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Its important to keep studies like this in mind when talking with people who refuse to take the vaccine because they "already had COVID". In a very real sense, if natural antibodies are durable, persistent, and effective; the vaccine is an unnecessary medical procedure. Doctors would not cut off your legs for no reason; that would be unethical. The vaccine is a medical procedure like any other; if the benefit is questionable, it would be unethical for doctors to administer it.

Yet, we have an increasing number of venues, workplaces, and events which are requiring proof of vaccination to participate. This is forcing both people who already have antibodies, and even people who can't make antibodies (e.g. immunocompromised, solid organ transplant, etc), to undergo a medical procedure for little to no benefit.

Primum non nocere
Question: I’ve got the vaccine. I get a breakthrough case.

Is this a “best case” scenario for durable immunity?
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Perfectly pricing risk implies omniscience (ie totalitarianism), which means that pricing risk is not an unquestionably good thing. Furthermore, markets can never be fully efficient, as that would imply P == NP. And so what is actuarially considered and ignored is itself a public policy choice. Stating things in the passive terminology of "the market" is just obfuscating that choice.
Maybe I'm an idiot but my curiosity got the best of me and I clicked the link. The photos just look like abstract modern art, although their perceptual hash may match that of known CSAM, I doubt that anyone who clicked the link will get into legal trouble even if Google flags that folder by detecting a perceptual hash match, as they will likely use real people to verify before taking legal action.

Google has been recently focused on cultivating the image that they care about user privacy. The last thing they want to do is call the cops on a bunch of HN users for looking at some abstract swirly pics.
I wouldn’t call GitHub itself an SCM, since so think it’s a work management tool over git, which is an SCM. But along those lines, you’d be surprised at how widely bit bucket is used in corporates etc.
Maybe it was flagged to death. Maybe it will be back. All I know is when these type of stories come out two things are assured. 1) Shenanigans do take place. 2) The powers that be definitely don’t like it if you notice and talk about these shenanigans.
As a person with a biology degree who took several immunology courses.

I'd be curious to see what your various definitions are.
I updated my comment to make it less personal. Sorry about that
You probably should have kept the older comment, as this one is a single vaguely on topic assertion followed up with a pseudointellectual word salad of snark and anti-progressive memes. I'm sure that's verysmart content on the forums you're used to but we try for something better here.

From what I can tell, Gab is the same cesspool that it always was. I assume the same about Parler but I don't know, since I don't have an account. Both still seem popular with Trumpists, QAnon and the alt-right, so I don't know what Xerox-like "former glory" you believe these platforms have lost, but Xerox is still a billion dollar corporation so...

And if having to abide by the terms of service of app stores, social media platforms, ISPs and the actual laws of the land are too "Communist", there's an entire dark web out there that will let anyone do or say just about anything.
Yeah you can use like git switcher
Curious if the backup service is legal?
It's not quite the same, delivery (mechanism/location/encapsulation) is different.
This is rehashing the old "common carrier" debate again, isn't it? Which of these are the common carriers: Physical wire/connectivity provider? ISP? Tier1 ISPs? Social media sites connecting messages with other folks?

Where is the line drawn, and what responsibility does each level have?
It looks much more like a peeled and shaped west african giant yam than it does any kind of jicama.
It'd be nice if the plumbing worked together.

I'd like to be able to export data easily, run my own programs easily, write software that doesn't get taxed or asked to be resubmitted (since when did Microsoft charge for Windows app development?)

Every company purports to be for you, but it's a big toothy grinned lie. Some of them sell you, others sell you out.

It also sucks that these companies surface the worst of humanity to drive engagement. Are people really this terrible?

Tech started to sour in 2005.
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Convenience.

A self-hosted password manager really shouldn't be exposed to the internet. If you are making it accessible over the internet, it's a far greater security threat imo. You're just not going to be able to keep it up to the same security standards as a large production install, like what the Bitwarden folks have going.

Needing to VPN or SSH tunnel into my home network each time I need a password is far too inconvenient.

Not to mention the spared effort in not needing to regularly back up your vault or worrying about keeping the service available.
it is a scandal, especially considering the amount of non-immunised people at risk in the rest of the world. i fall in that category (recovered) and i would even pay to give my vaccines away.
It wasn't specifically for that reason, but I chose this as a good time to retire. It was probably 1/40th of the reason I chose to leave the work force.
One potential solution is capping how much you can sell a domain name for. That reduces the incentives for squatting. That might cause other problems though, like making it more difficult to acquire a domain that someone else is already using, even if you are willing to pay a lot for it (but maybe that is a good thing?).

Something that might specifically help with squatters buying lapsed domains is making it significantly more expensive to purchase a domain for some period of time (say a year) after the domain expires if you aren't the original owner.
I was really into startups 10-15 years ago and at that time I would register a domain almost every few weeks. Back then it was much easier to get a decent .com and I've ended up keeping a few domains I really like because in the past I've regret letting good domains go which I later realised I wanted.

You could say I'm squatting on those .com's as most of them are just empty sites. It's not so much that I'm trying to profit from them, but I still feel I have to squat on them because this is how the game is played. I know if someone offered me money for them I would probably sell, and I have thought about listing them in the past for this reason.

I'm sure it's the minority of cases but I often wonder how many squatters are in a similar position to me. I've read a few stories about people buying .com's and it's very often cases like this where someone once had a great idea for a site but then never found the time or the money to execute on their idea so now they just keep hold of the domain for a better time.

There's a lot of people being critical of squatters here, but if you own a domain which could potentially be worth several thousand dollars are you realistically just going to let it go and allow someone else to squat it and profit from your loss? If you're explicitly buying a domain to squat it then I'm more understanding of the anger, but even then this is just the game unfortunately. You deciding not to squat a domain doesn't mean it won't be squatted, in all likelihood it just means someone else will squat it and likely profit from your kindness.

The solution here isn't to shame squatters but to remove the value domains have. Adding more top-level domains achieves this to some extent, but because .com's will probably always be considered the default domain by most internet users they will likely always demand big valuations. One potential solution I thought of in the past would be to crowd source domain resolution. Instead of a domain being something you buy, what if it was something we just agreed on? Although this idea probably works better in theory because in reality I'm sure those with resources will inevitably try to game the system or simply bribe users to get the domain they want.
Real facts that people won't like to hear: anyone who thought differently probably needs to retake a high school biology class.
I don’t really think $8/user/mo for Business is overcharging compared to Slack which quickly gets into $30+ per user per month in larger shops where Enterprise Grid is required for its features.

By your argument why can’t I buy that and self-host it too, decide if I want to upgrade for more features myself?

I also think $5/mo for 1Password for Families is incredible value. Zero regrets on paying for this because it meaningfully enhances my families personal security posture through elimination of reused credentials and enabling TOTP (sharing of code generation) on many sites we use, that it is cross-platform so no excuses for everyone to not use it, and the UX is so simple you don’t need to be “tech people” to succeed.

How much you charge and how you charge is definitely divisive, but 1Password feels very much on the cheaper end of the spectrum, not “overcharging”, heck Discord Nitro is $5 (Classic) or $10 and gets you very little by comparison IMO.
> What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If a nonconformist tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope for his mail, it would draw suspicion. Perhaps the authorities would open his mail to see what he's hiding. Fortunately, we don't live in that kind of world, because everyone protects most of their mail with envelopes. So no one draws suspicion by asserting their privacy with an envelope. There's safety in numbers. Analogously, it would be nice if everyone routinely used encryption for all their email, innocent or not, so that no one drew suspicion by asserting their email privacy with encryption. Think of it as a form of solidarity.

——

I agree with you. And also perhaps those of us with nothing to hide really need to spend more time on Tor
Lately being on the internet is feeling more like Junta era Argentina with content disappearing left and right.
A good majority of media takes advantage of AWS;

From [0]:

> Here are the names that are on record publicly as using AWS:

> Aon, Adobe, Airbnb, Alcatel-Lucent, AOL, Acquia, AdRoll, AEG, Alert Logic, Autodesk, Bitdefender, BMW, British Gas, Baidu, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Canon, Capital One, Channel 4, Chef, Citrix, Coinbase, Comcast, Coursera, Disney, Docker, Dow Jones, European Space Agency, ESPN, Expedia, Financial Times, FINRA, General Electric, GoSquared, Guardian News & Media, Harvard Medical School, Hearst Corporation, Hitachi, HTC, IMDb, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, International Civil Aviation Organization, ITV, iZettle, Johnson & Johnson, JustGiving, JWT, Kaplan, Kellogg’s, Lamborghini, Lonely Planet, Lyft, Made.com, McDonalds, NASA, NASDAQ OMX, National Rail Enquiries, National Trust, Netflix, News International, News UK, Nokia, Nordstrom, Novartis, Pfizer, Philips, Pinterest, Quantas, Reddit, Sage, Samsung, SAP, Schneider Electric, Scribd, Securitas Direct, Siemens, Slack, Sony, SoundCloud, Spotify, Square Enix, Tata Motors, The Weather Company, Twitch, Turner Broadcasting,Ticketmaster, Time Inc., Trainline, Ubisoft, UCAS, Unilever, US Department of State, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, UK Ministry of Justice, Vodafone Italy, WeTransfer, WIX, Xiaomi, Yelp, Zynga and Zillow.

Just AWS (as of 2020, per the artice). Apple could even be included in that list, according to CNBC. How many more are on Azure or GCP? I would argue you're not completely avoiding their services if you're still a 'customer' of their customer, they're just getting a much smaller cut of your (or the advertiser's) money at the end of the day.

[0]: https://www.contino.io/insights/whos-using-aws
That's extremely interesting. Nature never ceases to amaze.
Not really the anti-body count decays more quickly compared to that of a natural infection and does so dramatically especially for older people:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6....
This is the underlying reason that there is talk of boosters.
If you have the ear of strcat, I urge you to to talk to them about this kind of paranoid conspiracy thinking that leads them to directly accuse me (and others in this thread) of being a co-conspirator in a vast plot to undermine GrapheneOS. It's fantastic thinking and it damages the reputation of what is otherwise a gift to the community.

I have been on Hacker News a long time, posting on everything from sex worker rights to Telegram to Emacs. I don't know about your Matrix room, I've never visited it. I have no interest in impersonating anyone save myself.

> You'll see that there was misinformation being spread about GrapheneOS, whether intentionally or unintentionally, that originates from the Calyx community.

I don't see that anywhere here in this thread. I see a thread that should have been a space for celebrating a cool more-private, more-secure Android project being hijacked because its competitor's lead developer believes themselves to be the target of a conspiracy. A conspiracy that isn't even occurring in the very thread they're engaged in:

> I've only posted here to defend us from malicious misinformation being spread by you folks.

From who? Nobody here is doing this! Especially maliciously.

If you think CalyxOS is implementing a feature that is harming users, you might try and communicate with their community in a cooperative, direct way, rather than this self-destructive crusade GrapheneOS is airing publicly.

I think you and strcat owe everyone here in this thread an apology.
This is even worse because shelter is a human right.
From the article:

"My only other options are to teach remotely or to seek a medical exemption that would require me to wear a mask, remain socially distanced from faculty or students during, say, office hours, and submit to weekly testing. It would be impossible for me to perform my duties to the best of my ability under such conditions."

There's a lot of discussion, but honestly: I don't think that meets the definition of the word "impossible."
I remain confused as to why anyone thinks they have unlimited first amendment rights on social media. It sounds a lot like thinking one has first amendment rights at a private employer. Let's clear this up right now. TLDR: you don't unless you explicitly do.

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/setting-the-record-straigh...

Edit: keep bringing those freethinker(tm) downvotes. It won't change the law one bit, but I guess it gives good feels.

I mean you could also try starting your own social media network that absolutely guarantees first amendment rights, but so far only hilarity has ensued from that premise along the lines of tragedy plus time equals comedy. You could be the first one to prove them all wrong. What's stopping you?

Or if that's too hard, why don't you all apply to work at Facebook and Twitter? Then you can work your way up the ladder until you can depose Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg. And on the first day of your reign of your new empire you can proclaim to all shareholders and employees that your social media site is entirely unregulated. Otherwise WTH should these companies care about you? You won't build anything and you won't do the work to change the path of something already built.
Hmmm.

Not that I doubt your stats. But Street Fighter, Marvel vs Capcom, Tekken and so forth were largely arcade games.

MK2 was an arcade game for sure, but later MK games dropped out of the arcade scene.

Smash never was an arcade game.

I have to imagine that a lot of players paid one quarter at a time to get their Street Fighter skills. But MK players (especially recent ones) are console games. So I'm not sure if copies sold is the best metric.
You can't use the common carrier argument to force someone to be a common carrier. If you pick and choose your clients based on policy you are by definition not a common carrier. Mailchimp is a private carrier. They choose what to carry.
Sure, but there is a real difference in response between vaccine/virus.

I think, given the difference in response, the term natural immunity makes sense. You have to choose something and I don’t think ‘natural immunity’ says anything about vaccine immunity being unnatural.
I definitely don't picture a 24/7 service as waiting up to 45 minutes every hour. By that time you're operating six hours out of every twenty four. You might not even be able to advertise yourself as 24/7 at that point in some places.

> For example a subway train might only be running every 30 minutes but it still lists hours of operation.

But that's a train. It never runs every single moment, so that doesn't make the times with once-per-30-minutes trains different from the times with once-per-10-minutes trains. On the other hand, if it's for example a grocery store, you definitely do expect being able to enter at any moment and purchase something if it advertises itself as "24/7" or "nonstop".
Didn't realize anti-vaxxers would be on this site...
Then we could go from digital ocean doing nothing to the cops doing nothing.
This Daring Fireball blog post is a better summary than the discussion I’ve found on HN: https://daringfireball.net/2021/08/apple_child_safety_initia...

Occam’s razor is that they’re doing what they say they’re doing and not some more complicated future action.
No one is shilling vaccines. We use the "wonder of our natural immune system" effectively with the vaccine without being a public health risk to everyone around us by skipping it.
Immunity persists for a while but doesn’t seem to stop the new variants. Another study shows that re-infection with Covid is a lot more likely in unvaccinated people than in vaccinated.
Things like this are basically sticking plasters for hiding real social and cultural issues.

Example: I always get 2 or more times uses out of every polythene shopping bag that I get my hands on. At least once for carrying groceries, once for carrying trash, and maybe once or twice more for storage.

If everyone did that, the demand and production of polythene bags would go down by at least half. This is something almost every household in a 3rd world country do. But almost nobody does that in a first world country- instead they waste resources on green buildings and such.
NirSoft looks legit with a real person (Nir Sofer) behind it. It also is around for a long time. Moreover people in this and other threads seem to trust NirSoft tools, so I assume they are safe to use. It's a pity that whenever I tried they got quarantined by enterprise end point security (aka virus scanner).

EDIT: I just sent NirSoft's GDIView, which is the tool I tried to use in the past, to virustotal and it sadly gets flagged by two vendors. Now that's only two out of about 70. Unfortunately in large organizations we have no choice, if it gets detected it cannot be used.
Comparing it to an amputation is beyond ridiculous. If you have to make leaps of logic like this, you know your argument is extremely weak.
Due to shipping and redundancy concerns redundant tanks are used to expand storage. So, the dry mass of tanks should scale nearly linearly with the total amount of water, hydrogen, and air stored.
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This!

The process you’re describing is called lifecycle analysis and it’s complicated.

The greenest building is something like a giant tent, high on total resource efficiency but lower on comfort.

There are tradeoffs to consider and a lot of them are lifestyle choices, like wearing a sweater indoors.
I love 711 in the US. They tend to be clean compared to other stores. They post the prices. Stores that don't have prices I walk right out.
I'm guessing they aren't saying the light is necessary for school/learning, but that it is unknown whether it is needed for human development. Most of the time mammals and humans evolved they probably spent a substantial amount of time outdoors and if kids spend the majority of the day without sufficient light it could effect their development. Of course there probably isn't sufficient research to know, but it seems pretty clear that sunlight exposure affects sleep and mood which are pretty important for the brain to function well.
According to https://mgree.github.io/ffs/ffs.1.html, it tries to autodetect the type (so false will default to a boolean) but you can explicitly specify the type via extended attributes.
I have a clotting disorder. Factor 5. My blood clots much to easily. Alcohol is a blood thinner. Think long term covid symptoms.

My personal opinion is that many relatives in the family drink themselves to death in effort to feel normal.

On Normal prescription blood thinners my symptoms go away quickly and come back whenever I stop them.
They didn't, it was managed by carriers, mostly.
And Handango on some devices like running Windows Mobile or PalmOS.
Anitbodies fade after several months.

The booster shots are being touted for every 12 months or so.

Not sure your statement tracks.
How much do you think it costs a bank to collect and review evidence from the consumer and seller in a charge dispute?
These guys are parody-proof. "In my blog which is indexed by Google and Microsoft I reiterate the arguments from my book, available on Amazon, about how big tech is deplatforming me."
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I don't read PDF files.

Show me a hack with .cbz comics or ePub files for my reader.
It is not being used by people who should get said vaccine here in the states, and it is questionable if we even have the logistics to enable it.

I supposed even if the logistics is questionable, we should try to distribute it to people who are actually going to use it.
Is it bad to reuse plastic water bottles?
Ok, doctors would not administer steroids for long term use for minor pain, that would be unethical and highly dangerous (except they do, from first hand experience)
I travel the northeast (Acela corridor) by car and I can attest this map for voice coverage is not accurate to what you are actually capable of using.

Ironically, there is an area marked with coverage from all major providers that locally is of great contention because there is no cell service even for EMT, and ATT wants to put an antenna on the mountain over looking an untouched lake.

The locals would be quite happy to see there is no need for a giant ugly antenna to toxify their natural odyssey as they (according to the map) already have great coverage...