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drapred7on Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun

He means relativistic speeds which is optimistically .01c making the trip take 300k years. He doesnt actually mean violating physical laws.

drapred7on Huawei hid business operation in Iran after Reuters reported links to CFO

Why doesnt china have the freedom to choose what commerce they want to engage in? If the US didnt want the chinese selling HP servers to Iran, they should not have sold them to China. If China jailed Tim Cook for selling iPhones to Taiwan that were intended for export to Europe, the US would rightly flip out.

drapred7on Save Internet Privacy

Using firefox doesn't address the fundamental problems of current internet business models and permissive web standards.

Chrome doesn't lock you in to google services. It shapes web standards to advance google's interests and protect it from standards that would interfere with its revenue stream. As Firefox must implement the Chrome spec, it's just along for the ride.

drapred7on Save Internet Privacy

GDPR and CCPA are just the beginning. Regulation will absolutely play a role in the fight for internet privacy. I sympathize with the libertarian instinct, but the only way to acheive what you want is to raise awareness of the problem and build a new consensus of how things should work. Once you've done that there's not much difference between everyone agreeing to use duck duck go and agreeing to laws that make Google's tracking impossible.

The ad blocking arms race is not one a few hackers will win against a multi-trillion dollar industry. The easiest way to organize people to fight back is through the democratic process, but it is still a ton of work.

drapred7on Save Internet Privacy

The left and right need new parties uncorrupted by business, imperialist and foreign interests.

drapred7on Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator

Cadence's point is very valid. Mozilla gets funding by charging search engines to be the default in Firefox and that isn't changing anytime soon.

I wish people didn't instinctively downvote when someone is wrong on a technicality, but this is a site filled with nerds after all lol

EDIT: i guess he isnt even technically wrong.

drapred7on Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator

I think thepiratesailor's point is that mozilla ISNT doing it.

drapred7on CDC estimates 35% of those with coronavirus don't have symptoms

This means the death rate is probably not being vastly underestimated. That hypothesis would require >80% of cases to be symptomless

drapred7on The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor

That's my point. Thanks, I didn't know dole meant a small part of benefits. I thought it just meant any kind of welfare.

drapred7on The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor

I think you've had a bit to much to think, bucko.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/fast-food-chains-lobby-go...

https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/file-20171009-...

Have fun.

drapred7on The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor

>stop all immigration

Regan's amnesty for over 3 million illegals: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128303...

Bush doubles immigration: https://immigration.laws.com/immigration-act-of-1990

Trump supports immigration in "greatest numbers ever" in 2019 State of the Union: https://time.com/5521860/2019-state-of-the-union-trump-trans...

The GOP has supported immigration since the civil war. Both parties are controlled by the same political forces, and neither are on the real left or right, however hard though they pretend to be.

drapred7on The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor

This is an american perspective. In the UK, people are proud to be "on the dole" and very few support restricting it.

EDIT: Of course brits will still look for work. My point is that Ive seen brits in talk shows audiences talk about taking public assistence without thinking of themselves as "bad people" the way American conservatives would. The desire to eliminate all public assistance is absent in Europe. Don't mean to offend brits, I think you guys have the right attitude here. Take assistance if you need it and dont needlessly refuse to help others.

drapred7on Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen, must go back to Iraq

Medieval French village https://www.solosophie.com/medieval-town-of-dinan/

Modern Bagdad https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y2BD66C-W58

I dont find any descriptions of specific surgeries here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_in_the_medieval_Isl...

drapred7on Deconfinement: The Price of Human Life

How?

drapred7on Deconfinement: The Price of Human Life

Reducing travel from Mexico has been a popular position in the Us for decades.

drapred7on Deconfinement: The Price of Human Life

If that definition were taken, and people were moral, you could infinitely blackmail moral people by threatening harm.

drapred7on Deconfinement: The Price of Human Life

That likely depends on how effective we are at eliminating it in the coming months. I doubt it will become endemic in Korea or Singapore.

I wonder if even influenza could be erraticated in the coming years with mass testing and contact tracing. The lockdowns ended flu season early this year.

drapred7on Deconfinement: The Price of Human Life

Bubonic plague, tuberculosis and polio still exist outside the West, but they don't cause much inefficiency here. I doubt doing some ongoing testing for SARS now that it's been mostly eliminated in Asia will permanently cripple Asia's economies. The inefficiencies of continued outbreaks on less well organized nations are harder to predict but possibly much larger.

drapred7on Deconfinement: The Price of Human Life

If the movement restrictions cost lives, why are total fatalities down? (even including SARS deaths)

drapred7on Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)

Gambling with unlimited amounts of other people's money is going to be profitable.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/2008...

drapred7on Japan to Draw Up UFO Encounter Protocols After U.S. Footage

Informative and entertaining:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs

drapred7on Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die

The public absolutlely paid the price in the form of bailouts. If those banks had been allowed to fail I would agree with you, but they knew they'd probably be bailed out from the beginning and used CDOs to ensure it.

QE is a direct transfer of wealth from dollar holders to investors and banks. No way around that.

drapred7on Insanity vs Intelligence: Pinky and the Brain Conspiracy Theory

Subtlety is not a conspiracy.

drapred7on Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die

The problem is that software engineers are paided poorly compared to bankers, executives, and a myriad of other occupations relative to how it used to be 30 years ago. Even doctors aren't paid like they used to be. So way too many smart people go into finance and real estate, which are jobs that really anybody could do, except that our corrupt system makes it worthwhile to pay the smartest people to come up with new ways to scam the public and the government. See: Fed policy, CDOs, sub-prime loans, QE...

drapred7on Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die

Feminists are always promoting numerous and spurious explanations for why women seek out non-technical roles The qualities of women themselves being a sexist and therefor a priori false explanation.

drapred7on Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die

What does that even mean? Its just some vague feel-good platitude like everything else in agile.

drapred7on It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen

If it's racist to treat people differently in a way that affects people of some races, than anything less than open borders (allowing anyone to immigrate for any reason) is racist. If you don't support open boarders, you're either a racist, or that definition of racism is too broad.

drapred7on Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events

What makes it astroturfing is that the organizers are being paid by GOP donors. You can agree with their objective or oppose it but it meets the definition of astroturfing.

Part of astroturfing is getting the grass roots to participate.

I wonder how astroturfed this was: SF Anti-mask League 1918. https://mobile.twitter.com/timkmak/status/125193624283456307...

drapred7on Supreme Court says criminal convictions require unanimous juries

At the risk of being a bit technical, (as law tends to be) I think reasonable doubt is called the "standard of evidence". Its the phrase "jury trial" that the court found to require unanimous verdicts.

drapred7on Trump to temporarily suspend all immigration into the US

I hope so. They are basically selling spots to the highest bidder.

My sympathies are with the American students who dont get in to the school they are most qualified for because there's always a foreign student who can pay full fare. Administrators doing this are in the wrong.