Gupie

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by Gupie 7y ago
20-30% drop in lung capacity that "might improve over time" is hardly comparable to HIV or Ebola.
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by Gupie 7y ago
No that is the definition of scaremongering, "the spreading of frightening or ominous reports or rumours".
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by Gupie 7y ago
Link to the evidence of long term issues please, or is this just scaremongering.
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by Gupie 7y ago
An argument against closing the schools is that they will be looked after by their grandparents.
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by Gupie 7y ago
But how long do you, can you, lock down for, 3 months, six months, 1 year, until there is a vaccine?
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by Gupie 7y ago
Vulnerable people are being told to isolate themselves until herd there is herd immunity. The policy protects that elderly.
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by Gupie 7y ago
Deaths in the elderly is precisely what the UK strategy is aiming to avoid. Isolate elderly and other at risk groups until there is herd immunity in the rest of the population.
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by Gupie 7y ago
Why not have the level of sales tax (VAT in the UK) vary depending on amount of C02 was used to create a product. The consumer would not pay any more on average.
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by Gupie 7y ago
Was a rhetorical question.
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by Gupie 7y ago
Why is this and other similar comments being down voted, are they factually incorrect?
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by Gupie 7y ago
But there are light browns that are not orange, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki
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by Gupie 7y ago
Elect a government that will ban imports from polluting countries.
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by Gupie 7y ago
And private business if infamous for extracting every possible penny from customers.
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by Gupie 7y ago
Outliers or tabloid stories, while in the US people do not get treatment because they cannot afford it.
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by Gupie 7y ago
I also hear sounds, see colours, feel pain. These are qualia don't exist outside minds, and are not thoughts but experiences.
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by Gupie 7y ago
A couple of years ago we were holidaying in Kent, UK, and went for a walk on the South Downs. There was a guy in a hide shooting crows. He was at the edge of a field and had put some sort of lure in the middle of the field. Crows would fly
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by Gupie 7y ago
There is heap defragmentation.
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by Gupie 7y ago
"I have a ton of oxy and hydromorphone sitting in my bathroom" Not a good idea to keep them, IMO.
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by Gupie 7y ago
Isn't the bigger problem that it did not classify the object as being on a collision path. It doesn't matter what the object is, brake if you are going to hit it.
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by Gupie 7y ago
Are you being ironic when you say there were "never any extremely powerful opponents to it"?
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by Gupie 7y ago
The wikipedia article says "There are conflicting definitions and legal criteria for determining which groups may legitimately claim the right to self-determination." Have you not just pick a definition that agrees with you politi
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by Gupie 7y ago
"The right of a people to self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law" I am not an international lawyer myself but seeming "the right of a people to self-determination is a cardinal principle in mod
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by Gupie 7y ago
The freedom of self determination, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination : "The right of a people to self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law (commonly regarded as a jus cog
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by Gupie 7y ago
Running on water is incredible.
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by Gupie 7y ago
It is unfair there are so many homeless. It did not used to be like this.
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by Gupie 7y ago
Might be referring to their proposed Search and Rescue features, SAR.
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by Gupie 7y ago
Is the do_something_quickly example actually buggy? while (!need_to_stop) /* BUGGY!!! */ do_something_quickly(); Can the optimiser really unroll the loop and only check the need_to_stop variable once!? if (!need_to_stop
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by Gupie 7y ago
There is a case for burying charcoal, https://www.technologyreview.com/s/407754/the-case-for-buryi...
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by Gupie 7y ago
When we are currently losing (deforestation) 18 million acres of forest per year!
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by Gupie 7y ago
Founded in 1759, i.e. mid 18th century, not 16th.

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