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Because you're projecting?


Exactly.


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Governments that do such things tend to have excellent economies as a result by preventing a cascade of unneeded financial collapses and the social costs associated with dealing with that along with the increased human suffering of an already significant homeless population.


For those unaware, the premise of They Live is that the elites and one-percenters are actually inter-dimensionally traveling space aliens.

It's a great movie, but a metaphor not a "time-shifted documentary", unless I missed the latest Qdrop.


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Take a deep breath.


Was I alone in reading this as Dalton's Disk Disintegrator being overrated?


I thought "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives"


Would a partial or half immunized population not end up culturing a more resistant strain?


This isn't like antibiotics. The 66% is how many people are provided some level of immunity, just reducing the infectible population; it doesn't directly cause issues for the virus the way an antibiotic interferes with the functioning of a bacterium. It might culture a strain that's better at infecting folks for whom the vaccine doesn't prove effective, if there's a common factor there and the virus can use it.

It is not yet known if any of the vaccines completely prevent infection; there are concerns the vaccinated might still be able to be asymptomatic carriers.


Yeah I guess I was asking if having only partial-immunity effectively acts as a filter or creates pressure so that rarer mutated strains make it through and are given a pathway to infection/reproduction.

From your response: "It might culture a strain that's better at infecting folks for whom the vaccine doesn't prove effective, if there's a common factor there and the virus can use it." it sounds like the answer is yes.


It might make it through, but in that case it would be better adapted for those the vaccine didn't work on; this could actually make it less infectious for those the vaccine would work on, so it's questionable whether it would be any better or worse overall.


Or could it end up culturing a more mild strain? More like a common cold?


Worth pointing out that two of the viruses[0][1] responsible for the Common Cold share the same exact Family (in fact, the exact Genus[2]) as SARS-CoV-2 [3].

This isn't to say that the progression is certainly in this direction (better evidence of that dates back to 2009 [4]), but hey, there's hope that that's the direction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_HKU1

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_OC43

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betacoronavirus

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

[4] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pandemic-payoff/


sudo built with ASLR doesn't make a difference?

NM:

- we can defeat ASLR by partially overwriting the function pointer getenv_fn (which points to the function sudoers_hook_getenv() in the shared library sudoers.so); and luckily, the beginning of sudoers.so contains a call to execve() (or execv()):


This is not sudo being build with ASLR, but library ASLR.


"Last Chance To See" interview?


Counterpoint: I am extremely scared of the fact that I don't exist on Antarctica and in the center of the Andromeda galaxy. And 10 meters below where I am. I'm just as dead on my roof right now. I'm dead in most of the universe RIGHT NOW and this is terrifying.


Update: I've just discovered I am not alone. Turns out Hannibal Hamlin, Abraham Lincoln's V.P., is just as dead/not in existence on my roof. This is very disconcerting and I hope there are no more ghosts like this in my vicinity.


Yeah, what an ego-maniacal self-centered jerk this guy is not wanting to die.


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