jpxw

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by jpxw 5y ago
Well nothing is risk-free. But in my opinion in any case the risk of allowing climate change to rampantly continue vastly outweighs the infinitesimal risks of nuclear.
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by jpxw 5y ago
One incident caused by a natural disaster that would never happen in a European country like Germany, the other caused by mismanagement and frankly jaw droppingly pigheaded incompetence which would also never happen in a country like German
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by jpxw 5y ago
To be replaced by Russian gas. Great move!
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by jpxw 5y ago
I find that people on here are _extremely_ uncharitable when it comes to anything Apple
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by jpxw 5y ago
Source?
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by jpxw 5y ago
One reason amongst many others is the risk of a vaccine-resistant strain emerging. There’d be a pretty enormous evolutionary pressure for that outcome under those circumstances.
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by jpxw 5y ago
It’s not about whether it improves the situation in China or not. It’s about having consistent principles as a company.
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by jpxw 5y ago
I know nothing about Nim or genomics. Why is it odd that they didn’t include Nim?
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by jpxw 5y ago
I suspect that using past positive tests would make things even more complicated. It’s very easy to underestimate how difficult things are at the “tens of millions of people” scale, particularly for governments. > You have a government w
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by jpxw 5y ago
Vaccinated people are way less likely to get infected. And I don’t think there’s any evidence that vaccinated people have higher viral loads with less symptoms - that would be extremely surprising if true. I understand that vaccinated peopl
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by jpxw 5y ago
Pros vs cons of taking natural immunity into account: Pros: - An extremely small number of people who would get side effects now wouldn’t Cons: - Logistics: you now need to perform a blood test on every single person in the country, process
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by jpxw 5y ago
The fact that it’s a personal choice doesn’t mean that both choices are equally correct. IMHO, unless you’re a hermit, and excluding certain other extremely rare edge cases, the only moral choice is taking it.
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by jpxw 5y ago
I think you severely underestimate how hard it would be to organise every single person in the country having a blood test, and then sending out invites etc based on the results of those tests.
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by jpxw 5y ago
If we’re going to be that cynical, we could just pay people to dig holes in the ground and fill them back up again. We don’t do that, for good reason.
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by jpxw 5y ago
I don’t know a single person who was hospitalised from the vaccine, and almost every adult I know has got it. Conversely, several people I know were hospitalised from COVID, one of whom was killed. Anecdotal, of course, but in the absence o
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by jpxw 5y ago
Is there any study to back this up?
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by jpxw 5y ago
No it isn't. Someone who succumbs to lung cancer after smoking 1000 cigarettes a day for 20 years is still a victim of lung cancer. The definition of victim says nothing about causation.
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by jpxw 5y ago
Blaming the victim isn't necessarily always wrong.
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by jpxw 5y ago
And ten years in prison.
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by jpxw 5y ago
Maybe. I think at least part of the reason is political though. Nobody wants to be the person who scraps a security policy and then has a terrorist attack happen as a result of their policy removal. Not politicians, not TSA higher-ups, nobo
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by jpxw 5y ago
It isn’t. But nobody cares about that. Employment law appears to only work in one direction.
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by jpxw 5y ago
I hate the name personally. I would not feel comfortable asking a normal person (or, now that I think about it, even someone tech-savvy and privacy conscious) “hey come and join my Revolt server”. At best, it sounds like I’d be inviting the
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by jpxw 5y ago
It was a glib little quip, as you mentioned. That was the entertaining part. Edit: I’ve just noticed a particularly vile and undeserved comment in reply to you, and to some extent feel responsibility, as it’s part of a comment chain I creat
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by jpxw 5y ago
Also, people are annoyed about the fact that the scanning is done client-side, which is ironic because Apple are doing that in order to increase the security/privacy of the system. I can see why people are uncomfortable about client-si
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by jpxw 5y ago
I highly doubt they’d offer a choice like this. 99% of their customers won’t know what these terms mean.
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by jpxw 5y ago
Yet another reason to disable iCloud, if you’re privacy conscious. Although you’re relying on your recipient disabling it too. So really you have to use something else. Signal, etc. With that said, I still think an iPhone with iCloud disabl
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by jpxw 5y ago
XMPP plus plus, perhaps. Or XMPPPP.
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by jpxw 5y ago
Health insurance for all? Agree. I’m not sold on the economics of UBI. IMO something that I think would make a huge difference while also being realistically achievable is criminal justice reform. We cannot let prisons continue being factor
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by jpxw 5y ago
I totally disagree on the format, FWIW. When I see a link to a Twitter thread, I know immediately what to expect. I know that the formatting will be consistent. I know that the site will be accessible and at least somewhat readable. I can s
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by jpxw 5y ago
After reading about various vulnerabilities which are the direct result of backwards JS language features - most recently prototype pollution - I’d be hesitant to use JS for writing scripts. Maybe I’m just being paranoid.

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