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Not good news. Although I suppose it's good that it's getting studied.

I wonder if we are measuring, and therefore concentrating upon, things that turn out to be only incidental to how much we, or perhaps some of us, feel stress.

I have same — dead chip. Cost of replacement is not relevant as the chip and passport are linked, so need a new passport to get that fixed. Not terribly costly. But annoying given …

But China wasn't a honeypot for crime and fraud before they had the firewall, facial rec, and so on. It is true that many Chinese citizens don't give it a thought. But there's no d…

Heh. Perhaps not really that different at all. I thought you may mean that the legal rights provide protection, so one need not worry until deidentification or detachment. Maybe yo…

It rather assumes you could enforce them. Those rights will be great against a responsible outfit. But if the data is exposed in a breach, or if the outfit goes rogue (or if a futu…

We should not be giving money to these mega corps because that also implies giving them our most personal health data. For sure they'll say that we can trust them — maybe it's even…

Oh, I do that too. But to your point about not cheering on NAT, well I will because I see NAT as useful tool. It is not an opinion well aligned with the preferences of the IETF. Bu…

That NAT is a problem presumes that we actually want our IoT devices reaching out to the out-of-intranet zone. NAT gets the blame, and the intranet as a concept is generally a big …

The problem is that OKRs are divorced from the “go do this piece of work” instruction, and so, just like code comments, they quickly become out of date or are outright ignored. Bec…

Yes, I think that's correct. There was an absolute willingness to allow views in support of a fear narrative win through. (No matter their grounding.) The probing/questioning threa…

But I think you hit the nail on the point that “it is actionable”. You argue any such conclusion is not actionable. But it is, and to make example, one can imagine that senators wi…

If our hypothetical $1 common cold pill turns out anything like our COVID pill, it will only be effective for a few months before making you marginally more susceptible than you we…

True — we had to deal with it. Revisionism these days seems to accept that we didn't get it right, but rhetorically asks "could you have done better?", and gives only a shrug. We s…

That’s what we were told, but don’t you think it was a bit daft? If it was a really severe disease, then fair play. (But then, what on earth are you doing chatting in a restaurant.…

Yet for many people, the very act of choosing results in a halo that goes beyond the acquisition itself. You may think you’re choosing a technology, and nothing further. But others…

This story (different source) was posted already ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42020398 ). I didn't read it before, but now I have and it's interesting. Quoting their medi…

I don't know. The vaccine wasn't as effective as it might have been. So it didn't really matter that acceptance wasn't 100%. For a better vaccine, or a less virulent virus, it migh…

This is terrible. medConfidential is right to point out: "once he has the data he can do what he likes". The government will claim to act with my interests at heart. I don't believ…

> Effectiveness of child masking has not been demonstrated, while documented harms of masking in children are diverse and non-negligible and should prompt careful reflection. Recom…

I don't know. For some, hindsight is saying that it was a big deal. You'd expect that group to be resolute that early access was needed. It could easily have been offered to the el…

It would be interesting if you could choose, instead of paying carbon taxes, to pay for a fraction of the plane's fuel to come from e-fuel produced from green electricity. In fact,…

I think you perhaps meant to be pedantic and ironically trite. But imagine being 4 years behind when you hit secondary/senior school. Either the child has to adjust and catch up (b…