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by barbacoa 6y ago
Saying a public person's email address is private information that could lead to physical harm is quite a stretch. If the NYP had redacted the email addresses they would have named a different excuse.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
I think it's interesting how freaked out people get when they realize how powerless we can be as a species even with all our technology. I'm baffled that "flatten the curve" is now "lock down until further notice&qu
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by barbacoa 6y ago
There are reports that vaccines may only be somewhat effective and even when effective confer immunity for mere months. Now we are hearing that this virus can reinfect people like the coming cold. What if we can never rid the world of covid
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by barbacoa 6y ago
At $200k for treatment I don't see insurance companies covering this.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
Something similar happened to ships that got stuck in the Suez canal after the six day war between Israel and Egypt. Ships and crew were stuck there for 8 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fleet
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by barbacoa 6y ago
From my understanding the story is: * Patriot act is up for renewal * Amendment proposed to not allow section 215 to be used to search internet history W/O warrant. * Patriot act reauthorized W/O internet history protection amendm
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by barbacoa 6y ago
There is a documentary about it called Tread that showed at SXSW last year. Have never been able to find it available to stream, buy/rent, or even torrent.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
Found a blog a while back where they linked to all the research papers the Chinese lab in Wuhan was doing. Very interesting read. Basically they were studying animal to human virus transmission by bio engineering bat viruses to infect human
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by barbacoa 6y ago
From their audit: "The Auditors believe this clarification is an important one, as it signals that Facebook recognizes that messages warning of surveillance of the polls by law enforcement or immigration officials sends the same (suppr
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by barbacoa 6y ago
The internet is slowly splitting in two. One internet of meticulous curated, corporate approved, advertising safe content. Another full of unsavory parts of unfiltered human expression -- torrents, porn, racism, hate. Not sure which one is
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by barbacoa 6y ago
PragerU has their content taken down and/or restricted on a regular basis from big tech platforms. Their videos express generic and cliche conservative ideas and values. While many people may not agree with what they say it is a far st
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by barbacoa 6y ago
The cost of the building is minor compared to the cost of the wafer equipment. It is not uncommon to build a Fab but only fill it with a fraction of the equipment capacity. Fabs can be scaled up when demand increases.