drak0n1c

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by drak0n1c 6y ago
If it's true that Vitamin D is such a large factor in reducing the lethality of respiratory disease -- perhaps it's better to loosen lockdown rules to ensure the wider population can get more sun before they inevitably catch the v
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
If affluenza is real and silver spoons create unproductive people, shouldn't we be wary of spreading a version of it to a much larger chunk of the population?
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
The county officials making these arbitrary rules and extensions are unelected, so they don't necessarily represent those living in the county either.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
It would be better if you countered the statistical method used in the analysis. Otherwise your point is no better than someone saying "Soros donated to this think tank, therefore invalid".
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Regardless of how right or wrong he is, it's a digression into partisan-ness unrelated to the topic of hyperlinking practices. HN tends to downvote when that happens.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
It's surprising that partisan tabloids (Breitbart, Daily Beast, etc) provide clickable hyperlinks to the original reporting and source documents more often than major media outlets do. Maybe it's due to their reblog origins, they&
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
You can criticize a company's behavior while recognizing it is their right to do what they are doing. We do it all the time with other industries. Critiques of hiring/firing decisions, environmental practices, poor customer servic
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
The irony only exists because of the tragic centralization of web tools. Hopefully, as more people open their own websites and domains, that centralization will lessen.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
According to the deleted research center job and notice postings in November and December it allegedly originated in Hunan among bats, and they collected it and brought it back to the Wuhan lab.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
If you buy mainly beans, rice, flour, frozen chicken, etc for your monthly food you will be far under $500. It's all the other distracting items in the grocery store that add up.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Unfortunately Apple and Google are banning non-government COVID-19 apps from their app stores. Are you having any luck getting past review?
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Coincidentally I have started listening to local radio through my Alexa, something I've never tried before this outbreak.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Maybe they don't want the overhead of interviewing and taking on full employees expecting long-term employment at this time. I don't know if UK employment laws allows this (they are pretty strict) but perhaps they can issue a stip
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
For those reading who may be reminded of a recent news story - There was never any refusal of purportedly offered test kits. The WHO confirmed that there was never such an offer or even availability and that the rumor was false. https:&#x2
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Congress removed RT’s press credentials and gallery access in 2017. Major US journalism outlets were supportive of the move. Unfortunately even our own media increasingly favors deplatforming. https://thehill.com/homenews&#x
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Congress did the same with RT, revoking their ability to access and report on Congress in late 2017. I don’t see how this is particular to the president.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Congress removed RT’s press credentials and gallery access. The move to limit their information gathering was supported by major US media outlets. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/362540-rt-fires-back-afte...
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Yes. CNN, MSNBC, and Washington Post were supportive of Congress removing RT’s press credentials and gallery access. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/362540-rt-fires-back-afte...
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
The OP is in India. US leaders and insurance companies have issued coverage for the outbreak.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Until payment processing for regular money becomes free, peer-to-peer micropayments can only be done economically with a cryptocurrency. The need for a new unique crypto currency for this project is debatable, but I can understand that the
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Similarly, the mayor of Boston chastised Sony for cancelling its PAX East appearance, and accused Sony of supporting bigotry. The bureaucratic disconnect is universal. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-02-24-b
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Japan has a 99% conviction rate and indefinite uncharged detention happens often. Despite that people treat police amicably, and there is a trusting relationship. That's to me a sign that there is a fundamental cultural difference in J
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Demainstream: Browser extension filters corporate media from YouTube suggestions(demainstream.com)
3 points by drak0n1c 7y ago|0 comments
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
On iOS, for those of us addicted to convenience, the Oldio app provides free Audible-style listening to Librivox https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oldio-audiobook-classics/id135...
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Funnily enough, 'The Outer Worlds', an offline single-player RPG game, censors player names. https://wireframe.raspberrypi.org/articles/banned-character-...
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Santa hat removed from VS Code after complaint(github.com)
243 points by drak0n1c 7y ago|157 comments
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
An important context is the amount of karma the popular posts get on those subreddits (proxy for engagement size), and the up/down ratio on the specific links.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Roger Stone as well - the only charges brought against him were for lying during interrogations. His ego and boisterous storytelling habit did him in. Being in and out of the White House over the decades and friends with various DC lifers p
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
That shouldn't stop you. Comprehensive travel insurance can be had for short and long trips for $50 - $150. Prices for US travel insurance are around the same as insurance for visiting other developed countries such as Japan or Switzer
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
For those cases having Brave or another Chromium browser as a backup works well.

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