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by umvi 5y ago
Companies are adapting to this too - marketers are increasingly purchasing or grooming high-rep accounts for astroturfing select subreddits related to company products
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by umvi 5y ago
Ugh, this is so true. It's getting increasingly difficult to break out of the SEO twilight zone. SEO is the worst thing that's ever happened to online search because it's completely poisoned the top N search results with garb
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by umvi 5y ago
We weren't allowed to discuss lab leak on social media until the information overlords decided it was ok to do so. And it took them over a year before they gave us permission to discuss it.
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by umvi 5y ago
Nuclear pollution is scary but coal pollution isn't? I bet coal pollution has killed way more than nuclear pollution per plant.
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by umvi 5y ago
> I think that we have a responsibility to speak out on matters we believe in and ignore negative pushback. You can try, but new "fact checking" norms will ensure unpopular (especially politically unpopular) opinions get censor
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by umvi 5y ago
> I'd never pick mushrooms from the wild Some of the tastiest mushrooms are also the most recognizable, like morels. If you want them foraging is the only option for most people. Morels have no reliable farming methods as far as I k
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by umvi 5y ago
A great example of not getting bogged down in analysis paralysis. Adams chose and continues to choose "sub-optimal" technologies for developing and running DF. Heck, last I checked he is still manually doing version control with f
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by umvi 5y ago
> I predicted that vaccines plus immunity from those who had been infected would end the pandemic by mid-year 2021. Me too. I'm still wondering why, in most first world countries with free vaccines, we are still having authoritarian
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by umvi 5y ago
Even if it is staged/fake... he only got 200k views out of it, so it wouldn't have even been worth the cost of the plane
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by umvi 5y ago
I think it would be cool if there were more options in the "programming language backends" space like LLVM. That way you could create custom programming languages that focus on the syntax/QoL features that fit your idea of a
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by umvi 5y ago
Yeah but my point was the claim that "wearing masks is highly effective" needs more qualifiers. There are many kinds of masks and many different communicable diseases. A cloth mask will not block covid aerosol transmission at all,
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by umvi 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown When it first happened the media framed it with the racially inflammatory headline: "White cop shoots and kills unarmed black teen" All technically true
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by umvi 5y ago
> Only a single process can write to the database at any time; it does not support concurrent writers. I think you can do concurrent writing now with Write-Ahead Logging (WAL): https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html I've n
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by umvi 5y ago
> It is nearly impossible that an entire field of study will succumb to bias It's happened before, especially when a select few command the majority of the field's grants/publications. If you are interested in how this cou
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by umvi 5y ago
> How do you draw the line? Again, maturity of the thing the expertise revolves around is important here. Since covid has been around less than 2 years and child-approved covid vaccines have been around for less than 1 year, I'd tak
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by umvi 5y ago
> which is something we know is highly effective (purely from a physics point of view) This in itself is a tricky claim to make with confidence. I agree we know certain types of masks (N95) are highly effective at preventing spread of ai
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by umvi 5y ago
> Typically experts are people who have spent far more time than other people doing exactly what you're describing: slowly sifting through and cross-referencing data, asking questions, digging up resources, and testing hypothesis. O
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by umvi 5y ago
Mental work vs. physical work, pick your poison. Self-hosted password managers aren't work-free, you have to set them up and get them working across all your devices and maintain them. When I need to log into Nintendo's eShop from
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by umvi 5y ago
Algorithmic passwords. Come up with an algorithm a(website, rules) that you can remember and that generates unique passwords per website. Store the rules (length restrictions, special character restrictions, number of times the password has
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by umvi 5y ago
> I have a question: why not using Chrome's built-in password manager Because then you are locked into Chrome and some people prefer the freedom to switch browsers at any time
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by umvi 5y ago
Good luck coming up with a good way to measure "harm" caused by lockdowns. As a thought experiment: Say you have a button. If you push it then it saves the lives of 100 people that would have had a heart attack. However, it gives
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by umvi 5y ago
> and even more jarring how much airtime those championing unlocking, unmasking and being antivax are getting here Not everyone agrees "excess deaths" is the ultimate variable society should optimize for at the expense of all o
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by umvi 5y ago
Storing a lot of hydrogen at high pressure requires heavy tanks. Storing a lot of hydrogen at low pressure results in the Hindenburg.
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by umvi 5y ago
> I don't think the crash requirements need to compare to commercial aviation, but to cars. This is competing with cars. A lot of car crashes are not fatal. Would you be able to say the same of electric airplanes? I'm guessing
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by umvi 5y ago
I bought the TPLink Archer A7 and did not need a cloud account for it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079JD7F7G/
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by umvi 5y ago
I've had such a better experience with Turo that I pretty much use it exclusively now. I get exactly the type of car I reserved, pay what was quoted, and often the owners are willing to pickup/dropoff at airport economy lots for a
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by umvi 5y ago
Pretty much everyone will contract covid at some point, just like common colds, influenza, etc. You can't expect to never get sick the rest of your life, can you?
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by umvi 5y ago
> That "dumb" infrastructure still exists. You can host your own file server, either on your own hardware, or in the cloud. Can you though? I would consider AWS "in the cloud" yet they will give you the boot if they d
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by umvi 5y ago
Note that files can be restricted not just for violating ToS, but also "program policies"[0]. This includes files that are identified as: CSAM, Circumvention, Dangerous and Illegal Activities, Harassment, Bullying, Hate Speech, Mi
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Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS(workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
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