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by evgen 7y ago
This is possible, but I doubt the Italians smoke more than the Chinese so it would not necessarily explain variance from Wuhan/Hubei.
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by evgen 7y ago
Diseases that kill people fast are also much easier to track. They become very obvious and the short incubation period means that it is easier to track the contacts of people who were exposed to the victim.
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by evgen 7y ago
Given who runs spoons are you at all surprised? Tim Martin can make Mike Ashley look like a model of restrained and responsible capitalism...
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by evgen 7y ago
Sorry to be the bearer of an unpleasant reality, but the latter racist phrasing is far more recent than the attempts by the CCP to spread propaganda about this virus being a US army bio-weapon (which started weeks ago) and calling it the &#
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by evgen 7y ago
> No ability to do any kind of coding or scripting Buy better apps. Textastic + Working Copy FTW.
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by evgen 7y ago
The only question I have, and the only question I ask regarding any external keyboard for an iOS device: can I remap caps lock?
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by evgen 7y ago
It does not happen “for the duration of the summer”, it is usually only for a few weeks and in a few locations (which, coincidentally, have a high percentage of Middle Eastern expats.). You do not see Ferraris cruising through Shoreditch an
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by evgen 7y ago
For a fun dive into the wild days that were early-50s aeronautical research, check out the Hiller Flying Platform [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_VZ-1_Pawnee ]. It was basically the segway of the skies. Bay-area
969.
by evgen 7y ago
Ah, the fallacy of the killfile and transitive reputation. Sorry, but that doesn’t work and has been shown over and over again to not work for large scale communities.
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by evgen 7y ago
That is a particularly deceptive way to describe the situation, but at least you are not hiding your bias. The reality is that the public demands more and more from public service employees but then throws a complete hissy-fit when it come
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by evgen 7y ago
The ELI5 is that this is more PR astroturfing by the Handshake team, like the four or five other links they have posted to HN over the past two days. After only a few hours the bulk of the comments are by people close to the project tellin
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by evgen 7y ago
We know exactly how to build them that big, but choose not to because we have better materials and better techniques. That cupola was created because the builders were too ignorant to figure out a better way to enclose the space, with mode
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by evgen 7y ago
To be pedantic right back, you dropped an 'n' in the word and a 'millennia' is 1000 years. Yes, humans have existed on earth for dozens of millennia and in fact we have evidence of early civilizations from around a doze
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by evgen 7y ago
Maybe it includes parent trying to figure out how they will provide their children with lifesaving insulin that costs pennies to produce but somehow ends up costing the consumer thousands of dollars a month. Want to make a bet about which
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by evgen 7y ago
Yes, it is in 2020 dollars and future costs are adjusted for expected inflation.
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by evgen 7y ago
It is 1.5 trillion OVER SEVENTY YEARS (in 2020 dollars) for every cost associated with the plane. That number includes design and manufacturing, fuel, munitions, maintenance and every other operational cost over the lifetime of the program
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by evgen 7y ago
Because the purpose of the steps is to hide faults and failures in the process leading up to the final product, and this means that any failure in this process is _likely_ to lead to a bad/unsafe/unhealthy product.
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by evgen 7y ago
The current UK government is going to get bent over and given a reminder of BoJo's days at Eton before they get any trade deal from the US, and that is before you start to ask questions about internal US politics and the chance of pass
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by evgen 7y ago
Written by someone who quite obviously never used a late-model Newton, so they are left to display their ignorance by draging out the same list of launch problems that gets repeated over and over. I picked up two MP2000s as soon as Apple an
980.
by evgen 7y ago
An enemy plane is not exactly a fragile object, so you need to get more than a few bullets on target to be assured of the kill. The shooter and target are almost never going to be on exactly the same vector and you need to lead your shot b
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by evgen 7y ago
The wartime censorship was short-term and its only lasting impact was to give this particular influenza strain its name (Spain was neutral so did not have the same strict censorship, so they actually reported flu deaths and people heard abo
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by evgen 7y ago
And at the recent 100-year anniversary of same, and in just about every article talking about the yearly flu. A quick glance shows me that I have three books about it on my kindle right now; it is ever-present. What you actually don’t hea
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by evgen 7y ago
Could you please provide an example of an API that is a solution and not a description of how to access the solution? I am completely unconvinced by your assertion.
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by evgen 7y ago
That would be incorrect. The “major” programs (men’s division 1 football and basketball) are almost always to be found carrying the rest of the athletic program for men and women. At very small schools it is possible that the programs are a
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by evgen 7y ago
> Actually, those statements appear to be largely true and should be studied more to learn why. Actually, those statements are each demonstrably false, but it is interesting to see those to whom the statements seem to appeal. The first i
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by evgen 7y ago
Your 'right to lodging'? Did you just make this up out of thin air? What is it that drives people to assume that they have a right to whatever it is they happen to desire?
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by evgen 7y ago
I think the appeal comes from being able to accept reality without needing to hide behind a child’s fairy tale and to know that leading a moral life does not require the fear of an invisible sky god, but can arise from simply accepting that
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by evgen 7y ago
Actually it _is_ up to you; put up or shut up is a fairly well-known principle. Find the backdoor and make yourself famous, or continue to whine and listen to everyone laugh. I left FB because it was getting too creepy and I would not trus
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by evgen 7y ago
The constant repetition of this ignorant claim is starting to be annoying. Think there is a client backdoor? Go find it. It is not like the binary is not available to you. It is not like there are not emulators in which you can step thr
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by evgen 7y ago
Too bad it doesn't let me swap Caps Lock and Control. This fact alone makes this (and most other iPad keyboards) a non-starter for me.

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