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wang_li··on HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark
This is just normal not supporting things you disagree with. It's not a rule of thumb you can quickly use to discount an opinion. Ignoring actors is a pretty handy rule of thumb. Their main skill is repeating someone else's words and emoting. There is no reason to consider them smart, knowledgeable, informed, or competent.
wang_li··on Nearly 1 in 4 Americans think they have a personal social security account
They’ve been raising the contribution limit for several years now. In 2016 the cut off on taxable earnings for social security was $118,500. Next year it’s $186,000.
wang_li··on Nearly 1 in 4 Americans think they have a personal social security account
The phrasing doesn’t make sense anyway. I think I have an individual social security account where they track how much I’ve paid and how much that will entitle me to receive. I also think I have an individual savings account with my bank, and an individual investment account with my brokerage. In none of these perceptions do I think there is a little bin with my money in it stored separately from everyone else’s money.
wang_li··on GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust
Is having Mac OS and Linux a decrease or increase in security over just having windows only?
wang_li··on Classical statues were not painted horribly
All of those CRT simulators? Largely bullshit, and we still have them around to look at!
wang_li··on John Varley has died
Steel Beach and Golden Globe are both great books.
wang_li··on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him for It
So it is able to correlate an image as porn and also correlate an image as containing children. Seems like it should be able to apply an AND operation to this result and identify new images that are not part of the data set.
wang_li··on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him for It
Perhaps these folks should work together to make patches to the dataset to remove the problematic images?

E: But also make sure every image in the dataset is properly licensed. This would have eliminated this entirely from the get go. Playing fast and loose with the distribution rights to these images led to this problem.

wang_li··on Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries
That's why you, very early on, release code that slows the API down once it has been deprecated. Every place you issue a deprecation warning, you also sleep 60. Problem solved.
wang_li··on A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
The US has a massively progressive tax system. On a net tax basis about 50% of the country pays nothing. Sure, they pay sales tax and employment taxes, but they also receive some mix of earned income tax credits, child tax credits, snap, medicaid, housing, etc. There is no real way for the US to have a single payer tax system without more people actually becoming net tax payers.
wang_li··on Advent of Sysadmin 2025
In the Orthodox Church advent starts on November 15th and continues until December 24th.
wang_li··on Google unkills JPEG XL?
We call those mipmaps.
wang_li··on How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
You're just randomly creating new positions to argue about because why? There is no factual way in which whatever point you are trying to make holds true re. Russia/Cuba to the US is less than Russia/Ukraine to the EU & NATO.

Kaliningrad literally shares borders with Poland and Lithuania. 0 km is the smallest distance possible. Russia and Ukraine both border EU and NATO countries.

wang_li··on How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
Yeah. GDPR is annoying as fuck.
wang_li··on How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
I imagine the shortest path Russia->Ukraine->EU Members Romania/Hungary/Slovakia/Poland is far shorter than the shortest path Russia->Cuba->Any US State or territory.
wang_li··on How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
Romania shares a border with Ukraine and is a member of both NATO and the EU.
wang_li··on Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp
If this is a security vulnerability, then these guys just documented their exploitation of said vulnerability. Sounds like a crime.

Proper research would be to identify an issue, write up the issue, conduct a handful of tests, report the issue. Improper research is enumerate the entire input space and gather as much data as you can from the target.

wang_li··on Winamp clone in Swift for macOS
Would you trust a binary from a random developer to not contain/deliver a trojan? Russianness has nothing to do with it.
wang_li··on Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]
The fact that he spelled it out does not imply that it needed to be said. There is no idea in that letter, that is not personal history, that hasn't been said before.
wang_li··on FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
Corporations large and small don't do anything. It's always a person. The question you are answering, even if you don't think you are, is whether a few people can get together and act in concert and still retain their rights.
wang_li··on How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries
The Meso-American civilizations routinely engaged in human sacrifice. Tens of thousands of people per year were murdered. These weren't peaceful monks quietly engaging in scholarly pursuits. Even if you don't personally drag victims to the top of the pyramid and cut their heads off or hearts out, if you stand around and watch, you're part of the problem. I'd be interested in how you compare the details of what pre and post colonization looks like and why you weigh post colonization as evil.
wang_li··on An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x throughput (hist)
Musk's roadster is currently going in excess of 10,000 mph. Which bike is faster than that? :)
wang_li··on VisiCalc on the Apple II
It's not particularly subject related, but that CRT filter applied to a 4x pixel multiplied image is just wrong.
wang_li··on Distributed Ray-Tracing
In '92 I was writing ray tracing and multiple rays per pixel randomly distributed around the center of the pixel was well understood. It's just a kind of anti-aliasing.
wang_li··on You did no fact checking, and I must scream
When a writer reaches a national platform they see themselves as a taste maker, not a reporter. So they write what they think you should think. That's why so many articles tell you how you are supposed to feel about a thing, rather than tell you about that thing. If that means ignoring facts that disagree what they think, well, too bad. Thus we end up with headlines and paragraphs that use words and concepts that are meant to make you feel something. We get headlines like "ICE Breaks Into A House Where There Is A Baby" and "Trump Illegally Indicts Billy Bob."
wang_li··on Fascism can't mean both a specific ideology and a legitimate target
That list is just things that the author doesn't like and is super vague anyway by using loosely defined abstractions.
wang_li··on Comparing a RISC and a CISC with similar hardware organization (1991)
> All this being said, RISC "won" in the sense that many RISC principles have become the "standard" principles of designing an ISA.

I disagree. Maybe many RISC chip design ideas may have taken over, but only because there are massive transistor budgets. I'd like to see a RISC chip that actually has a basic instruction set. As in, not having media instructions, SIMD instructions, crypto primitives, etc. If anything, Moore's Law won and the RISC v CISC battle became meaningless and they can just spend transistors to make every instruction faster if they care to.

wang_li··on OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup
didn't the post a loss of $5 billion last year and are on track for a loss of $8-9 billion this year?
wang_li··on What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
I'm not dehumanizing it, I'm making it clear that photography is generally a passive activity. Where's the line between "don't record me" and "don't look at me"? If it's ok you look at you, but not record you, where's the line? Can someone use a telescope to look at you? Can a store have a camera and a live TV view of all the people who walk in? Can there be a live camera that captures the people on a sidewalk and display it on a giant billboard on the side of a building? If you're at a sporting event can they aim a camera at you in the crowd and put you on the jumbotron? These are all amplifications of visibility, which ones are allowed and which are not. And why should you be able to insist on the absolute bare minimum of noticeability when you are out in public?
wang_li··on What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
ITAR was circumvented for PGP by publishing a book of the source code and exporting that. I fail to see how publishing a video would be different.
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