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I think the main reason is the people who experienced the time before vaccines are dead. Vaccines were always scary but back then the people could see that they prevented bad outcomes. My grandmother grew up with kids crippled by the polio epidemic!

People today just don't know anymore how scary measles is. We lost that knowledge thanks to the success of vaccines!


Yep. My late father was recruited to vaccinate people in the big polio epidemic in Argentina, probably in 1956. He was still in high school, but it was the oral vaccine and they needed all hands available.

Yup the technical term is survivorship bias.

You're saying that a state can upstream patches with planted backdoors. Thruth is, this is possible in all software. It's not specific to state-sponsored open source software. So your scenario is a reality whether you want it or not. And open source is not particularily vulnerable either. People forget this.

Now a lot of people would be angry if my state decided to spend money on security flaws. I imagine an elected representative try to explain how they wanted to misspend funds allocated to improve software and plant flaws instead. That would not go down well here or in Germany. Try to hire people for this in Germany and see how long you last till your little op is public.


Ask Wikipedia how they are dealing with this shit. Openstreetmap is a rather unlikely target, so it's news.

they aren't because they are long fully captured

Wikipedia is fully captured by vandalism?

> Ask Wikipedia how they are dealing with this shit.

They aren't. Wikipedia has been taken over by special interest groups and political agencies for a long, long time now.


So how are the special interest groups keeping their enemies out?

Same as it is everywhere else, collusion and nepotism.

Wikipedia editors are a special clique.


Exceptional claims require exceptional evidence?

Where is the exceptional claim?

If anything, the preposterous idea that Wikipedia is somehow the only resource immune to shilling and political influence is the exceptional claim.


No; the burden of proof lies with the affirmative. To require someone to prove that they are NOT guilty of corruption is unfair (and also irrational)

> And outside France too!

Soleure, that's the French name of the city where the museum opened. The place might just be in France if you don't look too close.


It doesn't look near instant like Supermaven because the default delay before suggestions is 3 s.

https://kilo.ai/docs/basic-usage/autocomplete


I was interested but looks like it's only available for Macos.


I read the comment about Tinder and Tiktok being in competition differently: To me they said that both Tinder and Tiktok are in competition over eyeballs.

Meaning for example that if Tinder shows me profiles I find less attractive, I'm more likely to churn to Tiktok. So Tinder will show me profiles of people I have no hope of meeting, to keep me engaged nonetheless.


Yeah could be useful for basal delivery. But I wonder how variable it will be. Temperature, moisture, rub-off, other lotions, could all hinder the delivery. Don't want additional variability on a medication this sensitive to dosage.

The biggest danger I see that it's a deadly cream. Untrained people are unlikely to inject insulin by mistake. With a cream, they might just rub some on.


Honestly hadn’t even thought of that - easy to say “more is better, right?” or miscalculate what the dose should be.


Funny I have a shirt that reads "Prince of Susa" to the three people (not me) who can read Linear Elam.

Edit: To see the sequence you can paste "" into the corpus search at https://center-for-decipherment.ch/tool/#script=elam


Haha I've had instructors noting with a smile that my code was "good enough for others to copy". In the end I learned a bunch, also about people. More than if I hadn't shared.


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