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by yurlungur 6y ago
To me the bummer of nuclear power is how much advocates try to underestimate the cost of handling the waste for decades and the potential risks. I think if you really think we need to go full speed ahead with nuclear power you need to ask
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by yurlungur 6y ago
About 20 years ago there was this optimism that Internet is this new unstoppable thing that will liberate the world to have free communication and knowledge sharing. Unfortunate that turned out to be such a false idea. Probably the infrastr
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by yurlungur 6y ago
How about an oath for tech CEOs? Or better yet, some strong, comprehensive laws on data collection and ownership?
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by yurlungur 6y ago
I think in general all our life quality will improve if we significantly reduce light polution. Not to mention the energy savings. Sometimes I forget how beautiful the night sky is just because I'm usually so blind to it.
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by yurlungur 6y ago
I think increasingly over the last year, dogmatic thinking and fantastical thinking related to several important topics are becoming mainstream, chief among them China. What's disheartening to me is that not only are neocons and Steve
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by yurlungur 6y ago
I can see how remote can be a vital plugin these days for some...although I can't say it makes vscode what it is. there are workarounds and it's not like remote doesn't have its own problems. LiveShare though doesn't con
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by yurlungur 6y ago
Well, for one I can say I do feel lucky to have the choice not to work in the video games industry. It seems that these companies in general just treat their employees worse when compared to big tech. Video games are my passion of life and
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by yurlungur 6y ago
Isn't that the onus of the US government and congress? Regardless, since TikTok is considered a potential national security risk, I'm sure plenty of existing laws would cover it if not others already.
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by yurlungur 6y ago
I think there could be some reasonable guardrails. For one, its servers could be fully hosted in the US (if it's not already the case today), and it could be subjugated to US laws and regulations that require user information be protec
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by yurlungur 6y ago
You can probably try to find the English version of the memo in this news here: https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3095822/byteda... But in any case. I did not say ByteDance is substantially m
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by yurlungur 6y ago
It's so ironic that mainstream opinions in the US are nowadays so ideologically charged that TikTok is assumed, without proof, to be 100% controlled by the Chinese government and therefore this forced takeover is justified one way or a
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by yurlungur 6y ago
May be a stupid idea, but I always feel that appstores should be independent from device and service providers. Consumers should have the flexibility to not get tied to certain distributors of software. Even if apple and Google are not prev
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by yurlungur 6y ago
If I was the management of bytedance I'd at least hold on until next year. A deal made today is definitely gonna be a pretty bad one given the tremendous political pressure.
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by yurlungur 6y ago
Most likely a futile move. I think ByteDance will learn very soon that when the political will is ample, no amount of technical or legal maneuvering can avoid a state crackdown, in the US or elsewhere.
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by yurlungur 6y ago
I think preventative measures to reduce community crime levels are not a bad idea. It just sounds very inappropriate if it was the police department doing it, especially if the community has fear and antagonism towards the police. If these
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by yurlungur 6y ago
I'm not qualified to analyze the technical details but I have some more practical grievances with VPNs. I paid for ExpressVPN for 1yr on going and found it disappointing despite being advertised as the expensive but good option. First,
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by yurlungur 6y ago
"Conveniently" just got a notice from my property to renew my lease with a slight increase in rent. July 4th seems like a pretty good time to look for alternatives!
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by yurlungur 6y ago
I think most tech oriented people can appreciate the downsides of Flash. But in retrospect it no doubt enabled a level of creativity that any replacement technology hasn't achieved to nearly the same degree. Some creators seemed to hav
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by yurlungur 6y ago
That is largely correct, however the editors are very key to maintaining this process and especially the standards. A prestiged academic will not blindly accept any review request without having a level of trust in the process and also the
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by yurlungur 6y ago
Sorry but the methodology just sounds laughably stupid on its face. It would baffle me if this kind of analysis would meet the bar to identify any kind of epidemic, let alone a novel and possibly evolving virus. Not to accuse the authors of
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by yurlungur 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x_pIgvDLcg Is that so clear? This Dr. Peter Daszak, described as a coronavirus expert who apparently worked with the lab, said (4:50~) "There was no viral isolate in the lab, there was
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by yurlungur 7y ago
This line of reasoning makes no sense at all. You are saying the Chinese response was too good/swift compared to the West and it proves a conspiracy. First issue with that is the Chinese response (lockdown) was not really swift at all
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by yurlungur 7y ago
Early in my PhD we used Galaxy, which was a very popular platform to do bioinformatics/computational biology research. It enabled biologists with some basic programming knowledge to conduct relatively complex analysis and share them w
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by yurlungur 7y ago
I think some people are just blessed with great genes and great health/immune system throughout their lives. There are stories of 100+ yos who smoke, who eat typical comfort food everyday, who drink in moderation but consistently etc e
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by yurlungur 7y ago
Apparently Team usage is up significantly. You can do video conferencing via Team which is one aspect that is quite different from Slack. I imagine there are some new use cases arising from that.
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by yurlungur 7y ago
Of course one can and should assign blame where it is due to the CCP. But demanding vengeful reparations from the whole country is pretty much a precursor to war. I can totally imagine a few leaders riling up public emotions this way and al
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by yurlungur 7y ago
I wonder if this pandemic will have long lasting effects on international travel. It seems possible that going into the future stricter health screening may become routine and certain travel restrictions may stay in place for a prolonged pe
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by yurlungur 7y ago
The thing about the current situation is that there is still no end in sight and it feels like we are just at the beginning stages of a tough struggle. Thankfully tech seems to be holding up in terms of employment for the moment, but we hav
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by yurlungur 7y ago
It's easy to point at others for imperfect data and imperfect science when the situation is evolving so fast and data is so hard to come by. It seems to me that papers being retracted due to inaccurate evidence is not a sign of sensati
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by yurlungur 7y ago
I think due to the nature of (generally) exponential growth, no country can be expected to be able to "cover" a true outbreak. However, it's also true that the spike in cases will only happen in a very short period of time so

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