cjdaly · HackerTrans

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Did you see the article claiming Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't really Hunter Biden's laptop, but rather had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation"? If stories like this, run by fake news sites such as NPR or NYT, popped up in your social media feed about the 2020 U.S. presidential election, they probably came from a tiny group of people with a massive impact.

cjdaly

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

multi-color is lots of fun! https://github.com/cjdaly/FishCoin

cjdaly

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

For your embedded cistercian projects: https://www.tindie.com/products/savageelectronics/rgb-cister...

(I'm not the maker, I just noticed these last year on Tindie and picked up a couple.)

cjdaly

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Sketchup has a Ruby API. This book is good if you can find a copy:

https://www.amazon.com/Automatic-SketchUp-Creating-Models-Ru...

cjdaly

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

> get enough people vaccinated that community spread stops being a thing

The problem with this plan is that vaccinated people still catch and spread the virus. The available vaccines do not create "herd immunity" in the traditional sense.

I think the best argument for getting a vaccine now is you will be much less likely to get hospitalized (and/or die) if you catch COVID after being vaccinated. But that argument may not apply to people who already caught it, recovered and now have some natural immunity.

cjdaly

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

here is a satellite view I've been watching, also from NOAA:

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G1...

cjdaly

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Interesting that this is happening at the same moment Glenn Greenwald is promoting (Canada based) Rumble as a free-speech alternative to Youtube.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/strengthening-substack-jour...

cjdaly

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

I agree with you. Cargo cult is when physical goods are delivered by some high-tech society to a lower-tech one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult).

Buying stuff from Amazon is more like cargo cult than Clubhouse is.

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