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If the tests are cheap and can be performed as frequently as necessary, I could imagine a system where a test isn't considered positive until a statistically significant number of …

I never really understand this argument. People make it about increasing the frequency of blood tests too. Or MRIs. Doctors are afraid of finding "incidentalomas", but why can't we…

And I'll happily fill out a form to tell you any information I feel is relevant to my purchase. If you want to covertly fingerprint and track me, I'll gladly take my business elsew…

It's nice of google to respect the choice to effectively become undiscoverable to anyone searching for your product.

Who do you think convinced the politicians to make it happen? Lobbyists? (Ha.) It came out of labor movements! Strikes and walkouts! In 1867 workers shut down the entire Chicago ec…

See my edit above. Looking at a country's overall death rates is not how you should compare virulence.

It doesn't need to be a global/political conspiracy for people to be more sensitive to a large amount of people dying after almost 20 years of significantly lower death rates. Edit…

What makes you think it has ended?

My use of the words secret and conspiracy was, at least in part, in response to the parent comment: > everyone else is loosing their minds and ushering an authoritarian pseudo-comm…

Except this exact same argument, nearly verbatim, was one of the alt-right anti-Obama talking points! It's a solid criticism too - don't get me wrong. But it's a single argument, r…

A third possibility: Greenwald has bought heavily into the same cultural zeitgeist that is extremely prevalent on this forum: that "SJWs" and progressives will somehow destroy the …

Amazon is not banning Republicans. Amazon is dropping a risky client after having more than reasonable doubts about that client's ability to operate in good faith. Republican views…

Something can be taxpayer-funded without being an arm of the government. Government grants and public funding sources can be divorced enough from what they fund that you can get th…

There's a reason that phishing is the go-to infosec attack vector. It's because we still blame users for being tricked into doing things they shouldn't, rather than taking the time…

It's far easier to live off of ramen when the worst that can happen is that you fall back on your savings, or your family (for a home), or your MBA network (for a job), etc, when y…

These blacklist tags are "not new"* and are, for the most part, a necessary moderation tool to keep explicit and/or harmful content from trending. Now, is this potentially somethin…

What kinds of feedback loops is the IPCC known to exclude, and is there any serious study into what the potential consequences are? Like, how possible is it that there is a feedbac…

Can't you essentially fabricate this statistic by controlling for the amount of time that counts as "before", assuming the inverted curves happen more often than recessions?

On the other hand, what better way to give your immune system a head start?

If the regulations had been enacted before the incident, how would anyone know whether or not they even worked?

In one of my early jobs out of college I had a manager who really got this. He knew I was getting my work done, so our 1:1's turned more into career coaching, and his focus was alm…

Infrastructure requires a continual investment, which means that at any given time you can always point at something that is, quite literally, crumbling away. That's just the natur…

> Best solution is no code or a simplification of the problem to existing solutions. This results in zero liability, while the revenue the solution generates is pure assets. Not ex…

A long time ago, around when I was first taking systems programming courses, I had this vision for a filesystem and file explorer that would do exactly what you say. I imagined an …