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ponsin··on DailyExtremes: CNN vs. Fox
I assume you have similar feelings about the Washington Post after this https://s9503.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Rachael-Bad...
ponsin··on Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US
Then he is investigated and the court decides if he is liable for manslaughter, murder or nothing. Similar to a soldier who killed people from their country, nuclear engineers who caused a meltdown, or bus drivers who got into a deadly accident.
ponsin··on Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US
In fact I do feel safer when the security guard in front of my kid's school is armed. That security guard has been trained and will suffer big consequences if he uses the gun improperly.

I guess that if you feel unsafe around armed security guards I can't argue with your feelings

ponsin··on Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US
If you can't trust the police with guns or riot gear then what is the point of them. If all they are reduced to are official naggers then they will end up having to call the actual police (the people who are allowed to have guns and riot gear) and the actual police will end up doing what the current police do. A better solution would be to provide better training and enforcement of police behavior.
ponsin··on CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]
from the description of the YouTube video

> Black correspondent Omar Jimenez had just shown a protester being arrested when about half a dozen white police officers surrounded him.

Is there any reason to assume racism? it looks like two other people in the camera crew got arrested and they don't look black. It looks to me like CNN is trying to play the race card to stir controversy when there are millions of other more likely explanations

ponsin··on Early GIPHY investor may see $0
> nice surprise: sounds like everyone in the A round will see a 5x+ return. This would be my best performing investment of all of them most likely.

Looks like it just took some time for him to get his money. Doesn't sound newsworthy

ponsin··on TikTok rating plummets to 2.0 stars
What am I misunderstanding? when I search for tiktok for Android I find https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.android... with 4.5 stars. Does it take time for the reviews to propagate?
ponsin··on Reddit’s top user (GallowBoob) says he’s ‘done’ after being outed
Mods of Reddit made Reddit to what it is. When the first Mod of iama claimed that sub the sub was empty. The fact that many top subs have the same mod means that the mod knows how to run a sub that interests users. I have no problem with that. The only issue is that once a sub starts to get worse it is hard for users to unite and make a new sub. That is thanks to tools such as automod that allow them to ban users based on key words. The solution is simple, just keep a log of whatever the mods do. Everytime they removed a post or ban a user that information goes into the log. That way if there is a moment going on it will be harder for mods to squash it
ponsin··on 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
That's like saying that there is no American culture because there are 328.2 million residence. I bet that if you swap the residence of Indonesia (273 million residence) with the residence of America, you will notice a lot of cultural differences.
ponsin··on 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
What I find interesting about Reddit is how the community overwhelmingly publicly writes about how inclusive they are and how important it is to be inclusive. Yet there are subs that frequently get to all whose main goal is to exclude and make fun of people such as FragileWhiteRedditor, inceltears, iamatotalpieceofshit, and TheRightCantMeme
ponsin··on Elon Musk Wins. Tesla Can Reopen Its Factory
> Rule of law is important

I find it hard to blame the citizens of Alameda for not respecting the rule of law when Alameda brags about being a sanctuary city.

ponsin··on 4chan pretends to be Hacker News
They like to joke about how HN is SJW but as someone who leans to the right, HN is one of the few online places where I can discuss politics with people of different opinions with being called a Nazi or being banned. The only other online place that I found where I can challenge both mine and other's beliefs has been on r/CMV as of a few years ago
ponsin··on Zoom 5.0
A few weeks ago they required login to join a meeting from the browser. This make it harder for older people who I like to talk to. Since then I have moved to jit.si . The quality is slightly lower, but it is much easier to use
ponsin··on Stanford professor’s wife recruited for Coronavirus study with false pretenses
Infection cases or death cases? I would assume that more people get the virus than are reported because some people are asymptomatic, there might not be enough tests and some people might opt not to get tested and go to the hospital. With regard to the number of deaths, I would be surprised if that was under reported since it is very hard to ignore a death. If someone was in critical condition due to breathing issues, I would assume that they would be hospitalized and tested. In addition, if someone was in the hospital and died from something not Corona related, it seems likely that if they happened to have Corona they would be listed as a corona death due to CDC recommendations https://www.scribd.com/document/455607875/US-HHS-Document-to... .

So seeing as total cases are likely underestimated and total deaths are likely overestimated, the 1% hardly seems to me to be the lower floor.

ponsin··on Stanford professor’s wife recruited for Coronavirus study with false pretenses
0.1% isn't there lower floor if they are over counting deaths from Corona. Here is an example of one such case https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/26/boys-death-no-longer-...
ponsin··on Hundreds of bodies recovered in NYC not in Covid-19 counts even if symptomatic
And many other people died from an unrelated cause, but still count as a Corona death https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/26/boys-death-no-longer-...
ponsin··on Should western museums return colonial cultural artifacts stolen from Africa?
Let's take ancient Egyption artifacts as an example. The ancient Egyptians who created the pyramids and all of those related artifacts we're conquered by the Romans. Since then there had been many wars, conquering nations and revolutions. Right now Sisi is the ruler of the land of Egypt yet I don't see why he deserves ancient Egyptian artifacts any more than any other leader whose country conquered Egypt at one time time.
ponsin··on OKC-based company wants to keep employees’ $1,200 stimulus payments
That is most certainly not what I am saying
ponsin··on OKC-based company wants to keep employees’ $1,200 stimulus payments
This is exactly what the problem with UBI is. Companies will know that you have an extra $X so they may be able to offer less salary (unless we are talking about a huge UBI where people won't have to work if they don't want to). However, the risk is much more realistic with landlords. Since renting is basically a bidding war, the only difference with everyone have $X extra is that the final "sale" will be $X more
ponsin··on Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client
Hey, thank you for listening to security researchers and fixing a problem when you became aware. I know this is not so much a problem, but rather a business decision, but the product would be much more useable if it was possible to connect without the app without having to use some tricks. There have been many conferences that took much longer than expected to start because not everyone had Zoom
ponsin··on YouTube to limit default video quality around the world for a month
It would be nice if they have a 0 pixel option. I use YouTube mostly for the music and I let it play in the background
ponsin··on Why we’re not overreacting to the coronavirus, in one chart
So they align the graph to start Italy at February 23 and US to start at March 2. They say because that is when both counties reached 100 cases, but that doesn't sound like a good reason. Why not 50 or 200? Then, they don't even adjust for population (US has more than 5 times the amount of people as Italy). And lastly, the big spike that we see in the graph of the US comes from the fact that now they are testing more people, it doesn't necessarily mean that a lot more people or getting the virus.
ponsin··on The Longest Record Broken: Gold/Silver Ratio Hits Highest in Over 5,000 Years
Why is it that there is so much advertising for investing in gold? Many of the podcasts that I listen to advertise it, I see ads for it everywhere. I would think that unlike stocks where you must buy through a broker (for a fee), gold can easily be bought by anyone. So what makes the business of helping people invest in gold so popular?
ponsin··on [dead]
I don't see why the author blames capitalism in particular. The same article could be titled how humanity fights against nature or in fact how nature fights nature. There are no animals that see the winter come are think "gee, I guess nature wants me dead. I might as well just die". Rather they fight nature by preparing food and shelter (if they are smart enough). The main difference with humans is that humans are powerful enough to basically "beat" nature. If you want to blame capitalism then you should compare it to an alternative, such as communism. The USSR sure wants good for nature (unless you consider killing millions of people good for nature (yes, there are articles like that currently)). The USSR had a meltdown that made an area, the size of some counties, uninhabitable. They mined whatever they wanted, gaining fuel by burning whatever they wanted. Nowadays China is one of the major polluters in the world. This article seems like yet another "capitalism is bad, let's find proof" type of articles.
ponsin··on Covid-19 reduces economic activity, which reduces pollution, which saves lives
I think that the world (and specifically the US) had been worse ever since 9/11. With lack of privacy through the Patriot act and horrible airplane experience I wouldn't say that the long term effects of 9/11 was good.
ponsin··on Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?
A website run with a leftist agenda, or any agenda for that matter, can take "facts" and word it in ways that can give the reader a false world view. To give an example from the right, while most of what fox news says is factually accurate, most open minded person would not use it to know what's going on in the world.
ponsin··on Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?
How many examples (this being 1) would an "open minded" person need to find it plausible?
ponsin··on It Took Me 3 E.R. Visits to Get a Coronavirus Test in New York
So don't go to the ER when you think that you have a disease. That is not the purpose of the ER. Not only will it make it harder for people in emergency situations to get care, it will also cost a lot. See the answers to this question for more helpful suggestions.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/45993/does-a-co...

ponsin··on US Army scraps $1B Iron Dome project after Israel refuses to provide source code
How common is it for the army to receive the source code of their devices? From what I recall Microsoft had to have the Windows and office source code analyzed by the army.

BTW, the title should be changed to source code rather than key codes as the article later clarifies

ponsin··on Surgeon general urges public to stop buying face masks amid coronavirus outbreak
> “Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS!” the surgeon general, Jerome M. Adams, said in a tweet on Saturday morning. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if health care providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”

So do they help prevent catching coronavirus or don't they?

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