mikedilger

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by mikedilger 5y ago
If you provide service to everybody, then you provide service to unsavory types. That doesn't mean you cater to them. The alternative is 'cancel culture' which many people reject on principle because all it will do is tear th
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by mikedilger 5y ago
Well said. Deep corruption everywhere and it is spreading. I think empires in decline are unavoidably this way. I think this Ivermectin debate has nothing to do with Ivermectin, but about big pharma attempting to usurp power via several gov
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by mikedilger 5y ago
Very good they are thinking about addressing this, but they are still labouring under a few bits of their own misinformation. Claiming it is a central part of someone's identity, and article of faith, and that they can't be argued
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by mikedilger 5y ago
Many of us don't want banks or shopping sites on our phones. AndOTP authenticator works great for me. I also wrote one that I use on an offline computer (TOTP is rfc6238) in case my phone dies or is unavailable for some reason. My only
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by mikedilger 5y ago
There are other non-ingredient things that matter: limiting sun exposure, cleaning the oil/dirt, and using something to maintain hydration (glycerin, aqueous cream, ... petroleum jelly in extreme cases).
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by mikedilger 5y ago
Years ago I wrote a rust program (pre 1.0) that linked to a python library that a co-worker wrote. We got deadlocks. Turns out we also were linking the system OpenSSL which internally uses python to deal with ca-certificates and the GIL w
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by mikedilger 5y ago
While not disagreeing with that, I think we can continue to eliminate. During level-4, the R value is clearly lower than 1.0 meaning the infection shrinks. And the infection is small since we locked down immediately when a community case wa
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by mikedilger 5y ago
Whenever I hear that China is the biggest polluter, I think that all they need to do is divide themselves into twelve countries, then none of them would be the biggest polluters anymore.
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by mikedilger 5y ago
I clicked on "Covered Vaccines". The COVID-19 vaccines aren't on the list.
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by mikedilger 5y ago
I hope that's mostly just an American tribal thing. I'm pro-vaccine, pro-ivermectin, pro-masks and pro-lockdowns. This is a serious disease and we need to use all the tools at our disposal. Being anti-ivermectin is like being anti
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by mikedilger 5y ago
Thanks for that correction. However they are functioning like journalists here. Notice all of the judgemental, ideological, political one-sided narrative. They fail to apply Hanlon's razor as they claim at the end "[they] know exa
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by mikedilger 5y ago
This article itself is politicizing the science and medicine. Please don't take medical advice from journalists. Talk to your doctor. If you want to weigh in on the ongoing medical debate (this is not settled science), please at least
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by mikedilger 5y ago
If you hire medical personnel to determine if havana syndrome is real, and if they say its not real then their position goes away, of course they will say it is real and serious.
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by mikedilger 5y ago
I'm pretty sure the patent office has been doing less and less actual work, approving more and more patents, and figuring that the courts can sort it out.
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by mikedilger 5y ago
NOT HAPPY WITH YOUTUBE SPLITTING UP SOCIETY: I'm not happy that YouTube (having a strong network-effect monopoly on online video content) has decided to close the Overton window so much. People interested in the information will get it
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by mikedilger 5y ago
If you live in the country you can fix that. Raising chooks is easy. I raise my own sheep for food, heavily under-stocked so they can pick and choose what they want to eat (makes the meat taste much better than when they are forced to eat b
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by mikedilger 5y ago
This is true for houses built more than 20 years ago. But houses built in the last 18 years or so almost all have insluation, baths, better joinery, and many with double glazing. We are also starting to see more ducted heat pumps, polished
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by mikedilger 5y ago
Let me add that these reports don't show cause, just correlation. Attempting to determine cause is very speculative and tenuous, and so all adverse events should be reported. So long as everyone understands the vaccines don't actu
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by mikedilger 5y ago
Risk of serious harm from vaccines from a country where I trust the people a lot more than Americans is 1:3571 (based on 446,380 doses). Where are you getting the 1:200,000 from? https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/va
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by mikedilger 5y ago
Matt Taibbi supposes (in that paragraph) that their motivation in censoring scientific discussion of Ivermectin's effectiveness was to be "opposite to Donald Trump's comments" and thus to conform to one's own ideolo
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by mikedilger 5y ago
I've been intending to try process-to-process message passing using a lock-free data structure very much like io_uring where the processes share pages (one page read-write, the other page readonly, and inverse for the other process) on
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by mikedilger 5y ago
> io_uring is not an event system at all. io_uring is actually a generic asynchronous syscall facility. I would call it a message passing system, not an asynchronous syscall facility. A syscall, even one that doesn't block indefini
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by mikedilger 5y ago
[I was going to post this independently, but as I've found your comment down the page I'll post this in reply to your comment.] NPR is usually a more balanced news source, but that last paragraph takes a definite one-sided stance
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by mikedilger 5y ago
Hemp oil doesn't contain EPA or DHA, but is does have 20% ALA. ALA converts into EPA and DHA in your liver, but in rather limited quantites (less than 15%). It'd be a poor choice for triggering this effect. http://www.h
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by mikedilger 5y ago
If you pay attention to news coming from both sides of the political spectrum, you'll find out that Trump did it too. Both sides have abused power, and I don't see any force that will stop such abuses of power from continuing and
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by mikedilger 5y ago
Not that I have any knowledge on this subject, but why would a vaccine that stimulates the creation of a bit of spike protein create a "much broader and more durable immune response" than the actual virus which I presume creates a
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by mikedilger 5y ago
It doesn't limit the size of the economy. It incentivises saving over investing, since the value of the currency tends to increase as the economy grows. Modern fiat currency is designed to disincentivise savings and incentivise investi
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by mikedilger 5y ago
> The 8-week treatment program included diet, sleep, exercise and relaxation guidance, and supplemental probiotics and phytonutrients. The control group received no intervention. Far too many variables to change at once. Do they have su
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by mikedilger 5y ago
Ratifying the H-extension is a serious commitment not easily patched later. Putting something in the kernel is a commitment that's much easier to patch later. The linux RISC-V development policy that the extension must be frozen first
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by mikedilger 5y ago
Ok. So it's not google then, it must be AWS or python-aws-google-auth (or my install of it.. which has python-u2flib-host enabled)

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