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by yborg 7y ago
I don't have any objection to developing and distributing a vaccine, but it's deployment without sufficient testing. Had the disease become widespread, as you note it would have been worth the additional risk, but in the event, it
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by yborg 7y ago
>On December 16, a one-month suspension of the vaccination program is announced by CDC head Sencer. William Foege of the CDC estimates that the incidence of Guillain-Barré is four times higher in vaccinated people than in those not recei
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by yborg 7y ago
Buzzfeed quoting an internal email they do not provide verbatim. Musk downplaying a risk is kind of his thing, so it's plausible, but without the full context this is just Musk-bashing bait.
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by yborg 7y ago
Mastodon client can filter on language. Hashtags are a thing, most clients can search/filter on them. The pond is tiny, so certain non-mainstream communities that were driven out of other "real" platforms (i.e. platforms that
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by yborg 7y ago
Another downside of globalization, it has become cheap and easy to move food items across the world, so Vietnamese sugar syrup can be sold here as "honey" and it becomes a race to the bottom - actual honey producers either go out
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by yborg 7y ago
This is naive. Via triangulation they know your approximate location, and there are likely cameras with facial recognition and/or license plate readers in the area that can be used to correlate with arrival/departure to get your i
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by yborg 7y ago
It's also cleverly disguised PR for the attorney. Well played (so to speak).
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>Your ISP already knows what websites you visit, they don't need the DNS because they see the actual traffic. Then why were the big ISPs lobbying against this plan when proposed by Google originally? Because they truly were concerne
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by yborg 7y ago
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. If nothing else convinced people Firefox is back, this should tip the scale.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2017/07/27/criminals... You can be hacked from your doorbell, thermostat, or refrigerator now. Soon, hacks to vehicles will be able to propagate into home net
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by yborg 7y ago
I use uMatrix to demonstrate what is happening on the Web to non-technical people. The redlining is an excellent visual cue. People are shocked at the dozens and dozens of tracking and analytics beacons that are loaded on any major site.
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by yborg 7y ago
I remember Empire on the old PLATO system, the grandaddy of them all. Orions, represent!
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by yborg 7y ago
>implementing outsourcing Exactly, this seemed completely missing from the hand-wringing about how what's wrong with the Democratic party is that it is just too elitist for the working classes now. There is in fact a lot of truth to
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by yborg 7y ago
I don't know how you can conclude that. To stop it they would need to challenge it in court and they're up against a potential profit here that can afford any number of big-gun law firms. I don't know the law here, but that&#
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by yborg 7y ago
This seems correct to me, i.e. the current title here is clickbait. From the paper: "The results of the present study did not support my hypothesis that intelligence should be negatively associated with childlessness." In fairness
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by yborg 7y ago
You can get certification from an auditing organization that you are following organic practices, so for farms willing to spend the extra money on that, it's a little better than someone's word. I know someone who works as an audi
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by yborg 7y ago
This is a very good idea, and I think the quota should be even lower. I also think the old Slashdot mechanic of allowing a set of tags on user mod votes is useful to provide additional feedback.
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Unless it's their weight.
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by yborg 7y ago
The functioning or non-functioning of the logistics system for the F-35 is largely irrelevant, as just demonstrated Lockheed is paid whether it works or not; and non-functioning is much safer for the program, as non-flying F-35s are safe fr
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by yborg 7y ago
What I found to be the most interesting observation is that the majority of the grains found have an age very close to the assumed age of the Sun itself. This kind of implies that the the cloud that the Solar System formed from was mostly s
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by yborg 7y ago
I think these guys agreed with you... https://youtu.be/9Lt4Z5PYQPM
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by yborg 7y ago
https://youtu.be/l9ag2x3CS9M One of the best visualizations I've come across of just how dominant the US industrial base was in the 1940s under full mobilization.
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by yborg 7y ago
It hasn't been my observation as a daily driver of Firefox that Mozilla needs a lot less QA.
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I have a TP-Link device and am glad to see an alternative to the stock firmware since all of the consumer brands have been found to have gaping security issues over the years - at these price points and because consumers don't know&#x2
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Probably because you couldn't dogfight with it.
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Downers Grove Fry's is more or less a ghost town, and has been for more than a year at least by all reports. It's impossible to believe that they can cover their overhead. The "changing to a consignment model" thing is l
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by yborg 7y ago
I have had the 3rd gen iPad Pro since its introduction and game on it daily for extended periods often held by one edge or corner, because gaming. If I'm not bending this thing, I don't know what "without much force or pressu
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by yborg 7y ago
The CEO to rank and file pay disparity in Japanese companies has traditionally been much lower than in Western corporations, and the compensation of non-Japanese executives (of which there have been very few) has rankled the Japanese in the
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This actually was kind of the nugget for me in this story: "At one extreme, it is easy to make the galaxy empty by simply shrinking the number of usable planets and having civilizations last for only, say, 100,000 years or so." i.
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They aren't. We almost have the capability to do much worse ourselves already. If you want big-bang type weapons, you can modify an asteroid orbit to drop a K-T event on the planet. It's not very target-able, but if you want to tr

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