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by wat10000 3mo ago
This subthread is specifically about better HIV treatments leading to an increase in other STIs. Did you forget about what you were replying to?
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by wat10000 3mo ago
More or less fun than dying of AIDS?
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by wat10000 3mo ago
If only Isaac Asimov had worn a condom, he might still be with us today.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
> If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just...” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now. h
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by wat10000 3mo ago
The company making the expensive pill you take forever would prefer the pill. Competitors who don't make those pills would love to develop a vaccine and put that first company out of business.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
You’d be better off without the shakedown altogether. Not true for a job you willingly take and stay in.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
If it's adversarial then why are they willingly entering into a mutually beneficial arrangement?
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Why do I get the feeling there’s more to this story.... Anyway, there’s wide gulf between not giving up the passcode to my life and not answering basic questions.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
It's extremely unlikely they'd jail me for obstruction. They wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on and they know it. From CBP themselves: "If a traveler being admitted as a U.S. citizen does not present their device in a
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by wat10000 3mo ago
My point isn't to defend the Nazi sympathies of Ford et al, but merely that funding and trading with Nazi Germany happened before the war, and doesn't mean that it's some cabal getting rich while the rest of us fight.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
There’s no legal difference between polite pushback and disrespect. In a just world, the commenter should have had zero consequences, and the cop should have gone to prison for assault and abuse of authority.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
They can search as much as they’re able to, but they can’t compel a citizen to supply a passcode.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
They can ask, yes. And I can refuse. They can’t detain me more than temporarily, and they can’t prevent me from entering the country.
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It's important to remember that Nazi Germany was not seen as an enemy at first, and many people admired how Hitler had supposedly lifted Germany out of the economic catastrophe of Weimar. Years passed between the Nazis taking power and
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It's also financing campaigns of politicians who don't agree with your viewpoints in the (fully justified) hope that they'll look upon you more favorably if they win. It's thinly veiled promises of cushy jobs after they
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by wat10000 3mo ago
It's best to do that for things they have the right to do. Trying to resist being questioned or having your stuff searched is a fool's errand. They'll make it happen one way or another. But I'd never unlock my phone for
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Merlin and Raptor can both throttle to about 40%. The difference is that Super Heavy has way more engines, so 40% of one engine is a lot less thrust relative to the mass of the nearly empty booster. Did the suicide burn actually play a role
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by wat10000 3mo ago
What science is that going against?
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The lesson of OpenClaw and various harnesses' YOLO modes is that it takes very, very little to social engineer an escape. If you can even call it escape when people just set an agent loose because it seems cool.
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I wonder what happens when things go wrong after everything looks good. They punched a good number of holes in their landing barges when they were perfecting Falcon 9 landings. And I imagine this crazy catch tower is a lot more expensive th
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by wat10000 3mo ago
In some places, it's no more convenient, and the value-add is just that you can pack cars in tighter. In Manhattan, for example, it's common for valet parking to be cheaper and less convenient.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Isn't this just automated valet parking? Valet parking allows more efficient use of space, which makes it cheaper in places where space is at a premium. Automating it would change that tradeoff in a way that benefits the customer.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Yep. Officials aren't immune to mass hysteria, and there's immense pressure to assume the worst "out of an abundance of caution." "Having closely examined the technical data and tips from concerned citizens, we [DHS
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Because those weren’t drones, they were people noticing for the first time that there are airplanes in the sky.
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There's a social norm that it's rude to follow someone around watching everything they do, and that the state shouldn't do it unless they have good reason to suspect that person of a crime.
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It’s the exact opposite for me. Catching it at compile time is great, but the most important thing by far is that it’s caught somewhere instead of creating a security issue.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
The Streisand effect only works for things people are interested in to begin with. People love embarrassing photos about celebrities so it works great on those. "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app with dual transport architectu
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by wat10000 3mo ago
I don’t think Google should be on that list. The word is “googol.”
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Elsewhere people are saying it’s not a realistic alternative because it’s too expensive. I think people just want a better product without paying any more money. I hate cramped economy seats too, and I fly in them anyway, but I acknowledge
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by wat10000 3mo ago
The V2 cost more to develop than the atomic bomb! And Germany was far less able to absorb the cost than the US.

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