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Covid Lockdowns May Have No Clear Benefit vs. Other Voluntary Measures(newsweek.com)
6 points by djrogers 6y ago|1 comments
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Apple begins blocking M1 Mac users from side loading iOS applications(9to5mac.com)
32 points by djrogers 6y ago|9 comments
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by djrogers 6y ago
> It’s perfect and requires no more innovation When I moved from my 2014 to my current 16" MBP, I immediately fell in love with the smaller and sleeker new design. Its lighter and has a bigger screen - how are those not improveme
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by djrogers 6y ago
I love how hardcore France is on privacy, even in the midst of a crisis: >"Last summer, the Parisian transport authority suspended an effort that used AI technology to monitor whether Metro riders were wearing masks. France's p
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Moderna struggles to find 3k adolescent volunteers for Covid-19 vaccine trial(msn.com)
6 points by djrogers 6y ago|0 comments
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World’s first dwarf giraffes spotted in Uganda and Namibia – Science – AAAS(sciencemag.org)
2 points by djrogers 6y ago|0 comments
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by djrogers 6y ago
And yet there are still accounts for torrent sites (@tpb is alive and well last I heard) and other sites that allow for the distribution of copyrighted material. Something is fishy here, and I really really really don't see the motivat
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by djrogers 6y ago
> This isn't about speech, it's copyright infringement. Are they committing copyright infringement on Twitter?
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by djrogers 6y ago
I haven’t had to install a printer driver to print from macOS in ages. Unless you’ve got a weird/old printer, it’ll probably just work with AirPrint out of the box.
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by djrogers 6y ago
Maybe. Or maybe not: https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich... -- Ehrlichman died in 1999, but his five children in questioned the veracity of the account. “We never saw or heard a
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by djrogers 6y ago
If I suggest McDonalds to my family, the wife and 3 kids will all say yes. Heck, if I suggest Popeye's, 3 of the 4 will still say McDonalds...
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by djrogers 6y ago
> 2. They stipulate that lots of people didn't get tested, but believe it to be an order of magnitude less than the CDC estimates. That would imply that we've verified 23M out of a total of only 30M infections. Given how much o
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by djrogers 6y ago
Found the article kinda wandering and hard to follow, but I'm totally here for this: "Henry VIII’s toilet block at his Hampton Court Palace was known as the Great House of Easement"
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by djrogers 6y ago
> independent Oculus can stagnate My experience has been that technology is far more likely to stagnate at BigCo than SmallCo - especially if SmallCo's only source of revenue is said technology.
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by djrogers 6y ago
I didn't see any gun-aiming at her, or even drawn guns before she was escorted outside in the posted video. The only place I've seen that claim is from the subject of the raid.
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by djrogers 6y ago
Heating is needed at night, solar works during the day - how do you square that circle without a huge added cost ($$ and environmental) today?
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by djrogers 6y ago
You can’t blacken a bell pepper or toast bread over an induction element...
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by djrogers 6y ago
Many gas water heaters will definitely work. New tankless style ones may not if their thermostats rely on power, but the last 3 tanked water heaters I installed didn’t have any electrical hookups..
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by djrogers 6y ago
Sure, but that has nothing to do with ignition - the blower won’t run even if you get it lit. This doesn’t apply to gas fireplaces or smaller room sized radiant gas heater though.
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by djrogers 6y ago
Here electricity is 2-10x the cost of gas (depending on the electric usage tier you’re in) for simple stuff like heating. I pay over $0.40/kWh for electricity...
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by djrogers 6y ago
> Zelle, Venmo, PayPal, Square, Apple Pay - there are a ton of companies that all do this same thing in the US because the bank software is terrible and expensive. For all intents and purposes, Zelle is the bank software, and it’s free
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by djrogers 6y ago
That’s really not at all what these studies show. It’s direct airflow, over short periods of time. Your smoke theory would have everyone in both restaurants infected, which is not what happened.
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by djrogers 6y ago
“We should follow Japan’s lead and discourage talking” As an introvert, I like this conclusion regardless of how it was arrived at.
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by djrogers 6y ago
You need a different doc or to get out of your HMO or something. I never have a problem getting in to see a doc same or next day if it’s needed...
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by djrogers 6y ago
This makes perfect sense - logical or not, human nature would lead society as a whole to mistrust a lottery commission where this happened. The only reasonable option here is to investigate the incident and hope to sway enough people back
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by djrogers 6y ago
> assume that HR can view EVERYTHING on your phone, because they can Patently false, for many values of ‘everything’ and ‘phone’. An MDM has zero visibility into an iPhone’s browsing history, iMessage content, or the content of any app n
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by djrogers 6y ago
The planet has enough land to support many orders of magnitude more roads than we currently use. What leads you to think this is a problem?
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by djrogers 6y ago
This is one data point among many. Tons of devs have been tweeting their compile times, and in many/most cases the M1 spanks the best Intel Mac out there. If anything, then numbers in TFA are an outlier rather than a contradiction.
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by djrogers 6y ago
The mini is their cheapest computer. The Air has been their entry level laptop for the last several generations. The 13” Pro has had 2 versions since 2016 - a low-end 2 port model, and a higher end 4 port model. Every device with an M1 av
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by djrogers 6y ago
Wait, people still sync their phones? I thought that went away about 5 years ago... At least that’s the last time I or any of the people I ‘friend support’ for did so...

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