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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Hating on FAANG is a popular political stance these days. Some of it's justified, but a lot of it is also just posturing.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Haha same. When using the printer in my apartment's "tenant office", I can at least know that a sandboxed incognito window will offer some protection. Assuming someone hasn't installed a key logger or OS tracker :(
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
You don't need your car until you need your car - i.e. you aren't driving to pick up groceries 16 hours a day. That doesn't make your car valueless. Likewise, Linkedin isn't needed the majority of the time, until you n
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
The only way to access it is with a VPN, right? Which would put your search outside of China.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Yep. Cytotoxic T-Cells can wipe out a viral infection, especially with the help of interferons, before the B-Cells can develop an effective antibody response. Keep in mind that viruses are incredibly tiny and have small antigenic surface
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Look at the 95% confidence intervals on those results. I wouldn't take a study with N=256 (103 positive, 153 negative) seriously in claiming the specificity is a couple percentage points lower than the manufacturer's standard. Th
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Neither being an actuary or insurance adjuster makes you an expert on clinical lab tests. My guess is the person you were chatting with heard some hyperbolic statistic about ELIZA tests and is repeating it.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Yep, my wife had the same story. She thought she had Covid-19 back in December when she was sick with flu-like symptoms. We both tested negative for the covid-19 PCR and antibody test this past week. I'm guessing this is a common tre
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Why would you type all that out without sharing the picture? This reads like someone with paranoia spreading unsubstantiated FUD. Either that or you've been sniffing too much Q Anon.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
This has been one of the chief complaints for GDPR, right? While GDPR provides consumer data protection, it also creates regulatory and compliance barriers for new competition entering those markets, with heavy penalties.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
In laymen's terms, it's like wearing a black ski mask in a crowded shopping mall.
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
I thought Firefox is already the defacto Tor browser?
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
1) The president's message was not modified. 2) Twitter isn't a post office, it's a privately owned website. They do not handle transportation requests for information on the internet, just their own private servers meaning
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Which is exactly the point, that platforms who do not self-curate some types of user-generated content are not protected by safe harbor laws. Your idea that safe-harbor laws only apply to platforms who don't self-curate is absurd pre
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Considering the President surrounds himself with people who only support him, such as firing all the IG's that were investigating any Republican party members, what's to keep that from happening again in this instance?
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
The President was brought up for incompetence to Congress in 2017 when he fired FBI director Jame Comey after Comey refused the President's request to drop the election-meddling investigation involving the President's personal fri
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
>You are not responding to the content of what you are replying to. That's because the content I am responding to is a red herring to the question of Twitter's actions. This derailment into "Is CNN biased?" is not rel
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Of those listed, yes, but SCOTUS has ruled that speech whose expression causes harm is not protected by the first amendment - i.e. your photos of children performing sexual acts are not protected by the first amendment. The first amendment
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Didn't Congress already impeach the president but the Senate voted to keep him in office?
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Phones systems are information transportation systems that handle information requests. Phones systems are are not platforms to host speech - i.e. CC laws can't force me to play your phone recording in my private home when someone call
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
It's not just CNN saying that the President is lying about mail-in voting. There's a long list of news organizations: https://twitter.com/i/events/1265330601034256384
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
One way is showing what multiple experts and news sources say about the facts, such as the Washington Post, The Hill, Forbes, the ACLU, Bloomberg, CBS News, CNN, ABC News, Fortune Magazine, Vox, MSNBC, Huffington Post, and the Christian Sci
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Real question: As the head of the Federal executive branch, who would stop him?
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
>“Upon review by our teams, we have confirmed this was an error in our enforcement systems and we are working to fix it as quickly as possible,” said a YouTube spokesperson. https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26&#x
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
And summarily pulled out after Google employees revolted, showing that the employees at Google care more about privacy than money than the employees at Apple. Google still doesn't have access to China and even if they tried it again, t
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
The NYT is doing a special podcast on this topic right now. In one of their episodes, they interview the CEO of YouTube about what they're doing to stop the spread of misinformation on web content platforms like their own. Her response
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Jean-Paul Sartre called this out half a century ago when faced with the alt-right of his time: >Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
>So long as a service provider doesn't do their own curation, they are not held responsible for the content that is posted. Except they are held responsible if they don't curate. Look at laws like SESTA to see how platforms th
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Common carrier laws apply to the unbiased transportation of information over networks, they do not guarantee hosting of information by private parties or access to their audience. Example: - CC laws guarantee that if you are able to host yo
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by three_seagrass 6y ago
Right, by strong-arming businesses with the threat of not having access to the Chinese market - i.e. forcing Apple to move Chinese citizen cloud data to government-owned data centers. Google doesn't even have access to China so there&#

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