ago
Seems like something worth knowing and improving upon to have a reasonable, grounded conversation ;)
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by rajup 5y ago
ELI5, if someone is not vaccinated isn't the only person being put at risk themselves? I have heard speculation of how this could cause more variants to arise which seems to be mostly just that: speculation. Or how this can be problema
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by rajup 5y ago
That makes sense, thanks!
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by rajup 5y ago
Just curious, and I'm genuinely asking as someone who thought the letter seemed well-intentioned: what should they have put in the apology letter?
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by rajup 6y ago
Try telling the people being yelled at for not wearing masks in uncrowded, wide open spaces and not being allowed to travel freely that these are just "recommendations".
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by rajup 6y ago
Or that he prefers not to take everything they say at face value and applies his own judgement as an adult before blindly following anything and everything that is thrown out there.
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by rajup 6y ago
We'll never be "there" whatever "there" means. All signs are pointing towards this becoming endemic in humans like the flu.

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