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Comment · 5 years ago
If you have a windows 10 laptop, pinching on the touchpad seems to give you the same zoom functionality now. vastly superior than the one built into the browser
Comment · 5 years ago
It was nearly a golden age in indochina. People in countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, (South) Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, etc experienced incredible and permanent improvement in living standards
but yeah it wasn't that great anywhere south of cancun or cairo
Comment · 5 years ago
>US-supported regimes killed something like a million people between 1950-1990.
They killed far more than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19... 1965–1966, 500k - 1m
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Laos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Cambodia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Myanmar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_squads_in_El_Salvador "The paramilitaries committed the vast majority of murders and massacres during the civil war and were heavily aligned with the United States-backed government"
Comment · 5 years ago
Despite what western media outlets say, this is not necessarily a bad thing. Military juntas are often a good/restorative part of government in countries like Thailand and Myanmar, and are well received by the general public.
Doesn't mesh well with washington kissinger pastiche though
Comment · 5 years ago
It is being allowed with proper oversight. These people are just experimenting underground.
The problem with this tech isn't just the Übermensch (or should I say, ÜberTiāncháo) that we will have to deal with, but more subtle. For instance, a percentage of northern europeans are already partially genetically immune to HIV/AIDS [1]
People with sickle cell anaemia are already somewhat immune to Malaria [2]. Some gibbering genius in a laboratory might decide to cure the human race of Anaemia and inadvertently cause millions of people to start dying of malaria or dengue.
There are plenty of "problem" genes that we carry in our genome that scientists will want to "fix", and then we will discover the hard way why those genes are there in the first place. This absolutely needs to be controlled. The coming man will not be an Übermensch, but a CRISPR-castrato
[1] https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/hiv_resistan... [2] https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/index.html (select 'sickle cell')
Comment · 5 years ago
The real question is why are people incapable of regulating their own behaviour. It's convenient to say that talking about hanging politicians encourages this behaviour, and contributes to it
End of the day though -- why should my speech be held as responsible for another persons conduct?
Comment · 5 years ago
It won't, but the media will blame it on the alt-right. "White privileged mcdonalds workers oppress poor minority new york billionaires with their greedy market manipulation! "
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
the word retard is common parlance in many parts of the world.
But lets not be retarded about this, the point is more that they are using a puritan argument about the word retard in a retarded manner in order to shut down discourse, to try and retard the share price of a stock, which has had absolutely retarded performance lately.
Comment · 5 years ago
Do you think this could effectively render vaccines completely useless, if they have novel spike proteins that aren't targeted by the vaccines?
Please forgive me if this is a stupid question, this is not my knowledge domain.
Comment · 5 years ago
Good point, I will edit it to say recommended in the american journal of medicine.
Comment · 5 years ago
>The AJM hasn't recommended anything. AJM has published a paper titled "Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection".
>It hasn't published it "now". It has published it back in August of 2020.
"The American Journal of Medicine, Vol 134, No 1, January 2021", Page 18, shows a treatment algorithm for Covid-19-like and confirmed Covid-19 illness, specifying 200mg of Hydroxochloroquine for patients over the age of 50 or with a single comorbidity.
I'm not talking about the primary study on HCQ, but the treatment algorithm is recent.
Comment · 5 years ago
Hi HN,
I thought this was quite interesting; after considerable negative coverage in the news-media, now an article in the American Journal of Medicine has recommended treatment of 200mgof Hydroxochloroquine per day for Covid-19 patients.
Negative media coverage has continued until quite recently:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/hydroxychloroquin...