middleclick

Fauci has categorically denied on record that they don't fund gain of function research. I am not qualified enough to comment if the re-engineering mentioned here is the same.

I trust Fauci to not lie in a public hearing and to know what he is saying.

> Fauci runs funding for gain of function research

Fauci has denied multiple times that they funded gain of function research. Please cite your sources.

Wait, does this mean that I am not allowed to criticize someone just because I ... don't have their skills? That doesn't make any sense.

This paper is not peer-reviewed. It should end there.

Have you encountered the CAPTCHA from this monstrosity of a company called Arkose Labs? I don't get angry but I was trying to redeem gift cards for an elderly relative and I was shouting and gave up.

Not sure if I am allowed to paste links but search for "arkose labs reddit" or just the name of this company on Twitter. Or search "arkose labs san francisco" on Google and just read the reviews.

Has the case for Switzerland's strong privacy laws been established and more importantly, has it been tested?

I could have done better at the personal attacks but it's hard to tow the line when genuine grievances of peacefully protesting farmers are ignored for months and one negative attack is suddenly all that is talked about. That to me indicates malice and I cannot respond in good faith when that is done.

> a quick glance at the difference between male and female litery rates shows there's some distance to cover.

How is that relevant? You are pulling at straws here. Women work in the fields along with men. Anti-farmer laws affect both men and women, young and old. Supreme Court of India brings it up as if it matters, when it doesn't and clearly ignore the demographics at play, hinting at something without saying it. The literacy rate needs to be worked on but that's not the concern here.

How many people can you coerce to attend protests? Hundreds, probably at most. Not thousands. Some of the people have been protesting in frigid temperatures for months. Do you mean to say they are all paid? That doesn't even make sense and is logistically infeasible.

The Supreme Court allows seems to consider freedom of expression differently though, when it comes to granting bails to journalists in favour of the government versus cartoons that suggest contempt of court.

So no, I don't trust them to make the right call. Farmers should continue peacefully protesting, as is their fundamental right.

Notice in all this, you haven't said anything about: the right of farmers to protest and what they are protesting about.

The Supreme Court of India is going to listen to the farmers? The same Supreme Court that asked why and I quote, "why old people and women are kept in the protests" as if thousands of old farmers were paid money and brought in to the protests?

I repeat: protesting is a fundamental right. Farmers have been protesting peacefully for months. One bad incident is not reflective of the otherwise largely peaceful protests. You are ignoring this line.

https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/01/14/sorry-this-isnt-a-man...

You can drop the facade at this stage and stop wasting everyone's time. At least have the audacity to be genuine of your beliefs. To not be so is cowardly.

Such things are typically reported by the media. One of the problems in India though is that the media is completely biased towards the government. The prime minister of the world's largest democracy has held exactly zero press conferences in 6-7 years. When he does, they are incredibly scripted where they ask him if he likes to eat mangoes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dUyQWcn1CA). He also does a poor job of answering tough questions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAGAYL8dtic) so the media interviews he does give are more of a PR stunt for him where the "journalists" praise his qualities and ask him no hard questions.

Coming back to your question: the farmers have clearly said they denounce the violence in more than one ways. The other thing that is leading more credence to this theory is how the police treated the people indulging in violence. Evidence from the ground shows that the police shook hands and were generally very respectful towards them. This suggests infiltration. More sources: https://thewire.in/agriculture/day-of-clashes-with-bjp-spons...

Did you read your own links?

> Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella organisation representing more than 40 farmers’ unions, condemned those who had taken part in the clashes and said that “anti-social elements had infiltrated the otherwise peaceful movement”.

The organizers clearly condemned the violence. What else should they do?

Repeating what you conveniently ignored: one bad incident does not override months of completely peaceful protests, acknowledged by residents of the areas where they were protesting. And yet, you bring up just that one thing, which is very much in line with the government propaganda. The Republic link was the icing on the cake. Like I said, you are free to believe what you want but painting yourself as pro freedom of protests while ignoring the fact that they have been peaceful for months and singling out this one thing says a lot about your bias.

Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/farmers-storm-india-s-red-fort-...

> The farmers have been staging largely peaceful protests for nearly two months

> I am all for peaceful protests, the constitution has given every citizen the right to protest

They have been peaceful protesting for literally months now. One bad incident does not mean anything and there is a lot of information about how the government goons infiltrated the protests.

If you are all for peaceful protests, you wouldn't single out one single incident but that's exactly what you are doing and I think it's malicious. Which you are free to do, but please don't pretend otherwise.

Pasting a Republic link is incredibly disingenuous because they frequently peddle fake news, not to mention, are extremely biased towards the current government, so much that their main person had access to sensitive intelligence information.

Search: "arnab leaked chats"

This question can go both ways. Why does this person feel the need to use a throwaway account if their opinion is backed by proper citations?

Just one account, for Donald Trump. That's it. That too because of the hateful content that was being posted.

Have they called out for censorship of things that were critical of them? No? Did they have a committee to investigate that?

Did they meet for dinners with Facebook executives? Oh wait, the Republicans were the one that did that.

Please point out which websites have been blocked in browsers.

Not having an app does not mean that the mobile interface doesn't work.

> The Democrats have the power now and they will use it to suppress any opinion they disagree with.

Quite the hyperbole without any evidence. Where is the evidence that they have demanded for censorship? Or have done so in the past where a democrat has censored a social media website? Absolutely none.

So that makes it anecdotal. I thought that's something others do as well. I personally don't even know where else to look for articles. I also don't trust other sources or possibly outdated mirrors.

How many people read Wikipedia other than from the main website? What's the source on that?

I can't imagine doing email without mutt, without all the keyboard shortcuts I have, and without vim as the editor. Thank you mutt. Just what an email client should be. I wish there was better search support but that's about it.

I am of Indian descent and basmati has also always been cooked on a pot on a stove. And once you get the basic things right, it's actually not difficult. I am not downplaying the effectiveness of the rice cookers, just that it's possible to cook good rice without them.

During my teenage years when I first started C++ (thank you Accelerated C++), I went to the ##c++ channel on Freenode and was immediately flamed for my "weird" nick, to the point that the people didn't bother to answer my question but instead went after me personally, just because I had picked a nick based on leet speak. I won't deny that it left a very bad impression on me about the open source community, especially as someone who was new to it.

You can turn it off?

Providers are hesitant to block IP addresses for a multitude of reasons, one of the simplest ones being that different services can run on a single IP.

And running DoT on a non-standard port breaks all sorts of things because it will be ... non-standard.

Firefox supports it and Chrome has plans to support it in the future. I agree that it's not much right now but it's a start.

CloudFlare has ESNI enabled (and so do websites hosted by it, like medium.com) so it's not as if no one is doing it.

Are there other good resources to learn about TCP and UDP? Everyone recommends the Stevens book so I think I should get that?

It's also fairly easy to run your own recursive resolver in case you don't want to use an external DNS service. I use Unbound and ad-blocking lists and it works great.

It's also news if your company is gaining traction and increased usage, especially with things like this: https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1244985949534199808

My Mazda3 has no touchscreen controls and I am very happy with that.

I know, but the performance takes a massive hit. Have you tried it? Maybe it was something I did wrong.