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by rhino369 5y ago
The vaccines aren’t effective enough to stop omicron even if everyone in earth took all three shots. If they stayed 90% effective like they were originally, we could have ended the virus. But vaccine efficiency wanes over time. New omicron
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by rhino369 5y ago
Some of the problems with our response is actually based on the opposite issue, our first response impulses were to treat it like a novel flu strain. So we re-ran the H1N1 playbook. The flu was believed to be mostly spread by droplets/
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by rhino369 5y ago
I was going to wait until all of the first world health bureaucracies cleared it. But now my kids had covid (before they were approved even in the US) and it wasn't a big deal. So I'm not going to get them shots until the natural
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by rhino369 5y ago
I would say this distinction is often just a semantics argument designed to calm the public. In common usage, it means you won't have a significant infection that becomes contagious. The vast majority of vaccines are successful at prev
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by rhino369 5y ago
>Living close to a water source or reservoir doesn’t make conservation less important. It doesn't necessarily make conservation less important. But it certainly does in some places like Chicago. They pull water from the same water
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The Silicon Valley Stop is the new Hollywood Stop, huh.
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You can't go by technicalities. But even if you go by technicalities, we never declared war in the first place it. It was a "police action." I'd imagine it is a crime to attack a state that we are in a cease fire with
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by rhino369 5y ago
I think the judge just got it wrong, and maybe have just been pissed a 19 year old was fighting a ticket in his court. Seems like an absurd reading of that language to me.
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by rhino369 5y ago
In my pre-law days, I tried to argue to an Illinois county judge that it meant outside not just kids were inside the school that day. Got the ticket anyway.
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by rhino369 5y ago
They can make it; they just need to pay a reasonable royalty. One of the easiest fixes for patent litigation issues would be for congress to set some bounds on what a reasonable royalty is.
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by rhino369 5y ago
You don't buy 600 million dollars of patents as an NPE without planning to shop around licenses with an implied threat of litigation. You don't have to be scumbags about it, but you are going to have to press your claims to make
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by rhino369 5y ago
Obviously you can speak against freedom of speech. The freedom of speech would allow that speech (and nobody is saying Young should be prevented from what he is doing). But you'd still be advocating censorship. You can join a politica
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by rhino369 5y ago
It's not a contradiction. Speech that infringes on free speech is allowed under freedom of speech. Young can say what he wants. But we can call him a censor for it. He can call Rogan an idiot and a misinformation peddler--and that i
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by rhino369 5y ago
Maybe public policy beliefs is the better word for it, but either way, undoubtedly the type of speech meant to be protected. Earnest misinformation cannot be an exception to freedom of speech without throwing away the entire concept. A lot
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by rhino369 5y ago
Spotify making money selling Young's music doesn't mean Young's music is "funding" Rogan. Isn't Rogan only on the one platform?
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by rhino369 5y ago
The fact that all parties are allowed to associate with whomever they want does not determine whether Young is engaging in attempted censorship. If the Catholic Church organized a boycott of Amazon unless decided to de-platform controversia
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by rhino369 5y ago
Culling out crap by criticizing it--100% within the scope of freedom of speech. Culling out whatever you think is crap by organizing a boycott unless people literally ban that content is censorship.
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by rhino369 5y ago
I literally explained how its speech but against the principle of free speech--and you just cherry picked around the explanation. Hardly ignoring it. Statement and actions that are against freedom of speech are still allowed under freedom
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by rhino369 5y ago
Like I said, you don't have to agree with the principle. But you can't claim to and still try to shun people (from society as a whole[1]). It's not bare minimum with regard to its restrictions on government action. But it d
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by rhino369 5y ago
No. And it's not censorship if Spotify doesn't renew Rogan for exclusivity either. But blacklisting people for political beliefs is quintessential censorship. Can't believe that has to be said. Young is asking for him to be b
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by rhino369 5y ago
There is no association between two artists* because they are both on spotify. It's an open platform meant to have essentially everything available. That is a far cry from performing at the same event or socializing in the same room. I
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by rhino369 5y ago
>No, it's free speech, not censorship. There is no contraction. A call for censorship is allowed under freedom of speech. I would never force spotify to platform anyone they don't want to. But I will criticize those who deman
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by rhino369 5y ago
>Actually it pretty much is, or at least is limited to the area of "force". Freedom of speech is a principle--not the bare minimum allowable under the first amendment. You don't agree with the principle of freedom of speec
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by rhino369 5y ago
It likely depends on the particularities of his contract, but my guess is that he couldn't be stopped from releasing a new podcast even if his contract explicity said he can't. Spotify would be hard-pressed to justify a non-comp
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by rhino369 5y ago
>Once you cross a line, the tech companies tend to blacklist you in unison. Right. It's not like the internet mob is going to stop at Spotify or stop at Joe Rogan.
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by rhino369 5y ago
It is how boycotts work. But its a boycott based on spotify's refusal to engage in censorship. >Spotify choosing to end their contract with Joe Rogan over this wouldn't infringe on his free speech. Having the right to say what
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by rhino369 5y ago
You are attacking a strawman. Nobody is saying Niel Young should be preventing from criticizing Joe Regan to uphold freedom of speech and I doubt you think they did.
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These are supposed to easier to breath in. Surgical masks still fog my glasses. Whether the product delivers on those claims, I have no idea.
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Easy to see at a high level--phones with web, multimedia support, and app support. Near impossible to guess what exactly what would look like and when.
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Blackberries were huge and growing. iPhone definitely expanded the market faster than anyone dreamed. But it was easy to see where the market would go before iPhone.

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