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by woofie11 5y ago
I figured. Google it, find the first random web page, and type it in. This article is a summary of one random historian, Frier. Probably better summary of evidence: https://archive.org/details/demographyromans0000park&#
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by woofie11 5y ago
Words I live by: "Never Take Legal Advice from Opposing Council." Terms-of-service and Facebook's employment agreement were generally drafted by experienced counsel. That means they do a good job of protecting the person on t
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by woofie11 5y ago
Even with the EU, there isn't a "here in Europe." Europe has common law jurisdiction, like Ireland, and civil law jurisdictions, like France, and there isn't uniformity. I don't know about civil law jurisdictions, b
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by woofie11 5y ago
I don't believe your number. Citation required. And I'm serious about that. I'm sure it's possible to get that number somehow, but the devil is in the details. Do you factor in: - Famines? - Wars? - Being killed by bandi
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by woofie11 5y ago
There was a random process. Plenty of people lived to be 90, and plenty of people died at birth. The difference was that a random cut could turn into an infection and kill you. Hannibal lost vision in one eye due to an infection. Prior to a
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by woofie11 5y ago
Development and economic growth. In the Roman Empire, people lived 30 years and died. Most were illiterate. As a society develops, and has more excess resources, allocating more and more of those resources on keeping people alive, healthy,
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by woofie11 5y ago
> This essay is a "just so" story, full of completely unsubstantiated assertions. As a foreigner from a smaller nation, my experience is that the way to have "substantiated" assertions about your history is to have Br
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by woofie11 5y ago
I think you've done a very good job of doing something which a developer will grog. I think you've done a very poor job with doing something which a court will grog the same way. I think that's where the astronomical potentia
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by woofie11 5y ago
The intent is pretty clear. Unfortunately, the actual legal language is as clear as mud: "that does not expose or give access to, directly or indirectly (e.g., via a wrapper), the Timescale Data Definition Interfaces or the Timescale D
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by woofie11 5y ago
> Most companies (including open-source companies) actually have both open-source and proprietary software, but the proprietary software is often hidden inside private repos. The difference with Timescale is that we have made the source
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by woofie11 5y ago
I think the loss of culture is the intended effect, and the loss of product knowledge is the cost. I'm not going to argue about which culture is better, but the split between people who wanted to get their jobs done and make a good pro
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by woofie11 5y ago
This is false. IRBs are required under federal law, which did result from ethics violations, both by the Nazis, but just as much by US-based experiments, like the Stanford prison study, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Yale's Milgram exper
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by woofie11 5y ago
Nope. LWN built the feature that subscribes can share links as a feature. If you subscribe, you can share. LWN is a very fair and ethical organization. This struck what felt to them (and to much of the community) as a good balance.
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by woofie11 5y ago
... And I'd still like some update on the UMN IRB, which exempted this research. Graduate students will make mistakes, and as much as this was stupid, reckless, and unethical, graduate school is a time to learn. Professors will make mi
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by woofie11 5y ago
What we know is that: * Cloth masks reduce viral loads by somewhere around 30-70%. * High-quality masks reduce them by e.g. 70-95% depending on how they're fitted. * We know risk of infection (and severity) is related to viral load, bu
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by woofie11 5y ago
Cookies identify you only to the site setting the cookie. When doubleclick.net started scraping my data, I blocked them. Problem gone. FLoC gathers data from *all* my web browsing activity. In addition, I have a nearly unique fingerprint fr
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by woofie11 5y ago
This is not attempting to preserve privacy. This is attempting to give a pretense of preserving privacy, while completely deanonymizing the web. This is browser fingerprinting on steroids. In addition to things like screen resolution and OS
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by woofie11 5y ago
Please show any study which "struggled to show any benefit." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591312/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5153448&#x2F
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by woofie11 5y ago
Well, no. The issue isn't mooted. 1) The vaccine doesn't prevent you from catching COVID19; it prevents symptoms. Your body fights it off. We know nothing about how it impacts long COVID or spread. I mean, we know it reduces them,
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> My wife works in the hospital and employees are only given one mask a month or so and must use the hospital provided equipment. Really? I mean really? N95 masks are not reusable. They have an electrostatic layer that degrades after hou
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by woofie11 5y ago
This is disingenuous. The study you cite has a large effect size with low certainty ("Face mask use could result in a large reduction in risk of infection"). Best available data was that they probably help a lot, but we don't
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by woofie11 5y ago
Mask wearing is incredibly effective with N95-equivalent masks, which are now easily and plentifully available. If everyone wore masks with proper filters, we might be done by now. The world seems too dumb to notice the difference between a
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by woofie11 6y ago
Wow. Total sleazeball. This appears to not be his first time with using unintentional research subjects. Source: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C22&q=Lor... This is quite literally the first poin
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by woofie11 6y ago
A lot of IRBs are a joke. The way I've seen Harvard, Stanford, and a few other university researchers dodge IRB review is by doing research in "private" time in collaboration with a private entity. There is no effective overs
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by woofie11 6y ago
I always ask to review the paperwork before I make a decision. It's never been a problem. Now, I don't job hop a lot, so that's not a large sample size, but at least the companies I worked for all let me review paperwork befo
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by woofie11 6y ago
I've had a lawyer review my employment contract before. I've had it modified. It's totally worth it if you're getting paid a good SWE or higher salary. You can run the numbers on odds of litigation and on expected costs&
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by woofie11 6y ago
Corporations seek profits. They do so in different ways, with different biases and cultures. Some are a net positive on the world. Some are a net negative. This is a false abstraction: "they are capitalistic with morals and ethics that
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by woofie11 6y ago
Microsoft is complex. It was evil in the nineties. It's a different company now. It has some evil aspects, like any large organization, but it seems to treat customers better, and is a major open source contributor. On the whole, I don
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by woofie11 6y ago
People do make errors and have biases. So do public health professionals. The passive death and disability from COVID19 is weighed far less than the active death of side-effects. Providing J&J to everyone in the US would obviously reduc
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by woofie11 6y ago
Here, risk management should be a personal decision. In this case, the right set of actions might be to grant people freedom, and let market forces rule. I think some people would choose the J&J vaccine if it meant getting vaccinated fa

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