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T-hawk commented on Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19 nih.gov/news-events/nih-r... · Posted by u/jacquesm

virgilp · 5 years ago

> If those 100 people are still worried about that, they can choose to keep themselves locked away forever.

You must be trolling, no way you're so self-centered.

"I like to drive with 200km/h through cities, those who don't like it or are scared of my driving can stay home"

"I like to take my aggressive pitbull for a walk without a leash, if you don't like it you can stay home"

"I like to play with guns, if you don't like me handling guns in public you can stay home"

It's all recklessness, and of course not acceptable. You know what's the better solution for those 100 vaccinated people? To force you to stay at home. Because they're 100, and you're 1. It's not the whole world that needs to adapt to you, it's the other way around.

T-hawk · 5 years ago

Nice army of straw men. You're trying to redefine literally existing in public as recklessness.

Self-centered? The people demanding the nonvaccinated cease existing in society because of their fears are the selfish ones. I'm saying nothing about anyone else's choices or activities whatsoever. Restricting someone else's behavior and bodily autonomy is the selfish act.

100 people forcibly removing 1 person from society who has done nothing wrong? That's a concentration camp. This is mob rule, you're just okay with it because you're part of the mob.

T-hawk commented on Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19 nih.gov/news-events/nih-r... · Posted by u/jacquesm

stormbrew · 5 years ago

If anyone is scared of getting vaccinated due to nonsense conspiracy theories, they can keep themselves at home forever, they don't get to force a deadly disease on others.

T-hawk · 5 years ago

It's not deadly to the vaccinated. That's the whole point of the vaccines.

Or are you arguing that the vaccines don't work?

T-hawk commented on Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19 nih.gov/news-events/nih-r... · Posted by u/jacquesm

wfhbata · 5 years ago

It’s a terrible precedent to let people prolong a pandemic and endanger innocent people’s lives in the name of their personal liberties.

If you don’t want to take measures to protect others, you can sit home for a while. It won’t kill you, and it won’t kill the people around you.

T-hawk · 5 years ago

No, once everyone who wants it is vaccinated, their health is their problem not mine. If anyone is still scared of unvaccinated people, they can keep themselves at home forever, they don't get to force medical choices and restrictions on others.

T-hawk commented on White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets reuters.com/business/sust... · Posted by u/pseudolus

dukeyukey · 5 years ago

My understanding that is wind/solar are significantly cheaper than nuclear is on a cost basis. The costs required to build and safely dismantle nuclear plants are major cost contributors. The downside of course is lack of baseload, which nuclear can cover quite happily, albeit at a higher cost.

T-hawk · 5 years ago

Nuclear is more expensive per KWH basically entirely because of the regulatory environment. Not because of anything physical about the method or its fuel; it's not more expensive in France, for example. Get the costs of regulatory compliance down and nuclear becomes the cheapest power source for both capital and ongoing costs.

T-hawk commented on Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video] youtube.com/watch?v=WcyOx... · Posted by u/bitcharmer

qwertox · 5 years ago

1) Feed a computer with MIDI files of public domain music and render it as audio

2) Upload to YouTube

3) File copyright dispute to YouTube for any (future?) uploaded video which contains the music which used to be in the public domain

4) Have Google reject the videos

5) Create a site or an app which allows you to license that public domain music for a fee.

6) Notify YouTube who has licensed this public domain music.

Ok. that's the way Google thinks is the way it should work. Or maybe they just recognize that their AI is causing more harm than good.

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Two days ago I uploaded a video which was a screen recording to demonstrate a bug in the Android app "Komoot". It was unlisted, the link was attached to the bug report I sent to the company. It was just a short video showing how the caching (or something in that direction) of uploaded images in the app seemed to be broken. The content in the video was 100% adhering to all the guidelines, specially to those of "for all ages". The content was nothing else but scrolling photos of an MTB-trail with a bit of UI. If your video is flagged or you mark it as "for 18+", then it can only be viewed by logged in persons.

After uploading the video I got an email that it was not complying with the "for all ages" requirements, which is kind of bad, because now the support team must log-in with a Google account to YouTube in order to see the harmless but useful video.

But then again, videos related to Instagram celebrities or Chinese ASMR-binge eating are totally ok for them.

T-hawk · 5 years ago

> Or maybe they just recognize that their AI is causing more harm than good.

Google recognizes that these flaws in their AI aren't worth caring about. Google doesn't have any mission or obligation to help the world share videos. Google cares about Google's profits. And they've found that the expedient way to do that is just let the AI be overzealous with rejecting, because the cost of a false positive is infinitesimally tiny and the cost of a false negative (real copyright violation) is so much higher.

How do we fix this? Competition. We need a Google/Youtube competitor so that users will choose the platform that does copyright recognition better.

T-hawk commented on Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’ freightwaves.com/news/fle... · Posted by u/disgrunt

zenmaster10665 · 5 years ago

Are there good stock plays off the back of this event or is it not protracted enough to invest in without buying special instruments?

T-hawk · 5 years ago

My guess would be that there must be something to do from an investing angle -- but also that industry insiders and specialists who look at such things dedicatedly and professionally would have already priced in or arbitraged anything far ahead of a layman's understanding and participation.

T-hawk commented on Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel npr.org/2021/04/06/984464... · Posted by u/Tomte

apostacy · 5 years ago

These long distance routes should be left intact because they are an important anchor for eventually expanding to high speed rail.

China kept their unprofitable rural slow passenger routes into the distant corners of their country, and now they are converting them to high speed routes.

The Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed line is 2,298km long, and used to be 22 hours but now runs in 8[1]

Being able to go from Penn Station in Manhattan to Union Station in Chicago in 8 hours in a comfortable train would be a serious alternative to air travel, and once the track is upgraded, it would probably be cheaper than existing service. And this is completely doable with decades old technology. Other countries have done comparable things with less.

I don't think we should abandon "legacy" routes just because they are not profitable right now. And even if they are never profitable that alone is not a good enough reason to abandon infrastructure.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-20842836

T-hawk · 5 years ago

Note that New York to Chicago by Amtrak is so slow largely because there's no direct route. You either take the Great Lakes route going through Albany, Buffalo, and Cleveland, or the northeast corridor route to Washington DC and then another line to Chicago. The more direct Keystone line through Pennsylvania only goes as far as Harrisburg.

T-hawk commented on Inside a viral website notfunatparties.substack.... · Posted by u/panic

dillondoyle · 5 years ago

Sorry I meant it makes no sense for redditers to buy gold for posts that they are specifically calling out Reddit for bad behavior

T-hawk · 5 years ago

Sure it does. They want to amplify that opinion. They think that calling out Reddit is worth the negative of paying money to Reddit.

T-hawk commented on Photos and Video Taken Inside Illegal Click Farms (2018) core77.com/posts/81665/Ey... · Posted by u/thunderbong

munificent · 5 years ago

I know this is a loaded term, but I find it interesting that globalization plays a key role here. I would be surprised if the economics of click farms made sense without involving third-world employees generated ad revenue in first-world denominations.

Better wages in those countries would likely eliminate fraud like this. It's essentially an arbitrage opportunity to buy first-world denominated "attention currency" at third world click farm worker attention prices.

T-hawk · 5 years ago

Right. And one way to combat that is IP geolocation, show your ads only to a first world audience. Of course, then a VPN or other IP spoofing techniques will combat that.