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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
I have downvoted you because you seem to believe that if there were no anti-vaccine sentiment, SARS-2 would not exist, which is patently absurd
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Masking has never been sufficiently proven to be effective against the spread of respiratory viruses. For SARS-2 specifically we have one randomized controlled trial, DANMASK, which showed no effect of masking (note the primary endpoint was
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> Numbers in Provincetown have fallen and there were no reports of major outbreaks when vaccinated people returned home. So it would seem like you could have vaccinated-to-unvaccinated spread in some cases, but vaxed-to-vaxed is multiple
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
For those decrying the fact that this study is about a highly deadly virus, note that mathematically speaking, the same effect would be expected to be observed for a much less obviously lethal virus, if the effect were occurring across bill
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
I mean, I agree. I have serious concerns about the potential for over-sensitizing the adaptive immune system, even with the current vaccines. I also fundamentally disagree with vaccinating just against the spike protein rather than the whol
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Ah, I see. I touched on this a bit in another comment but there's more factors than lethality at play. If a virus makes you sufficiently symptomatic you're much more likely to isolate. Conversely if it remains completely asympto
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
It's not as simple as lethality. Generally a pathogen needs to cause some sort of symptom in the host to spread well, but the more severe the symptoms the more aggressively the person would isolate. Insofar as the vaccines mostly worke
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Interesting you're so focused on the "vaccine hesistancy" side of the fence. Do you have any concerns about people using their prestigious degrees and credentials to frighten the population completely out of proportion with t
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Exactly this. Insofar as the vaccines actually worked to protect people who had never acquired SARS-2, an even somewhat vaccine-evading mutation has a sizeable population of real-SARS-2-naive individuals to spread through (i.e. the vaccinat
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> Host death does not stop transmission of Covid-19 Huh? It does for that host. Yeah their corpse can still spread it for awhile or whatever but they're no longer engaging in society.
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> What advice would you give Apple if they’re faced with a legitimate government asking it to comply with the laws they have instituted in the society Apple wants to do business? When someone is trying to rob you, generally the best thin
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14231090022805135... and https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14231094582936289... kind of sums it up. Clearly there is an intent to prog
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
It's dystopian because a private company, who in the past has been committed to maintaining user privacy even when it inconveniences the government, is now regressing and going to scan the "private" contents of peoples'
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
You think Facebook and Google Photos should be the goal for privacy standards? You and I are practically in different universes then, philosophically. You're also being naive by swallowing the "it's only iCloud" justific
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Agreed. From my comment: > although (to your point) without doing any magic to intentionally cause a collision, effectively you will never get one because of just how many damn buckets there are
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
COVID "misinformation", anti-lockdown protests, any movements that are commonly labelled as domestic terrorism (boog bois, antifa, maybe even BLM; in China it will be anything that speaks out against the CCP, etc) - the potential
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> As described here, the scanning only applies to images also uploaded to iCloud ("[the] algorithm will continuously scan photos that are stored on a US user’s iPhone and have also been uploaded to its iCloud back-up system").
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
You have two primary misunderstandings AFAICT. (1) You're assuming it's a "traditional" hash, as opposed to a perceptual hash. The former is purely based off file contents and thus any transformations applied on an image
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
From the article: > The automated system would proactively alert a team of human reviewers if it believes illegal imagery is detected, who would then contact law enforcement if the material can be verified. The scheme will initially roll
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Apple will be scanning the photos on your phone and cross-referencing them against photoDNA for a government database. You don't see how that's not a huge potential for abuse right there? The government decides the images. And you
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> The idea that the vaccine prevents hospitalizations is in fact directly contradictory to the GGPs central argument, which was "that a drop in [COVID] death rates following vaccine rollout proves their efficacy/safety is like
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
Revenue numbers at time T are often the result of work done at T-3 years, T-2 years, T-1 year etc
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> Fortunately, the doubt against vaccines seems to be largely unfounded and it is easily evidenced by drops in death rates in all countries that implemented vaccinations. Wrong on both counts. First of all viral epidemics follow a natura
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
And to expand on what I would like to hope your point is, comments like the GP are exactly why I and many others come here :)
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> These are open questions that science doesn't have very satisfying answers to yet. Agreed. — It’s nowhere near complete but one place to start is psychedelic (a) increase communication across/between disparate brain regions,
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
The “stoned ape” theory is one of the dumbest theories ever invented. I say that as a big McKenna fan - he’s a great orator and very insightful, but his theory is very transparently a way to elevate the perceived importance of shrooms. Ther
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
It's no longer mere "opprobrium". These days it's losing your career (or at least your current job) and getting incessantly harassed. The calculus has very much changed. (I'm not claiming that I have a solution for
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
It really scares me that this even needs to be explained to people. The government is outright stealing from landlords. They literally made it illegal (while also not passing an actual law, as far as I know [which is how every COVID restric
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
I generally don't like to quantify things that don't have hard numbers behind them, but just to get some napkin math down: Let's say there's a 1/1000 chance in infection of the parent if the [adult] child is activel
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by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
My point is that regardless of their immune status, briefly hugging someone in an outdoor environment is not actually a risky behavior. Thus why I'm saying that it's really much better viewed as trauma induced by the societal fear

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