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Ask HN: Why do developers still write in-house frameworks?
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Singapore Stops Ranking Children on Exams “Learning Is Not a Competition” (2019)(mymodernmet.com)
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CZ-5B/2021-035B orbital decay(orbit.ing-now.com)
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What I found deeply troubling was that many healthcare workers who weren’t in on the “noble lie” jumped on the “masks don’t work” bandwagon. They mocked and belittled mask-wearers on social media. They turned into anti-masking fanatics. It
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Wikipedia: Talk-Covid 19 Misinformation(en.wikipedia.org)
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How much of this is caused by remote learning? Kids tend to spend long periods out of school with no ill effects during holidays. They even do a lot of homework without a severe mental health crisis (we presume). The difference could be tha
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Some of those cases are directly traceable to quarantined travellers, some aren't One of those countries has been able to trace all cases in the last few months and makes extensive use of genomic sequencing. The leaks have all come o
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by ern 6y ago
I believe that, like New Zealand, we are just postponing the inevitable New Zealand (and Australia) don't have cases, because every single traveler who enters those island nations is kept in hotel quarantine, and tested multiple time
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Google’s Sky News Australia team-up will promote climate misinformation(reneweconomy.com.au)
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by ern 6y ago
I suspect that it’s simpler than that. Having it accidentally leak out of a lab facility where it was being studied for legitimate scientific reasons would still be humiliating, and devastating to Chin’s soft-power.
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by ern 6y ago
The problem is that an accidental release from a lab has been deliberately conflated with the idea of a bioweapon and labeled a conspiracy theory. Coupled with aggressive propaganda efforts from China, and the fact that the Trump Administra
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by ern 6y ago
You are remembering correctly. WHO changed its position on masks as late as June 2020. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200608/who-changes-stance-... The US government changed its stance by April: https:&#x
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by ern 6y ago
There was a concerted effort from government officials, bandwagon-joining academics (aided by journalists) in the West to downplay masking, and to ridicule and shame those who wore masks. Here is a Time article from eary March where it was
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by ern 6y ago
I am curious about this “pro-lockdown, pro-mask” advice from ethe WHO. I am almost certain that they took a long time to recommend masking. I also am fairly confident that the WHO was/is opposed to lockdowns and it certainly still oppo
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by ern 6y ago
I read (or skim) car operating manuals, but that's because I'm technically minded, and curious. I know a lot of people who don't bother, and haven't read a car manual in their lives: if they have "no business drivin
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by ern 6y ago
I shared this link because the way the Wikipedia administrators are behaving is noteworthy. Actively and aggressively silencing others who cite mainstream reliable sources which point to an alternative hypothesis that, whatever its likeliho
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Talk: Wuhan Institute of Virology (Wikipedia)(en.wikipedia.org)
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White House to Cut Funding for Risky Biological Study (2014)(nytimes.com)
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There are two possibilities: that Pompey/Trump want to sabotage Biden as you suspect; or that they don’t want this intel suppressed. Regardless, the timing of the release is unlikely to be a coincidence. Sadly, the deep cleavages in US
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Ancient Viruses Are Buried in Your DNA (2017)(nytimes.com)
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The photo of the woman whose head was blown in half by the rifle is many years (decades?) old. It’s profoundly disturbing, but it’s been widely available for a long time. That doesn’t make it any less brutal or disturbing, but it serves as
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by ern 6y ago
Gun control and the Second Amendment and Obamacare seem to be a clear examples where conservatives use the court to override the democratic will of the people overturning legislation. Campaign finance reform as well. There are numerous exam
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by ern 6y ago
It’s interesting that you would say that constitutional gridlock is by design, and that the US constitution being extremely difficult to amend is a good thing. No less a conservative jurist than Antonin Scalia repeatedly pointed out that he
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by ern 6y ago
I don’t have any strong opinions about this since I’m not from the UK (if anything I’d probably be mildly pro-remain), but the Conservatives scored a fairly convincing victory in the 2019 General Election. I’d say that is strong evidence (
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by ern 6y ago
I have always been fully vaccinated. My children have been fully vaccinated. But I have to admit some trepidation about a fast-tracked vaccine. Governments need a silver bullet to end Covid-19 quickly, which means that the risk of corners b
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I cannot stress this enough: Learn your family's medical history and write it down in a note on your phone. You'll be asked for this info 10,000 times before every single appointment. But, more importantly, your family history ca
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Safety breaches are probable cause of recent SARS outbreak, WHO says (2004)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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The Surgeon General has reversed himself, and even made a video showing how to make a homemade face covering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPx1yqvJgf4
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CDC has updated its guidance for healthcare workers to allow for surgical masks in absence of respirators protect the wearer from splashes and sprays (as referenced in the article): https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/201
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by ern 7y ago
The Lightning port has been around for a long time and getting rid of that will cause significant e-waste. From personal experience, Lightning already produces significant e-waste. The lack of strain relief means that my family experience

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