beatgammit

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by beatgammit 7y ago
Why? This is a crappy review that doesn't do the device justice, and the PinePhone has nowhere near the level of support that Purism will offer. Neither should be considered "consumer ready", and it'll probably remain th
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Or they tried to connect to an incompatible network. The article is light on details.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
I think anyone who thought critically about it could see through this. It's not the masks are ineffective, it's that they're not necessary for the average person to be reasonably safe, and they're in short supply, so we
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by beatgammit 7y ago
I think the best option is to understand these viruses better, so we should be increasing funding to stay ahead of the next disease. Ideally, we could identify a set of likely deadly viruses so we can be ready to develop vaccines if necessa
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Even if they're cooked, the handler could have contracted it during preparation. I don't know Chinese culture well enough to know if we can solve this problem through market controls (might just shift to the black market), so we s
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by beatgammit 7y ago
I think there are a ton of inefficiencies that could be fixed, but I don't think we need to risk destroying our economy to fix it. There are a lot of reasonable, incremental steps we can take. This is an older article[1] (2003), but I
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by beatgammit 7y ago
~1 million is the current annual death rate in the US (~0.8% last I checked), and the disease kills older people much more than younger people. How many of those 2 million would have died anyway in the next couple of years? How many would h
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Testing randomly gets us a better picture of how widespread it is then testing to confirm severe cases. I'd much rather know that X% of the population has it with an error of Y than Z% of severe cases are due to this virus.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
That certainly seems like something the Japanese government would do. Just look at the Fukushima nuclear issue for evidence of them hiding information to save face. I personally do not trust the Japanese government to be transparent about s
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Masks are effective at preventing spread to others, but they're fairly ineffective at preventing spread to the wearer since the virus can get on any exposed skin and make it's way to your mouth (e.g. touching after washing hands)
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by beatgammit 7y ago
If this becomes a cyclical thing, I'm sure we'll have vaccines for it like we do the flu, at which point it'll just be annoying like the flu is.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Oh, it's absolutely not "the big one", which is why I'm so frustrated at all of the panic buying. It was pretty clear early on that this isn't that deadly and that the main issue with it is filling up hospitals. We
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Legally, it is stealing. However, just because something is illegal doesn't make it wrong. However, you could also think of it like the digital equivalent of sharing. If someone purchases a movie or TV series on physical disks, they co
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Personally, I think it should be tiered. I'm willing to pay ~$2 for older films (that's what my grocery store charged when I was a kid), ~$5 for new releases, and I expect a discount for paying month to month vs ala carte. So, if
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by beatgammit 7y ago
I don't use PopcornTime or otherwise pirate, but I completely understand the motivation of those that do. Personally, I just watch fewer movies because the value just isn't there. I subscribe to Netflix and Amazon Prime mostly bec
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by beatgammit 7y ago
It certainly will suck in the short term, but I doubt long term demand for air travel will go down, so most should be able to be rehired at one of the airlines that remain.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
And solar isn't "synthetic fuel". I don't think anyone is seriously recommending solar planes, at least not in the short term.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
> invested in financial instruments Which is what most people mean when they say "cash" in the context of company financials. As long as it's reasonably liquid, I consider it "cash". Investing in the company, on
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Neither? Markets have been overheated, so a correction makes a ton of sense. What we need is to get over this pandemic as quickly as possible so we can stop disrupting trade and get people back to work. The news coming out of China is encou
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by beatgammit 7y ago
I strongly disagree with imprisonment here, but I can get behind fines.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
I wonder what percent of jobs are reasonably safe to do (e.g. no forced close proximity to others). Office jobs are particularly bad and often easy to do from home, and many warehouse jobs don't have as close of proximity to other work
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Yeah, there would be rioting pretty much immediately if anyone tried that here, and I'm sure the same would happen elsewhere. I'm personally a fan of controlled, opt-in infections to help speed up research for a vaccine along with
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by beatgammit 7y ago
I went to Costco and saw people buying up to the limit on random stuff, and they end up with 6 months of toilet paper, 1 year worth of pasta, etc. I wanted one box of diapers (one lasts over a month), and there were only 4-5 boxes left when
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by beatgammit 7y ago
The article states that the country is on lockdown, and there are fines for violating that. I assume a very significant portion of the workforce cannot work from home, and I didn't see anything about pay being continued if you can&#x27
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Well, there is. You infect them and keep them isolated until they recover. If you do that before the problem becomes rampant, you will have more healthy doctors available. However, if the virus mutates significantly, they may just get sick
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Right, but the longer it takes to get there, the more likely you are to either find a cure. Failing that, you at least reduce pressure on medical infrastructure, which means more people get meaningful care.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
No idea. I don't trust anything on wccftech.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Why not include a percent? Are we talking about 10% of cars, or more like 80%? Is it mostly recent cars, or are cars from several years ago also affected? It's not a terrible headline, but it could also be improved.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
Why couldn't it work like credit cards? Physically touch the car with the key like a normal key hole if the battery dies. The car can provide whatever small current it needs, and the key can be as complex as we want.
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by beatgammit 7y ago
I deleted my Facebook account some years ago. Even when I had one, most of my friends used it as a micro blog, image host, or free ad platform (e.g. "network marketing"), and the amount of meaningful socializing was slim to none.

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