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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Well good for you, but you actually do need to look on the impact on behavior of the things you advocate for. Unless your goal is purely to punish/harm those that don't share your beliefs rather than some tangible outcome in terms
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> Take eugenics, has suppressing that idea made the belief in eugenics worse? Ideas like eugenics clearly have something to them that resonates with people, at least until they think hard enough about the ethics or logistics involved. Th
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Agreed. As one example, take Amazon banning Parler from AWS. That clearly isn't a positive move for revenue (at least ignoring any potential shady behind-the-scenes kickbacks they could have gotten for doing so), but they did it becaus
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Depends what you consider the radicalization pipeline to be. For example, if you ban a user from Twitter, and they end up on Parler, they're gonna be exposed to a lot more "radical" (for lack of a better word) stuff than when
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Most people who are "COVID vaccine hesitant", or whatever term we want to use, aren't opposed to the concept of vaccination in general. Many of them have even gotten flu shots many times in the past, which as an aside when an
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
While I almost entirely disagree with you, I agree with the general idea that most people aren't "hesitant". Personally I'm vaccine "hell no!" (because I don't have a personal medical need for the COVID va
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Maybe it’s me but I’m having trouble understanding their argument. It seems like they’re arguing that the vaxed cases came from cities and therefore the VE is not a reliable metric? (VE has many problems btw but we need to apply that standa
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
You need to adjust for the total # of infections. We can also talk about the of covid/with COVID distinction but frankly we don’t even need to go there. But suffice to say Influenza and COVID deaths are measured very differently
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
You’re sure that you know these >5 adults enough to make that statement confidently? What about their significant others? IMO you are clearly making an unfounded assumption
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
I think what makes me the saddest is that the pro-lockdown pro-school-closures pro-vaccine-passport-to-engage-in-society people never seem to think that the onus is on them to prove anything. They don't need to prove that school closur
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Indeed. And to flesh out in more detail, we caused: - lack of sleep/exercise (which destroys the body's immunoregulatory capacities, leading to either a sort of acute immunosenescence like you said wrt fear, or alternatively leadi
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
I always catch flak for saying it, but we need to be honest about the fact that long COVID is largely a psychogenic illness. It can be a real thing, in the way that any infection can leave a sort of malaise that persists for years or even d
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
I'd also note that an even-more-infectious variant of SARS-2 (Delta), in which children transmit just as readily (I haven't seen proof of this whatsoever but let's accept it for the sake of argument), and which largely-but-no
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> The big story last year was that cases of/deaths from influenza dropped worldwide[1]. There's a huge difference between "influenza plummeted worldwide" and "influenza plummeted worldwide as a direct result of s
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> It was to protect staff & their families, and generally reduce community spread. There is no evidence that school closures had any positive impact on community spread, FWIW. Hell, even for Influenza, which kids are much less resist
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Somehow nobody seems to feel a need to justify why would we make any changes* to in-person schooling. Instead it just seems to be a foregone conclusion that having kids in school is dangerous. Why is split learning even on the table? Who ar
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Have you done them before? LSD’s stimulating nature should make it kind of obvious. They share the 5ht2a agonism because that’s how all the classic psychs (lsd/psilocybin/mescaline/dmt) work. But LSD structurally is like a ps
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
The 5ht2a agonism is what’s similar. LSD is made unique by its strong dopamine subreceptor agonism. So no, shrooms and LSD are most different in the dopaminergic effects of lsd and the half lives (lsd 2-4x longer). LSD is more of a psychede
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
No, cannabis is quite unique in that thc metabolites get stored in the fat, and there's not really a way to just check for acute intoxication. I've had friends who were heavy, heavy users who took 1.5 months to clear up. (Casual s
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> The vaccines also lack a specific abnormal side effect that the infection may carry: risk of death and hospitalization. This is well-intentioned but false. The vaccines can send you to the hospital (side-effects). It's rare but h
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
It might seem small but they only said it was longer lasting, not that it was stronger: > is longer lasting than from the vaccine
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
And don’t forget, it’s way more than just money: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2258A You must report to them and only them. For the GP to claim they’re not government “owned” is a rhetorical tr
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
That’s like saying the federal reserve is “private”. No, the NECMEC is not a private entity. Not only was it heavily funded/created by the gov, but more importantly it is granted special legal status. You and I can’t just spin up our o
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
It set the precedent for scanning server side. Which I don’t like but there’s really no way to avoid it anyway. Now we have clientside scanning, and actually being led by the [note the scare quotes] “pro-privacy” two ton gorilla. It’s a w
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
They almost certainly will, yes. Especially given that all the popular vaccines are spike protein vaccines only, which are relatively easy for SARS-2 to “learn” how to evade. Exposure to the whole virus provides a much broader set of epitop
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Slowing the spread isn’t a great goal when the vaccines are only ~40% effective at preventing Delta infection (and that number will get way worse over time) Natural infection is so much better at preventing subsequent infection/transmi
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
I imagine they meant even mentioning a statistic like “60% of those hospitalized are vaccinated” at all would get them labelled that way.
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
They actually do look alike to my eye, but in a “the way the algorithm sees it” kind of way. I can see the obvious similarity. But to your point it’s not like it’s two very slightly different photos of dogs.
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
This is a great answer but that’s not actually the GP’s contention. Their argument is essentially “so what if there’s a collision, the human review will catch it”. And to that I’d say that the same is supposed to occur for the no-fly list a
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Yeah, talk to people that know nothing on the issue besides that they want to “protect the kids”. Why stop there? Get out of the HN bubble on the patriot act, instead ask your neighbor’s wife her thoughts on it. Get out of the HN bubble on

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