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I don't think that a root cause analysis like this is good for anything else than improving the algorithm.

It's the same as with face detection. The algorithms are better far superior to humans, but they fail at occasions where a human would not even think twice


Tldr?


"To date, there are no cases of Omicron which are reported as having been hospitalised or died through routine reporting. As a result, it is not possible to compare the risk of hospitalisation or death with other variants. However, it should be noted that most of the cases have a specimen date that is very recent and that there is a lag between onset of infection and hospitalisation and death. Future updates will assess severe outcomes from Omicron cases against Delta cases from the same time period."


If Omicron continues to grow at the present rate, Omicron case numbers are projected to reach parity with Delta cases in mid- December (this was dated 10th Dec).

Vaccination is less effective against Omicron than against Delta. But shortly after a booster dose, there is about 70% effectiveness.

I haven't got on to anything about hospitalisation rates vs Delta yet; it may still be early days for that.


As much as 6% of the labor force work in transportation[1] Automating those jobs away will be a step stone to the transformation of our relation to work as a society! [1]https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/de/web/products-eurostat-news/...



But it does doing so publicly. There was a recent trail where an 80 year old woman got sentenced for publicly expressing her believes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Haverbeck


> Another article by Haverbeck-Wetzel in the Voice of Conscience (November/December 2005) posited a thesis that Adolf Hitler was "just not to be understood from the believed Holocaust or his alleged war obsession, but only by a divine mission in the world-historical context."

> In the Hamburg court, she insisted the status of Auschwitz as a place of death is "not historically proven" and is "only a belief".

I think she deserved her 10 months in prison.


Did you read the article? She's been a vocal Holocaust denier since the end of the war. She's not a random person doubting the Holocaust and stupidly saying it in public. She was the wife of one of the higher ups in the Nazi party.


How does it makes sense to put any truth into stone by law?


Read some history of how that came to be. You might still disagree when you're done, but I suspect you'll at least be able to answer your own question.


I know the history very well, but the law telling me what's true and what not, that rubs me the wrong way.


You do realize that the law at its core is a collection of assertions (= truths) that a society lives by?


That's not even remotely true. Laws are not truths, they're a collection of arbitrary rules. Socrates discussed this like 2000 years ago...


Maybe go read the law then.


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> Given that the number of victims is an estimate

I'm very used to engineers' quibbles, very focused views ending up being very narrow views, clever/stupid explanations of why various laws can't be enforced, and so on.

But this has the be the biggest instance of missing the point, intentionally or not, I've seen in quite some time.


That's not what the law says. Btw, not only in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_Holocaust_denial


> [...] and also there were events in history like china's cultural revolution, Stalin's great cleansing and the killing fields in Cambodia (to name a few) [...]

Under the assumption that is meant to be a sincere argument:

The difference between the holocaust and those crimes is that Germany's the country primarily responsible for the former, giving special meaning to the denial of that crime and the law banning its denial.


None of these things are in the law, so gg to you for lying on the internet while trying to defend lying about the holocaust. Well played.


I don't think this person is lying. I think they genuinely believe they know what they're talking about. (Which is almost worse.)


No legal system anywhere can be absolute about not determining what the "truth" is, even when it comes to speech. The most common example is yelling "fire!" in a crowded theatre and causing a panic. Or posting a bomb threat to social media. That kind of mischief is illegal in most places as there's actual harm. And the law will have to determine the truth that there was no fire or no bomb, and that your speech had no purpose except to cause harm.

Another example is speech used to commit fraud or extortion. Were your profitable lies to exploit the vulnerable based on a genuine belief, or did you have criminal intent? The law will have to decide, and the situation will not always be clear, and often it comes down to determining intent.

In the case of holocaust denial, in Germany the potential harm of allowing it is seen as more genocide, so they've calibrated their free speech laws in respect of that. But there's never an exact place to draw the line; every legal system is going to have to make such judgment calls.


I believe your reasoning is faulty. In the vast majority of cases the law lays out rules and a court will attempt to determine various facts (ie truths) and interpret the rules in some broader context.

Codifying truth into law is quite unusual and seems like a bad idea to me. But then prosecuting people for hurling insults also seems like a bad idea to me - I guess I'm just thoroughly American.


Don’t forget that not all legal systems rely as much on precedences as the US/UK one though, so that may also cause a difference.


How hard is it to imagine that an hn user is not based in the us?


How hard is it to imagine that an hn user is referring to "here" as hn?


very easy since I’m not.

what did you understand or infer from my message?


this question tells more about your own biases rather than the commenter above honestly.


Like the 'american' mission to the moon. A stolen V2 Nazi rocket with a bigger fuel tank, lol.


Well said


Guys, an opt-out whitelist is per definition a blacklist.

I.e what is done explicitly defines the color. Explicit Allow (blacklist opt out) -> whitelist Explicit Deny (whitelist opt out) -> blacklist


Except that old apps that aren’t updated, are not put on the whitelist. (This is what I understand from the comments above.)


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