magduf

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by magduf 6y ago
No, the point of this paper is that masks are not completely, absolutely, perfectly, 100% effective and foolproof, and therefore we shouldn't use them at all. I really have to wonder if the people pushing this have some kind of agenda.
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by magduf 6y ago
Correlation doesn't guarantee causation, but the Asian countries where mask-wearing has been commonplace for a long time have done far, far, far better with this pandemic than nations where no one wears masks in public.
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by magduf 6y ago
This is the key here, and what all these "masks don't work!" people seem to constantly miss somehow. No, masks are not 100% effective at filtration; any idiot can see that. They don't have to be 100% effective, they ju
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by magduf 6y ago
Why can't we have both?
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by magduf 6y ago
I've read that SSDs can't be used to replace HDDs for long-term archival use: if you leave them powered off for too long, the data degrades. I can store data long-term on a regular HDD and stick in a closet or safe-deposit box an
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by magduf 6y ago
The WD product manager's response: "Bwahahaha!!! Seagate's drives are crap too, and we own Hitachi! Where are you going to go now? Bwahahahaha!"
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by magduf 6y ago
I usually have pretty good success hitting F5 to reload and then hitting Esc at just the right time before the ad stuff loads.
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by magduf 6y ago
>while The Troubles didn't induce the UK to give any concessions it wasn't already willing to give beforehand. If you look farther back in Ireland's history, it seems like Ireland's independence from UK was achieved m
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by magduf 6y ago
What exactly are nutjobs going to do with any of these weapons? We've had cases of nutjobs getting their hands on tanks, or building their own armored bulldozers, and going on rampages. It's a pain, but it's not a complete d
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by magduf 6y ago
Sounds to me like the military is simply shooting itself in the food with its "up or out" policies. Why force highly-trained and experienced people to leave just because they've gotten to a plateau in their career where they
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by magduf 6y ago
That probably doesn't matter to the people pushing the NDA. Why should they care about the realities of contract law, when they can just make up lies and get people to believe them under threat of lawsuit? It's just like how so m
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by magduf 6y ago
Because the volumes are low. It's the same with any technology. High volumes = low cost, and vice-versa. When the manufacturing is geared up to produce enormous volumes and there's a bunch of competitors, the final product cost
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by magduf 6y ago
Well it's pretty obvious that China is vying for the position, and the likeliest to achieve it.
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by magduf 6y ago
I guess we can look forward to Chinese hegemony in the future, since the US doesn't want to do it any more.
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by magduf 6y ago
When has any organization put peoples' lives over politics? Anyway, the WHO/Taiwan debacle seems to resulted in Taiwan handling this pandemic better than anyone else, considering their proximity to China and the huge amount of tra
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by magduf 6y ago
You seriously think the Chinese government is going to stoop to K&R with random Americans? The Chinese government is the last entity I'd be worried about with this kind of information (unless, of course, you live in China). Certai
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by magduf 6y ago
If China wants to waste its resources having people spy on me on Zoom while I play board games with friends on it, then this seems like a good thing to me. But I wouldn't use it for work meetings.
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by magduf 6y ago
>Personally, I would try to stick to apps by companies headquartered in your home country. Why is that? It seems like the opposite would be the best advice: make sure to use something from a company not headquartered in your country.
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by magduf 6y ago
>There is a range of consistencies for which bidets are wholly useless. Specifically, sticky ones. For these, you need friction from a solid, high-surface-area object. You've obviously never used a proper washlet.
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by magduf 6y ago
It's utterly amazing that American society is so unhygienic that we still don't have bidets or washlets in common use.
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by magduf 6y ago
Well then maybe that law needs to be rescinded.
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by magduf 6y ago
After seeing how Boeing and American-run airlines operate, I'd have a lot more trust in Chinese-run airlines and airplanes than anything run by American managers.
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by magduf 6y ago
Sounds good to me. I'll bet there's some Chinese airlines that would like to expand their operations and have the cash to do some buyouts.
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by magduf 6y ago
The problem is that these people are going to be taking up precious space in your hospital's ER and ICU units. Remember, younger people aren't as affected by this as older people. So these dumb churchgoers (who I believe tend to
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by magduf 6y ago
>Welcome to a pandemic. Americans today aren't used to being vulnerable. If anything, it's just a reminder of how thin the facade we project on the world actually is. No, the problem is that America has an incompetent governmen
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by magduf 6y ago
Trump isn't really that conservative, he's just an egomaniac without any real principles. The conservative nutjobs have just latched onto him and made him their new savior, for now. Notice how Trump's story changes rapidly.
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by magduf 6y ago
>Though going to church might be the worst of all options since church goers tend to skew more to the older side of the population. Actually, probably not, which is why "megachurches" is an important qualifier here. From my ob
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by magduf 6y ago
>Why single out megachurches? Why not? From my observations, megachurches tend to be very different from many other Christian churches, including in theology. Christians aren't all the same, but there are some definite things that
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by magduf 6y ago
Well she's probably right not to trust the American healthcare system. It was pretty bad before, and it's going to be a completely dysfunctional disaster pretty soon. Meanwhile, China is able to build an emergency pandemic hospit
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by magduf 6y ago
Look at the infection rates in those countries: they're S-curves. New infections are being found, but the rate of increase is far lower than it was previously, and the majority of cases are cleared up. That shows they're likely

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