planetzero

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by planetzero 7y ago
" So why did it not prevent spreading to Italy, a foreign country with a border, who even saw it coming 2 months in advance?" Italy didn't ban travel early enough and their medical system couldn't keep up with the amount
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by planetzero 7y ago
"Like I said in my other post: the claim that they "covered it up for months" is nonsense." There was an outbreak, but it was covered up for many weeks. Doctors that came out were silenced by the government. Anyone tal
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by planetzero 7y ago
Sure. So you give the customers a one time bailout and in exchange, thousands are out of jobs. Great plan!
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by planetzero 7y ago
"Your first paragraph makes clear why freedom of the press is necessary." All press isn't being banned, just specific press from China. Our Freedom of the press is still in place. I also don't really consider the press
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by planetzero 7y ago
" But it's hard to ignore the fact that in this country, when poor people make mistakes [or, in this case are the victims of circumstance], they typically eat those mistakes. Medical bankruptcies, unable to cover a $500 emergency,
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by planetzero 7y ago
With all the talks of us resorting to socialism to fight the virus, it appears many countries had to resort to fascism.
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by planetzero 7y ago
I think you're already a little late. Most people have been using this term for almost two decades.
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by planetzero 7y ago
Most people during the depression wouldn't have complained about getting paid to work too many hours.
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by planetzero 7y ago
I've been working from home for a decade. I've worked at many companies and been part of the hiring process for remote developers. Most people just don't have the discipline to work remotely. I think productivity will be re
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by planetzero 7y ago
"implied" Did he imply or are you implying now because you don't like Trump? Kind of like when he made a speech about illegal immigrants and the press implied that he was talking about all immigrants? "Also, people were
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by planetzero 7y ago
This might work. But how many people will die in the process? There are many cases of young people, with seemingly no prior health issues, dying after getting severe issues as a result of the virus. On top of that, you can't guarante
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by planetzero 7y ago
"We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing. Verily is in the early stages of development, and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time" yes, yes
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by planetzero 7y ago
Most people in my company treat Slack as Asynchronous, unless it's something really important..and it's usually a phone call.
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by planetzero 7y ago
Here's what they can teach us: When you have an extremely small country, it's easy to contain. Not so much for the rest of the world.
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by planetzero 7y ago
Saving money !- making money
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by planetzero 7y ago
Please change the headline. His wife tested positive and he will not be tested because he is asymptomatic.
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by planetzero 7y ago
The Chinese government is essentially building a private Internet that they can fully control and censor when needed.
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by planetzero 7y ago
This tells me that the average person wasn't washing their hands properly.
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by planetzero 7y ago
jokes on them: I don't use Toilet paper
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by planetzero 7y ago
We can have co-ed teams, but if everyone is given the same skill test and it makes women virtually non-existent on the team, there shouldn't be any special rules in place to fix the inequality.
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by planetzero 7y ago
Except the fact that the best way to create a vaccine is through capitalism.
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by planetzero 7y ago
"being a junior engineer that works on isolated bits of work" Most Junior engineers aren't working remotely. I've been working remotely for a decade with different companies and almost all of the developers on my teams
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by planetzero 7y ago
How ironic: A person railing against cancel culture gets cancelled by cancel culture. Simply disagreeing with politically charged topics gets you a boot from many open source projects. Many people that claim to want tolerance, actually want
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by planetzero 7y ago
Even if it's not illegal, basing your application on an API you can't control and may lose access to if the owner cuts you off or decides to charge you for access, is a bad idea.
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by planetzero 7y ago
I once worked for a small startup with 5 people and a boss obsessed with scrum and that only had experience in big corporations. It was a remote development job with lots of meetings: -1 hour standups daily -twice per week, 3 hour planning
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by planetzero 7y ago
Unless you're going to college for engineering, math, the sciences, or to become a doctor, college really isn't for learning. It's for having fun and to some degree networking. If you can join a fraternity/sorority, you
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by planetzero 7y ago
It's funny how the hobby that I had as a kid, which pretty much cost me nothing (aside from the cheap, used, laptop, I bought with my allowance) now makes me more money/year than most people that I know. I really don't know h
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by planetzero 7y ago
He's acceptable to a large percentage of the population, and there is most likely a large percentage of this group that also believes in the Russian->Trump conspiracy.
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by planetzero 7y ago
Why is everything you don't like a Russian Conspiracy? Yet Bernie Sanders, who honeymooned in the Soviet Union and expressed his adoration of the country for years, is perfectly acceptable to run our country? We could also solve many o
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by planetzero 7y ago
I will be looking forward to your next project: isBool

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