Jeema101

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by Jeema101 5y ago
Yes good point . It's widely accepted nowadays that the Spanish Flu did not originate in Spain, yet that was the common belief at the time. I think it also bears pointing out that, in the US at least, we largely failed to detect that t
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by Jeema101 5y ago
It could be that you're confusing cause and effect, though. How do we know that the virus (or a precursor) wasn't already circulating in China, and was simply detected in Wuhan because of the fact that there are experts in corona
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by Jeema101 5y ago
Here's a question I have: Given a pandemic (past, present, or future, doesn't matter) won't the causal pathogen always look like it's been impossibly "well tuned" to infect humans? I suspect in most cases it
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by Jeema101 5y ago
I also have designed pedals in the past - I agree with you it is loads of fun but probably hard to make money on. As I see it, there's two issues working against you in this regard. First, guitar players in general seem to be somewhat
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by Jeema101 6y ago
It's not quite so black and white, though, because if you say that people have the unlimited right to form their own country, then where does that right end? Does a city, or a small group of people, or a single person have the right t
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by Jeema101 6y ago
It has nothing to do with population density. Other continents have fared much better than Europe, North America, and South America [1]. Many of the world's densest cities are on these continents. [1] https://en.wikipedia.
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by Jeema101 6y ago
>For the majority of the population it’s a mild respiratory virus I know someone in her 40s who got it and is not overweight. She said it was terrible and that she's definitely getting the vaccine because she never wants to get it
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by Jeema101 6y ago
I don't think a lot of people in this thread seem to understand the gravity of what this would mean (perhaps because many here didn't live through the Cold War), but this would not be Crimea all over again - it would be a standoff
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by Jeema101 6y ago
I'm not a node.js programmer by trade, so maybe I have this all wrong, but I thought the main selling point of the language was that it is fast. The thing is, everything in computer science comes with a tradeoff: the tradeoff in this c
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by Jeema101 6y ago
Exactly - people may very well be mixing up cause and effect. It could be that a precursor was already spreading prior to the major outbreak but only detected when it hit Wuhan because so many coronavirus experts were concentrated in that a
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by Jeema101 6y ago
Yes. 1945 post-war Germany saw mass-censoring as part of the Allied de-Nazification program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification "the US Army continued its efforts to denazify Germany through control of
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by Jeema101 6y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. It obviously can't be his first C compiler because it's written in C! :) I'm not even sure it's the first C compiler written in C, though - it just says in the github description "t
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by Jeema101 6y ago
BBSes were awesome. It was this whole other level of subculture within the already nerdy computing subculture. And the people you were connecting with were all in your own community! I remember I would grab the local computer user newslet
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by Jeema101 6y ago
The atariage.com forums might be the place to go if the author hasn't tried that already. There's a number of old-timers who occasionally pop in on the forums, as well as a bunch of people who just seem to know a lot in general a
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by Jeema101 6y ago
The fact that you had to point this out demonstrates that there are a decent number of people who are either out of touch with what life is like for people living paycheck-to-paycheck, or else they're trying very hard to rationalize th
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by Jeema101 6y ago
> This might cause the whole table to be locked and copied in SQL That was indeed the case in the past, but not so much anymore except for certain situations. MySQL, for example, has had support for in-place table alterations for a whil
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by Jeema101 6y ago
It's not so much that he has intentionally incited violence - I don't actually think that's the case. It's that he's been engaging in political brinkmanship for some time now, and in the process become a spiritual
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by Jeema101 6y ago
They're already enraged and they have no desire to engage in civil discourse anyway because they'd rather believe in conspiracy theories. I liken it to having a toxic person in your life who can't admit that their actions are
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by Jeema101 6y ago
I can't say I feel that sorry for them. They've been engaging in political brinkmanship for months now since the election ended. Just last week the head of the RNC was sending letters to the vice president trying to get him to e
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by Jeema101 6y ago
Just my opinion, but I think this may be most problematic quote from the speech: "The radical left knows exactly what they're doing. They're ruthless, and it's time that somebody did something about it" Seems like i
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by Jeema101 6y ago
In the movie Back to the Future 2, from 1989, Marty travels to 2015 and sees an original Mac sitting in an antique store window with a sign saying 'antique computer, circa 1984'. I remember that was a huge laugh at the time to thi
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'Hello World' on a 1982 Entex Adventure Vision(blarworld.net)
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by Jeema101 6y ago
I like where you're going with this. The hamster will of course also need buttons to change the channel to other hamster-related programming if he or she so desires. :)
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by Jeema101 6y ago
The takeway IMO is that the reason their transition was so seamless is because they took the time to do it 'the right way' - that is: set up the new system in parallel, duplicating the reads and writes, and verifying that things l
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by Jeema101 6y ago
You're right of course. I recall in 2004 some people complaining about Bush stealing Ohio. I was living in Ohio in 2004, and I voted for Kerry, but even I thought those accusations were a bit silly at the time. I think it just unders
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by Jeema101 6y ago
You don't have any secret evidence that other people haven't already seen and already debunked. Ask yourself this: is there anything that could convince you that the election was on the up-and-up?
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by Jeema101 6y ago
I had this game as well and also recall the bitmap and insults about your flying when you would crash. Also the comically understated 'wings ripped off' message you would get at the bottom of the screen when you pulled way too ma
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by Jeema101 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking
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by Jeema101 6y ago
Studies so far seem to disagree with you that going to a restaurant 'isn't a significant risk'. “...restaurants were by far the riskiest places” for new infections, “about four times riskier than gyms and coffee shops, follow
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by Jeema101 6y ago
Several video game consoles from back in the day (the Magnavox Odyssey 2 and Entex Adventurevision) used the MCS-48 microcontroller mentioned in this write up instead of more conventional CPUs of the time like the 6502 or Z80, which seems a

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