Re: Release D 2.091.0
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 at 13:24:41 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: This release comes with 64-bit Windows binaries, improvements on C++ integrations Wow, this is awesome, will check it out later. Thank you guys for hard work.
Re: DConf 2020 Canceled
to all the people dogpiling the responses against Era's point of view: the reason there is not more dissent, whether here or in other respectable forums (eg scientific research in general), is purely because of social mechanics (ostracization of dissenters) - not the inherent unassailable truthfulness of the apparent consensus point of view. when contrary information is personally and professionally radioactive, is it a wonder nobody wants to associate themselves with it? but here, as in so many elsewheres, "this is not the place." I'm already pushing the boundary with this meta-post containing no specific assertions, and will almost certainly put Mike in the unfortunate position of having to put his foot down in this thread (sorry Mike). I'm just pointing out that, anywhere that people's real life identities are tied to what they are saying, there will be an artificial consensus around safe, socially sanctioned viewpoints. so you all essentially get an unrestricted platform to say "lol we're so informed and naysayers are tinfoil-hat nutters," but if somebody made a good-faith effort to respond to any of your points, messages would start getting deleted and the thread would be locked. and far from exceptional, that happens EVERYWHERE. I don't expect any of you /respectable, rational/ people to read it, but for the shy dissenters among us, here's a short little essay on the circularity of scientific peer review (I am not the author): https://www.reddit.com/r/accountt1234/comments/5umtip/scientific_circular_reasoning/
Re: DConf 2020 Canceled
You are very misinformed about it, not sure what your sources are for your "research" but you've done your research the wrong places. It's not "more or less" the flu. They're not in the same category, not even a similar virus. It's in the same family as ex. SARS. The flu has no genetic connection to it. Yes, it's respiratory but that doesn't mean it's the same as the flu. Please take off your tinfoil hat too, there's nobody and I mean nobody in this world that's trying to hide vaccines, not for profit, not for population control. There are far too many researchers and doctors in this world for such a conspiracy theory to even be remotely true. There's a lot of great people currently working all day long trying to find a vaccine and there's one in the workings already but still months until it has been tested properly and can be distributed. Restriction of travel is not Martial law in this case and it's fair to say the governments SHOULD indeed restrict travel. In fact a lot of countries already have done so and that's for good reason. To prevent spread. One of the biggest factors in virus spread is always airports. Mandatory vaccines should be the norm. There are no reasons not to get a vaccine unless you're having an allergic reaction but in that case everyone around you should vaccinate. It's called herd immunity. Micro-chipping will not happen because of this and most likely won't happen in most of the world, if ever because that's a clear violation of human rights as it is currently. You cannot force anyone to do so, it's the same as forcing everyone to get tattoos, which you can't. There are of course companies etc. that offers it but it's all voluntarily and nothing is forced. The world is not out to get you, the government isn't really evil and mostly the world is becoming a better place every day. Regardless of how you look at the world then it's better than it was 100 years ago or even just 50 years ago. We keep improving but that doesn't mean humans don't make mistake and it also doesn't mean there aren't bad apples among us but mostly the world is good and most people will do good. Your whole message comes across as ignorant and it's disrespectful to people that actually are working hard to prevent the spread and/or finding a cure/vaccine. Everyone in the world should read this, it would prevent idiocy from spreading.
Re: DConf 2020 Canceled
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 at 18:06:53 UTC, bauss wrote: On Sunday, 8 March 2020 at 03:56:35 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote: From what i've researched, You are very misinformed about it, not sure what your sources are for your "research" but you've done your research the wrong places. Indeed. I am aware that people susceptible to conspiracy theories have a tendency to mistrust experts, but I'll post this very informative interview with one such expert nonetheless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3URhJx0NSw Michael Osterholm is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology. He is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, a professor in the Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, all at the University of Minnesota. Back on topic, cancelling DConf is a good call. --Bastiaan.
