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> Reddit subs have soooo much moderation

Moderation I can live with. If some mod doesn't want me on their sub, I find another. It's the admin hammer bans of the subs I found that I object to.
Canadian Couch Potato is the closest.
The manager was a creepy ass creeper who wanted your machine tied to his machine so he could observe you whenever he felt like it. Yes, one of those.
The question is not if they compete, but how much. It's not a zero sum game, because both parties are better off for having played.
Where do you find these jobs? Everything I see seems to require sales experience, which being a dev I do not have.
> to the point that she supports vaccinations for those who have already caught COVID

It's so ridiculous now they're requiring vaccination for the vaccinated too.
On a technological level, the web that we have now is far better suited to being a web of documents than Gemini is or ever will be.

It's one thing to say "we're going to build our own silo of high-quality content", but another to intentionally cripple its technical capabilities, which is what happened with Gemini.

Gemini, the protocol, is extremely bad even for making a web of documents.

Gemini, the network of content, might have a higher SNR than the web - but that's no excuse for pushing a protocol that is flat-out hostile to the transfer of information and knowledge.
> With COVID becoming endemic everyone is going to get antibodies, with the only choice being whether you get your first antibodies by vaccination or by getting COVID.

That's not what endemic means.
Some people find it virtuous to make do with a lesser whatever. This can happen for a number of reasons, usually a very painful personal experience or a type of severe brainwashing (your parents convince you walking a mile to school is virtuous, so now you do the same).

If you find yourself having an eloquent long winded discussion with such a person, explaining to them they aren’t saving money by foregoing the soda at a night out (it’s cheaper to buy water after all), looking around the menu for the best value, half of which they can definitely take home (at this point I start to wonder if it’s theater, and even if it is theater, you’d have to be sick to even take part in such theatrics), I don’t know, what’s there to discuss. You almost want to throw a wad of $500 at their face.
Thanks, I heard of them yes, but I was thinking about doing it on a much smaller scale with a very small team or as a solo founder
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said the vaccines are less efficacious than initially reported (~94% decrease in the probability of disease incidence). I just don't understand how you square that with your conclusion, just keep getting boosted some indeterminate number of times by vaccines we know are 1) not as good as advertised, and 2) seem to be providing less and less protection over time as new variants emerge.

The best protection based on my knowledge of biochemistry would be natural immunity to the current variant in circulation.
When it comes to Mars, though, even if you’re only a month late it will normally result in a 26-month delay due to how often (or rarely) launch windows open for Earth–Mars Hohmann transfers, and this is exactly what happened with Curiosity.
> nor did he conduct himself in the way a public servant held to a higher standard should

No one is asking for a higher standard.

> aren't they being roasted in the media when they mess up? The fourth estate at work

Was there any coverage in NYT/CNN/WaPo of Biden shopping maskless? I only heard about it because I happened to read some news from a right-leaning site.

> It will affect their re-election chances.

I'm pretty sure Nancy Pelosi is safe. This only affects politicians in purple districts.
It shows that OP clearly has no idea about how copyright law works. Everybody can use the work under fair use and you cannot restrict people from posting links to your site based on copyright. It seems like the author has a god complex. "I create therefore I shall command."
As a Dutchman who used to live in Malta for a few years, I have to warn you: Maltese public transport really bad in comparison. If your bus might be 10 minutes early or 20 minutes late and it won't show in the public transport app. If you want to get somewhere on time that's not within walking distance, you'll need a car (there are ride sharing cars and scooters). Bus tickets are cheap though.

And yeah, the climate is much much better. I really mis being able to see the sun.
Mark Text also does this, and is free software.
(Australia is starting from near-zero natural immunity, too.)
We really might need one if chip shortages are gonna be a problem.
I doubt that, in a decent number of cases, these censors have the best of intentions.
We found the anti-democrat!

Ideally power should go to the best ideas but since each of us is limited in knowledge, the wisdom of the crowd is the next best option.

Is being a read-only user of ENS, zero skin in the game?
Clearly, part of the problem is over reliance on experts. Somehow the professional class (empowered by Twitter and Social Media) has now convinced themselves that they're God's gift to to the world ... because they read a book.
And is totally oblivious to how stupid some of those things they're advocating for are.

When I go to a doctor, chances are he will prescribe me some drugs. Why? because thats what they're trained to do, rewarded for doing, and punished for not doing. If I go a mechanic, and ask him for a couch, he will probably offer me the back seat. If I ask my teacher, they'll tell me study hard and do my homework.

There's a good chance I neither want or need pills, or a backseat couch, or do homework all afternoon. This might be their best professional advice. But ultimately, I have to use my own judgment to assess risk and benefit since I have to live with consequences.

This is now somehow bad, and we're supposed throw out personal autonomy, and trust experts, newscasters and so on. But this has not worked out in the past, especially when there's coercion involved. By complying you're only empowering these people.

The antidote is to assert individual rights and especially freedom of speech. Build parallel societies. And ridicule the authoritarians.
In case you haven't seen it before, https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps has graphs of excess data for most of Europe (plus Israel) by age groups.

I find it a great resource to cross-check the misinformation of the mainstream media. For example, I challenge anybody to look at the 0-14 and 14-44 graphs and tell me when covid actually occurred.

Note that excess is not defined as a deviation from a typical year, but as a deviation from a typical year when no diseases are circulating. The goal of the euromomo website is to detect things like flu outbreaks, so the number of excess deaths is usually greater than 0, capturing the flu, heat waves, and presumably other disasters.
I guess if the user install, it should be able to play (haven't tried). But, because this would require extra steps, I preferred to just have the ST + VP9 to Firefox. In future versions, I could give an options page where the user can adjust this.
> right now we know that even the booster provides little ability to stop you from getting omicron

This is true, but the data is showing that being boosted means that catching Omicron when boosted means you are much, much more likely to have a very minor illness. Refusing future boosters comes at the risk of your own health, as well as the health of the people around you.
Integration: Linear and Discord Slash Commands
Not a Trump supporter but maybe Neil Young should have read what he signed.
Good point yet the appropriate discount rate has gone over time with better medicine and technology.
So it comes down to: do you believe medicine and tech will keep advancing and if so, doesn’t that mean the discount rate will get ever smaller over time? I think it does.
How so? (I also have to carry devices occasionally for work with stuff like nethunter (pentester)) and I can’t imagine replacing the flashed pixels/galaxies I use for that with even some 40 euro…. Thing…
Here's more on why: https://www.thespacereview.com/article/1319/1

TLDR: It was not the EDL [edited to add: entry descent and landing] system, it was the fabrication and integration (putting together) of certain actuators that are used in low temperatures at Mars. People at a contractor, and at JPL, were putting in double shifts and they came within a very close margin of getting it together.

Additionally, there were flight software/avionics issues.

But if you're set to miss the launch window by even a week, you have to wait for the next one 26 months later.
I think that part of the problem is that we are under a disinformation attack. Russia did a lot around the elections, but I don't think they've gone to zero. I think both China and Iran are active. (The old Soviet "active measures" is what I have in mind - you get a number of sock puppets to all say the same idea, and it looks like that's what the consensus is, because people hear it from several sources.)

That erodes trust. You have people you know (or think you know) online who say really out-there positions. You either adjust your position, or you don't. Either way, you now have to distrust people you trusted before. (And, I suppose, me saying this reduces trust, too - how many of the people I respect online are actively sowing disinformation? How many are unknowingly passing it on?)

Then there's domestic disinformation. Both political parties (and their satellites) at least. Conservative and liberal think-tanks. (Don't kid yourself that only the other side does it.)

You could even consider regular commercial advertising to be disinformation, though I wouldn't go that far. But big corporations do engage in disinformation - think about the tobacco companies and "no, smoking doesn't cause cancer".

It's really hard to trust when people are actively, deliberately lying to you for their own advantage.
You choose to leave your house. Isn't that your choice?
If it's anything like my Dad's recent trip (I went with him—kids who haven't had to deal with hospitals, always make sure someone else is with you to watch out for you if you have to go in, there is a good chance you'll have a bad time if you don't) the waits are super-long even for people who are obviously in a lot of distress, and they also don't communicate at all about where you are in the triage pool, so you're looking at people who you overheard saying they've already been there three hours when you got there, and they do seem like they need help, and you're like... how fucking long am I going to have to wait? And there's no answer, which I get, but if they could at least tell the ones who definitely aren't getting in "you're low-priority and we have no hope of seeing you today, we're just waiting until you get frustrated and leave" (this was the end result for like 50% of the people in the ER that day, from what I could tell, some of whom really did seem like they needed to get in) exactly that, it'd relieve some stress to know you're not in that group. The lack of communication bordered on abusive, for that reason, and I get they can't give an exact wait time, but at least saying "yes we do actually intend to get you in at some point" would be nice.
The bluetooth standard seems to move very slowly though. We've had bluetooth headphones around for so many years and they usually leave a lot to be desired.
Ironically, Multics did continue without Bell Labs and not surprisingly DoD security assessment for it was higher than UNIX with praise for their use of PL/I in preventing memory corruption bugs.

But it wasn't available as free tapes for universities to play with, so....
My point is simply that it seems odd to describe an individual as "polarizing" when the people who know them are generally either the large number of haters (thanks to R media demonizing individuals) or their small group of personal supporters (because there isn't this huge group worshipping her as you might imagine).

My other point is that Planned Parenthood and abortion are of course polarizing topics but pro-choice folks are not as monolithic in ideology as the core republican base, so it's weird to see statements like this which you made:

> She is especially respected on the political left. That makes her statement especially surprising because the left has been the side pushing the mask mandates.

This rings untrue, and like someone's been watching too much angry news. And characterizing mask mandates as some nonexistent "left-wing agenda" is also really unfair to folks who may not have progressive politics but support masking. My parents for example are Christian capital-R Republicans but think it's bonkers that we can't get folks to do what is best for the common good, in the name of "freedom." At least they understand, very minimally, the difference between fascism and emergency measures.

There are not two sides to this issue until one angry group of people decide "you're either with us or against us" and generate those two sides out of thin air. It's really stupid to do that. Abortion and masking are not related. That are you surprised an individual has a unique opinion different from "their team" is very telling.
Around half of my immediate family members had pretty bad reactions to the booster (fever/chills, aches for several days). And all of them got omicron anyway and had the same symptoms as family members who hadn't gotten the booster. I'm debating getting the booster but part of me thinks "why punish myself with high probability of fever/chills if in all likelihood I'm just going to get omicron anyway and suffer the same symptoms as everyone else"
> twist the general idea to fit the axe you want to grind.

From the article just after the line you quoted:

> Trust in the U.S. federal government to handle problems is at a near-record low. Trust in the U.S.’s major institutions is within 2 percentage points of the all-time low.

I can't possibly buy that fact that society has a problem if my aunt mary doesn't trust what plumberRob23 post on their instagram, so forgive for bothering only with the bigger issue at hand, which is systemic mistrust.
Have you considered a therapist with a bit of life experience, say 40+?
Being forced to wear a mask or vaccinate could be a public health risk:

- Infants/Toddlers (mask): linguistic development health risk
- Adults (vaccine): risk of anaphylaxis, TTS, GBS, Myocarditis, Pericarditis

Individuals should weigh these risks and determine whether it makes sense in their particular scenario. None of McDonalds food safety regulations I'm aware of involve penetrating a human with a needle.

Also the driving thing was somebody else, I just responded to it. If you didn't like it, it would have made more sense to have told them it was a bad example instead of me. It wasn't my example.
So essentially, it's sunset/sunrise all day long. I don't think I had never seen the spectrograph info presented here.
At Snyk (https://snyk.io) we're actually working on a new blog process to refine this. Essentially, a problem almost every technical blog has is: when we publish articles, are they ephemeral -- or are they evergreen?

If you treat blog posts as ephemeral, it means you'll write them once, ensure they're accurate, then leave them there forever. Unfortunately, with technology stuff, that rarely works. Technologies change, libraries break, facts now might be different in two years, etc.

One of the things we're currently working on is tagging all of our technical content so that once a year it pops up in a review board somewhere and someone reviews it for accuracy, updates it if necessary, etc.

This way, technical stuff will still be useful to readers (hopefully) a couple of years from now.
> For hundreds of orders, we had only several Paypal disputes that some of the customers decided to open instead of reaching out to us. After 3rd issue, PayPal put on hold some of our funds...

PayPal sucks—big surprise. But at the same time, I preordered a Turing Pi in February, they communicated in March that it was processed, and then I didn’t hear from them again until May 25, and then it showed up in early June. That two-month communication lapse between March-June might have been your problem with PayPal disputes. Next time, communicate more.
Why did you come back to the US?
Thanks for response.

I agree, their religion probably does a lot to hold the Amish society together. It sets out a common set of rules that everyone plays by. There is also the strict punishment of social shunning for not following the rules. I wonder how fa

I disagree that a societal value system _must_ be religiously-transcendent to be effective. I can't name any such system that has had 100% success, but I reject the notion that it's impossible for a a functioning secular society to work.

To be sure, my idea of a new-Amish whose only rule is minimal Internet usage, would not work as a tight-knit community. There would have to be a bigger connection than a common disdain for the Internet.
is Mandarin the govt's language or his and the people's language? "benefiting the regime" was a mere side effect of his work (in fact the Maoists that persecuted him crumbled in the 70s, so ultimately they did not benefit at all! karmic)

or maybe he just had an intellectual interest in the problem and wanted to solve it no matter what. who knows, but the world is better off for it
Actually, the norm in the past many decades in the US was a very liberal press, where people could publish on subversive topics of all kinds. The "left" supported broad first amendment rights on practically any topic. Now, they actively seek to censor and silence those who question or criticize a narrative, and with regard to covid those who question government policy. It's a bizarre and disorienting shift.

It's really the present day that suggest that substack won't be able to stick to their guns out of fear of organized opposition from "mobs". If they're able to maintain dependence only on subscribers, it's possible they can survive (and hopefully thrive) -- until somebody gets greedy.
>Sorry to break it to you but Bluetooth also operates on the 2.4GHz ISM band.

Right, but "2.4 GHz wireless audio" is what to search to find information and non-BT products.

It is interesting to see your comments about Bluetooth. I appreciate the standard. It's useful. But as a user I like things that just work, and Bluetooth audio has been subpar in my experience.

Sample size of one, but my experience with non-BT wireless headsets is superior to Bluetooth headsets in pretty much every way: no pairing issues and no BT profile switching madness with varying audio quality when I want to use a mic. I get low latency, high quality (even lossless) audio. On my particular headset, replacement dongles can be purchased and you pair it with the headset once (I've not had to do this myself yet though).

I would love to only use Bluetooth everywhere, but it is not without its shortcomings.
The problem is that accounts are tied to identities. Losing your Facebook or twitter account is a ban on the person; not only do you lose year's worth of contacts and content, but you are prohibited from making a new one, and if you do it may eventually be banned too.
Do you realize how fucking stupid you sound?

Is there a time limit on a pandemic? Do you think these are trivial problems we're dealing with here? Like what world do you live in, bud?

I don't have any patience with people like you anymore. How did you get your head so far up your fucking ass? Fucking christ man.
"No substantive criticism" seems to be filling the same role as "ridiculous". Applying DCF doesn't seem ridiculous, but there is still an argument to be made about whether humans that exist now are each more important to our current plans than humans that (may) exist in two hundred, two thousand, or two million years.
The order in which you combine overlays can sometimes matter. In other words, overlays are monoids, but not commutative monoids. That said, most of the time overlay order does not matter
Now disease is a matter of "moral culpability"?

It's far easier to accidentally infect someone with COVID than it is to infect someone with HIV, and the harm of the former is less than the harm of the latter. The latter per incident is significantly more costly to society as well.

Should the government require Grindr and gay bars to require customers to show an up-to-date negative status and proof of being on PreP in order to be allowed to participate? With poz people banned from participating at the venue/platform?
Did you actually listen to that panel discussion I linked where several leading physicians explain what's been happening and the mistakes that have been made?
Please don't accuse me of strawmanning without providing concrete evidence for it.
This rule was written in an age when rabies was a big problem. It has a lot of sense to avoid scavenger dogs and pigs in those places in the past. Now we have developed a solution to this problem but, as is included as part of a religion is a fossil rule that can't be changed. We have still many of this rules around.

Science welcomes change when we find a better way to do something. Is assumed that humans can be wrong and learn. Religion will fiercely oppose change because god can't be wrong by definition (and nobody has the authority to fix it). Ideology will oppose also changes that see as a menace, but can be more flexible.
Are you not getting timely treatment? Is this your reality?
If this was known in 2013 why wasn't it fixed? This is literally a simple error in parsing program arguments.
Asymmetric cryptography just refers to cryptography that uses public/private key pairs.

Encryption is just a sub type of cryptography. In fact, signatures are a more common use of asymmetric cryptography than asymmetric encryption.
Too many people are confusing "censorship" and "content moderation".

Content moderation is when you determine what is published on your platform. Censorship is when someone else tells you want can be published on your platform.

Substack is probably making the right business decision, but the claim in this article is completely backwarrds.

Trust 100% requires content moderation. Good scientific journals are trusted because they exercise extremely tight control over what gets published. Good news sources are trusted because they moderate content and exercise strict editorial control. Facebook is a untrusted cesspool of misinformation specifically because they moderate so lightly.

The idea that trust comes from lack of content moderation or editorial control is logically and empirically wrong.
I'm guessing this was supposed to be a tracking link from an email campaign.
30 services (so far), maybe 400 lambdas, very little traffic, all gql apis. Pg backends, db per service that requires it, maybe 20 aws accounts (per squad). 50 devs (mix of perm and contract maybe 80/20), established multi million revenue business, not funded externally.
I'm confused why you think I'm supposed to defend or explain what a CNN guest said.

The comment I was responding to said "masks don't really work," which isn't true. Even cloth masks provide some benefit. Whether that benefit justifies a mask mandate is something reasonable people can disagree about.
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Except that's not practical in real life. Do you get a lawayer to read the 40-page pamphlet full if liability disclaimers that comes with your coffee maker or any other appliance?