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Linkletter has a gofundme here: https://ca.gofundme.com/f/stand-against-proctorio

I've donated, and would recommend others do the same.

Any downsides to that?

Blockchain is a brilliant solution to an extremely rare problem. It lets you do distributed consensus among untrusted nodes in a setting where contributing compute power is economically incentivized (e.g. where there's mining). That applies to cryptocurrencies, but basically nothing else.

It's amazing how much bullshit has been pitched under the flag of "blockchain". Millions of dollars have been poured into projects that are technically unsound or that had no use for a blockchain to begin with. This has been going on for years.

You have people born in the 90s hospitalized in Norway now. Many experience long term physical and cognitive effects. And as long as we're assuming everyone goes unvaccinated, the chance of contracting COVID goes towards 1 over time, while the R-number explodes as we open up society to avoid economic ruin. Not a good scenario IMO.

As I said, the relevant comparison in the real world is versus waiting for another vaccine, where it the choice is much less obvious, and dependent on the disease level in the population.

The chance of getting a blood clot seems so low that it may for all I know be equivalent to the risk of dying in the streets while jaywalking to get to the vaccination center. Compared to the risk of going unvaccinated, it's an obvious choice.

That's not the choice we have though. The correct comparison seems to be the expected risk of taking the vaccine vs expected risk of waiting for a dose of another vaccine. Calculating this on an individual level should be straight forward given the risk of contracting COVID in a given area. Ideally the calculation would also take into account the effect that vaccination has on the virus reproduction number. That's harder to model, but approximate models like this exist.

If you actually put numbers to it and do this computation, you'll get an answer, or at least a distribution of outcomes, where it's straight forward to see what choice is optimal. Then public discussion can be around what the parameters of this model should be, and we'll stand a chance of making the right choice.

This is a potentially very consequential optimization problem, and the public discussion about it is as if no one understands that that is what it is.

Anyone can go on archive.org and verify that they changed their color scheme and header to ones very similar to CatchJS in Feb 2020, after CatchJS had used that look for 2 years. Thank you for also pointing out the pricing page, where the same is true.

I've now received a cease and desist from their attorney stating that the looks are too similar. It's nice that they've paid for an attorney to make my point for me, but they seem to have mixed up who did what here.

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