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 Discussion on answer by DJClayworth: …

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Paul Draper
May 8, 2021 18:38
"massively wrong figures for deaths after flu vaccine" Interesting, what's the correct number? Or is it just completely unknown?
Paul Draper
May 8, 2021 18:38
WaPo's article is just so oblique to the actual cited claim. Claim: "Something is different between COVID-19 and flu vaccines by an order of magnitude." Rebuttal: "A list of information, all of which applies to both COVID-19 and flu." ??
Paul Draper
May 8, 2021 18:38
Aren't all these points (except COVID deaths) applicable to the flu vaccine as well?
 

 Discussion on answer by Studoku: Will…

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Paul Draper
May 5, 2021 19:20
@EricTowers, okay, but what does that make "false"? Are you saying there are 0 requests to see @realDonaldTrump?
Paul Draper
May 5, 2021 19:20
@DavidSchwartz you botched the analogy. Book Neutrality would be closer to requiring bookshops to carry and treat all books equality. Net Neutrality does not regulate treatment of the consumers of information, but the treatment of the content itself.
Paul Draper
May 5, 2021 19:20
@trlkly exact opposite. Net Neutrality requires that if a company transmits StackExchange content, it must also transmit Facebook content.
Paul Draper
May 5, 2021 19:20
@T.E.D. I wasn't asking about the large entities statement, but rather "Florida cannot prevent Facebook from operating there"
Paul Draper
May 5, 2021 19:20
What kind of enforcement capabilities does the EU have that Florida lacks?
Paul Draper
May 5, 2021 19:20
What is the argument for SB 7072 being unconstitutional, but Net Neutrality being constitutional (as federal appeals found)? Both regulate the service terms of transmissions by companies.
 

 Discussion on answer by Chromatix: Wh…

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Paul Draper
Sep 14, 2020 15:27
@another-dave, FWIW "portable assembly language" is frequently used to describe C. It was meant to be an abstraction over common things like register allocation, instruction selection, and flow control. Those are the the very things that you would do if assigned to make assembly portable. Whether or not they explicitly stated it, they made the lowest-level practical abstraction of assembler. There is no (viable) C--.
 

 Discussion on answer by Tiercelet: Ha…

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Paul Draper
Jun 29, 2020 11:13
@CharlesDuffy you are reading more into this than was said. The claim wasn't specific to recommendation vs directive vs mandate.
Paul Draper
Jun 29, 2020 11:13
"Health care access has never been prevented by quarantine measures...No hospitals or doctors' offices have been closed as 'non-essential services.'" False. Non-urgent healthcare procedures were suspended to preserve PPE, beds, and ventilators.. Lacking revenue from their normal procedures, practices furloughed tens of thousands. I don't know how much screenings and procedures in the article were affected, but you cannot dismiss this categorically.
 

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Paul Draper
Jun 29, 2020 09:40
@NuclearWang you are correct which is why I called it a "naive average." Unfortunately, a great answer isn't possible since there is a big (proportionally speaking) life expectancy difference between 79 and 89 but COVID-19 statistics never separate those. I may go back and made some assumptions on the contrary side and see how much it can change.
Paul Draper
Jun 29, 2020 09:40
@LаngLаngС I do not say "prolly still worth it," just that the analysis itself does not preclude that possibility. It wasn't the question stated, but it's tangentially related. Some have thought I've given too little prominence to that disclaimer; others too much.
Paul Draper
Jun 29, 2020 09:40
@LаngLаngС, it's conceivable that without quarantine, coronavirus deaths would (say) quadruple and outweigh anything discussed here. That is, the net effect of the quarantine is saving lives/years (versus not having it), though of course the situation overall is still quite poor.
Paul Draper
Jun 29, 2020 09:40
@Shadur that is off-topic, but IMO it would be hard to draw that conclusion considering how the US has fewer COVID-19 deaths per capita than UK, Spain, France, Italy and lower unemployment than those countries. And not significantly more negative mortality effect of unemployment than other countries studied (Scotland, Sweden).
 

 Discussion on answer by Mark: Is the …

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Paul Draper
Jun 28, 2020 22:07
@Mark it cannot be any way, e.g. by random choice or whoever Jefferson Davis likes. That flexibility was reigned in by the 14th Amendment.
 

 Discussion on answer by tbrookside: I…

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Paul Draper
Jun 28, 2020 22:06
@Jontia that would be a far weaker argument that choosing electors according to majority of state votes would be "abridging" in the same way that choosing electors according to other states would be.
 

 Discussion on answer by Giter: Does L…

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Paul Draper
Jun 26, 2020 07:23
@JörgWMittag, "law" was my own addition and an apparently incorrect abbreviation of "government order." The claim of significance in question isn't mine but rather the New York Post.
 

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Paul Draper
Feb 25, 2020 16:37
@Anush the Presidency has actually gotten more powerful since 250 years ago, not less. This is due to judicial interpretations of executive privilege, and the willing delegation of some powers by Congress. Were constitutional law to look more similar to what it did in 1790, the President would have far less power.
 

 Discussion on answer by MechMK1: Is a…

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Paul Draper
Nov 1, 2019 16:02
@MechMK1 yes, you the two forms can be leaked together at access time. Just like a video can leak voice recognition and PIN entry when they are combined at access time. But voice recognition and PIN entry is still 2FA.
Paul Draper
Nov 1, 2019 16:02
Even if this isn't 2FA this answer fails to live by its own definition. "That means your system should stay secure, even if one of the factors is compromised" Let's test. Test 1: Password (what you know) is compromised. System secure. Test 2: SSH key (what you have) is compromised. System secure. QED.
Paul Draper
Nov 1, 2019 16:02
@MechMK1 that password text is combination two factors that is sufficient authentication. Writing a memorized password on a yubikey is the combination of two factors that is sufficient authentication. A video recording is a combination of voice authorization and PIN entry. Just because you can combine and leak two factors in one form doesn't make it not 2FA.
Paul Draper
Nov 1, 2019 16:02
@MechMK1 yes it would. I cannot get access without having the database and knowing the encryption password. True, there is possible single piece of information that exists that would grant me access. But that's an absurd way to analyze it. A copy of my server's files would also give me read access to my server's files. But you can't just conjecture the appearance of information of thin air.
Paul Draper
Nov 1, 2019 16:02
@R.. so? 2FA does not one single part of the system to require both factors. If a computer is password protected in a locked room, it requires two factors to access the computer (physical key and password). The computer doesn't enforce both factors. The room doesn't enforce both factors. Together they do. Moving the computer to an unlocked room, or writing the password on the key would reduce it to 1FA. But until I do that, it's still 2FA.
Paul Draper
Nov 1, 2019 16:02
That seems completely arbitrary. A decrypted SSH key is simply the combination of SSH key and password. It's just like putting a key card and a (molded) fingerprint into a bag. Just because you can combine two things into one doesn't mean they aren't two factors.
 

 Discussion on question by Kevin Xu: M…

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Paul Draper
Sep 2, 2019 14:30
Well, he's going to find out when you hand him your resignation anyway, so sure.
 

 Discussion on question by gaazkam: Wh…

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Paul Draper
May 8, 2019 17:51
More generally, don't implement any complex, high-stakes algorithm (for production code) if there is a vetted implementation of it available. And it doesn't get any more complex/higher-stakes/available than crypto.
 

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Paul Draper
Sep 18, 2018 22:56
@TemporalWolf, "unequivocally false" is overstating the situtation, given that it is not clear who "they" is. If "they" is any of his political opponents, it is very possible that one of them incorrectly reported that "3,000 people died in the hurricane".
 

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Paul Draper
May 31, 2018 16:03
@Ukko, "the onus is on them to find the evidence." Didn't they find the evidence, in the yearbook? Or are you referring to some other evidence?
 

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Paul Draper
Jun 12, 2017 23:55
Many prefer no early return. It's a goto end;.
 

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Paul Draper
Apr 27, 2017 20:19
@JimmyJames, certainly. Java decided against it, but one of its progeny, Scala, did add them.
 

 Discussion on answer by Glen O: Did E…

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Paul Draper
Apr 21, 2017 01:19
How does Einsteins disbelief in a personal God contradict the quote in question?
 

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Paul Draper
Mar 21, 2017 16:14
@Fatalize, what country is that? I've never heard of required insurance covering damages on property owned outright?
 

 Discussion on question by mpl: Return…

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Paul Draper
Feb 11, 2017 11:58
@Pascal, other way around. A 403 can stand in for a 404. A 404 is "doesn't exist". A 403 is "I won't tell you anything about this, even whether or not it exists".
 

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Paul Draper
Jan 15, 2017 11:37
@PatriciaShanahan, is correct; there is no need to decide for all programs: cs.stackexchange.com/a/68700/15893
 

 Discussion on answer by Shadur: Were …

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Paul Draper
Oct 19, 2016 15:30
@jamesqf, the question at hand is "were student required to write X" not "is requiring students to write X a problem". Yes, the OP's quote is sensationalist. And yes, its basic assertion is true. Skeptics assesses the rightness of facts, not opinions.
 

 Discussion on answer by DavePhD: Were…

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Paul Draper
Oct 19, 2016 15:28
@Ryan, "no Allah but Allah" and "no God but God" are tautologies. On the other hand "no god but God" or "no god but Allah" or "none to worship except God" mean something.
 

 Discussion on question by Skooba: "Of…

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Paul Draper
May 22, 2016 03:31
@JustDoIt, it's common accepted to be profanity. Do you prefer "obscene"? Or whatever adjective you want to describe R-rated language.
Paul Draper
May 22, 2016 03:31
@JustDoIt, if not "offensive", you surely can agree that it is profane.
 

 Discussion on answer by Jason Baker: …

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Paul Draper
Dec 10, 2015 20:10
"Bigger-Army Diplomacy"
 

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Paul Draper
Oct 18, 2015 17:13
Just be glad you don't have to use a company phone too. dilbert.com/strip/2013-11-07
 

 Discussion on question by aioobe: How…

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Paul Draper
Feb 24, 2015 00:22
In my experience with MongoDB, that bug report is exactly what I would have thought, though it isn't exactly what I would have said.
 

 Discussion on question by Jivan: Argu…

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Paul Draper
Jan 23, 2015 19:40
@Kik, that is brilliant. There is one potential downside. If it's not a situation where they respond immediately to the counteroffer, they may decide to take a competing offer. But all in all, great suggestion.