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Re:mRNA technology pioneer blasts Big Tech censorship on Saturday July 03, 2021 @03:22PM (#27724052)
> Following the removal, he appeared on Fox News and claimed that the CDC was yet to conduct “risk benefit analyses”

Claim you're being censored while appearing on the largest US news channel. Classic.

This guy is essentially using the news as a megaphone to complain that his megaphone isn't loud enough. Presumably to advertise his consulting business. He's making a lot of money doing news appearances.

The only source I can find for his claim that he "invented mRNA vaccines" is his own website. I can't even find his name on Wikipedia's article about mRNA vaccine history.

This guy is just stirring up shit to make money. He's not a complete charlatan, but he's purposely sowing doubts about vaccine technology he hasn't worked on for 30 years. Notice that he keeps producing soundbites but hasn't produced a single shred of scientific study behind any of it.

He deserved his ban.

Wikileaks is a hyper partisan Russian proxy. They straight up refuse to release information that doesn't support their agenda.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...

> Global western "democracy" conspires to put the single most hard-hitting journalist of the past decade

Really? A lot of stuff they leaked wasn't even that damaging, like Hillary's emails, because it just showed that the DNC wasn't really up to anything. But they made sure to release them at the most politically damaging moment possible. While they sit on other documents for years.

Trump's closest advisors had direct contact with WikiLeaks, which doesn't make sense unless they were collaborating https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-campaign...

> The special counsel’s office determined that hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign manager John Podesta were transmitted from a Russian-government proxy, Guccifer 2.0, to WikiLeaks on July 14, 2016.

> The report does not resolve the question of coordination between the campaign and WikiLeaks’ timed release of hacked emails from Podesta. The report does note, however, that the hacked emails were released on Oct. 7, the same day as the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape in which Trump was heard making vulgar boasts about women.

> The report adds “the release of the documents was designed and timed to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election and undermine the Clinton Campaign.”

Yeah, definitely not partisan

Re:Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase' on Saturday July 03, 2021 @02:05PM (#27723533)
You can find a lot of people in academia just as smart with 2 Twitter followers.

My point is, everyone listens to Jeff and the other billionaires because they're rich. That's literally the only reason. They're modern day kings as rich as the robber barons of old.

Re:Major Swedish supermarket chain hit by cyberattack on Saturday July 03, 2021 @01:56PM (#27723472)
Airlines are fairly immune to technical problems because their systems are so terrible already. Accidental chaos engineering
I never understood this. The GPL folks turned out to be right. Big tech is rife with forks of open source these days that contribute little or nothing back to the community.
Re:Apple and Intel first to use TSMC 3nm on Saturday July 03, 2021 @01:42PM (#27723369)
Even crazier, my i5 750 (from 2009) was overclocked to 3.5ghz and per core Ryzen 3 isn't even twice as fast.

We're near the end of IPC scaling per core. And it was never that good in the first place. Pentium 3 IPC is only 3-4x worse than the fastest Ryzen. Most of our speed increases came from frequency.

IMO we need to get off silicon substrate so we can frequency scale again.

I wonder if the end of scaling will push everyone into faster languages like Rust. You can't sit around 2 years for your code performance to double anymore. Will this eventually kill slow languages? I think so.

The plan is to use technology to make it so you can't own anything anymore.

The tech monopolies want their tithe. That's why you can't buy Photoshop or office anymore.

Soon you won't buy Windows, you will simply rent it forever. One day you won't own your phone or computer either. It's far more profitable to extract rent from your customers indefinitely when you're the only game in town.

The government needs to step in. By a great many metrics were living in another 30's gilded age, robber barons and all.

Re:Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase' on Saturday July 03, 2021 @09:53AM (#27721628)
He has been for a while. Bezos is richer than most kings. People are dying of starvation and Bezos makes $2500 per second.

We have billionaires competing over who will go to space first, because they simply have nothing better to do with their money.

It's disgusting really. Yet somehow articles about what these assholes eat for breakfast still get to the front page

Re:Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase' on Saturday July 03, 2021 @09:37AM (#27721540)
It's easy to be 1000% dedicated to your job when you make over $9,000,000 an hour. But he wants the same dedication from people he pays $6.

He's also vicious about crushing unions and is known for giving employees so little breaks they have to piss in bottles.

Fuck Bezos. The US has a real problem with wealth worship. People lap up every drop that comes out of this asshole just because he's a million times richer than everyone else. So they think he's a million times smarter.

Jeff Bezos is a rich asshole and treats his employees like toilet paper. It's laughable that anyone would take life advice from this clown