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by varelse 5y ago
They didn't censor it, for nothing really significant has come of it since other than he was exploiting existing law for his own personal gain. So they decided to mostly ignore Giuliani's fantastical tales of the stolen laptop. Se
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That's funny, I didn't hear any of this righteous self indignation during the last administration over its bogus antitrust threats. Were those okay with you or did it take you this long to work up a really good lather? https:&#x2
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by varelse 5y ago
Cool, how about some specific references to settled cases that are relevant to the situation rather than vague references to law books? Back in the day, I remember how Tipper Gore was all about warning us of the dangers of explicit lyrics a
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by varelse 5y ago
When has any of this not been blurry? Tech gets all sorts of tax breaks to innovate. That's okay, but if they proactively kick people off the platform so as to head off government regulation, that's not okay? Or wait, let me guess
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by varelse 5y ago
You're assuming I'm not okay with the content moderation of Hacker News. You should never assume. If anything you should jump with joy at the rights of people who disagree with this article to flag it and at your right to registe
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by varelse 5y ago
And yet still not a single counter argument explaining why you guys don't build your own social media site instead of whining about the old and stupid leading brands. There's lesson in the irony.
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by varelse 5y ago
I remain confused as to why anyone thinks they have unlimited first amendment rights on social media. It sounds a lot like thinking one has first amendment rights at a private employer. Let's clear this up right now. TLDR: you don&#x27
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by varelse 5y ago
According to you. And we should all take you at your word because this is the hill on which you have chosen to die? Got it.
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So you are asserting it is impossible for a virus to increase its fatality rate through mutation within the same species? That there has to be a zoonotic transfer for this to be possible? Where's your evidence? Because this must mean t
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by varelse 5y ago
"hospitalization and severe disease and death are completely different things." So you're claiming hospitalization, severe illness, and death are not correlated at all w/r to prior of COVID-19 diagnosis? How does that wo
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by varelse 5y ago
Who's denying Americans the right to use hospitals if their insurance is denied due to a pre-existing condition of being unvaccinated? Freedom isn't free, they should have done their cost/benefit analysis a priori instead of
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by varelse 5y ago
35% is the fatality rate of MERS, a related CoronaVirus, and you have presented zero evidence to prove it's impossible SARS-CoV-2 mutate up to that rate. You sound like you're trying to cover up peer-reviewed data suggesting we ta
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by varelse 5y ago
A company's responsibility is solely to its shareholders, not to its customers. If those two goals align, win/win. Denying expensive claims increases profitability right up to the point they lose enough customers to offset those g
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by varelse 5y ago
My wife's employer is not mandating vaccines and they are on the verge of mandating a return to work with everyone wearing masks all day long to accommodate their anti-vaccine employees. She may not stay there much longer. Life is too
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by varelse 5y ago
So you assert viruses cannot evolve to be deadlier but at the same time insist they always evolve to become less deadly. But the only evolutionary imperative is more virus particles. If becoming less deadly is the best path, the virus becom
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by varelse 5y ago
So it's not the pandemic that both Republicans like Schwarzenegger, Democrats like Obama, and billionaires like Bill Gates predicted and tried to plan for 5 to 15 years ago? It's some weird social agenda to isolate the free thinke
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by varelse 5y ago
And private insurance has a long history of denying claims. How is this any different? https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Forms-Reports-and-Other-...
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by varelse 5y ago
1.I think they should get medical coverage if they have insurance and then they should be thrown in jail losing both their licence and their car. And then criminally charged if anyone else was harmed through their actions. 2. Does their poo
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by varelse 5y ago
The IFR seems to be about 1% now that we a have a lot of data, and a bit higher in the US. But that could change or are you asserting it won't? And are you completely unconcerned about new variants? We'll have to disagree on that.
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Because this is an out group constantly endangering the well-being of others? It really is one. Or if it isn't, then what exactly is it? Your body, your choices, your consequences, but not mine or anyone else's. Why is the right t
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by varelse 5y ago
We have a terrible national heritage here and I understand the reluctance. But this isn't how we handled smallpox or polio. There really isn't any other option than vaccination given that coronaviruses can reach up to 35% fatality
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by varelse 5y ago
Your freedom stops at others immune systems. Think of this as a choose your own adventure. And if you don't wish to be vaccinated or wear a mask you are opting into the road less traveled. What's with all this negativity? But smok
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by varelse 5y ago
I suspect one could go a long way towards solving this by announcing that unvaccinated covid cases will get zero health insurance coverage. Make exceptions for those that truly cannot be vaccinated but to hell with everyone else. Going furt
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by varelse 5y ago
Social media has been weaponized by people with nefarious intent. This has unfortunate collateral damage. I have run afoul of the crude tools in place to detect this myself on both Twitter and Facebook. But I have yet to have a day-to-day c
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by varelse 5y ago
I agree that the opportunity is there, but it doesn't seem like the VC wants to fund efforts in that direction. There are all sorts of ways to make social media better as well, but the VC doesn't want to fund that either. Perhaps
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by varelse 5y ago
My favorite Ithaca moment was a t-shirt in a t-shirt store there that made fun of a New York State lottery ad campaign about what people would do with their lottery money that stated "I would buy a mountain of crack and live in a whore
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by varelse 5y ago
If you design your network on a TPU, you will tend to use operators that work well on a TPU. And in the end you will have a network that works best on the TPU. Lather rinse repeat for any other architecture. You can even make a network that
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by varelse 5y ago
Going to disagree. I ran circles around contemporary x86 back in the early '90s because of specific instructions Intel denied they would ever need in their processor roadmap. But it really didn't matter and that's one of the
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By the time any of this is viable commercially, I really wonder where commercial GPUs and accelerators will be. And they're going to have the home team advantage when that happens. So that means that unless these things are as accessib
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by varelse 5y ago
Sell your soul: not OK Sell your best years to the man(tm): 100% OK

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