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by djrogers 5y ago
The article, and the problems it references, aren't really expected to be a US thing - it's developing nations, and places where food is already harder to come by...
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> the WHO recommends to do way more to export vaccines to countries that need it. My understanding is that in many of those countries, the vaccine is readily available, but people don't want to take it for various reasons.
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If you’re grabbing the wheels, you’re doing it wrong. Also, if you get urine on the zipper, you’re doing it wrong.
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by djrogers 5y ago
Err, no. Being able to sharpen one’s own knives is a basic skill that every professional chef learns early. Having a sharp knife isn’t an ego-driven showoff move, it’s critically important.
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> It's not like we are running low on examples of 1000+ years buildings ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_century_in_architecture ). These castles, cathedrals, farms, were built to last, so it's appropria
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New solar roof emulates asphalt shingles, right down to the nails(arstechnica.com)
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet Dishes Are Attracting Cats(futurism.com)
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by djrogers 5y ago
> It's not like every kid is falling behind though. Yes, in many places it really is. Look at what test results have been released - there is a tiny cohort of kids that managed to remain close to the normal level of achievement, and
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by djrogers 5y ago
Some would say that spending $6 trillion in < 2 years on largely progressive programs is a pretty hard left swing. Others say that since the latest $4 trillion hasn’t passed yet we’re not left enough. Ill leave the judgement to you, but
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Well, realistically they’re not the ones providing the updates. Graphene is providing them.
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by djrogers 5y ago
You misread that - there is no claim that delta was initially released by a lab, rather a the known fact that a lab studying delta had an accident. Read the links the author provided.
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Omicron Cases Are Hitting Highs, but New Data Puts End in Sight(bloomberg.com)
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In a tiny country. Imelda Marcos exercised a similar level of power in a country >5x the size of Romania. The fact that he threw in Margaret Thatcher (who was not a dictator, and thus didn’t have as have much raw power) kinda shows that
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by djrogers 5y ago
Or Gloria Steinem, or Sandra Day O’Connor, or Imelda Marcos, or any of a number of women who were outside of the authors apparent Eastern European bubble.
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VPNs aren't the security necessities they once were(nbcnews.com)
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by djrogers 5y ago
> Seriously, if you can’t add, subtract, multiply, and divide them, then they aren‘t numbers You’ve missed a ton of other scenarios here, the relevant one being a compare operation with a < or > output. These are version numbers. V
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by djrogers 5y ago
Copyright violation is a civil matter, not a criminal one. You don’t have D.A.s prosecute people for civil crimes, you sue them.
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That’s not the same thing at all , you’re stretching here.
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I should also point out that while 126 popularized color photography, a decade later 110 came along and largely dominated consumer photography until the digital revolution.
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by djrogers 5y ago
> But, as for size, photo cameras sporting film smaller than 35 were rare. Strong disagree here. 126 film is what brought color photography to the mass market, and others like the Kodak Disc were wildly popular among point-n-shoot users
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by djrogers 5y ago
That hasn’t been my experience at all . I can’t recall ever hearing someone’s music through their AirPods, and I see them everywhere.
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by djrogers 5y ago
Not everything PAN related has to be 2.4ghz. UWB is promising…
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by djrogers 5y ago
Not OP, but a huge percentage of the no-name wireless earbuds I see are airpod knockoffs. Also, there were no successful true wireless earbuds before AirPods, just a couple of ones that launched a few months earlier to poor reviews.
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GP specifically said ‘non apple’, so not AirPods.
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They largely make it effortless to use with multiple devices. Pair with one of your apple devices, and they’re automatically available on all of your other apple devices. For the most part, they even intelligently auto-switch between them
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That’s basically a small TV - it’s nowhere near retina, and 4k is barely acceptable at 1/4 that size.
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No need for research, anyone who moved from Southern California to Northern California can tell you about this very distinct difference in speech patterns.
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Gas furnaces can heat water or oil for radiators too, which requires no fan.
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by djrogers 5y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting your COVID alerts from - I live in California and have never seen one. Maybe you installed an app?
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It also depends on what type of ground you're on. I've been in 5+ earthquakes in a house built on solid rock (Los Angeles area hills), and a 4.5 down in the valley. Being on loose ground makes it feel much worse.

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