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by fma 6y ago
My doctor told me genetics has a role too. My dad is vitamin D deficient despite living in south Florida and being outside alot. And so am I (I live in Georgia). https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/vitamin
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by fma 6y ago
Signal and telegram if you don't wanna be spied on...
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by fma 6y ago
20 year study of an entire region https://www.wired.com/story/free-money-the-surprising-effect...
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by fma 6y ago
Wish my local government thinks of this. My wife and I run a after school tutoring center franchise. We converted to online. Our county decides to sign a contract w/ a national company that provides private tutoring strictly online. I
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by fma 6y ago
Wonder if they are on Microsoft's Azure now?
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by fma 6y ago
I expected the same. Colleague of mine runs a local SaaS to give restaurants an online presence, including online ordering. This week orders went up 60%...because people got their $1200. Americans don't know how to budget and will buy
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by fma 7y ago
Meanwhile the Nasdaq is roaring back from a bottom...Someone is making a lot of money on the crash and the government printing press. It ain't me.
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by fma 7y ago
Especially since the author says he is moving away from Gmail because "First and foremost, because it's a single point of failure".
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by fma 7y ago
This is my experience as well. My wife and I have a franchise location of a well established multi-national business...If we personally fail they would swoop in and run the location. But the landlord still had us personally guarantee...Ther
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by fma 7y ago
My wife owns a small business with a retail location. I had to personally guarantee the lease. Don't worry, landlords will get their money one way or another.
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by fma 7y ago
That makes no sense. If you order 2 items, and they're in 2 different warehouses, you'll get 2 packages. They aren't going to ship from 1 warehouse to a 2nd warehouse and then bundle them.
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by fma 7y ago
A VAT tax to ensure all companies pay their fair share would be nice.
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by fma 7y ago
Nah - the problem is the money is coming from the wrong source. Today, corporations are giving enough money to incentivize politicians to work for them. What we need is for citizens to give enough politicians to incentivize them to work for
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by fma 7y ago
I recently purchased a 2020 Honda Odyssey. I hate the touchscreen controls, and I hate the button gear shifter (i.e. press a button to reverse...) For example, it's so difficult to change AC controls w/o looking at the screen. It&
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by fma 7y ago
Agreed. Was thinking how our Internet infrastructure has built in redundancy, chaos monkey for services, etc... Engineers understand that things can and will fail. If we build the Internet like the "just in time" supply chain - we
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by fma 7y ago
FYI for the down voters, Fox News was up in denial till last week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKbwDf51bA
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by fma 7y ago
You're getting a lot of downvotes...but this is how the eradication of Smallpox started...through inoculation. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.h...
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by fma 7y ago
That's what happens when manufacturing is outsource to China. They were able to ramp up by 20x and produce 200 million mask per day. As a comparison, 3M makes 300 million per year and said they will increase by 30%. https://
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by fma 7y ago
A quick video on the "underlying reason" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKbwDf51bA
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by fma 7y ago
> So it was never going to be clear to most people that this was a problem until we had waited way too long. Sorry, but we knew it was serious. On January 25th, we closed down and evacuated the US consulate in Wuhan. That was 2 months ag
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by fma 7y ago
This is what government is for... WTF are we spending all this money for military, which has their own suppliers, logistics etc if they can't help us. Additionally our intelligence agencies should have been "blowing the whistle&qu
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by fma 7y ago
If you haven't heard about the Seattle Flu Study - this is a great read. Coronavirus was in Seattle before officials confirmed it. The federal government also prevented the researchers from doing more testing, delaying valuable time.
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by fma 7y ago
My understanding is they are good for 4 hours. When the masks are saturated they are not effective. Maybe it's better to have 2 and rotate them out. I saw someone else post this on HN... Worth a look. http://www.imcclinics.
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by fma 7y ago
They aren't having trouble scaling up... They already have. 200 million masks a day, 20x in February. If we (America) can't scale up we are in deep doodoo. Trump has been pissing off China by calling the Corona virus the "Chi
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by fma 7y ago
He did it because Mike Pompeo keeps calling it the China or Wuhan virus, instead of Covid-19, and it irritates China. Now Trump calls it "China virus" consistently... There's many ways to debunk Lijian Zhao's conspiracy
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by fma 7y ago
He did it because Mike Pompeo keeps calling it the China or Wuhan virus, instead of Covid-19, and it irritates China. Now Trump calls it "China virus" consistently... There's many ways to debunk Lijian Zhao's conspiracy
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by fma 7y ago
Chaos monkey, but for supply chain. I actually like it...it would make our systems more robust.
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by fma 7y ago
Yeah - I mean I didn't have an English source for the same initiative that in China.
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by fma 7y ago
In fairness, if your hourly workers are working overtime to "ramp up production" you need to pay them overtime of 1.5x (In China, it can be double or triple (forgot which one) since their workers were working during Chinese New Ye
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by fma 7y ago
There are many factors to why Italy isn't do great. Including their population skews on the older side and they have the oldest population in Italy...which unfortunately has a 1 in 5 chance of dying if they catch the virus.

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