Jayschwa
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Comment · 3 years ago
I can understand why government scientists wouldn't want their name attached if it was discovered that they funded research on the escaped virus. It's less obvious to me why the CIA would care though. Just trying to avoid general blame attributed to the USA?
Comment · 3 years ago
Oops, I meant mayor Hardin, not Seldon.
Comment · 3 years ago
I couldn't get through the first season. The Empire stuff was good, but I thought they really butchered Seldon. In the show, Seldon is portrayed as a warrior with a mystical connection to the vault. In the book, the whole point of Seldon is that he's a regular but smart person who leverages his opponents' beliefs in mysticism against them.
Comment · 3 years ago
> he has had a commendable commitment to free speech
Reddit does not have a good track record of supporting free speech outside its zeitgeist. In the past, it has banned subreddits that were politically conservative, not toeing the party line on transgenderism, or hosting pandemic skepticism / conspiracies. The bans were usually executed in the name of stopping threats or "hate speech", but to my eye, the rules and punishments were applied unevenly.
Comment · 3 years ago
Upstream article: https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-w...
Comment · 3 years ago
I agree. At its best, public transit can be a better experience than driving. But the average experience is often worse than driving.
Comment · 3 years ago
I disagree. I lived in NYC for 10 years without a car and used public transit for everything. There are plenty of passengers, and that didn't matter. It was just a larger captive audience for whoever was having their mental breakdown.
Comment · 3 years ago
I had a similar experience in NYC circa 2019. Several weeks before the scheduled stay, the host wrote that we should lie if anyone asked us about the situation. I was not okay with that and canceled the reservation. Despite the sketchiness, Airbnb refused to refund any of the prepayment.
Comment · 3 years ago
Over time, I've been migrating from Gandi to Porkbun. I've been happy so far.
Comment · 3 years ago
While with optionals enables some iterator-like behavior. https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#while-with-Optiona...
Comment · 3 years ago
I didn't finish the TV show (I got maybe halfway through), but my main problem was the changes to Hardin. In the book, Hardin is a shrewd politician, and there's nothing magical or blessed about him. He "defeats" Anacreon by exploiting their own dim beliefs in magic against them. In the TV show, Hardin is a warrior with a special "magical" connection to the Vault. That conveys a very different, almost contradictory message compared to the book.
Comment · 3 years ago
I had a YubiKey fail when I touched it and a static shock wiped its memory. I was able to reinitialize it using their app, but the previously loaded key was lost.
Comment · 4 years ago
> What is a Golang person
Gopher
Comment · 4 years ago
> the idea of the vaccine was always to prevent bad effects of infection, not infection as such.
This is false historical revisionism. Biden[1], Fauci[2], and the media sold the public on the vaccine and justified mandates by saying it would stop the spread. Early skeptics were labeled as misinformed conspiracy theorists. It later became self-evident that the vaccine was less effective than originally thought (e.g. everyone I know who got vaccinated, including myself, still got infected). Only then did the goalposts move to "it makes infections less bad". But that is not how it was originally presented.
[1]: https://www.whio.com/news/local/exclusive-news-center-7-sits...
[2]: https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/553773-fauci-...