What is true of the most informative, insightful, and interesting posts on hacker news, but is also true of the laziest most worthless posts? They're both flagged, to keep you from seeing them.
In a world where tech companies keep disappointing me, Valve continues to be a force for good. Probably because it's still a private company. Publicly traded companies can't see anything further than balance sheets.
Never really got into the JFK conspiracy thing. Though considering how blatant and obvious so many "conspiracies" are now, it makes me wonder if my initial dismissal of older ones has more to do with social conditioning than their veracity.
What about a search engine that only indexed information and technology "alternative" sites, specifically to give you the results most likely to be purged or demoted from Google's results? Would be simple enough in scope and have a built in market and use.
"... incidence started growing exponentially in October 2021 with about 41% of recorded new cases aged twelve or above being symptomatic breakthrough infections, presumably also contributing to the dynamics. At the time, it (i) remains elusive how significant this contribution is and (ii) whether targeted non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) may stop the amplification of the ongoing crisis."
So despite just over half of adults being vaccinated, and just under half of new cases (in adults) being vaccinated "breakthrough" cases, they estimate that it's the unvaccinated spreading covid? Makes no sense unless they're blaming the kids and lumping in with the unvaccinated.
When asking "why" people vote certain ways, they aren't asking for reasons so that they can address concerns. They're asking for correlations, so that they know what to downplay or avoid allowing space in discussion, so that the people will vote "the correct" way going forward.
A poor argument. I'm unvaccinated because I am unconvinced that it is in my or society's beat intereat for me to do so. The avoidance of shaming those who are not vaccinated should be:
1) Because telling someone they're stupid almost never works when they have a community of people who agree with them.
2) Because it activates moral faculties that keep the shamers from contemplating if they might be mistaken.
3) Because bodily autonomy is an important enough issue for a principled stance to be taken against even effective and safe treatments.
I think shaming the unvaccinated is foolish, but playing to people's empathy to prevent it? That's the thing about "othering" a group: empathy no longer exists there. A poorly constructed emotional argument, but perhaps the only kind allowed here, as evidence based discussion of why one might not want to get the shot is an instant ban hammer.
He does a much better job of trying to relate to those "not of his tribe" than most do. Now I WISH he hadn't hand waved the vaccine hesitancy by saying the data there was "overwhelming" without going into it at all.
You are allowed to have an opinion, so long as its' "the correct" opinion. Otherwise you are censored, silenced, banned, etc... Oh, but why is there so much polarization?
This is more than just a new desktop environment. This is a new windowing system. This isn't like replacing KDE or Gnome. It's like replacing gtk or qt (though of course qt and gtk apps will run under this environment I'm sure). Considering how opinionated and integrate qt and gnome have become as of late, I applaud that move. I prefer Pantheon myself, but think that the built in "desktop" should be separate from the standard library various apps run in (for several reasons). Let a thousand flowers bloom indeed.
Were all degrees teaching actual real knowledge, and only those in the academic system able to acquire new knowledge, this would be correct. These "charts" are arrogance posing as humility.
Linux has been improving, but rather slowly in several regards. PipeWire, Wayland, and a few other core technologies move things forward for sure, but the fragmentation is always an issue. That said, the iOSification of Mac caused some significant regressions (which I believe they have now recovered from) and Windows resource consumption makes many things run better under proton emulation that on the latest systems.
The truth of the matter is, Valve and Google are the ones who have really made Linux more viable, via emulation, base components, and the availability of web apps underpinning most users' daily workflows. All systems are viable for 80+% of users.
I am glad Linux (as a wider community) is free to admit its shortcomings. Those who think this is bad for Linux's image, well I care more about having working software than effective marketing.
If Trump is sincere about wanting to have a space for free speech, then he should comply with the GPL. If his goal is to grift off appearing to champion free speech, then attempting to steal from the free software movement is clear way to prove himself as such. Then again, I guess there is always option three: rewrite a proprietary one, saying he had no knowledge that the engineer(s) were stealing code (not an outrageous claim honestly). I gladly await the hate for not taking a particularly partisan view of this issue.
I got a second phone. Gave the number out to absolutely NOBODY. The amount of calls and texts (all spam) that this new phone gets is astounding. Even that said, I wonder what will constitute "spam" according to the FCC. Well there's always Signal.
Facebook is the whipping boy for the establishment media and other tech organizations because... it doesn't censor enough? Oh, more likely because it's a closed ecosystem that is seperate from, rather than integrated into the other ad driven web model businesses, and is in fact competitive with it. Doesn't mean Facebook is "the good guy," but who still believes the motivations behind these attacks are protecting people?
That's just the thing though, isn't it. Is the vaccine good for you and the people around you? Since we know asymptomatic carriers are a thing, does getting the vaccine protect those around you? Are you even able to get reliable reporting on the side effects (of various shots) and what groups are likely to be at risk for them?
Assuming a disagreement about reality is a disagreement about values is a great way to straw man without knowing it.
Reframing a condemnation of something as a fear of it is a rhetorical trick often in use. I used to be shocked by the number of people who hear the name of a movement or ideology and then assume it's an accurate reflection of the views expressed, rather than a marketing slogan. Words are indeed weapons.
Capitalism, communism, democracy, authoritarianism, if the money is fake, the votes are rigged, and the leaders are little more than front men, is there any difference?
Mozilla went full in on their OS, which went nowhere, and got explicitly political. Plus Chromium (and hence blink) are open source. Why use Firefox? Yeah, I'm drawing a blank.
The recognition that the medical establishment is still unsure of many things regarding a still developing situation is a good first step. The next is to realize that the misinterpretations of their knowledge and understanding are the direct result of misrepresentation of events and facts by media outlets.
Scamming people directly is for low-end criminals, while scamming wealthy people indirectly through investment firms requires more skill, but scamming everyone through government contracts is where the real money is.
I backed him on Kickstarter. Not the craziest or most dishonest failed project I backed. It was a coin flip on whether you'd actually get a finished product back in the day. No idea how it is now.