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Being a zebra in the middle of the pack is probably the most practical solution. However as things move forward with the great reset its going to become increasingly more difficult for that to maintain its effectiveness.

Its obvious now that "vaccine passports" and "contact tracing" are going to become defacto required. Therefore, the level of data they will be collecting will be so granular that 'blending in' won't really matter. A simple SQL query 5 years in the future will establish your every movement and health history for any given point.

>50% of average people are going to go along with this (or outright support it) and anyone who speaks against it will be called "anti-science" and selfish.

It's literally mind-boggling we are at this stage, but we must open our eyes and accept it.

This is our wonderful new internet at work. Thanks all you Silicon Valley types....

"Lets Make Great Reset Great Again"

This is great. We need to declare this mandatory globally. Those anti-science types that refuse should be denied access to any public building, shopping, etc.

Such a program is our only hope to bring down population levels to more sustainable numbers.

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Unfortunately links to other pages / data-scientist who disagree with above are "flagged".

In other words, no we can't discuss that here and should have those conversations on other sites....ok...

They will need vaccine passports to fly.

Do you mean because of the constant censorship and groupthink? Like how its wrong to discuss data anomalies of the current election?

Can you speak about Benfords law or post data plots on Parler?

Unfortunately you can no longer do that on HN even...

>Is the new administration planning to tighten the bolts / expand the police state?

I wouldn't worry, any of his actions will be backed up by the required votes.

> Which can most easily be accomplished by increasing taxes on the consumption you want reduced.

Or you could make monetary changes to prevent constant inflation. Hyper-consumerist culture with cheap disposable plastic garbage is largely caused by constant inflationary monetary pressure.

>they really don’t want another Hitler

why did Hitler appear in the first place? was it because thats just how germans are...or was there some other reason?

All in all, one of the silver linings of the covid hysteria is the destruction of airlines. I'm someone who has probably flown very close to 1M miles in my life. Spent about 15 years on planes weekly.

Flying in my lifetime has moved from being something 'fun and exclusive' to 'taking the bus with strip searches'.

After 911 none of the airlines really pushed back on the Orwellian security theater its customers were forced thru...I understand it, perhaps it just wasn't worth the effort, perhaps enough of their customers wanted more searches.

Around 8 years ago, I moved to trying to do online meetings when possible and agreeing to drive for anything less than 8 hours or so. Its been a welcome upgrade in life. As much of a pain as driving 6 hours for meeting is, you strangely feel less stressed out than dealing with the insanity of airports and cattle-cars.

>its too dangerous to open-source

Its a weak argument. The bad guys are still using it, you are just ensuring that only the well-funded groups have it.

"OpenAI" nomenclature should be rejected. Do not allow this project to claim they are open: Its as closed-source as any for-profit company.

What happen to HN "internet culture" that it falls for such obvious ploys without even calling it out?

Covid is the new form of this security theater. Just saw local school announced that parents should buy special mask with holes cut in mouth piece so kids can play instruments in band.

Wish I was kidding...

I think your analysis is right, but there is another pernicious issue.

We now inhabit a world where no one is encouraged or even expected to do a trade (well except for the modern slave caste: illegals). The result is lots of HS grads who should be getting an Electricians degree instead trying to do a 4 year program.

The result not only inflates tuition cost, but also leads to 'degree inflation', that is everyone now has a degree. Therefore, this amps up the arms race so a Bachelors is no longer special, thus maybe a Masters or PhD is needed.

The colleges are all too happy to force kids into a lifetime of debt to sell them useless basket weaving and gender studies degrees.

No doubt the competitors will be closely connected to politician families?

You also would have to worry about housing payments. A very easy and progressive solution to this problem is that the government should construct housing that citizens can stay in.

While they are at it, they could also provide basic food.

That way, with your UBI, housing, and food you could live a dream life. We won't call them 'camps' though, but give them a hip millenial-approved name. Maybe 'launch centers'?

Yes, this is what ended my side-income gig buying / selling used CD's.

I half think that its almost racketeering by amazon.

Lets suppose you go thru the work of finding low volume CD's...mainly from one-off bands that no longer exist or only had a single release. Then you establish an ASIN for each CD, eventually some fraudster appears and list under your ASIN (thanks to co-mingling of inventory). Once a 'fraud or counterfeit' charge is brought against that other seller, amazon 99/100 invalidates the entire ASIN.

So your inventory, although legit is now held captive by amazon in their warehouse. So they send you a nice little email that states: You can either pay us $4 to send you back your CD or you can "allow us to dispose of it for you".

That last bit is the real punchline. They will then proceed to sell your CD and keep 100% of the money. They routinely farm their sellers using such tactics.

Precisely. Everyone fails to see what happen to Brendon was a coup: Not by equality-loving do-gooders, but by cynical MBA middle management who saw their opportunity to loot and plunder once the founders were out of the way.

Its pretty amazing they've been able to keep their street-cred alive this long.

Well "OpenAI" is itself a bait-and-switch of a name (nothing open about it). So, it fits.

"OpenAI" == Orwellian DoubleSpeak

Its literally one of the most closed projects in existence. The fact they call it "OpenAI" is an insult.

I dont have an answer, but could be for same reasons why hospitals keep it on the cooler side: Less fungal / bacteria growth. Less mites, insects, bugs, etc.

The merchants of war and division thank you for helping in this effort.

The censors aren't stupid, of course they are going to go after the David Dukes first, then over the next decade watch how the internet slowly transforms into a massive establishment mouthpiece.

Maybe explain to your kids, "we were afraid of bad words".

Saying blacks deserve to be a protected class is pretty racist you know.....

You fail to see whats coming next.

In 1997 the big tech platforms lobbied that not only they wouldn't censor views, that it was basically impossible for them to do so.

This is what allowed the internet to grow without onerous regulation (ie they were treated as a carrier not a publisher).

Now that big tech is moving towards "being publishers", you're now going to reverse it all and cause massive regulation to take place. In the end, "the internet" will look no different than mainstream tv.

I LOVE this new internet you people are creating!

I know, lets pretend like we know nothing about fraud / security and say "vote by mail" is a solution...