Overton-Window

A subreddit that questions whether using 1984 as a playbook to quash a disease with a 99.97% survival rate is the right trade-off.

> Apple can say "you must respect the users privacy ..."

No, they can't. Apple no longer has the moral high ground to lecture others on respecting users privacy.

This is an unfalsifiable claim. Sweden used but a fraction of the mitigations Israel did, yet the former is better off now.

misinformation: noun; information that causes individuals or groups to question the official narrative

Capitulating to the lowest common denominator is a recipe for disaster. The self-anointed who feign outrage over an inanimate object are just chasing power.

We have open source. Crypto allows for open state. Blockchains are databases where everyone is a root user.

> Also, if we just make vaccines mandatory there's no need to check as everyone's got one.. The lowest covid risk possible, and no privacy invasion

How do you make them mandatory without privacy invasion? You must keep records on who is unvaccinated.

The precursor to every 20th century atrocity was diving the population by decree.

The largest risk in such a scenario is a Sino invasion. NZ is incapable of defending itself without US assistance.

Googlers continually run damage control on HN, if you weren't aware.

Being bored to death is the more likely option.

> World Economic Forum: Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better

https://twitter.com/wef/status/815090618078732288

> To predict the baseline total number of medals each country might be expected to win in any given summer Olympics, we updated a linear regression model produced by Julia Bredtmann, Carsten J Crede and Sebastian Otten ahead of the Rio Olympics.

> Mimicking the original work by Bredtmann, Crede and Otten, we built the same model and fitted it on data for each Summer Olympic year between 1992 and 2008, and then used it to predict the medals table at London 2012. The full model outperforms a naive model that uses only the number of medals a country won and the year of the Games.

> We then fitted the same model on data up to and including the 2016 Rio Games, and used this to predict medal counts for Tokyo 2020 (using the latest available data for each input, i.e forecasts for GDP per capita and population in 2021).

Model: https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-...

The Financial Times’ alternative medal table ranks countries not by their total medal haul but by the difference to the tally they are expected to achieve, according to an economic model that takes into account their economic, social and political characteristics:

     1. Russian Olympic Committee
     2. Australia
     3. China
     4. Italy
     5. Netherlands
     6. Taiwan
     7. Germany
     8. Cuba
     9. Austria
    10. New Zealand

https://ig.ft.com/tokyo-olympics-alternative-medal-table/

> We seem to be at an impasse, because that question can be asked literally word-for-word of you.

I'm not asking anything of you. You're asking me to waive my right to legal recourse and inject an experimental vaccine based on unfounded claims COVID can be eradicated through vaccination.

> Except I'm not insisting on you changing your behavior, you are the one trying to suppress my freedom of association.

It's the vaccinated excluding the unvaccinated from public and freedom of association, not the other way.

Israel debunks your theory. You can't vaccinate against COVID. It is now a seasonal disease with us to stay.

> A thorough campaign of vaccination, on the other hand, would put an end to this disease, just as vaccination put an end to measles, polio, whooping cough, mumps, etc. etc.

How many strains did we see of each of the above within the first 18 months of existence?

Forced oestrogen vaccines for males exhibiting symptoms of toxic masculinity.

> I'd prefer not to expose them to likely sources of the virus if it can be avoided.

It can be avoided. You remain locked down. Why should others moderate their existence based on your unfounded fears?

Should cars be banned as they pose a nonzero risk to your children as they cross the road?

> After all, your choice does not affect just one other person, it may affect millions.

This is a delusional hypothetical with no basis in reality. See Israel.

> "The tiniest risk to me is not worth reducing deadly risk to a hundred thousand strangers."

Please elaborate on how an unvaccinated individual poses a deadly risk to a hundred thousand vaccinated strangers.

You're the problem. You're championing tyranny. In a century from now COVID will be but a distant memory, will the tyranny?

You're free to remain locked down and homeschool your children.

More surprising is that CNN still had heretics filling their ranks.

This is not aimed at devs in the West:

> That’s why we named 1729.com after Ramanujan’s number. Ramanujan made great contributions to India and to mathematics around the world. He was particularly renowned for his contribution to number theory, which underpins cryptography and hence crypto. And he represented something I’ve been thinking about for many years, which is how to use technology to help the dark talent in India and around the world rise as Ramanujan did. Thus the fourth task is to help identify those people and places where the best is outside the West, where the ascending world is surpassing the declining world.

$100k for a dev in India, Ukraine, or Venezuela, is more than enough incentive.

Why should those living within 35° of the equator have to subsidise those living in the naturally uninhabitable reaches beyond?

The hole in the stern of the ship is taking on 30L of water per second. The hole in the bow of the ship is taking on 20L of water per second.

Let's just focus on plugging the latter shall we, while we all go down together.

Per capita figures are meaningless. You're discussing imaginary lines in the dirt. The only way to tackle climate change is to bring down global emissions.

> We are pretty good vaccinating the globe against polio and measles.

The institutions staffed by our grandparents generation delivered this, just as they delivered the Hoover Dam and Apollo 11. Contemporary western institutions are incompetent as the bungled COVID response has demonstrated. Even if we wanted to "come down on COVID" we couldn't, the golden era has passed.

If we can't feed the developing world, how do you suppose we'll immunise the developing world?

Blatant false equivalence. All of those are FDA approved.

Do yourself a favour and volunteer at your nearest shelter for an afternoon.

The path from refugee to homelessness is an obvious one and points to an over-admission by the German government.

The path from native born citizen to homelessness is less obvious and points to complete social dysfunction.