parpol
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- Comment on Android apps will soon let you use your face to control your cursor 4 days ago:
I would never trust facial scanning or fingerprint scanning on anything but fully open source software.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 week ago:
From what is currently known about the two whistleblowers neither were particularly at higher risk of suicide or MRSA. The person who died of MRSA was healthy and active with no history of hospitalization whatsoever. Close friends of the first whistleblower claim that suicide was very unlike him, and his previous statement of “if anything happens, it wasn’t suicide” strengthens that.
There are other commenters here speculating that being a whistleblower makes you at higher risk of suicide, but there are no official statistics on that, so it is at most speculation, therefore I need to use general statistics.
All probabilistic models and datasets eventually get replaced with more accurate ones, but that doesn’t discredit them until then.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 week ago:
You don’t compare the stats to the population in its entirety
You do for disease and suicide as it can happen to literally anyone.
If working for a specific company or being a whistleblower affects those statistics, the company should be held responsible anyway.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 week ago:
The chance of killing youself after saying you’re not killing yourself negates any raised suicide rate of whistleblowers, and when the chance of foulplay is vastly higher than it not being foulplay, it is no longer a conspiracy theory. Having two whistleblowers from the same case suddenly die is extremely unlikely.
I didn’t make up any accusations. I stated how it is vastly more likely they were murdered than that they weren’t if I removed any circumstantial information. Adding circumstantial information very likely sways it even further into murder territory, and not the opposite as you claim.
And the worst part? This will do exactly what every other nutbrain conspiracy theory does. It provides incredibly easy to refute accusations and then undermines anyone who actually cares about how much boeing knowingly allowed. Because all the people who will point out exactly what these whistleblowers fought to get out there? They are dragged down by your ranting and raving.
This is such a ridiculous argument when your argument essentially is shilling for a company and trying to downplay how suspicious this whole thing is. By easily refutable you must mean “maybe a meteor killed both” levels of stars aligning.
But let’s focus on the actual accusations rather than make up some because we want a really juicy true crime podcast?
Them being murdered automatically becomes an actual accusation.
Assassinations are not a rare occurrence, but you’re making it sound like fairy tale material.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 week ago:
We are talking in the context of with 12 whistleblowers on the same case. There are more cases with single wistleblowers, but also, the fewer whistleblowers per case, the lower the chance of one of them dying of suicide or MRSA.
For example, if there had only been 2 whistleblowers in total in this case, not 12, the chance of both dying from suicide or MRSA would be 0.00014 * 0.000062 = 0.00000000868 (0.000000868%).
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 week ago:
Doesn’t sound like much until you realize that there haven’t even been that many whistleblowers cases in recorded history.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 week ago:
Here you go.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 week ago:
Even looking at it from a statistical perspective, these are low chances.
Let’s do the numbers.
Suicide rate is 14 / 100,000 (0.00014).
Deaths from MRSA in the US in 2017 was 20,000 / 325,100,000 (0.000062).
The chance of either happening to one person is 0.000202 (0.02%). The chance of it happening to 2/12 whistleblowers in the same year is:
1-((1−(14÷100,000))×(1−(20,000÷325,100,000)))^6 =
0.00120845658 (0.12%),
1 out of 826 cases with 12 whistleblowers would have this outcome.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 week ago:
Guy who said “If I die, it is not suicide” dies of suicide right before important court date, and perfectly healthy and active person suddenly succumbs to rare antibiotics-resistant infection.
They just happened to work at the same company and die right before they could testify on the same thing.
This not being foul play is less likely than a global conspiracy.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 week ago:
Currently at 2/10 but they’ll get there.
- Comment on Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com 1 week ago:
Their website isn’t properly caching pages which is the real reason they’re having problems.
- Comment on Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died 2 weeks ago:
Any doctors here know what causes sudden fast spreading infection in a person with a fully functional immune system, and what type of infection it might have been?
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
This. The last good windows was XP. Vista started the enshittification.
- Comment on We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time 2 weeks ago:
I see. That makes sense.
- Comment on We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time 2 weeks ago:
I hear this very often, but has this ever been proven? People are not exactly going to stop eating or paying rent which already eats more than half of people’s income. I could see gambling and entertainment become more stale, but I’m not sure how big of a problem this is.
- Comment on There it is 3 weeks ago:
Firefox is a much easier icon to find.
- Comment on Friends matter 3 weeks ago:
What would supercritical fluid be?
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 4 weeks ago:
Mr.Happy Sunshine over here
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Diversity will come with a larger userbase. You could wait and come back after the next reddit purge.
- Comment on How it feels sometimes.. 1 month ago:
How it is all the time.
- Comment on India Banned TikTok, It Didn’t Go Well 1 month ago:
Ban TikTok in America and you take away all the influencers that make TikTok popular.
- Comment on ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots 2 months ago:
Learning how to build a bomb shouldn’t be blocked by llms to begin with. You can just as easily learn how to do it by googling the same question, and real and accurate information, even potentially dangerous information, shouldn’t be censored.
- Comment on Why is defederation an option when Limit/Mute exist? 2 months ago:
Ironically the most defederated instances are hexbear, lemmygrad and other tankie/lil’pink instances, and to them anyone who disagrees with them is a Nazi.
- Comment on Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court 2 months ago:
That’s why I get them fresh, never frozen.
- Comment on Rakuten launches cloud storage with unlimited file transfers, targets businesses and individuals, with free 10GB storage 2 months ago:
Rakuten is bigger than Amazon in japan. They are an online shopping service, mobile and broadband provider, bank, crypto exchange, traveling agency, credit card, fast pay service, online grocery store, and more.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They’re on hexbear and lemmygrad too.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 3 months ago:
Which is just as true with mining, except money is staked into mining rigs.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 3 months ago:
“Crypto isn’t backed by a government”
“CBDC is a digital form of fiat—money that is issued by central banks. It is designed to be a digital representation of the country’s physical currency. Unlike cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum, CBDC is backed by the government and is legal tender.”
CBDC is blockchain based, i.e cryptocurrency.
Japan is developing a similar cryptocurrency as well.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 3 months ago:
Yes, all those dollars that get pulled out of the earth by the blood sweat and tears of miners?
You mean the nickel and copper mines?
- Comment on 2 million job seekers targeted by data thieves. Primary focus in APAC region, including Australia, Taiwan, China, Thailand, India, and Vietnam. Also affects Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, US. 3 months ago:
That’s not true. A lot of people for example care about what happens in the US despite there not being socialized healthcare.