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I think that's the kind of intuitive decision that comes from years of troubleshooting experience. It's not obvious that would be the place to start. It's impressive to me at least he got there.


Utterly brainless article. Why am I even commenting.


Real risk of them blocking or crippling it at some point. They've nerfed a lot of useful things over time, Wi-Fi scanning being one good example.


I assume this allows more granularity. Many apps avoid you blocking their marketing by not using the notification categories system. It's all or nothing. This app would presumably allow me to differentiate between the two if it can't be done with notification categories.


So fast mode uses more tokens, in direct opposition to Gemini where fast 'mode' means less. One more piece of useless knowledge to remember.


I don't think this is the case, according to the docs, right? The effort level will use fewer tokens, but the independent fast mode just somehow seems to use some higher priority infrastructure to serve your requests.


You're comparing two different things. It's not useless knowledge, it's something you need to understand.

Opus fast mode is routed to different servers with different tuning that prioritizes individual response throughput. Same model served differently. Same response, just delivered faster.

The Gemini fast mode is a different model (most likely) with different levels of thinking applied. Very different response.


Was it leading with a bad analogy that gave it way?


Postgres has a large manual not because it's overly complex to do simple things, but because it is one of the best documented and most well-written tools around, period. Every time I've had occasion to browse the manual in the last 20 years it's impressed me.


I read Jason Couchman's book for Oracle 8i certification, and passed the five exams.

They left much out, so many important things that I learned later, as I saw harmful things happening.

The very biggest thing is "nologging," the ability to commit certain transactions that are omitted from the recovery archived logs.

"You are destroying my standby database! Kyte is explicit that 'nologging' must never be used without the cooperation of the DBA! Why are you destroying the standby?"

It was SSIS, and they could never get it under control. ALTER SYSTEM FORCE LOGGING undid their ignorant presumption.


I would hope anyone with the knowledge and interest to run OpenClaw would already be mostly aware of the risks and potential solutions canvassed in this article, but I'd probably be shocked and disappointed.


There are definitely people I know who are talking about using it that I want nowhere near my keyboard


Yeah that. I had an external "security consultant" (trained monkey) tell me the other day that something fucking stupid we were doing was fine. There are many many people who should not be allowed near keyboards these days.


Having said that, there is nothing there that isn't public information. I guess the CIA's name added some weight but this could easily be published by any public institution interested in foreign affairs.


Guily by (lack of) association!


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> directly caused the deaths of several children

You're completely wrong, as I've pointed out below. "Especially girls" because they probably couldn't find boys with a cervix (HPV causes cervical cancer)

Impossible to take these hysterical takes serious, do better.


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> clinical trials of unproven vaccines [...] that directly caused deaths and hospitalizations of many girls

You have not shown this so far. The article that you believe supports this claim does not.

There is a lot of reasons to do a vaccine trial in India instead of the US, and a very likely one is simply cost.

If you want to accuse Gates of trying to murder Indian girls instead of Americans, then you have to show the actual harm, that there was known and disproportionate danger before the trial, and that the trial was done in India because of that danger.

So far you demonstrated none of those.

Also, please use asterisks (instead of caps lock) for emphasis (=> https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).


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In 2000 flying from Mumbai to Frankfurt I got upgraded to 1st class and ended up sitting next to the CEO of a smaller pharma company. He got a little drunk and opened up about why he was always in Mumbai instead of Europe or US.

Lower costs for human testing were only a small part of it, the real reason was weak and unenforced regulations. And he could easily pay a consultant to bribe the officials.

Part of the problem is of our own making, we have a corrupt bureaucracy and no enforcement.

One of the key positives of the covid pandemic was how our govt firmly kept the mRNA "vaccines" out of the country. I suspect Bill Gates disgusting testing of HPV played a role in this.


mRNA vaccines are the new dangerous experiment in Pharma.

https://www.sciencealert.com/largest-covid-vaccine-study-eve...

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/study-largely-confirms-kno...

It is awesome that India blocked these dangerous vaccines to be sold in India.

In fact, did you know?.. The Western Big Pharma companies got full indemnity in USA, UK, Europe and many other nations for their COVID vaccines. This means that they cannot be sued for any impacts (loss of life, side effect, hospitalization bills, loss of job, etc.) caused by those vaccines.

But when those Western Big Pharma companies wanted to sell their unproven mRNA-based COVID vaccines in India, the Modi government refused to give them any indemnity, because even the Indian (non-mRNA) COVID vaccine manufactures did not get indemnity.

So the Western Big Pharma finally decided not to sell their COVID vaccines in India, because they KNEW their vaccines and technology (mRNA based vaccine) were unproven and could kill or hurt (side effects).

But the cowardly Western Big Pharma had their revenge. They lobbied with the Western powers and got bans imposed on India's COVID vaccines to be sold in the Western nations.

Ironically, India is the only nation that gave its lifesaving COVID vaccines for free or at discounts to poor or developing nations!

Whereas the uber rich Western powers and their greedy powerful Big Pharma were hoarding their COVID vaccines and refused to give them freely to the poor nations.

Thus, when the world suffered one of its worst crisis ever, it was India that stood tall as a beacon of hope and support to the world.

It is no wonder that PM Modi is the most respected world leader now. He is refusing to bow down to bullies, and he is helping the weak.


India's Economic Times has issues as a source.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-economic-times/

I'm hardly a fan of Gates, btw.


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This is what google shows: 7 deaths out of 24K vaccinated individuals.

"An Indian government committee and subsequent investigations concluded that the seven deaths were most probably unrelated to the vaccine itself. The reported causes included drowning, snake bite, intentional ingestion of poisonous substances (suicide), malaria, brain hemorrhage, and viral fever."

This was in a trail for the HPV virus so presumably they wanted subjects who were not yet sexually active. Girls were chosen because HPV can affect the cervix. So you vaccinate them, and then follow them up for maybe 15 years and see how it turns out.

Enrolling young children in a trail like is always going to ethically hard to justify. And it's well possible they chose India instead of California for this reason. However the protocol makes sense.

I worked in clinical trails for years, believe me the LAST thing anyone wants is problems like these because you'll end up losing billions.

To market something in EU or USA you need EMEA or FDA approval. They will check every single piece of paper and can tank your entire decades long project.

Respectfully, you're blowing this way out of proportion, this is just more "billionaire hysteria"


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Deaths of "many girls", when the parent comment said it was at most 1 out of 2300 participants (a suicide)? Those numbers might, however, be untrustworthy. I don't know India well enough to know how much to trust statistics compiled there.

What sources are there on the hospitalisations?


Your article is careful to never explicitly state correlation between the vaccine and those seven girls deaths. Without such a link, your argument falls apart.

> So answer me honestly: Did that same billionaire (Bill Gates) and his organisation (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) do the same exact trials in his home country (USA)? "clinical trials of unproven vaccines on thousands of poor minor girls, without consent of then and their parents"

This accusation is toothless. You would need to show two things:

- There were actual unacceptable risks or side-effects from the vaccine under test (your article completely fails to show this, and if you believe it does, then you are simply a victim of clickbait formulations)

- The study was done in India because of risks to subjects deemed unacceptable in the US (and not simply because it was cheaper)

What the article does show is that there was shoddy handling of consent. Which is valid criticism! But it is also somewhat unsurprising given the low literacy rate at that time and place. And this alone is simply not sufficient foundation for your accusations.


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What exact vaccine are you talking about, first? Gardasil is actually approved for use not only in India itself, but also the US (and Europe), FYI.

Trials where also done both in the US, Europe and a bunch of other countries (see https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/ctr-search/search?quer...).

> So WHY did BMGF and PATH not take INFORMED CONSENT before giving a dangerous experimental drug? Why were the minor patients MISLED on what they were being given? Why was no medical insurance provided to the patients unsuspectingly undergoing this risky experiment?

First: Your only source that you keep citing found no harm in trial patients linked to the drug. What they did found was a shoddy consent process, with high likelihood driven by efforts to keep costs low.

What your own source primarily blames are local regulators allowing this.

> 6. Is it okay to avoid doing clinical trial in home country with consent, but ethical to do it in another nation on poor unsuspecting minors without consent?

First: absolutely yes. If it is ethical to do a trial in one country, it is ethical to do it elsewhere. Why wouldn't it?

Secondly, clinical trials on Gardasil were done in both the US and Europe before 2008 (see source above).

> I can throw more and more facts and links here. But you already know the game is up, don't you?

I just explained how the sources you cited so far are insufficient to sustain your conclusions and accusations.

But this sentence alone makes me highly suspicious that you have your view set in stone, and that you are cherrypicking and misreading facts to fit it.

This is foolish. You should always ask yourself what information would be necessary to change your view-- my personal conclusion is that nothing really could, because you want to sustain your witchhunt more than you want to know the truth.

Personally, I came into this somewhat curious if there truly was some hushed up medical disaster in India caused by the Gates foundation, but by now my answer is a pretty conclusive no.


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Your primary point is "the study harmed participants, and Gates is responsible"

But your own report contradicts this, and finds the deaths unrelated.

You also argue that Gates is suspect, because HPV vaccine trials were only done in India. This is also false, I sourced that already in the previous response, you did not comment on it.

You keep coming back to the same Indian Parliamentary committee report, which explicitly finds that the girls deaths are completely unrelated or "unlikely related" to the vaccine, and then keep accusing the study of "killing schoolgirls".

You are either arguing in bad faith or lying to yourself here.

Unless you can actually state with a straight face what kind of evidence would change your outlook ("Gates responsible for harmful study"), I see no point in continuing this argument.


The claims in that article look weak.

Out of 10 000, how many children usually die before adulthood?


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> that deadly unproven vaccine

It was not.


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Lack of informed consent is a serious possible issue here. Lack of accountability might be another one. Being cheaper, by contrast, shouldn't be seen as bad. But all of this needs to be proven.


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I wonder what the other 11 000 NGOs did to get banned by Modi.


Did you even read what you posted ? Talking about the 7 deaths:

> Five were evidently unrelated to the vaccine: One girl drowned in a quarry; another died from a snake bite; two committed suicide by ingesting pesticides; and one died from complications of malaria. The causes of death for the other two girls were less certain: one possibly from pyrexia, or high fever, and a second from a suspected cerebral hemorrhage. Government investigators concluded that pyrexia was "very unlikely" to be related to the vaccine, and likewise they considered a link between stroke and the vaccine as "unlikely."

End of discussion.


Drugs in clinical trails like this have made it past the animal testing stage and the healthy volunteers testing stage. Efficacy wise, yes they are unproven.

To be the devil's advocate, it can be difficult to explain informed consent in the case of mental incapacity or whatever. In that case, a responsible adult can sign.

> Answer me honestly: Did that same billionaire (Bill Gates) and his organization (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) do the same exact trials in his home country (USA)? "clinical trials of unproven vaccines on thousands of poor minor girls, without consent of then and their parents"

As far as I know not so yes that's correct.

I said before they might have gone to those regions in India to bypass strict ethical committees in the west. And yes, that's definitely questionable.

The thing you completely ignore is that none of the deaths were because of the vaccine.

Yes, there have been problems with FDA. But modern medicine is mostly completely safe, so if the whole system was riddled by fraud this wouldn't be possible.

One day you or someone close to you may need life saving treatments and then you'll be thankful for the pharma industry.


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