kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
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The word #socialism is however completely meaningless today, very much like #fascism it turned into a mix between an insult and a vague unicorn. Everybody understands something else speaking of "socialism".
For this reason I prefer to speak of specific public services or features of economy. Speaking of which, not many people among "free market liberals" realize that public schools and healthcare were first proposed by... Adam Smith around half century before Marx.
Absolutely true. By the very definition of free market economy as laid by Friedrich von Hayek, regulation is absolutely crucial to ensure that a market *remains* free in long term and is not taken over by monopolies and scammers.
The neocons vision as laid by Ayn Rand is closer to a lassez faire anarchy than free market.
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By the way, this is an interesting piece in the silly black-and-white argument on #capitalism vs "other systems". China is authoritarian and capitalist at the same time.
Some people in the West were praising the authoritarian factor, pointing out how fast they were able to restrict movement and isolate Wuhan.
It's time to see that the same authoritarism also provided cover for the illegal wildlife trade and repressed opposition...
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Chinese authorities knew about it from the previous outbreaks of wildlife-related viruses but they did little to prevent it.
It's a large business over there with a lot of Party members involved, to the extent that they managed to lobby WHO to recognize Traditional Chinese Medicine as, well, part of medicine (which it isn't).
Hopefully giant losses from the current outbreak will give them to stimulus to end this once and for all.
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RT @CassandraBugir@twitter.com
It may be too soon to talk about this but we need to have an honest conversation about wildlife consumption and zoonotic diseases. #coronavirusaus
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CassandraBugir/status/1239812657756041217
It may be too soon to talk about this but we need to have an honest conversation about wildlife consumption and zoonotic diseases. #coronavirusaus
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CassandraBugir/status/1239812657756041217
It doesn't work in North Korea and Venezuela for sure, otherwise it's quite robust.
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Medical company threatens to sue volunteers that 3D-printed valves for life-saving #coronavirus treatments
@Wetrix Bitcoin will absolutely survive because its usage profile is orthogonal to Libra. The latter is indented as a currency for micropayments, while the only purposes of BTC are speculation and money laundering :) Other cryptocurrencies that have high volatility are quite useless for micropayments either, but stablecoins like DAI are really cool in practical use and I've been adding support for it on WebCookies.org
@Wetrix Well, not literally a crash but it *allows* the pool controlling 51% to reverse transactions and cheat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-spending#51%_attack
"Как отважный рубль хитрого доллара победил"
"How a brave ruble won over smartass dollar"
@Wetrix Just to clarify: Bitcoin is now mined by 5 large pools with 70% hashing power concentrated in China. The only reason no single pool takes >51% is a mutual agreement between them because when GHash.io did that a few years ago everyone freaked out. To be honest, I don't see any practical difference between this an SWIFT etc.
@freemo Nice, sounds a bit like Polish-English :) Definitely easier to pronounce than current English dialects.
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It's "gradual" for healthcare system, not for individuals, so the answer would be essentially "whenever the hospitals local to your parents are not overwhelmed".
The whole concept of herd immunity assumes that most people have already been through the infection and this is most likely happening already as many infections result in no symptoms.
First rule of thumb: check your local healthcare announcements. Second: after infection rate in NL passes the peak.
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Why it's important to use a real email address for your sourcehut account: I just emailed a dozen people to tell them that their CI builds are going to break with the incoming deprecation of a build image. One of their emails bounced, and they're in for a nasty surprise when their shit starts breaking next week
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The http://matrix.org server is seeing its highest traffic levels ever today. We’re battling to keep it performant (via incr optimisations to state res and the multimaster support), but meanwhile you may want to run your own server or get one from @ModularIM@twitter.com, @ungleich@twitter.com etc.
@selea Yeah, MS changed a lot since 90's - although I successfully avoid their products even today :)
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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