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by awaythrower 6y ago
How about no, control freak.
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Of course not if limited to strict, inflexible ideological dogma, but the net effect serves the "higher" goal via realpolitik: Make government the "enemy" to be destroyed like how Reagan believed or like how libertarians
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by awaythrower 6y ago
That's the intended point.. mismanagement to form a self-fulfilling prophecy to justify and destroy government to allow more corruption and theft by the 1%; the libertarian wet dream.
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Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams
218 points by awaythrower 6y ago|402 comments
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Assuming, on the off chance, that this isn't some sort of quack treatment ploy, anything that works significantly would be a plus. I'm on my 13th antidepressant now that is yet-again not working well and I'm starting to wonde
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Let's be honest: owls are birb ninja assassins.
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Wear a reliable mask, fitted properly and remove it properly. Also, wear indirect or non-vented eye protection, or you're that gate on a road without a fence that the virus drives around. Finally, think carefully about airborne persist
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by awaythrower 6y ago
To manipulate people against their own interests to supposedly "save" PPE for HCWs, even though HCWs often get PPE from different manufacturers and distribution channels. Dishonesty and bad advice defeats the whole mission and pur
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Just like the 1880's: conspiracy theories, rumors and Alex Jones' snake oil panaceas. The world is headed to another Dark Age at this rate.
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by awaythrower 6y ago
That's a sweeping over-generalization. I said find a good textbook.
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by awaythrower 6y ago
So the financial equivalent of being beaten and dragged off a plane. Airlines couldn't be anymore customer-hostile unless they needle behind the ear, shrink-wrapped people and threw them into piles like rolls of carpet.
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Stop giving bureaucracies evil ideas to torture us and waste even more of our time. ;@) In the future, I want a drone with a replicator to land and make the shipment of products right in front of me. :-P
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by awaythrower 6y ago
I just learned cooking white and brown rice together doesn't work because the white rice will keep absorbing liquid until it's saturated, leaving hard/uncooked brown rice. Whoops. Haha.
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Ask HN: What hipster skills or project are you working on due to plague lockdown
2 points by awaythrower 6y ago|2 comments
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Biggest "duh" ever. Daddy issues and mommy issues are nuanced but create similar patterns of damaged/altered behaviors in later life. Anyone who's done dating seriously becomes effectively an investigative psychologist t
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by awaythrower 6y ago
A good ER database textbook illustrates normal forms much better than a blog post.
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Firstname lastname is too fragile and oversimplified. Suffix, prefix and a variable number of middle names/initials can also be necessary. Occasionally, legal name vs. nickname is also needed. But if there's no pressing need for g
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by awaythrower 6y ago
I would bet scraping from Amazon, reducing prices randomly from 20-50%, and being sure search engines and aggregators see it, i.e., Google/Google Shopping.
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Yes. Defense-in-depth. In China, most hospital red zones required 3 layers of PPE, whether that's two masks and a face shield or such. One layer alone is not very good, and a face shield alone is no good. A mask and a face shield are v
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Strawman and wrong.
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by awaythrower 6y ago
This is an inconvenient fact because most HNers tend to be wealthy or upper-middle class, first-world and myopic to their limited filter bubbles... and so utopian anarcho-capitalism and Austrian school economics seems meritocratic, function
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Also beware of phony Magento sites that don't have actual products, but are just trying to get CCs, PayPal or crypto payments.
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by awaythrower 6y ago
An exercise in false hope, futility, ostensible charity, and virtue-signaling. Ventilator manufacturers have solved numerous issues including reliability, durability, noise levels and loop hygiene (as well as possible). Automotive engineers
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Chiropractors are worse than fortune tellers. Their whole industry needs to be banned for fraud and making unfounded health claims.
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by awaythrower 6y ago
- I would not rely on data from the US because only serious and critical patients who were tested by public health departments are counted. Private lab results and "mild" cases go uncounted. Furthermore, not every COVID/ILI d
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Ignore the rtPCR test result data because SARS-CoV-2 still isn't a mandatory report condition (which is ridiculous) and so private labs don't report positive (or negative) results to any government regulators. The majority of test
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Stagflation ahead. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/19/what-comes-after-coronavirus... Get ready for 'stagflation' https://youtu.be/6psKnT5a4Gg Also, the US unemployment numbers are h
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by awaythrower 6y ago
It requires finding a supplier who has the exact or comparable part. Joe's has them although they're used but they do have long lives.
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Your assumption is wrong. You can buy replacement batteries that are pulled from good products, unfortunately there are no new parts. https://www.joesge.com/products/bose-quietcomfort-qc35-li-io...
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by awaythrower 6y ago
Maybe. Similar to drug testing an entire city using sewage.

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