dent9876543

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by dent9876543 8mo ago
Not good news. Although I suppose it's good that it's getting studied.
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by dent9876543 9mo ago
I wonder if we are measuring, and therefore concentrating upon, things that turn out to be only incidental to how much we, or perhaps some of us, feel stress.
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by dent9876543 11mo ago
I have same — dead chip. Cost of replacement is not relevant as the chip and passport are linked, so need a new passport to get that fixed. Not terribly costly. But annoying given that, like you, it is due to no obvious fault on my part. Ho
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by dent9876543 1y ago
But China wasn't a honeypot for crime and fraud before they had the firewall, facial rec, and so on. It is true that many Chinese citizens don't give it a thought. But there's no demonstrable cause and effect going on there.
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Britain caves in to Trump demands on iPhone security(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by dent9876543 1y ago|0 comments
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by dent9876543 1y ago
Heh. Perhaps not really that different at all. I thought you may mean that the legal rights provide protection, so one need not worry until deidentification or detachment. Maybe your emphasis was same. But for clarity, I think we need to wo
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by dent9876543 1y ago
It rather assumes you could enforce them. Those rights will be great against a responsible outfit. But if the data is exposed in a breach, or if the outfit goes rogue (or if a future government decides to change the law and sell your data,
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by dent9876543 1y ago
We should not be giving money to these mega corps because that also implies giving them our most personal health data. For sure they'll say that we can trust them — maybe it's even true right now, but that can change on a dime, an
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by dent9876543 2y ago
Oh, I do that too. But to your point about not cheering on NAT, well I will because I see NAT as useful tool. It is not an opinion well aligned with the preferences of the IETF. But the purist model of transparent end-to-end networking has
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by dent9876543 2y ago
That NAT is a problem presumes that we actually want our IoT devices reaching out to the out-of-intranet zone. NAT gets the blame, and the intranet as a concept is generally a big corp term. But I prefer my IoT devices not to need to reach
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Cold fusion may be a viable energy alternative to end reliance on fossil fuels(theguardian.com)
4 points by dent9876543 2y ago|4 comments
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by dent9876543 2y ago
The problem is that OKRs are divorced from the “go do this piece of work” instruction, and so, just like code comments, they quickly become out of date or are outright ignored. Because of that, the prescription about SMART and focus on deli
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by dent9876543 2y ago
Yes, I think that's correct. There was an absolute willingness to allow views in support of a fear narrative win through. (No matter their grounding.) The probing/questioning threads were quickly closed down. Some of it was done b
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by dent9876543 2y ago
But I think you hit the nail on the point that “it is actionable”. You argue any such conclusion is not actionable. But it is, and to make example, one can imagine that senators will be more circumspect in sponsoring labs to do this kind of
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by dent9876543 2y ago
If our hypothetical $1 common cold pill turns out anything like our COVID pill, it will only be effective for a few months before making you marginally more susceptible than you were before.
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by dent9876543 2y ago
True — we had to deal with it. Revisionism these days seems to accept that we didn't get it right, but rhetorically asks "could you have done better?", and gives only a shrug. We should have done better, and we could have. We
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by dent9876543 2y ago
That’s what we were told, but don’t you think it was a bit daft? If it was a really severe disease, then fair play. (But then, what on earth are you doing chatting in a restaurant.) If it isn’t severe, then why bother protecting yourself at
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by dent9876543 2y ago
Yet for many people, the very act of choosing results in a halo that goes beyond the acquisition itself. You may think you’re choosing a technology, and nothing further. But others may see your decision as a broader endorsement. Are they ri
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by dent9876543 2y ago
This story (different source) was posted already ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42020398 ). I didn't read it before, but now I have and it's interesting. Quoting their medical director: > "Our reques
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by dent9876543 2y ago
I don't know. The vaccine wasn't as effective as it might have been. So it didn't really matter that acceptance wasn't 100%. For a better vaccine, or a less virulent virus, it might have mattered. But for the ones we got
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by dent9876543 2y ago
This is terrible. medConfidential is right to point out: "once he has the data he can do what he likes". The government will claim to act with my interests at heart. I don't believe it will do so. Even if the current governme
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by dent9876543 2y ago
> Effectiveness of child masking has not been demonstrated, while documented harms of masking in children are diverse and non-negligible and should prompt careful reflection. Recommendations for masking children fail basic harm-benefit a
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by dent9876543 2y ago
I don't know. For some, hindsight is saying that it was a big deal. You'd expect that group to be resolute that early access was needed. It could easily have been offered to the elderly. That's pretty clear cut. For sure, if
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by dent9876543 2y ago
It would be interesting if you could choose, instead of paying carbon taxes, to pay for a fraction of the plane's fuel to come from e-fuel produced from green electricity. In fact, maybe flying is the wrong place to start — we should m
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by dent9876543 2y ago
I think you perhaps meant to be pedantic and ironically trite. But imagine being 4 years behind when you hit secondary/senior school. Either the child has to adjust and catch up (but it's a /lot/ to catch up), or the sch
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by dent9876543 2y ago
It's not that strange, is it? In discussion, most people associate lockdowns directly with the wider Covid response. The subhead expands and explains, drawing in the "world of masks and remote health visits has created a generatio
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by dent9876543 2y ago
All the while forgetting that benefit is heavily skewed. Those that would really benefit from its protection are often the same group that would be knocked sideways by its side effects (the very old, infirm, already sick or otherwise vulner
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by dent9876543 2y ago
I can speak exactly to that. At the time, a friend asked why I didn’t want the vaccine. I’d done my research, and I knew my benefit was marginal and that my risk from COVID itself was close to nil. But best I could articulate at the time wa
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by dent9876543 2y ago
What’s odd about it? Zuck could try to dodge the question. But assuming he decided that tack would not work, then his options are basically to double down with the government line, or to assert FB as an independent. The first option is a re
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by dent9876543 2y ago
Do you mean that my process might get killed [by the OOM killer] if /another process/ fails to get more backing pages? Or are you suggesting that there is some other failure path that results in my process getting killed if my own

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