thu2111

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by thu2111 5y ago
It was spotted by someone claiming statistical irregularities in the movement of vote tallies between rounds and demanding an investigation, which this time, they got. Last year there were also lots of claims of statistical irregularities i
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by thu2111 5y ago
It sort of does. The new app in your case would be signed by a different key and so wouldn't have access to the existing app's data. It would boil down to a phishing attack - the new app would have to impersonate the UI of the old
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by thu2111 5y ago
Such polls are done frequently and have been for a long time, so there's a wealth of data on who and what the US population trusts, like this one: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/07/22/trus
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by thu2111 5y ago
I've not used Copilot but I've experimented with two other AI driven autocompletion engines in Java and Kotlin. In both cases I uninstalled the plugins due to a combination of two problems: 1. The AI suggestions were often less he
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by thu2111 5y ago
I took a look just now to see what you mean. Not surprisingly, a lot of the videos are the sort of things YouTube would ban, but that doesn't automatically mean they are wrong, bad or "FUD", which is again a kind of meaningle
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by thu2111 5y ago
Well yes, but FreeSpeech's comment was grey and flagged when I saw it, even though it's indeed kind of so obvious it's pointless. And it had a reply disagreeing, so it needed to be spelled out.
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by thu2111 5y ago
Yes, but you were doing that in response to news articles citing academics who - we now know - were assuming COVID was 10x deadlier than it actually was (reported IFRs fell from 1%-2% to 0.1%-0.2% in most places). Which is what the article
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by thu2111 5y ago
Please cite some examples. BTW the post you're replying to is factually correct. As a government the EU does not innovative in the sense normally understood by the word, e.g. it does not introduce surprising new products, or (directly)
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by thu2111 5y ago
Whilst this may well be true, the very same problem affects COVID death numbers: a death is reported as a COVID death if it occurs within about a month of a positive test result, regardless of whether symptoms are displayed at all or whethe
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by thu2111 5y ago
That's not the right way to increase people's confidence in vaccines. It's not normal for journal board members to resign in protest at a paper even if they believe it has methodological errors, and their argument in this cas
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by thu2111 5y ago
That seems kind of backwards and circular. The lab leak people did have evidence: the fact that the virus emerged right next to a lab doing experiments on coronaviruses. The people claiming it couldn't have escaped from the lab were th
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by thu2111 5y ago
The WHO hasn't changed its views due to "new science", the shifts have all been for political reasons, as was sometimes admitted by their own staff. Additionally this notion that it's ok for "experts" to set po
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by thu2111 5y ago
Ah I see, you're quoting different parts of the website.
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by thu2111 5y ago
But my point is this: your argument is that vaccines work to stop transmission with 100% reliability but not infection. You aren't stating that explicitly but it's the only belief that is consistent with what you're proposing
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by thu2111 5y ago
Who is saying they want to kill half the population?!
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by thu2111 5y ago
None of those things were really the result of some top down utopian master plan, though. The closest might be the enlightenment if you consider the rewards for book finding granted by wealthy benefactors, but it was fundamentally a backwar
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by thu2111 5y ago
Flu is endemic. Many people have never had it. The idea that 100% of people will get not only COVID but the exact strain that exists today does not seem well supported, especially as governments are already making noises about variants and
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by thu2111 5y ago
You didn't understand my question at all. Gebru said "do this or I resign". The company accepted her resignation. She then attempted to "unresign" by claiming her statement she would resign wasn't an actual res
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by thu2111 5y ago
Exactly. You are arguing that vaccines don't work to protect people from infection but do work to prevent transmission, which is a complete inversion of what vaccines are normally understood to do. You believe the vaccines don't a
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by thu2111 5y ago
What's your point? The internet mob views the rightness of such things as being beyond question, an actual direct democracy doesn't. Seems like good support for the original point.
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by thu2111 5y ago
To do that you'd need to roll back corporate feminism. The reason this guy got cancelled is the feminist culture of "always believe the victim" which is basically the same as "always believe an accusation". Anyone w
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by thu2111 5y ago
Are you arguing vaccines don't work? The whole point of getting one is it makes you immune so it doesn't matter if other people have it. This total distortion of what vaccines are about is dystopian. Vaccines are about protecting
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by thu2111 5y ago
Are you objecting to Google's refusal to let her "unresign" then? Btw plenty of us ex Googlers think Jeff Dean's reputation was enhanced still further by that move. Gebru was acting in crazy ways, she really should hav
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by thu2111 5y ago
If they were to recommend a drug based without a scientific trial, they risk losing the trust of the world But that's already happened with vaccines. A bit late to worry about that now.
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by thu2111 5y ago
I can see how that might prove difficult for a non-native speaker. Here's a version written in less fancy English. During COVID times, scientists have become political. Many scientific arguments were not written about in the American m
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by thu2111 5y ago
The Apple APIs date back to NeXTStep at the end of the 80s, yet they managed to mostly keep them fresh. Win32 is old and unviable because Microsoft hasn't bothered making comprehensive upgrades for it and never laid out a gap-free plan
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by thu2111 5y ago
That's not a distinction most will recognize, partly because believing this is true requires you to trust Google wouldn't share sensitive data with the authorities. They just proved they will happily push code to your device witho
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by thu2111 5y ago
You are merely arguing that it was worth it because you agree with the goal, not that it wasn't despotic or paranoid.
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by thu2111 5y ago
Why do most of the things governments have been doing about COVID? Not because they work or make sense, most of their policies were undermined by data showing ineffectiveness a long time ago. They do these things because they can.
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by thu2111 5y ago
It's smart. The result of using these apps is that lots of people have to quarantine, even though these policies have not resulted in any impact on the virus in any way, and even though there can be test false positives (which is offic

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