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by endorphone 7y ago
This doesn't validate the idea, if that's what you're implying. To be necessarily negative, this sort of product has appeared countless times. It fills a need that people just don't have. I have four kids, a wife, a do
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by endorphone 7y ago
Surgical-style masks catch droplets going in either direction (of course) -- whatever protection it offers going out it offers going in as well, which is fairly obvious from a basic analysis. Of course it won't protect against individu
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by endorphone 7y ago
I suppose so, though pre-edit certainly seemed to be masks generally, including a WHO statement on masks generally. Not to mention there have been some vigorous arguments on HN where people dismiss masks wholesale (including N95 masks). Tho
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by endorphone 7y ago
"From what I read, these are only useful if you're sick and trying to reduce transmission" What government has said -- in a convoluted, almost misinformation manner -- is that from a probability perspective a mask is unlikely
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by endorphone 7y ago
Not really? Then you casually say "if you exclude the iPhone" which kind of undercuts the entire argument, doesn't it? 70% of Apple revenue comes from the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Services revenue is entirely and absolutely bas
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by endorphone 7y ago
"It's telling that after Jobs, Apple didn't slide into irrelevance but instead continued to thrive." Tim Cook is clearly incredibly important to the success of Apple, but from a product perspective it is a refinement of
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by endorphone 7y ago
Partisan? Hysterical! There is no universe where disagreeing with a cult of ignorance is "partisan". Further, it isn't a conspiracy theory to make a banal observation. Flagging is clearly being grossly abused.
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by endorphone 7y ago
Only on HN (or, I suppose, The_Donald) -- comment claiming that "many journalists are consistently choosing to publish blatant lies, propaganda and click-bait garbage" (about headline that is 100% accurate) sits high. My comment d
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by endorphone 7y ago
Elon Musk's words- “My frank opinion remains that the harm from the coronavirus panic far exceeds that of the virus itself. If there is a massive redirection of medical resources out of proportion to the danger, it will result in less
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by endorphone 7y ago
This is reported in the same way that the Google website debacle was -- someone offhandedly mentioned something, and this administration runs out to scream it from the mountaintops as an accomplishment. Look, they're doing stuff.
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by endorphone 7y ago
How is it “full peer reviewed” when it’s explicitly an early release draft? Just saying it’s peer reviewed when it clearly isn’t sounds the scam alarms. A Covid Forsythia. The study itself is interesting, I’m sure, to people in the field (t
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by endorphone 7y ago
"Thanks, but I would skip this Mac Mini and go for the latest maxed out NUC instead." Neat. Of course of the actual base of buyers for this, the fact that it runs macOS is a critical requirement. Running an outdated, hacked versio
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by endorphone 7y ago
It clearly isn't an oversight . When people hold their pad they predominately use it in portrait mode. When people use it with a keyboard, they want it in landscape mode. This is pretty universal. And, guessing, I would imagine people
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by endorphone 7y ago
It's amazing how well received the "I'm cynical and world-weary" angle plays on Hacker News. "This is the baseline. Apple have gone from bad to OK" Apple's scissor keyboard is pretty broadly considered the
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by endorphone 7y ago
"Tangent: I wonder if it’s partly the changing media landscape from 2009 to 2020." You think that the reaction of health agencies worldwide was the result of a "changing media landscape"? This takes quite an extraordinar
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by endorphone 7y ago
And when people talking about leaving, they mean that the mass transmission stops and it continues to transmit, and mutate, among some small subset population (e.g. remote island, etc). Eventually it recurs in the main population, whether h
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by endorphone 7y ago
This is absurdly demanding. The headline is clear. The article is clear. But because someone can draw the wrong conclusion you blame the media? Give me a break. And I'll take All The Downvotes -- this current trend of blaming media for
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by endorphone 7y ago
Their headline, which was probably too long for HN, is entirely accurate. It would be useful if people stopped blaming the media without verifying first.
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by endorphone 7y ago
It seems like that will fairly quickly lead to suspended shipments to customers if Amazon doesn't have the inventory.
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by endorphone 7y ago
There is going to be a wave of airline bankruptcies. There is going to be a wave of retail bankruptcies. Add in cruise lines, tourism, restaurants, etc. Now add the secondary effects and most indicators are flashing red. A significant cause
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by endorphone 7y ago
We've heard the same argument for a good decade and a half now. It's still 80% theoretical, 20% real. Meaning that 20% of the time it's fine and you get a decent enough result, but 80% of the time you're fighting the edg
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by endorphone 7y ago
Compress your responses. A giant wall is not conducive of anything. Unconstitutional because there is no such thing as a "fair" cost for things, and when the state intrudes on commerce in a capricious, arbitrary manner it is unco
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by endorphone 7y ago
"I was very critical at first, but I'm more interested/satisfied with the response now" It sounds more like you're at the bargaining stage now, rationalizing why it might be a good approach because it's happeni
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by endorphone 7y ago
Herd immunity by mass exposure is an interesting, very likely catastrophic, approach. It's interesting that he (of the twitter cite) claims that it is "more refined", as if simply doing nothing and rationalizing your hubris i
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by endorphone 7y ago
"My question, restated, is what part of the US constitution do you think prohibits anti-gouging laws?" You specifically claimed that these were state laws and thus were not subject to federal constitutional limits, which is absu
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by endorphone 7y ago
"Wage theft is also seldom enforced." I responded to someone who claimed that what he is doing "could get him convicted of crimes in several states". While he could potentially face sanction, he isn't going to be c
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by endorphone 7y ago
"Takes 4 minutes of hand sanitizer to remove viruses." No it doesn't. The study you refer to was one specific virus (influenza-A) that simulated essentially coughing directly onto your hands. Where the virus was encased in la
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by endorphone 7y ago
Anti-gouging laws are seldom enforced and are of dubious constitutional basis. I'm entirely for them, but I doubt this guy is going to be convicted of anything. We had a similar case in Canada where a Vancouver couple talked to a newsp
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by endorphone 7y ago
soap and water is better Sanitizer is useful in situations where you can't wash your hands. Like when you get out of the subway system.
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by endorphone 7y ago
Further, that assumes that the healthcare system can perform heroic efforts. In cases where the system is overloaded, such as seen in Italy, mortality numbers can get much worse. Now add that some/many patients have lung scarring that

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