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Now to find a vanity email domain... My last name is taken, so brainstorming something that is professional and individualized could take longer than the migration...
Any suggestions? Distributed solutions (or self managed) preferred.
https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/
Guess it contradicts the official position of the current administration (not reality). So will my drive content be removed?
Similarly, I have been monitoring the CDC change the covid19 deaths rate over time.
https://austingwalters.com/changes-in-the-cdc-counts-of-deat...
It appears the CDC had been inaccurately portraying the deaths rate(s) (I assume unintentionally). Particularly, it appears there's a significant number of unexplained deaths. That could be "misleading?" because I regularly collaborate with and we update the data.
"misleading" does not mean not inaccurate. Often the context matters and how is Google going to take this into account? We have multiple theories and discuss them, find more information and put it together.
I read regular stories on HN about employee activism on certain types of popular issues around gender and race, involving petitions and publicity. Spotify, Apple, Google. Yet nothing about the march towards totalitarianism and information control - always with good intentions and to our benefit - promulgated with stories such as this. Not a peep from our young Silicon Valley activists. Do we still teach history at sc…
Lose the agenda.
Amazing they have the gall to think they still can arbiter truth, considering how YouTube up until recently was banning the "conspiracy theory" that the recent pandemic may have originated from a Wuhan Lab... Something that now all the experts are saying may actually be true.
It isn't a conspiracy. It is a fact. There are official government funding records of Fauci shipping money not just to the North Carolina lab but directly to Wuhan. There are official government funding records of Fauci explicitly funding "gain of function" research a.k.a., bio-weapons. Fauci needs to FUCKING HANG. Google is hardcore fascist.
Gain of function isn't a conspiracy. It's research methodology.
We still don't know for a fact what happened. Lab leak seems incredibly plausible, but we need more data to understand.
If lab leak is what happened, then this is likely a case of best intentions that went horribly awry. Your response is far too extreme and discounts the failure modes that may have been more likely.
Researchers in the US wanted to conduct gain of function research but couldn't due to the legislative environment.
China has a ton of novel coronaviruses in local wildlife reservoirs that do cause disease and can evolve to impact humans. These are worth studying.
An arrangement could have been made to study these viruses with research objectives laid out by Western scientists. That's not bioweapons research. That's basic science.
The Wuhan lab may not have been equipped with the same safety protocols, enabling the virus to escape. Here's something we'd still need to find out.
What we need to look at is the cause of failure and prevent it from happening again. If rules were broken, then a handful of individuals may be responsible for unleashing this. (Overzealous Western researchers and Chinese lab personnel.)
This is geopolitically complicated and all parties involved are trying to save face. China and the US included. Not to mention every government that was slow to act in stopping the spread.
This is maybe human error. Lots of human error. If this is the case, it's historically notable as probably one of the greatest mistakes in human history. It cost millions of lives.
Through the same lens, it's also interesting to see all of the positive changes. RNA vaccines, remote work, supply chain discoveries, etc.
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Drive is a storage service.. I don't expect Google to moderate any of my content, as long as it is legal.
This is about _distribution_.
I can own content. I can print it or burn it to a DVD and give it to a friend. But I can't just send him a link?
Ridiculous.
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Funny enough, I arrived at the opposite conclusion during my tenure as SWE... Google wasn't taking responsibility for the wide sweep of its arms as the gorilla in the room, and was trying to stay neutral ("We just build services; expecting us to be responsible for them is like expecting fire not to burn") in a situation where they fundamentally can't. Google is already non-neutral... they ban all sorts of content on…
> in a situation where they fundamentally can't. I’m sorry but they can stay neutral by just not reading/blocking people’s Docs
They can “stay neutral” by limiting the ability to share widely. Free speech doesn’t mean that you are entitled to a billboard, radio station, or global content delivery network.
By aligning global distribution with easy content marketing, Google, Facebook, etc created a monstrosity that encourages the worst content and systematically evicerates high quality content.
That fundamental lack of understanding by naive engineers drives a lot of the problems we have.
I read regular stories on HN about employee activism on certain types of popular issues around gender and race, involving petitions and publicity. Spotify, Apple, Google. Yet nothing about the march towards totalitarianism and information control - always with good intentions and to our benefit - promulgated with stories such as this. Not a peep from our young Silicon Valley activists. Do we still teach history at sc…
We don’t think lies about the vaccine or who won the election are noble causes worth making sacrifices for.