La1n
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Comment · 5 years ago
I don't think this belongs on HN, can someone explain to me why this does, seeing as this is number one on the front page? This doesn't seem to stimulate good and curious discussion to me.
Comment · 5 years ago
>and that it leaked from a lab (based on the lockdown and sequestering of lab personnel in december).
You say "sound evidence" and then name some circumstantial evidence. This is similar types of evidence used for the "Fort Detrick origin" story. It was shut down in August 2019 for safety violations, and the Wuhan military games "could be" how it spread to China.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, that's why they no longer in the control group. Informed consent can be withdrawn at any time during a trial, and people are not obligated to not take a vaccine when in the control group. The only thing you can do is remove someone from the study, or possibly move them to the other study arm.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, the Taliban also commits war crimes...
Comment · 5 years ago
I don't have a link, but I've noticed that quite a few videos in the similar corner of topics need an "age check" (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI , the creator of which was (according to them) visited by DHS for "anti-american sentiments" [1] )
[1] https://twitter.com/_secondthought/status/133274615894763520...
Comment · 5 years ago
Most countries, even non-allies would not want to be invaded by the US.
Comment · 5 years ago
>Whatever happens is up to the US internal politics and the culture of the US nation.
If only the US would live by that when looking at other countries. Sanctions, embargos, trade-restrictions, threats are used against other countries by the US, why should they be treated any different themselves?
Comment · 5 years ago
>and put them on trial in a way that US cannot interfere with.
I think that would be near impossible when looking at US laws like the following:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
Comment · 5 years ago
Especially considering this is a multiple testing issue. When checking a lot of politicians there is likely going to be someone who is doing really well, even if it's just by chance.
Comment · 5 years ago
I think the implied meaning of that question is that we are heading towards "cyberpunk" and we should not want to live in a dystopia.
Comment · 5 years ago
>On the other hand, solarpunk art is an overtly optimistic movement, which leaves very little room for a confrontational political message.
I think hopeful instead of optimistic. Even going with optimistic, it seems to be optimistic about the opportunity and possibility of (political) change.
Comment · 5 years ago
This bucket of nails isn't related to a USSR satellite, but was theorised by Arthur C. Clarke.
>2 For the origins of Clarke’s “bucket of nails” argument; Clarke gave the speech “Where is Mankind Headed?” on May 25 1983 for the Reader’s Digest Worldwide Editorial Conference. In the conference’s summary “Memories of Monaco,” Clarke’s speech was described as follows: “After dinner, Arthur Clarke, the noted British science-fiction writer, spoke on ‘The Militarization of Space.’ To put nuclear war into perspective, he quoted a chilling statement from Carl Sagan: ‘A full-scale thermonuclear exchange would be the equivalent of World War II, once a second, for the length of a lazy summer afternoon.’ Clarke went on to demonstrate that there’s no security in technology, concluding that the only defense is to prevent weapons from being used. Thus, the problem is political, not military. At one point, he described how a sophisticated, multi-billion-dollar laser weapon system could be destroyed by a bucket of nails,” see “Memories of Monaco from Reader’s Digest Worldwide Editorial Conference,” May 21-28, 1983, Folder 4, Box 144, Arthur C. Clarke Collection (Acc. 2015-0010), Air and Space Archives, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 14-15.
From: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/398410/Th... [PDF]
Comment · 5 years ago
>If you learn how to use photoshop then you’re unlikely to relearn GIMP.
We currently see something related to this in the Pharmaceutical industry. There are a lot of statisticians/programmers that learn R or python in university, while most large-pharma companies are using SAS. There is a movement within the industry to pivot or try to pivot to R due to the scarcity of SAS programmers or/and the cost of teaching new employees a new programming language.
If SAS would have more accessible trainings/certifications I am sure R would never even be considered.
Comment · 5 years ago
>Estonian
I think an issue here is that in lower-income countries software without regional pricing is considerably more of an expense. Something like Office or Photoshop is also quite different than a videogame imho, those are skills that are valuable (or often expected) on the labour market.