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by djrogers 5y ago
Ok, it’s been 5 years. At this point the state should be able to point to quantitative and qualitative improvements in the homeless population. Can they? If so, where are those studies?
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by djrogers 5y ago
Temporarily? In what was is any of this temporary if COVID is going to be endemic? At some point we need a way forward, and that really shouldn’t require masks in all public settings. BTW - masks completely destroy my beard, so they’re not
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by djrogers 5y ago
> We're talking wearing a mask and saving lives This study doesn’t show that - it shows a slower rate of transmission, but without vaccination, the long term infection rate will ultimately be the same.
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by djrogers 5y ago
> Widespread mask use came as close to wiping out last year's Flu season as we've ever seen. I don’t think masks get alll the credit here, not even most possibly. The US was busy spraying down shopping carts with alcohol, foggi
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Surgical masks reduce Covid-19 spread, large-scale Stanford study shows(med.stanford.edu)
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Wait a sec - this wasn’t a ‘small press release’, it was a huge one, made several months in advance of the feature launching, accompanied by a bunch of interviews with execs. If you look at the tone of all of it, they also honestly felt thi
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by djrogers 5y ago
Not really - there are a ton of ways to profile and monitor a Mac to determine what processes are calling into what, and spotting something activating this code oth would be trivial if it were happening.
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by djrogers 5y ago
> Silencing voices is generally a big part of what conservatism is all about The same can be said for the modern Marxist movement, progressivism, and the social justice movement. Trying to paint the loss of liberty and liberalism as the
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by djrogers 5y ago
> With growing car theft in the US Odd, this got me wondering, and I can’t find any reliable statistics that show a rise in car thefts. Everything I see shows a pretty steady decline over the past 30 years in spite of an increasing the
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by djrogers 5y ago
> TSA has to call me to unlock them with my consent every time. No - no they don’t. Anything locked with a non-TSA compliant lock is fair game for the bolt cutters, and frankly probably draws a lot of extra attention. All you’re doing i
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by djrogers 5y ago
It was never thickness, it’s was depth.
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by djrogers 5y ago
> short of using air freight to get goods across Most iPhones and Apple Watches I’ve ever purchased on launch day ship via air from China to a FedEx hub somewhere in CONUS, then on to me. Takes about 3 days…
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by djrogers 5y ago
> Apple already exempts themselves from cancelling subscriptions without losing time remaining. That hasn’t been my experience - do you have a cite for that?
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by djrogers 5y ago
> requires users to deal with them holistically and, in the best case, to support or develop a new, better solution If you only ever want to serve the 1% that are capable of supporting or developing a new solution, then yes - I suppose t
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by djrogers 5y ago
Hate to be ‘that guy’, but without the ability to share and collaborate on notes, it’s not a drop-in replacement.
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by djrogers 5y ago
The closest parallel I can think of is actually very very close - when Apple acquired Beats they didn’t hide the fact that they would be turning it into a native steaming music service. They even announced that they’d continue to support An
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by djrogers 5y ago
No, it’s included - there’s just a beta glitch the first time (or two) you try to turn it on.
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by djrogers 5y ago
> know that we'd get our shit absolutely rocked in a war with China over Taiwan This is at best debatable, it’s definitely not a forgone conclusion. A war for Taiwan would be a largely naval and aerial confrontation, and the US ho
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by djrogers 5y ago
I wonder how many of the people that wouldn’t support it understand just how critical Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is. Not only critical to our national interest, but to their day-to-day lives. Look at what the current semiconductor sho
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by djrogers 5y ago
> It could flag you as a supporter of Free Hong Kong in China, women's rights in Afghanistan, or maybe just someone who likes gay porn in Russia And how do you propose that all of these evil regimes are going to get their images int
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by djrogers 5y ago
Looks like I was mistaken - there is a JRE channel but it may be just clips
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by djrogers 5y ago
Neither of the Olsen twins is Wanda - Elizabeth Olsen is their younger sister.
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by djrogers 5y ago
> 2) The record label are the ones who ultimately profited off the image. Did they? Seriously - would this album have sold a single fewer copies if the cover had been a picture of a duck, or a floating Pom-Pom, or any of a million other
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by djrogers 5y ago
He wouldn’t have a mortgage (at least not though Freddie Mac / Fannie Mae)
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by djrogers 5y ago
> centrally planned regulation about being connected to grid power prevents them from doing solar. This is not correct at all. Solar is not only possible for grid connected new construction in CA, it’s required. The only restriction here
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by djrogers 5y ago
Why are you bringing companies in to this? This is a straight up racial restriction which affects individuals.
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by djrogers 5y ago
> Granted my account predates their phone no. fetish I doubt that - twitter started as an SMS service…
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by djrogers 5y ago
Soooo, the big question is - is 40% higher or lower than what an average developer cranks out? ;-)
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> The average walking experience is poor, but the peak walking experience is marvelous. I feel this applies to almost everything about Los Angeles - the average anything probably sucks, but the peak is probably ether than you’re gonna
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by djrogers 5y ago
> Just look at all of the folks being prosecuted for pointing a laser the wrong way in the sky. That really smacks of being intentionally obtuse. If I said “look at all the people prosecuted for pointing their guns the wrong way when dis

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