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brimnes··on Lojban: Constructed language to eliminate ambiguity from communication
https://lojban.io/ looks pretty good
brimnes··on Lojban: Constructed language to eliminate ambiguity from communication
Obligatory link to /r/lojban [1].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/lojban/

brimnes··on Omicron Makes Vaccine Mandates Obsolete
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Montagnier was a promoter of the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2, the causative virus, was deliberately created in, and thereafter escaped from a laboratory. Such a claim has been refuted by other virologists.
brimnes··on Alcohol should have cancer warnings, say researchers pushing to raise awareness
Seems like the industry wasn't a fan when the Yukon government tried warning labels: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-alcohol-warning-l...
brimnes··on U.S. Is Open as Canada Shuts Down. The Difference? Their Health Care Systems
> "David Naylor, a physician and former University of Toronto president who led a federal review into Canada’s response to the 2003 SARS epidemic, said hospital capacity probably plays a bigger role in Canadian decision-making than in the U.S. because Canada’s universal system means “the welfare of the entire population is affected if health care capacity is destabilized.”

> But he also argued that focusing only on hospital capacity could be misleading. “Both Canada and the U.S. have lower capacity than many European countries,” he wrote by email.

> The major difference between the two countries’ responses to Covid outbreaks is cultural, Naylor argues. In Canada, more than the U.S., policy is guided by a “collectivist ethos” that tolerates prolonged shutdowns and other public health restrictions to keep hospitals from collapsing." -article

brimnes··on U.S. Is Open as Canada Shuts Down. The Difference? Their Health Care Systems
America's COVID death rate is 3x that of Canada's.
brimnes··on Xiaomi cellphones can censor searches: NCC
https://web.archive.org/web/20220108194654/https://taipeitim...
brimnes··on Ask HN: Are We in a Bubble?
Yes.
brimnes··on DuckDuckGo Traffic
How does it compare to Brave Search which is supposedly using their own index and not reliant on Bing? [1]

[1]: https://search.brave.com/

brimnes··on DuckDuckGo Traffic
They should drop the "DuckGo". Just "Duck". It's cleaner.
brimnes··on Stories Are Coming to Signal
You can check out the Wikipedia page [1]. Apps like WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook already have the stories feature.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories_(social_media)

brimnes··on Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones
Signal is not comparable at all to iMessage.
brimnes··on Mozilla Foundation now accepts cryptocurrency donations
Only a matter of time before they start dabbling in scummy NFTs.
brimnes··on How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API
Signal desktop clients are not native. They use Electron and are much slower than Telegram.
brimnes··on American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
Kayak is headquartered in the US and owned by Booking.com