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cblades··on Covid-19: Do many people have pre-existing immunity?
What the words means in common usage doesn't have to track what immunity actually is. Colloquially, immunity means sterilizing immunity. Actually, immunity doesn't have to be sterilizing.
cblades··on Google removes all Danish music from YouTube
Google will display videos from other sources both at the top of the web search and in the videos search.
cblades··on Google removes all Danish music from YouTube
I don't think the OC implied that musicians (or their agents) shouldn't have pricing authority, just that the market won't bear the prices they seem to want.

The moment a digital file exists, your competing price point is free. People can still pirate, and don't because of youtube and streaming sites. You don't have to think that's right or fair (I don't), but it's absolutely the reality.

cblades··on Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first
>But it's true, a black individual is on average more likely to commit a crime.

More likely to be convicted of a crime. That's a subtle but very important distinction.

cblades··on Goldman Sans
I honestly can't. And in any case, the real test is the individual characters in isolation.
cblades··on Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut
That all seems very reasonable. Apps downloaded from other sources are much more dangerous than apps downloaded from Google Play.
cblades··on A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
I don't think most users would appreciate having a site spike their CPU for a few seconds when they visit...at least I wouldn't.
cblades··on America is giving up on the pandemic?
Assemble carrying weapons and with half the crowd claiming that the entire disease is fake, though?
cblades··on Unimpressed by online classes, college students file lawsuits for refunds
You didn't claim they weren't, but I just want to point out how each of those points is very, very subjective. For me:

- I'd much rather be in-person, where I can better gauge what others are communicating and more readily have two-way communication about the material.

- I'm way less focused when on my own computer, on my own time.

- I find I communicate way less purely online than I would in-person.

- Automatic grading sucks, especially for programming, as it can only really test inputs and outputs, and misses a ton of nuance. I want to also know if my code sucks, regardless of it producing the correct output or not.

cblades··on A nicotinic hypothesis for Covid-19 with preventive and therapeutic implications
Those hospitalized tend to be elderly. How many frequent smokers live to be elderly?
cblades··on The Nucleon, Ford's 1958 nuclear-powered concept car that never was
The DOE land on which ORNL sits has a massive stand that they used for testing of this idea. They'd suspend a reactor to test shielding effectiveness. You can see it from a few spots on I-40/I-75 and on Highway 95 going by the lab's west entrance.
cblades··on Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws
Do the other common solutions claim to have e2e encryption?
cblades··on Sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak
You don't need live viruses, just their RNA.
cblades··on Surviving the coronavirus, then testing positive again
"mainly baseline lung damage" could you expand on what you mean there?
cblades··on Low-cost Deterministic C++ Exceptions for Embedded Systems (2019) [pdf]
This is the first spam message I've ever seen on HN after using it for several years, which is quite impressive really.
cblades··on Every software company giving a take home coding test
That there is a plethora of implementations of and documentation available for. There is no need to memorize an implementation.
cblades··on Russia blocks ProtonMail
> He suggested that they give data for specific people that they already have.

...how were they to know to capture data from those specific people before being asked?

cblades··on Russia blocks ProtonMail
Given that the police wanted information after having already received the threats, they had to have requested some combination of historical and future data. They almost certainly wanted historical data primarily so that they could find the person who sent the threats.

There's no way to satisfy requests for historical data without capturing data from everyone.

cblades··on Russia blocks ProtonMail
I hope so. When the phone system was manually-operated switch boards, should the phone companies have been responsible for listening to every call and reporting suspicious activity to the police?
cblades··on Magic Roundabout (Swindon)
Follow a lane around and you'll find that the inside lane becomes the outside and the outside lane exits.
cblades··on Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force
Not sure what inequality you're talking about, given that the US population is right at a 50/50 split between men and women. Then again, I'm not sure how genuine you're being here.
cblades··on Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups
> You host your data on someone else's computer to save on costs and get rid of the burden of dealing with metal and stabbing yourself with screwdrivers , and you're the victim when they fuckup?

A company violates their agreement with you in a way that costs you time, money, and potentially business, and you're not the victim?

cblades··on The MTA is going after an Etsy artist over a New York subway map it didn’t make
I can't imagine a scenario in which the authority could be help liable for mistakes made by a third party in scheduled times for public transport.
cblades··on U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly
I think there's a pretty wide gulf between that and government-enforced censorship, to the point that comparing the two seems a bit disingenuous.

"Twitter has even begun censoring political speech from public figures"

vs

"The FBI will require Twitter to censor political speech from public figures"

I think those two scenarios are eons apart.

cblades··on U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly
Could you expand on some of the things youtube has done that you believe might be the result of external political pressure?
cblades··on Piper Announces First GA Aircraft with Autoland Capability
Whole aircraft parachute systems have undoubtedly saved lives.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539144

There are already plenty of airplanes that have the ability to land themselves under specific conditions. There's no whole-new technology here. Even if it was brand new, I'm not sure how that would be less safe.

cblades··on Oxford Professor Is Accused of Selling Ancient Texts
Unless it's already been edited, that comment is in no way a personal attack. Not even close.
cblades··on 'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology
The unequal application of the law based on race. Equal treatment under the law is just as much a fundamental right as freedom of expression is and, arguably, equal treatment prevents the subtle and slow erosion of other rights.
cblades··on 'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology
Acknowledging that rights are more readily and equally given to some people than others is not whining.
cblades··on NASA Wants to Send Nuclear Rockets to the Moon and Mars
What risks make that extraordinary cost worthwhile?
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