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  • Nobody panics when things go "according to plan."

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  • Actual research finds that annual "deaths caused due to lack of insurance" is around 40-50 thousand (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2775760/)

    and "if the usa had healthcare as good as france, 101 thousand annual deaths would be prevented" (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-deaths-rankings-idUSN0765165020080108/)

    as for war deaths, the ~100 thousand barrier is breached when all wars back to the korean war (1950-1953) are included. Then world war 2 is massively over

    so the literal truth of the original statement is that it's maybe mostly correct if you consider "our wars" to only be wars that the usa played a key role in starting, and only count the last century, but false if not

    (eg. the civil war would totally blow the number out of the water, world war 2 would totally blow the number out of the water, and with the unpopular vietnam war it would depend on what exactly your standards of "lack of access to medical care" are)

  • And ADBlockers are not allowed either!!

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  • Considering how many times I've seen that exact phrase, I think there is some automated system giving that as a default value if no changelog is manually supplied

  • CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1

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  • is that spot inside an active volcano?

  • Earl had to die

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  • Every slave revolt was morally wrong, as the slaves broke the law while doing it

  • The US is collapsing

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  • if it's not slavery, then why is it specifically an exception under the constitutional ban on slavery?

  • Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities

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  • no it's not. If you reduce the information in the datapoints until none of them are unique, then it is very obviously impossible to uniquely identify someone from them. And when you have millions of users the data can definitely still be kept interesting

    (though there's pretty big pitfalls here, as their report seems to leave open the possibility of not doing it correctly)

  • Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities

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  • Realistically, why would Apple blow up a $3.3T global success for an extra $10M? That 1/330 of the company value

    Because they know that even after being caught harvesting user data for advertising, people will still claim they don't do that even on a specialist privacy community on lemmy. Now think just how long it will take for the average apple user to realize it

  • Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities

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  • their given reasons are "to keep backups" and "academic and clinical research with de-identified datasets"

    they seem to actually do a fairly good job with anonymizing the research datasets, unlike most "anonymized research data", though for the raw data stored on their servers, they do not seem to use encryption properly and their security model is "the cloud hoster wouldn't spy on the data right?" (hint: their data is stored on american servers, so the american authorities can just subpoena Amazon Web Services directly, bypassing all their "privacy guarantees". (the replacement for the EU-US Privacy Shield seems to be on very uncertain legal grounds, and that was before the election))

  • Removed Locked

    I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet ...well maybe not that surprised

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  • There literally already are proven examples, and it didn't change anything

  • Removed Locked

    I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet ...well maybe not that surprised

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  • I thought you just wanted him afraid? Sounds like you too actually want him literally killed without charge or trial

    Those are not mutually exclusive. One is much more likely to happen than the other.

    And if someone does end up committing a murder because of some twitter post and going to prison for it, hey, that's one less ticking time bomb walking the streets. Ol' nick's life is far less valuable than those of random innocents. And one more martyr is not going to change anything. They are perfectly capable of substituting imaginary slights for real ones.

  • Florida teen with machete arrested for voter intimidation at polling place

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  • Trying to beat up someone holding a machete may not be the brightest idea

  • Jerkoff

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  • I think it's more accurate to say that power attracts corrupt people, and protects them from the consequences of their actions, allowing them to show their true colors without fear

  • New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer

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  • also the person apparently spent 2 million dollars to find the number. and the money is probably from stock compensation from nvidia

  • New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer

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  • that does happen to be one of the defining characteristics of mersenne primes.

    And searching for mersenne primes happens to be the easiest known way to find extremely large prime numbers (via the Special Number Field Sieve I believe)

  • Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming

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  • Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming

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  • GIMP - Development Update: Closing In on the 3.0 Release Candidate

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  • What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages?

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  • Garbage collection is still allowed, and technically JIT languages are still compiled so it really isn't that restrictive

  • What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages?

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  • every single language (except Vlang of course) is memory safe if you program it perfectly.

    Very, very few humans are capable of doing that, especially with C.