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defaultprimateon Bitcoin is not decentralized [video]

Do you have a rebuttal of any substance or just personal attacks on the author?

The irony of a bitcoiner accusing someone else of drinking the Kool aid. Lots of people participated and made money in Madoff's scheme for decades too.

defaultprimateon Bitcoin is not decentralized [video]

Ok now show the mathematical proof or demonstrate the error in his.

Everything that doesn't carry the coiner narrative of "number go up" is FUD

defaultprimateon Bitcoin is not decentralized [video]

https://medium.com/@jonaldfyookball/mathematical-proof-that-...

In short, if it didn't (it does), then we've proven P = NP and the very foundation of Bitcoin itself crumbles.

Self custody of bitcoin is not self custody of wealth. Not your fiat not your wealth.

defaultprimateon Bitcoin is not decentralized [video]

LN is mathematically guaranteed to end up centralized.

defaultprimateon Tesla remotely unlocks Model 3 car, uses smart summon to help repo agent

My point still stands. The fact that police exhibit extremely low detrimental behavior rates compared to the general population illustrates that they are held to much higher standards.

Police in the US have far higher post secondary education rates than the general population. Over half have a bachelor's and over 80% have at least an associate's. And that's overall. Many states and larger localities require post secondary education, particularly in urban, higher crime areas.

>but they are orders of magnitude better than the trigger happy...

Can you prove it? Tens of millions of police interactions a year and less than a thousand deaths is pretty damn good and not at all indicative of the narrative you're spewing, especially when you account for how much violence the police experience at the hands of criminals. Sounds to me like you've bought into a narrative completely unsupported by data.

defaultprimateon Tesla remotely unlocks Model 3 car, uses smart summon to help repo agent

I'm gonna check these stories out!

I'm with you on the seeing the sausage made. I work in software development and algorithm research (though in a completely unrelated, but much better funded and cutting edge field) and the idea that we're anywhere close to truly level 3 autonomous driving, let alone 4 or 5, is laughable.

I love technology enhanced features, like radar cruise control, lane detection, etc. But only as extra sensory input for the driver, not replacement.

defaultprimateon Julia Computing's co-founder involved in government mass surveillance project

This sucks. I love Julia, especially for developing analysis tools. I started using Python in place of MATLAB when it was permissible in my work environment, but now I try to use Julia when possible, and almost exclusively in non-professional analysis/data endeavors.

I personally take issue with what Aadhaar is at its core, but the referenced thread of the associations and what's being done with the data is downright horrifying.

Andhra Pradesh leaked #Aadhaar of every school student, their claim is to stop school dropouts. This data is shared with Microsoft which boosts itself for building an AI

Andhra Pradesh built a search portal to search anyone's information using #Aadhaar. This portal was again publicly accessible to anyone. That search portal which everyone says doesn't exists are all over the place

defaultprimateon Housing is both a human right and a profitable asset, and that’s the problem

Yes, we should all strive to emulate tiny, culturally homogeneous de facto ethnostates. Their policies will surely work in gigantic, culturally hyper-heterogeneous nations that already struggle with bureaucratic bloat, public service abuse, and horrid quality of public goods and services.

defaultprimateon Housing is both a human right and a profitable asset, and that’s the problem

So then it's not a right. It requires compelled labor of yourself or someone else, not something you are granted simply for existing that can be taken away.

Chattel slaves were compensated with a roof over their head, food, facilities. All their needs were met at the hands of the wealthy. All they had to do in return was work. After all, their owner was entitled to their labor by virtue of paying for them and meeting their needs. Surely the state would never utilize this same reasoning on a populace that's wholly dependent on its provisions.

Who determines need? Who determines excess? We don't need restaurants, entertainment, video games, etc. We should just eat nutritionally complete kibble for humans, and all work solely to ensure everyone else's needs are met.

> It is, after all, their opulent greed that is strangulating the market and making home ownership difficult to begin with.

Prove it. Spoiler: you can't.

defaultprimateon Tesla remotely unlocks Model 3 car, uses smart summon to help repo agent

I agree that this capability should never, ever be in the hands of the state, but don't extrapolate isolated instances and debunked statistics about the police as truths. Your own article demonstrates one of the major flaws of the domestic violence statistic, but doesn't discuss the most egregious methodological flaw: the criteria used for domestic violence, which includes shouting in the cited study.

Cops are sourced from the general population, so incidence rates need to be compared to the general population, and you'll find that police have significantly lower "negative" behaviors compared to the general population in virtually all aspects. That doesn't mean they should be allowed to remotely disable your car though.

defaultprimateon Tesla remotely unlocks Model 3 car, uses smart summon to help repo agent

While I agree with you 100%. High level self driving is impossible on a technical level too imo, there's too many aspects of human perception, processing, and intuition that aren't possible to emulate or account for in, what machine learning really boils down to, a statistical model. There will always be novel situations that you can't simply math your way out of that a human could navigate effortlessly.

defaultprimateon Housing is both a human right and a profitable asset, and that’s the problem

Slavery is not a human right

defaultprimateon Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for allegedly hiding ties to China

You're not just ignorant, you're willfully lying. None of the things in your last post are true.

The PA and Hamas have repeatedly rejected two state solutions, refuse to recognize Israel, and openly call for genocide.

You failed to answer my question too. This discussion over

defaultprimateon Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for allegedly hiding ties to China

Palestinian Arabs are exactly who I'm describing in the previous examples. They are free to become Israeli citizens at any time and those are the positions they end up in when they do.

Palestine has rejected every two state solution proposed for the last half century. You're regurgitating ignorant nonsense. The ruling parties and majority population of Palestine are VOCALLY genocidal when it comes to the Jews, but you'd rather ignore that and accuse Israel of subversively carrying out a genocide against people it has in its highest levels of government. Then you have the audacity to accuse ME of bad faith. How many Jews are in Palestinian leadership positions?

I couldn't care less what Noam Chomsky says or thinks on this subject, he's one of the worst ultracrepidarian clowns in contemporary history.

defaultprimateon Wuhan lab leak 'now the most likely origin of Covid'

The conclusion of the WHO, which essentially took China's word for it with no independent oversight or real investigation into the lab, and big organizations that proselytized the results of the "investigation" to justify accusations of conspiracy theory thinking, are irrelevant.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj0016

defaultprimateon Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for allegedly hiding ties to China

Yes you're right, there's no evidence the South Vietnamese did any such thing

Wikipedia editors at work

defaultprimateon Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

I haven't boxed myself in anywhere, I've maintained the same position throughout.

I'm not telling you anything in my opinion. I'm telling you what the empirical evidence says or doesn't say.

I have not stopped advocating Ivermectin. The empirical evidence shows that it is still an extremely cheap, safe, and correlated treatment demonstrated across populations of billions through a mechanism of action that has been well established.

There's literally no reason not to try it, and there's a reason it's part of treatment regimens across several countries. Its use doesn't involve eroding the liberty of the populace or solidifying absolute power of state. It has virtually zero side effects medically or socioculturally, unlike things like masks or vaccines that have zero long term data

defaultprimateon Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for allegedly hiding ties to China

All of these things are adequately accounted for in my previous post except one which I find laughable every time I hear it, and provides sufficient evidence to me that you are an ideologue not concerned with realistic representations of history or current political events.

>Israeli apartheid state

Apartheid states do not let the oppressed class have massive representation in their representative government at all levels.

They do not have members of the oppressed class sit on the bench of the highest court in the land.

They do not mandate, at a federal level, that ALL state enterprise MUST have a member of the oppressed class on their board of directors.

They do not consistently have individuals from the oppressed class as cabinet members.

They do not have ambassadors belonging to the oppressed class.

They do not have members of the oppressed class as some of the highest ranking generals in their military, or as commanders of, hilariously, the border police.

Members of the oppressed class in apartheid states do not have the highest standard of living and quality of life compared to members of the same religious and ethnic groups in the region.

Apartheid states do not bend over backwards to accommodate, preserve, and enable the cultural and religious practices of the oppressed class, even when its members openly call for the genocide of the predominant ethnic group in the locale, refuse to participate in coalition governments, and reinforce sectarian, segregationist cultural policies and beliefs.

If you sincerely think Israel is an apartheid state, you are woefully uninformed, and a fool that has fallen for blatant propaganda.

defaultprimateon Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

Opinions not supported by empirical evidence are not opinions worth listening to.

"Experts" supported eugenics, antibacterial soap, breakfast cereal, the food pyramid, lobotomies, and all kinds of other things on the basis of popular "consensus"

defaultprimateon Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

I literally linked several meta-analyses that show it's patently true.

defaultprimateon Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

My mistake, the link in the article you first posted still shows it as a working paper and I couldn't find it with the original title when searching.

Interestingly the DOI does not show up

https://dx.doi.org/

Here's some further criticisms:

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1073440/latest.pdf

https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01296

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...

defaultprimateon Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

The study is not and has not passed peer review.

defaultprimateon Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

It doesn't address the primary criticisms of the bad cat, and you should really read the comments on the article you linked, as well as they meta-analyses I provided on mask effectiveness when it comes to respiratory illnesses in healthcare and community settings.

They don't work, at all, across decades of research and dozens of studies. They're not going to magically start working for COVID when they haven't worked for the flu or any other respiratory virus in the past.

>forever to protect people in medical settings.

Surgical masks in medical settings are designed to protect from bacterial infections, not viral ones.

defaultprimateon Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

Skepticism and methodological criticism are definitionally "science". Not cult like faith. Ad hominems and appeals to authority are not valid arguments.

defaultprimateon Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/bangladesh-mask-study-do-...

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article

"At present there is only limited and inconsistent scientific evidence to support the effectiveness of masking of healthy people in the community to prevent infection with respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2 (75). A large randomized community-based trial in which 4862 healthy participants were divided into a group wearing medical/surgical masks and a control group found no difference in infection with SARS-CoV-2 (76). A recent systematic review found nine trials (of which eight were cluster-randomized controlled trials in which clusters of people, versus individuals, were randomized) comparing medical/surgical masks versus no masks to prevent the spread of viral respiratory illness. Two trials were with healthcare workers and seven in the community. The review concluded that wearing a mask may make little or no difference to the prevention of influenza-like illness (ILI) (RR 0.99, 95%CI 0.82 to 1.18) or laboratory confirmed illness (LCI) (RR 0.91, 95%CI 0.66-1.26) (44); the certainty of the evidence was low for ILI, moderate for LCI."

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/337199/WHO-...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7546829/

defaultprimateon Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for allegedly hiding ties to China

>However, the US has killed many times more people in other countries, and brutalized countless nations

You are very clearly uninformed about history. Especially if that's your list of brutalized countries with zero insight into the many factors stimulating US intervention in most of them and the aftermath resulting from failed or cessation of intervention, especially in those supported by the CCP.

Vietnam, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia Aftermath

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Hu%E1%BA%BF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Cong_and_People%27s_Army_...

https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP6.HTM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indochina_refugee_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide

https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/post-war-vietnam/#Purges...

El Salvador and Cuba I will grant that the clandestine support of a coup and refusal to condemn an oppressive, violent junta that came to power was inexcusable on the part of the US, but its involvement still has nothing compared to the CCP and USSR involvement in mass genocides and democides across the globe. The guerillas weren't benevolent liberators either.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-18-mn-12349-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/11/26/cuba-fidel-castros-recor...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121496498705421951

Nicaragua Another good example of the faults and failures of the US historically, but incomparable to the CCP, and aligned with global economics at the time. A victim of the intense geopolitical tensions and climate in the late 19th and early 20th century thanks in large part to the fallout from the Spanish-American War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars

Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq. The collapse of the Ottomon Empire was the motivating factor in harsh and enduring political tensions in Central Asia. Not US intervention. US involvement in Afghanistan all started with solicited intervention by the populace for help against imperial actions by the USSR. Continued intervention was not purely political or economic in nature, and certainly not genocidal or democidal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Civil_War_(1992%E2%80%9...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Civil_War_(1996%E2%80%9...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Afghanistan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes#Afghanistan_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Hazara_people#A...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalq

Iran Another failure, yet still incomparable to the history of the CCP. The rise of an Islamic theocracy in the geopolitical landscape of Iran should not be surprising, regardless of US intervention. It coincides with other theocratic revolutions in the region that were not the consequence of intervention by the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Zia-ul-Haq

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_republic

Hopefully with this history lesson you develop an understanding that even with the many wrongs the US has committed over time, none come close to the CCP in its relatively short existence. The US has killed orders of magnitude less people domestically and internationally, justified and unjustified, across its entire history than the CCP has unjustifiably across the globe in the last 75 years.

defaultprimateon Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for allegedly hiding ties to China

Sending your best abroad while you hold their family at gunpoint locally is how you cultivate absolute loyalty and subvert adversarial thought and nations. The best way to defeat your enemy is to understand them.

That's why you consistently see Chinese born, US citizens with decades of time in the states prosecuted for espionage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in_t...

defaultprimateon Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for allegedly hiding ties to China

One actively cultivated a culture of establishing an absolutist surveillance state resulting in the death and torture of tens of millions, often at the hands of their own children, in the course of a decade or so, is currently participating in genocide, has institutionally striven to sustain an ethnostate, treats their population like cattle, and exercises extrajudicial imprisonment and execution against vast swaths of the population to preserve political power.

There is no comparison of morality between the US and China. For all its faults and failures the US is unequivocally a more moral and just nation.

Let's not just leave it at that. I won't let you deceptively downplay the egregious evil China is and has been responsible for. It's directly responsible for multiple events that when measured over the course of history, are the most insane human atrocities ever committed.

defaultprimateon Americans overestimate social mobility in their country

To me, absolutely. To people of a different political persuasion, it's dependent on the color of your skin and how many political points can be scored on the basis of your relative suffering compared to those that are not coming from predominantly "white, European" countries (regardless of how white they may actually be), not the facts of your circumstance.

The plight of a progressive Nigerian immigrant whose family was extremely wealthy prior to immigration is worth more than your story in today's climate.

defaultprimateon Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for allegedly hiding ties to China

>protect themselves from the United States military

Protect themselves from the US military how? When they start imperial subjugation campaigns...or?

China's malicious aspirations are the only thing the US is concerned with.