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grumpyautist

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    Comment #27095932

    Stack is lemp with wp for the index, phpbb for the forums. My first attempt building a community, feedback encouraged. I'm still working some kinks out

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    Comment #27090048

    No, the burden of proof is on the author. And considering this is a model, not a study, I wouldn't hold my breath on it.

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    Comment #27081618

    So, the study is funded by groups that admit to existing to sell new vaccines? And you don't see a conflict of interest?

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    Comment #27080323

    "Apple has always had a good reputation in terms of security. But the company has been reluctant to speak publicly and candidly about specific security incidents." All I get from t…

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    Comment #27080092

    What about what I said was "conspiracy bs"? These are the organizations that fund the group. They are invested in vaccine sales, and some of them have very questionable ethics. Aga…

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    Comment #27079605

    From Wikipedia: IHME receives core grant funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation[60] and the state of Washington. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); …

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    Comment #27079381

    How can you retrospectively test the people who died prior to April? How can you confirm any of the data that was generated by guesswork? I'm fairly sure there is no tissue availab…

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    Comment #27079307

    Prior to April 2020 the diagnostic criteria for a covid death required 0 testing whatsoever. Combine that with financial incentives to record something as covid, and the lack of ot…

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    Comment #27079086

    But the reasoning is because they consider Facebook to be too open speech wise. The status quo Starbucks is challenging is the value of free speech. They just want people to not be…

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    Comment #27078977

    Yep, and it's a suspect one at best. Personally I wouldn't trust a stastical model from someone who advertises that they own the book "how to lie with statistics" and obviously use…

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    Comment #27078946

    Excess deaths doesn't work either. Gun violence has increased everywhere. So have suicides in my region of the world. I don't know who or why this comment got flagged, it doesn't c…

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    Comment #27078908

    The organization that published these numbers apparently a. Doesn't know how to use certbot and b. Is primarily funded by organizations who are anything but impartial on the subjec…

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    Comment #27078647

    Ilumn has been my go to for 18650s for years

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    Comment #27072256

    Confirmation bias. For this to end up on a site of someone who refers to themselves as any type of scientist is frankly embarrassing. Not a good look for a company blog

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    Comment #27072169

    I'm conflicted, because Starbucks is pushing for more censorship, but anything that hurts Facebook is good

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    Comment #27056593

    I'm guessing microsoft considers the few % of web devs who work on linux and care about edge compatibility somewhat of a priority.... There are literally dozens of them!

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    Comment #27056133

    I'd bet that greater happiness is still found off social media, "authentic" presence or not.

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    Comment #27046441

    https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...

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    Comment #27045922

    This is the reason I closed my aws account and gave up on learning their services. Intentional cost obfuscation means I have no interest in doing business with someone

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    Comment #27030003

    From it's track record it apparently doesn't convey

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    Comment #27029737

    Someone please enlighten me what possible use case this product has over accurate gps coordinates.

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    Comment #27011916

    Discord will eventually be horrible (or moreso than it is, depending on your viewpoint). It's a company. They will always sacrafice user experience for profits. Matrix is a better …