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by KLexpat 6y ago
If you have a windows 10 laptop, pinching on the touchpad seems to give you the same zoom functionality now. vastly superior than the one built into the browser
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by KLexpat 6y ago
It was nearly a golden age in indochina. People in countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, (South) Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, etc experienced incredible and permanent improvement in living standards but yeah it wasn't that great anywhere sou
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by KLexpat 6y ago
>US-supported regimes killed something like a million people between 1950-1990. They killed far more than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19... 1965–1966, 500k - 1m https:/&#x2
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by KLexpat 6y ago
Despite what western media outlets say, this is not necessarily a bad thing. Military juntas are often a good/restorative part of government in countries like Thailand and Myanmar, and are well received by the general public. Doesn&#x2
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by KLexpat 6y ago
It is being allowed with proper oversight. These people are just experimenting underground. The problem with this tech isn't just the Übermensch (or should I say, ÜberTiāncháo) that we will have to deal with, but more subtle. For insta
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by KLexpat 6y ago
The real question is why are people incapable of regulating their own behaviour. It's convenient to say that talking about hanging politicians encourages this behaviour, and contributes to it End of the day though -- why should my spee
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by KLexpat 6y ago
It won't, but the media will blame it on the alt-right. "White privileged mcdonalds workers oppress poor minority new york billionaires with their greedy market manipulation! "
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by KLexpat 6y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6omry/an_o... I'm not so sure
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by KLexpat 6y ago
the word retard is common parlance in many parts of the world. But lets not be retarded about this, the point is more that they are using a puritan argument about the word retard in a retarded manner in order to shut down discourse, to try
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by KLexpat 6y ago
Do you think this could effectively render vaccines completely useless, if they have novel spike proteins that aren't targeted by the vaccines? Please forgive me if this is a stupid question, this is not my knowledge domain.
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Resurgence of Covid-19 in Manaus, Brazil, despite high seroprevalence(thelancet.com)
38 points by KLexpat 6y ago|14 comments
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by KLexpat 6y ago
Good point, I will edit it to say recommended in the american journal of medicine.
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by KLexpat 6y ago
>The AJM hasn't recommended anything. AJM has published a paper titled "Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection". >It hasn't published it "now&q
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by KLexpat 6y ago
Hi HN, I thought this was quite interesting; after considerable negative coverage in the news-media, now an article in the American Journal of Medicine has recommended treatment of 200mgof Hydroxochloroquine per day for Covid-19 patients. N
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by KLexpat 6y ago
Battery tech wasn't that good back then. I think the consumer electronics battery boom (i.e. putting batteries in cellphones, laptops, etc) has advanced the tech considerably. Not my area of expertise though
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by KLexpat 6y ago
Toyota is in a much better position than E.U. or U.S. manufacturers, except for Tesla. In the early 00's, the EU introduced emmissions regulations focused on Carbon, which didn't take sulphur into account. That's why Volkswag
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by KLexpat 6y ago
It's less helpful in already highly agricultural nations like the US, but in countries with scarce arable land or fragile ecosystems, or just very small countries like Singapore/Cambodia, vertical farming is superior to greenhouse
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by KLexpat 6y ago
Yeah they did, we have had similar problems in Australia The thing is, it's still a lot better than the mid-century horror stories of institutions; electrotherapy, lobotomy, people being drugged into a permanent fugue state, sexual abu
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Ask HN: What Is Terrorism?
4 points by KLexpat 6y ago|4 comments
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by KLexpat 6y ago
people running multi billion dollar enterprises usually just hire people to be their personal productivity app. I mean, personal assistants and secreterial staff. Even in fairly developed countries it's not too expensive to just hire a
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by KLexpat 6y ago
parler is owned by partisan media personalities such as dan bongino now. gab is political, but more so in terms of ideas and values. parler is explicitly, aggressively, partisan political from what i can see. I don't use either platfor
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by KLexpat 6y ago
If they get large quantities of Gen-X and baby boomers to move from FB to Gab, I think that will kill FB. When they open up digital marketing on a platform thats less saturated, that will be the real test though. If Gab can do digital marke
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by KLexpat 6y ago
Gab is #537 highest traffic website in the US, up from #647 yesterday. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gab.com#section_traffic I agree with you about the political agitation but I would say its becoming less of an issue
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by KLexpat 6y ago
https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gab.com#section_traffic a day later it's at #537 in the US
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by KLexpat 6y ago
Netflix is fragmenting into Disneyplus, HBO , etc. Facebook and Twitter are fragmenting into a bunch of different 'alt' services These companies will get completely crushed if the stock market decides that even a company with the
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Gab is now the 647th most popular website in the US, explosive 90 day growth(alexa.com)
57 points by KLexpat 6y ago|29 comments
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by KLexpat 6y ago
>>If you take an online community down, the people that made up that community will not all end up in the same place, they won’t bring the entire culture of that community with them, and some of them won’t make the jump. Parler was th
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by KLexpat 6y ago
4chan /g/ is basically an uncensored 2003 version of Hacker news. In fact, they often discuss the same topics. I saw the 'gnome DE' article posted there last week - after it was shared with HN it got 1k+ upvotes. The &#x
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by KLexpat 6y ago
It's political hyper-reality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality The 60+ generation grew up in a time where the morning tv broadcast and whatever they could read at the town library was concrete black and w
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by KLexpat 6y ago
They care a lot about control over credit markets. The entire premise of central banks controlling inflation via the money supply becomes precarious when people are able to issue and access credit outside of the controlled money supply. You

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